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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
Experim ents in Selling,

At the Ohio station, where a careful
soiling experiment has been conducted
by Director Wilson, these conclusions
have been arrived at:
That the average COW will eat about
seventy-fve pounds of green feed dav.
kept in the station with grain ration
added.
That cows fed on oats and peas, clover
and corn, fed green in the stable in mid
summer will give more milk than when
feeding on good blue grass pasture.
That a COW fed on green feed in a
stable darkened and ventilated will gain
in weight more than she will in well
shaded pasture.
That the COW responds as promptly to
well balanced ration of grain while
eating green feed as she does on dry
feed.
An acre of peas cut green weighed 10. S
tons.
An acre of peas and oats cut green
weighed "a tons.
An acre of corn cut green weighed
1876 tons.
The second cut of clover in drought
was 81 tons.
1t is not necessary to cut green feed
oftener than twice week if it is spread
to avoid heating.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
To Her Beloved Editor

A Roman lady died lately who had
been faithful reader of one certain
newspaper most of her lifetime. She
was very intelligent woman indeed.
She possessed good taste and intuitive
discrimination rare even among women.
She likewise appreciated talent when
she saw it to an extent such as is given
to few mortals.
Therefore she willed all her fortune
to the writer of the editorials which had
given her SO much help. In return for
the good he had unconsciously done her
during so many years, she did him
very great good indeed. Rest to her
soul, and sweet happiness eternal in para
disc be hers. Go thou and do likewise!
But why not? 1t is true the editor of
newspaper is not now the impecunious
individual he used to be, thanks to his
own talent and shrewdness Country ed
itors had it the toughest in the old time,
but even the country editor no longer
devotes half column of thanks to the
woman who sends him mince pie. Not
he. He holds up his head as man
among men, and asks no favors that he
cannot return. But it is not uncommon
for individuals to give bequest to the
faithful doctor, who has been able per-
haps to make life a little easier for them.
1t is really common for both men and
women in their wills to remember hand
somely their beloved pastor. Why not
also their beloved editor? Perhaps this
Italian lady's example will become catch
ing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
Franklin seems to have been an eni
VIII the Coming Man Sleep?

The electric light has apparently come
to stay, but more likely it will in good
time be replaced by something that as
far exceeds it as it beats the hallowed
tallow candle of our grandmothers.
Not only viii the streets and shops and
dwellings be illuminated all night with
a splendor of which we can have hardly
conception, but the country districts
as well; for it is now known that plants
(Which apparently are not creatures of
habit do not need sleep, and that by
continuous light the profits of agricul-
ture could be enormously increased
The farmers will no longer retire with
the lark, but will work night shifts, as
is already done in factories and mines,
and eventually work all the time, as
most of them would be glad to do now
in order to support the rest of us in the
style to which we have been accustomed,
On the whole, we think it not unrea-
souahle to look forward with pleasant
anticipation to time, some millions of
years hence, when the literature of sleep
will be no longer Ineligible and the
people even Of this country be sufficient
ly wide awake to prevent the 10 per cent.
OF their number devoted to the patriotic
pursuits frc u plundering the other 80
per cent. and to make the judges obey
the laws.-San Francisco Examiner.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
StOD INinot

1t would be highly unimportant ii
true" that story that Mr.. Blaine is tax
ing boxing lessons, and for the sake of
his health has bout with professional
wrestler daily. 1t is to be hoped that
even secretary of state may go in for
physical culture if he wants to, without
causing a distraction of the inward parts
of the earth
But the important thing about the
story is that it was not true. 1t was man.
ufactured, a pure lie, and telegraphed
over the country as pure truth So was
another precious disreputable tale about
another public man and put upon the
news market at the same time.
In the name of decent journalism we
protest against this If the task of
reporter or correspondent is to write
fiction. let him step down and out.
There are already writers of novels and
short stories who can do the work far
better than his clumsy pen can. Let these
sit down at their desks at home and
manufacture our news dispatches But
If reporter OF correspondent is believed
to record the things that happen, and
the public faith is centered on him ac-
cordingly, then it is simply villainous
for him to give the public lies. The fel.
low who will do it has no honor as
man. Not grain. He ought to be dis
missed with kick, wherever he is de-
tected, and newspapers warned against
employing him.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22

There is just one way for the negro to
OBTAIN recognition as man and a poll
tician. He must first get money, educa-
ton and the recognition mankind in
stlnctively gives to force of character
The Jew for over a thousand years in
Europe had it as tough as ever the negro
did, even in slave times, yet the Jews
inherent power and intellectually
brought him to the top. Where every.
thing else had been denied him-politi
cal rights, social standing, even the,
privilege of owning real estate-he yet
conquered. Two things he could and
did get-money and education. The
rest of the question worked itself out.
Today in every department of human
industry and brain achievement the Jew
is among the foremost. He carries the
finances of Europe in his pocket. Only
those who cannot be kept down ever
rise, and they do it always by sheer
force of character. The field of finan-
cial, industrial and intellectual achieve
ment is all open to the negro The preiu.
dice for him to overcome is not as great
as was that against the jew in the time
of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice"
If the negro has the inherent force neces-
sary to lift him he will rise among the
highest, otherwise he will remain
waiter and whitewasher.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
Which Way Should Hives Faceo

1t is the general belief, or at least the
common practice, to have the entrance
toward the south. While conceding
that there may be some reasons for this
practice, Eugene Secor thinks any other
point as good if not better. He says in
Farmer and Breeder: "a southern en-
trance is more likely to entice the bees
out in the spring, or late in the fall.
when the weather is too cool for bees to
fly and when it would be better that
they remain in the hive. In the heat of
summer, too, southern entrance is
most undesirable. 1t is more difficult
to shade that side when accommodation
for flying bees is needed
IAN eastern entrance is quite objec-
tionable. 1t is the point toward the
morning sun, and perhaps bees may see
the light little earlier in the morning
during the honey season.
81 have used north front with a good
deal of satisfaction. 1t is cool in sum-
mer. The hive is easily shaded. In
summer the morning sun shines first on
the north side of the hive. The en-
trance can be entirely closed on cool
days in the spring if the north wind
blows. | prefer Il north entrance to a
south"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
A Southern View of 1t.

Ihe white race never was ruled by
any other one, therefore it never will
be, writes in effect Mr.. Thomas Nelson
Page in The North American Review.
Mr.. Page, the author of 'Marse Chan, u
here sets his mind seriously to the dis
cussion of the negro question. His view
is substantially that of all southerners.
He agrees with Professor Bryce that the
question of what to do with the negro in
the south is the most serious problem
confronting the United States.
But Mr.. Page does not believe the
black man is capable of receiving the
White mans civilization. Here he may
be right, for no two races ever did de-
velop precisely the same civilization.
The negro has certainly had fair
chance in New England, we are told,
yet what are the blacks doing there af-
ter all these years of education and pub
lie sympathy? They are BARRIERS, shoe
blacks, whitewashers and chimney
sweeps, but never a merchant or
banker.
In countries of their own, where thew
have had every chance and encourage
ment for reaching the highest results of
modern development, they have stood
still or gone backward, says Mr.. Page.
In Liberia they seem to be lapsing into
the condition of the barbarians around
them. In beautiful Santo Domingo. the
Black Republic, voodoo worship is
springing up and "negresses are cooking
their bananas amid the ruins of the best
houses of the capital" Mr.. Page thinks
that in this country, in cities and neigh
borhoods where the negroes are in con-
slant contact with the whites, they are
improving; but where they are left to
themselves, among only people of their
own color, they do not advance a peg.
Mr.. Page believes in educating the
negro, but he would not let him vote
till he is educated As to the future of
the negro in America, Mr.. Page says he
will disappear. He will in time be
crowded out by the white man. Some
of the blacks will go to Africa, part to
Mexico and South America. The con-
ditions of life will become harder and
the struggle for existence fercer, and
those that are left will simply give up
and disappear, "a portion by absorption
into the stronger race, the residue by
perishing under conditions of life un-
suited to them"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22

was plastered HON. B. II. CLOVER.
with mortgages to the amount of about
$4,000, and when he started on his po-
htical campaign that year his wife took
charge. She has paid all the floating
debts, all the mortgage Indebtedness ex-
cept $1,000, and improved the place con-
siderably.
Personally Mrs. Clover does not cor
respond at all with the typical 'hard
working woman" of border romance and
tragedy. She is quite society leader
in her neighborhood, dresses with I'M
usually good taste and is better edu-
Gated than her husband. He was born
in Franklin county, o., in 1887, located
in Kansas in 1871, and held no higher
office than school commissioner before
1890. Out of his salary as congressman
he contributed 1900 to lifting the mort
gage.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
Potato Scab and Potato Rot.

Experiments made last season at the
Rhode Island station, as reported by The
Horticultural, demonstrated that the
product from potatoes planted upon re-
Gently plowed sward land without fertil-
lzer is not necessarily exempt from the
potato scab. The disease may exist in a
mild form and not seriously iniure the
crop. Fresh or partly decomposed sea-
weed scattered in the burrows at the
time of planting did not increase the dis
ease; scattering it over the seed potatoes
after they We're dropped in the burrows
slightly checked its development. On
the contrary, stable manure scattered
over the seed potatoes after they were
dropped tended to a large increase of
scab. Covering horse manure lightly
with earth when used in the burrows at
the time of planting produced less per
cent. of scabby potatoes than S.1.as.. scat
tered over them. Sprayinslyf1 eili66,
with Bordeaux mixture during their
growth slightly checked the development
of scab, and spraying the seed potatoes
and the soil above them, after they were
dropped in the burrows, had much the
same effect in fields not previously con-
taminated with the disease. Applica
lions of Bordeaux mixture made July 20,
and repeated July 30 and Aug s, checked
the spreading of potato "blight" and
rot to such an extent that all the va
rieties treated formed good sized and
well matured tubers practically free
from the disease, AS compared with I'M
treated plots, the yield of merchantable
tubers of four varieties gave an average
increase in the yield of merchantable DO
tatoes due to the application of Bordeaux
mixture of 1926 bushels per acre.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
THE Tassel on the Corn. +"

Our national flower has been found at
hist, 1t is simply the graceful and
sthetic Indian corn tassel. In Amer
lea originated this most valuable human
food, Indian corn, not yet sufficiently
known or priced even here at home as
1t ought to be, 1t is our greatest
crop, We are trying to initiate for
elgners into the knowledge of its use as
food. When we do we shall have been
the great benefactor of Europe. In
table of the comparative food values of
different substances corn ranks above
everything else in the matter of supply
ing potential energy" in proportion to
its cost, A diet of corumeal, beans and
Goldfish helped the Pilgrim fathers to
settle this country, and later enabled
their descendants to fight in the Revo-
luton. There are now in the United
States some 800 varieties of the corn
plant.
In one year reproduce over {, 900 O0O,-
900 bushels of corn, The money it brings
to our farmers at fifty cents the bushel
1t Is easy to calculate. When rightly
used this great plant has not a scrap
Of waste about it, Even its stalks are
now being manufactured into paper As
food 1870 different articles of delicious
human diet have been prepared from
corn. A pamphlet containing formulas
for these preparations is now being cir
culated throughout Europe. 1t will help
introduce this product to hungry masses
across the water, and America will be-
come still more the feeder of the nations.
OF corn are made whisky and starch.
We read that when Columbus discov-
cred this continent he found the gentle
savaSes already knew how to make "a
pleasing drink" of the maize grains. We
have evidently improved on the aborigi- |
nal methods a long way in the matter i
of making a beverage out of corn
Within the past ten years more perfect |
food has been made for live stock in the |
form of corn ensilage. The methods |
Of culture have so improved that the
same labor which once raised one acre |
Of corn will now produce five acres.
The shrill whistle of the steam corn cut
cutter is heard IL the land. In 1S49 Ohio
was the banner corn producing state.
Now Iowa is. This staple has con-
no little to our civilization.
the soil will produce great
crops of corn, there the country is quick
y settled by prosperous and enlight-
'ned community. Civilization follows
he corn tassel. Let it be our national
lower, and long may it wave.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22

In some sections of California and sew
eral of the northwestern states the peo-
pie are beginning to realize that the
remarkable stories told of the ravages of
rabbits in Australia are true, because
they are now suffering somewhat from
the little pests themselves. The only
effectual means of abating the nuisance
so far discovered seems to be the
"drive," in which a number of men
form an enormous circle, which gets
smaller and smaller as all walk slowly
toward central point, where little diff
ficulty is found in Strengthening all the
rabbits gathered in the ''round up" A
recent drive yielded several thousand
pairs of ears.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
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FlE !. GkRDEN
TRANSMITTING CABBAGE PLANTS,
What Professor Bailey of the Cornell
University station, Reports,

What Professor Bailey, OF the Cornell
University station, Reports,
For three consecutive seasons we have
endeavored to determine what founda.
ZION there may be for the common no.
hon that deep set cabbage plants give
better heads and larger proportion of
heads than those set at the normal or
natural depth 1t is a very general prac-
tice among gardeners to set the plants to
the depth of the first leaf when trans
planting to the field. The results of
three years tests show that no advan-
tage is to be gained by such practice,
In 1889 the experiment was tried upon
twelve varieties, about twenty plants of
each being set up to the first leaf, and as
many more set to the same depth at
which they stood in the seed bed.
Strangely enough, it appears that one
half the varieties gave better results
from shallow setting and the other half
better from deep setting. There were,
however, rather more heavy heads from
the deep setting. Combining all the re-
suits, the gain in weight from deep set
ting was as 1880 is to 13.46, difference
so small as to lead to the conclusion that
the particular method of planting prob
ably had nothing to do with the yields.
In 1890 the test was repeated, the early
Wakefield cabbage being used for the
purpose. The plants were grown upon
a heavy and rather poor clay loan.
Here the shallow planting gave decid-
edly she better results, both in the per-
centase of plants producing good heads
and in the average weight of heads.
In 1891 the test was again repeated,
this time with Early Wakefield and Pre-
MUM Drumhead. The plants were
grown on rich and well prepared loose
clay loan, and all the conditions
throughout the season were such as to
insure fair and uniform test. The
average result was in favor of the shall
low setting so far as the weight of heads
is concerned, but in favor of deep set
ting in the percentage of plants produc-
ing good or mature heads, but the differ
ences were slight and no greater than
might be expected from two or more
lots of plants treated in the same man.
ner. The two varieties, however, gave
different results. The Early Wakefield
gave better results from deep setting
and the Drumhead from shallow setting.
Upon the whole the result of the entire
investigation leads to the conclusion
that the depth at which strong and
stocky cabbage plants are set does not
influence the extent or weight of the
crop.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22

General Edward W. Serrell has in
vented a system of electrical coast and
harbor defenses which is noteworthy.
The device is so arranged that if a ship
crosses the electrical path at the en-
trance of harbor it will at once receive
tremendous blow, which will SILVER it
to atoms The blow will be equal TO
$4,000 tons, and not much is known
about it except that it will come from
overhead, in a flash as of lightning
This is very fine for harbor defenses,
and we hope it is true. All the same, in
our Judgment. the person who can abol-
ish mosquitoes will be more of bene-
factor of his race.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
Wanted a Sure Thing.

The manager of a small theatrical
company travelling in the northwest,
having recently some "open time" on
his route book, wrote to the proprietor
of hall in little village in the State
of Washington to arrange for a date.
The following reply caused him to give
up the idea of playing that particular
town:
Yours to hand. | won't play on shairs NO
more. Your cumpany will hav to send me ten
Dollars for one night and supply THAR own
kerrosean and lamps. They will also hav to
build THAR own stage. becaus the last cum
pany broke it down. THAR amt no money in
plaing on shairs in this town, and wont
shure thing
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22

Millions of buffalo, or, as they are
more properly called, American bison, a
generation ago roamed over our western
plains. The latest buffalo census shows
that there are now alive in the world
only ,097, and half of these are kept in
captivity in parks and menageries. A
wild herd, 200 strong, is protected by
the United States government in Vel
lowstone park. Thus the Behring sea
seals will vanish before the white mans
cruelty and greed unless they are quick
ly protected by law
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
TennySon'S Wrath,

"Vermin on the locks of literature" is
the forciblc but not very elegant phrase
the poet Tennyson applies to those critics
who accuse him Of plagiarism, with es-
pecial reference to Mr.. Charlton Collins.
1t is severe, but from the quotations
from Mr.. Collins in the English periodi-
Gals most American readers will con-
slider it just. For instance, where Ten
nyson speaks of the oceans "roar," Mr..
Collins thinks it an imitation of Homer,
and declares that when he speaks of
waterfall as "slow dropping wells of
thinnest lawn" he got the idea from an
imitation waterfall in a theater!
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22

The largest wooden bridge in the
world is that at Two Medicine, on the
st. Paul and Manitoba railway. 1t is
75l feet long and 2ll feet above the
water. In this bridge are 75O, 900 feet of
lumber, and any one piece can be re.
moved and replaced when worn out
without disturbing the rest. A curious
reason FOR building wooden bridge in
stead of an iron one is given. It is that
it would take too long to wait for an
iron bridge, as the road was wanted in
hurry
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
EnsilaGe in Stacks.

The Scotch or English practice Of
stacking hay and then subjecting it to
pressure by Weights or by windlasses,
drawing together chains or ropes attach
ed to cross timbers under and over plank
foorings, seems to be successful there,
but is not adapted to this country with
its variable climate and extremes of
temperature. Experiments made in New
York state and Massachusetts, accord
ing to The Country Gentleman, showed
much loss in spoiled ensilage-in one
case nearly twothirds of the stack; and
this wastage, even if much less, will
doubtless offset the cost of good silo
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
Got i'm a secnnh ro,o

Some of the French-Canadians who
have adopted the United States as their
home are proving remarkably apt polit-
ical pupils, as was shown in Lewiston.
Me-, where one fellow voted in Ward 2
as Antoine Boisverte and in Ward as
Antoine Greenwood. The simple trans
lation of his surname served the purpose
of giving him an extra vote,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
Covered Barnyards,

Much is being said in western journals
about the advantages of covered barn
yards. Maine farmers have long been
providing themselves with practically
the same device for the shelter of their
manures in the barn cellars now con-
structed under nearly every modern
barn. Among progressive farmers it is
now rare thing to see the barn ma
nures exposed to teaching till they are
applied to the fields. In this they seem
to be away ahead of some sections of the
country.-Maine Farmer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22

A joint resolution has passed congress
and been approved "to encourage the
establishment and endowment of insti-
buttons of learning at the national CAPT
tai by defining the policy of the govern
ment with reference to the use of its
literary and scientific collections by stu
dents" Will some one kindly tell us
what this means?
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-04-22
1t is Not what We Say.

But what Hoods Sarsaparilla does, that
makes it sell, and has given it such firm
and lasting hold upon the confidence of
the people. The voluntary statements of
thousands of people prove beyond ques-
ton that this preparation possesses won
derful medicinal power.
Hoods Pills cure Constipation by re-
storing the peristaltic action of the ali
mentary canal. They are the best family
cathartic.