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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
swARMlNe.
A Wisconsin Woman Expresses Her Views
ON Hiying bees.


ON Hiying bees.
Whom hot weather comes on, h thrivA
Ing hive win begin to ''hang out" as Il
Is called; that is, the bees gather In
clusters ON the outside Of the hive
After this swarm may be looked for
at any favorable time. The bees are not
apt TO come out when the wind blows
hard or in cloudy weather. Between 0
a. m. and 3 p, m. is the usual time.
Bees have many singular freaks, not al
ways the same, but varying in their ways.
Sometimes they will alight on the high
est limbs of tree. Two years ago sew
eral swarms all alighted on currant
bushes; then they are harder to hive, be-
cause they have to be gathered with
large wing or brush broom on dust
pan and then emptied into the hive. A
medium sized cherry or apple tree is the
most convenient, where the swarm may
be reached with stepladder. When
put on their stands in the spring the
bees should be placed with view to
some hear and convenient tree, where
they will naturally cluster. Some have
had good results by planting mullen
stalk with its black top resembling
somewhat a swarm of bees lighted to-
gether, and bees have considerably used
these.
Sometimes bees are notional abont the
hive in which they are put, and will
soon vacate it. If they are contented
with their quarters they will at once go
to work cleaning out the hive if it seems
to them to need it. Last year hive
came off and did not appear to take
kindly to the hive, and scattered through
the air as if demoralized. The queen
was found, having fallen in the grass
One of her wings was clipped as an ex
pertinent, and she was returned to the
hive; but as she seemed restless the bee
keeper made a little cage of wire net
ting, put the queen inside and hung the
cage in the top of the hive on one Of the
cross pieces. In five minutes every bee
belonging to the swarm gathered in the
hive and made no further movement to-
ward running away. A week or so
afterward the top was taken off to see
the result, and the bees were making
combs as if nothing had happened and
had made little alley up to the queens
cage by which they could get to the
queen and feed her through the wires or
rather between them. In the course Of
a month the queen was liberated and all
went well with them afterward.
Watching for young swarms becomes
very monotonous when they are tardy
about making their appearance, unless
some one of the family has the time to
give to it. If well attended to bees will
double and often more, too, in numbers
in the same season, besides supplying
the table with one of the greatest luxu-
ries, unadulterated honey. On a hot day
before bees are shaken into hive it
ought to be well wet on the inside with
cold water and little salt or sugar dis
solved in the water.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
LANDGROVE.

Milton Smith of Poultney is spend
ing his vacation at his home.
Mrs. Willis Butterfeld is failing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Smith visited
friends in Springfield last week.
Some of our farmers have com
menced haying.
Visitors in town are Horace Fenr
of Boston at Miss Helen Fenn's
Frank Eddy of Ashburnham at hi.
fathers, Daniel Eddy, Isaac Davi.
of Springfield and Ernest Abbott o.
Somerville at j. II. Bolster's, Mrs
Dryden at L. NJ. Tuttle's.
George Harris aud family are
spending few days with Mrs. liar
ris' parents in Stratton.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
PERU.

Susie Hapgood who has been attend
ing school at Easton, Penn, is now
home for short vacation.
Albert Lyon, a student from Dart
mouth college and his brother, Eugene,
from Maryland Are home for a short
vacation.
Mrs. L. B. Hapgood from Easton,
Penn, is visiting friends here,
Fay Russell from Boston is visiting
his grandparent, Dea. o. P. Simonds
Chas. X. Batchelder and family
from South Carolina are at his fathers
Chas, Batchelder's.
N. E. Whitney is home for few
days. w.
EDITOR SITTER: There was a
grievous error in your last weeks locals.
1t was the teachers, not the superintend.
ent who were the chief agents in "pro.
ducing profitable set of schools"
M. j. Hapgood.
Peru justly feels proud of the work
of her boys at the "Tug of War" con,
test at North Derry the Fourth. AL.
though they had some hard fellows to
pull against who were the challenging
party and, as report has it, had pit
themselves in training, after they had
fairly settled down to work the rope
steadily began to move their way and
to all appearances had the whole Of
Londonderry been hold of the other
end, the rope would have kept going
right along. Peru holds the belt.
What town will attempt to take it?
Be sure and remember the caucus
one week from Saturday night to
choose delegates to attend the Coun.
ty convention at Arlington. Lei
every republican voter be present.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Mildew of the Gooseberry.

The claim has been generally made,
and as generally accepted as correct,
that our native varieties of the goose
berry are mildew proai, but according
to bulletin from the Michigan expert
ment station, when applied to the plant
in open culture, it must certainly be
taken with grave exceptions, since even
the Houghton, which most nearly ap
proaches the native type, rarely, in open
exposure, wholly escapes partial loss
Of foliage from mildew; while Smith
and Downing, with such exposure, very
generally in midsummer lose all save q
few of the terminal leaves of each shoot.
True. says the authority mentioned,
these two varieties, usually called ma.
tives, may, from certain of their pecul.
iarities, not unnaturally be suspected to
possess a strain of foreign blood. Be
this as it may, they certainly are too
English in this particular.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
fruits is now practiced
growers. Better fruit
is the result.
Ane ROW In the West.

Lne ROW In the West.
1t looks as if the pillow would have to
fall to the rear as a farm implement,
says the Peoria Transcript. From all
parts of the west comes the advice,
Don't pillow your ground for oats. Plow-
ing is slow. hard on horses, and when
done is not as good as surface cultiya-
ton with cultivator and disk harrow.
More than half the oats sown in this
part Of Illinois are covered with a pull
verizer or corn cultivator. This means
of putting in oats is much more rapid,
and the crops as a rule are better than
those from the slower way Of blowing
the land and then covering with a har.
row. During the past four seasons, says
the authority quoted, our farmers have
been experimenting with the pulverizer
as tool to prepare the seabed for a
corn crop. They first clear the land Of
stalks, then put four horses on the pull
verizer, turn the disks to an angle where
they will dig and throw, and dig up the
surface Of twelve or fourteen acres a
day. By going over this twice or three
times the surface is thoroughly pulver-
lied to the depth of three or four inches,
and in the best possible condition to put
on the planter. Those who have tried
this are enthusiastic in praise of this
plan, and say they have no further use
for the old pillow outside of doing little
fall blowing. One Of the great advan-
tages of pulverizing instead of blowing
is found in not having to harrow, plank
or roll in order to reduce the clods that
so often turn up in spring blowing.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
BONNEVILLE

j. L. Benson is visiting friends in
town.
Clement Burbank of New York is
expected home this week.
Mrs. Stone and daughter are visit
ing at H. Johnson's.
ARA Benson is at Truman Lam
sons.
Miss Gladys Amedon returned home
from Londonderry June 20, after clos
ing very successful term of school
in the Hall District. Miss Amedon
was spoken very highly of as teach
er by all who had children at school.
The following were not absent during
the term, George Hall, Dora Bolster.
Myrtle Bolster, Mary Emma Sexton,
Sarah Sexton.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
WARDSBORo.

Mrs. Mary Leith of Greenfield and
her children are at her fathers, DR..
Bliss.
A. v. May of Brattleboro and his
daughter, Mrs. Hoyt, with her two
boys Raymond and Howard of De-
troit, Mich, stopped over Sunday
aud Monday among relatives. Mrs.
Hoyt is to stop quite while.
Mr.. Hosford has put iron roofing
on Mr.. Plumly's house and also done
an 500 job for S. D. May Of the
same. DIR. Bliss has had his house
covered and F. A. White is having
the same on his house.
Charles Steele is at his fathers.
We enjoyed quiet 4th, but very
little haying done yet.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
LOCAL SUNNI AIRY.

The fourth is big day.
But how the hair pulls on the fifth.
S. M. Holden has closed his wool
buying for this season.
Arthur Baker has taken his family
to Orange, Mass.
Mrs. Will Grover of Cavendish is
visiting friends in town.
Clark Hulett occupies,the tenement
in Josiah Goddard's house vacated by
Baker.
Tina Howe and wife of Ashburn-
ham, Mass, are visiting friends in
town. Mr.. Howe is native of Lon.
donderry.
Will Belden of Hoosick Falls, N.
Y, is visiting with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. w. H. Belden. Will went to
Hoosick Falls some two years ago and
is doing well there.
The A. F. Livermore Sons failure
proves bad one, and they will 90
through bankruptcy on petition of some
of their creditors.
The fourth was very quiet in this
village, nearly all our people attend
ing the celebration at Londonderry
or going out to the lake.
Mr.. and Mrs VIM. j. Bridge o.
Meriden, Conn, are visiting theil
cousin, A. j. Livermore.
Mr.. and Mrs. ALIVE Pierce, Mrs
Emma Rand and son, Ray, from Sax
tons River stopped over Sunday al
Josiah Goddard's.
Matte Grover of Cavendish is visit
ing her grandmother Pierce at VIM
Thompson's.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Niles ar,
guests of Mrs. R. S. Wilbur, ais,
Mrs. F. R. Mathews and daughte
Olive of Binghamton, N. Y.
Miss Bertha Bryant of Boston Wis
tied over Sunday with her uncle AM
aunt, Rev. and Mrs. w. A. Bryant
Landlord Worthen fed about 81
persons who were attending the cele
brations in town on the fourth. Thi
is pretty good evidence that the Pes
body House is gaining q deserved rep
utation as a first-class hotel wher,
sumptious fare and gentlemanly treat
ment can always be had.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Sweet Potatoes.

The best soil for the sweet potato is a
warm, well drained one of medium fer.
tility. Rich soil is liable to produce toe
rank growth Of vines and the conse-
quent development of tubers too small
for use. A plan followed by some Of our
progressive farmers is that Of scattering
a special potato fertilizer in the burrows
at the rate of 800 pounds or more pei
acre. The cultivation consists in keep.
ing the soil free from weeds and occa.
sionally lifting the vines to detach them
from the ground where they have begun
to strike root between the rows and hills
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Eternal vigilance

Is the price of health. But with all
our precaution there are enemies al.
ways lurking about our systems, only
waiting favorable opportunity to
assert themselves. Impurities in the
blood may be hidden for years or even
for generations and suddenly break
forth, undermining health and has
tening death. For all diseases arts.
ing from impure blood Hoods Sar-
saparilla is the unequalled and unap.
preached remedy. 1t is King of them
all, for it eonquers disease.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

Summer visitors ere beginning to
arrive. We note this week j. w. AL.
len Of Wallingford, Conn.,, Mrs. De.
Witt, Miss Merrifield and Mrs. Miller
Of Brattleboro.
A. Archie Jaquith, son of our es
teemed townsman, Thos Jaquith and
former clerk for merchant ID. b
Goddard, and who left here last Janu
airy to take a mercantile position al
Jericho, has resigned and taken a SINH
lar position at Saxtons River The
following from the Chittenden Report
err shows that he was held in good re.
pute among his new found acquaintan.
ces at Jericho:
"Mr. A. Jaquith, who has been
clerk of the G. A. Hubbard Boot and
Shoe Company's store in this place for
some time, has resigned his position and
accepted a similar but more lucrative
position at Saxtons River. Archie
leaves here with the respect and good
wishes of all our citizens as he is a
young man of strong principles and
sterling character.
1t is also learned from the same
source that before his departure his
Sabbath school class gave him a pleas
ant reception.
Miss Susie Clough, who works in
Brattleboro is making a visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H. R. Clough.
Mrs. j. X. Hall, reported last week
as being severely injured by falling
down stairs, still remains in critical
condition.
Mrs. Winchester of Pawlet has
been visiting the past week with her
son, Fred, of this place and with her
brother, Dea. S. S. Lyon, of Thomp-
sonburg.
Emery Melendy has been entertain
ing student friend from Saxtons
River this week.
Homer Riggs, pension agent of
Washington, D. c., was in town this
week.
Mrs. Elma Estabrook, who was re-
Gently injured by a bicycle rider in
Brattleboro, has so far recovered as
to come to this place, and is now with
her brother-ln-law, A. c. Hall, and is
slowly recovering.
Albert Lackey, who for some little
time has been at Worcester, Mass, is
again with his mother, Mrs. Hall, in
this village.
Mrs. H. R. Darling is having quite
a serious time with carbuncles on bel
head.
No additional scarlet fever victims
have appeared. Bertha Pierce il
getting along as well as could be ex
pected and frankie Baldwin, who hat
lighter attack is able to be out.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

NJ STEPHEN HOUGHToN will again
sell the Granite State Mower and Yam
kee Horse Rake for the coming season.
All extras for either mower or rake kept
on hand.
Wanted by Chas. E. Abbott, baker of
236 Eighth Avenue, N. Y. city, a smart,
active young man, about Is or 20, to drive
bakers wagon. Must have undoubted
reference as to honesty. Good home and
good wages. Answer at once to the
above address, in own hand writing, sta
ting reference or inquire of my brothers,
Geo. I. or 0. S. Abbott, S. Londonderry.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
THOMPSONBURG.

Herbert Ramsdell arrived home
Saturday night from Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Randall, Mrs. Micot's mother,
of North Windham died on the morn
ing of the fourth of July funeral to-
day Wednesday, July sixth.
Boarders expected at Highland
farm on the 18th.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Raa Notes.

A New York World correspondent
says: IF shadeboards are used on bee
hives during the summer would prefer
to paint the hive dark color. Dark
colored hives absorb more heat from the
suns rays than light colored ones, which
hastens early brood rearing in the spring.
If wished one color and did not use
shadeboards, it would be marine blue,
mixed with lead and oil. prefer sew
eral colors, however. on account of less
laas of queens.
4 AFTER many years experience ana
study of both wild and domestic bees
and of many different styles of hives in
use, prefer single walled hive, with
two thicknesses of cloth on the frames,
covered with buckwheat chaff four
inches deep for outdoor wintering. A
super will answer to hold the chaff, but
special frame is better if the cap is
larger than the body Of the hive. If the
cloths are clean or nearly SO they will
allow moisture to pass off better. One
thickness Of cloth will do, but the bees
are apt to gnaw through before spring.
This is better than the expense of max
ing and housing old moldy cushions"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Chrysanthemum Show.

The New York Florists club holds the
annual chrysanthemum show of 1892 at
Madison Square garden during the week
beginning Nov. l. j. V. Gottschalk,
whose office is at the garden, is the one
to whom applications for space may be
made. The premiums offered amount
to nearly $1,000 for exhibits Of chrysan-
themums, palms, foliage plants, roses,
carnations, violets, mignonette, lilies Of
the valley and miscellaneous plants.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
bsesiing Pigs.

Professor Henry. OF Wisconsin, says
that in pig fed upon mixed ration the
thigh bone will stand 200 pounds greater
pressure than one fed upon corn, and the
constitution will be affet ed in the same
manner. Itle farmer wants more bone
feed oats. II be wants muscle and good
constitution feed outs. Ii your brood
sows are getting too fat and you have
trouble at narrowing time feed oats. II
You want year p; IS TO grow and develop
into nice. large, thrifty shoats let them
run to oa.S : t pleasure.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

Word comes from all quarters that
the neatest and most satisfactory dye
for coloring the heard brown or
black is Buckingham's Dye for the
Whiskers.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

HWANTED-10O0 Agents for the best
selling campaign book ever offered to the
public. Agents coming money. Address,
F. c. Baldwin, General Agent,
Arlington, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

have for sale one bay years
old horse, will work single or double,
and a fine roadster. One good brood
mare and one two years old heifer,
just come in, good size and all right.
F. B. Pier,
Jacksonville, VT, July 6, '92.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

M-EsTRAY NoTIcE-Came into my
enclosure few weeks ago two yearling
Steers. The owner will please pay char
ges and take them away
Roscoe Green,
So. Londonderry, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

We will contract for spruce and
hemlock logs delivered upon banks OF
streams above So. Londonderry.
j. j. Hapgood & Co.
Perm. VT
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

All persons having unsettled &C.
counts with d. B. Goddard are re-
quested to call and settle without
further notice.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

H@FoR SALE-Onc pair of five-yaar-
old bay colts, nice, sound and up in good
shape. R. HOWARD,
Jamaica VT
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Peru, vt.

For Sale-one good driving mare,
sound, kind and good driver,
years old. One bay mare, a good
roader and worker. One nearly new
two horse wagon and one skeleton
buggy. Apply to
E. Buffers, Windham, Vt,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
Special Notices..

VTwenty-fve pounds nice corned
beef for one dollar at Lanphear's
Londonderry market.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

"When your heart is bad, and your
head is bad, and you are bad clean
through. what is needed ?" asked a
.. icher of her class.
Sarsaparilla," an
L. j, whose sick moth
.tr. %, zen restored to health
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08

e. F. Buffers, Saxtons River, vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-07-08
| Told You So!

am selling Ladies' Bright Dongoa, Button Boot,
Good Style and finish for just one
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-21
Raising Water in London Docks.

In lieu of mourning the immense e.
pense of ~excavating the London docks to
accommodate the increased size given to
modern ships, large pumping engines
have nov been set up, and the water in
the docks is raised by this near Some
idea of the demands upon these engines
can be had from the size Of the docks,
one of which has an area Of nearly ten
acres, the pumps which raise the water
having a capacity of 685 tons per minute
and raising the water level five feet in
one a half hours.
Centrifugal pumps Of superb work
manship are employed, driven direct 10y
compound tandem engines, and the power
of these pumps is evident from the fact
that the inlet orifices to the main pumps
are fifty-four inches in diameter, and,
when worked together, the three pumps
have a capacity to raise 1900, 900 gal
Ions Of water in five hours, against an
average head of ten feet. The pumps
are arranged to be worked separately
and independently or together, as de-
sired, and the engines are supplied with
steam at a hundred pounds pressure by
powerful boilers--New York Sun.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-21
The Greathead Underground System.

Inc 1FeaJneau Underground System.
The cars are supplied with longitudinal
seats, lighted by electricity, and luxuri-
ously cushioned, the passengers facing
one another. The locomotive is an electric
motor, picking up it's electricity from a
central rail through. which the electric
current is conducted by a copper wire;
and inasmuch as, for each track, there is
a separate tunnel only a trife larger than
the train (Which fills almost the whole of
the annular space, except only at sta:
tions), each train acts as a piston, driving
out, from station to station, the air
through which the preceding train
passed.
The stations are connected with the
open air and are not more than three
quarters of a mile apart; any foul air
which gathers in the tunnel is thus ex-
PEELED by each passing train. Indeed,
the air in the tunnel is of q more equable
temperature, and is kept more constantly
moved and freshened, than the air on the
surface; and frequently on dark and
murky days it has been noticed that the
air and atmosphere, strange as it may
appear, are far more pleasant in the tun-
mel than on the street surface .-SimOn
Sterne in Forum.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-21
The Big Kimberley Mine.

No pen a adequately describe the
appearance of the Kimberley mine. 1t is
the largest hole made by man, and in the
shortest space of time, for the incentive
to work was there-the diamond. A
spectator standing on the edge looks
down and sees men at work looking like
ants in size, and during the blasting
hours he can in perfect safety witness
the explosion of thousands of pounds of
dynamite and note the rending of masses
of blue and rock, which would fall far
below him.
AS an honor to the late Chinese Cor
don" when he visited the mines, the
writer saw the Kimberley mine illumin-
ated at night with thousands of impro-
vised lamps. assisted with colored fires
and displays of fireworks. The weird
effect produced was grand, for the eye
could not properly measure distance at
night, and the ~twinkling lamps but
served to heighten the effect.-Engineer,
ing Magazine.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-21
The Crude Scarecrow.

The old clothes scarecrow in its crude
state is merely a wooden cross over
which is drawn a tattered coat. Usual.
ly about half of each sleeves length dan
giles over the end of the short arm, lend.
ing an aspect of lassitude that is height.
ened by the tipsy imitation, either given
to, or speedily acquired by, the cross.
You never saw a scarecrow standing
bolt upright. An old hat slouched reck-
lessly above the coat, never fails to give
an air of Generalization to the figure
Lewiston Journal.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-03-21
DR. j.. j. THAXTOS,

with nifty years experience as a General
PracfitiOner. tenders his services TO the citi-
zens of Durham. His speci2fties: MUCOUS
naTTicuIarl. Indigestion. Bronchitis, Scrofula.
[onstipafion and Headache, secondary and
Hereditary Diseases Home at =. n. nsIn-
Sonts once over Jones' Jewelry Store once
hours. cock q. M. to L. m, and from : p. m-
% 4 .. q