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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

General Miles declares he is satisfied
from the Chicago experiment that the
bicycle can be made of use in the army
in carrying dispatches from one post to
another. Well, it might be if we had
fairly good country roads in the United
States. On good roads an expert cyclist
can make as good time as trotting
horse. But carrying General Miles
message from Chicago to General How
ard at New York took hundred men
four days. They relieved one another
by rapid relays, a fresh man and fresh
wheel being ready to seize the dispatch
and fly onward with it to the next relay
station. The distance from New York
to Chicago is 1000 miles, so that the
best relays Of wheelmen can do in our
country is an average of little more
tha< ten miles an hour, at least in rainy
weather, which continued all the four
days. When the highways were good
one of General Miles wheelmen showed
that he could travel mile in three min
utes, and he kept up this gait for nearly
half an hour. In France not long since
single wheelman, who was of course
obliged to stop for rest and food, made
for thirty-fve hours the same average
speed that our cyclists did in relays.
Let us have decent roads.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
New England AndirOns Are Rare.

Early New England andirons, or fire
dogs, of brass or wrought iron were tall
affairs ornamented with dogs heads.
They are seldom seen in New York, al
though they are initiated occasionally in
modern wares. A great many excellent
antique andirons and fire sets come from
the eastern shore of Maryland and from
Virginia. The stove drove out the fire
place in New England, but the milder
climate of Maryland and Virginia made
the fireplace permanency there, and in
many old houses in those states the fire
irons of three generations ago are in
use.
A New Yorker takes special pride in IA
fire set from Worcester county on the
eastern shore of Maryland. 1t includes
brass headed tongs and shovel, fire
block of oak on which they rest when
not in use, and brass andirons twenty
one inches high and weighing nearly ten
pounds each.-New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
IsutS,

Next to petitioning that he may love
his neighbor as himself, the one good
that every human being ought to pray
for is to be delivered from ruts. Ruts
are fatal to life, health, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. The man who
wears big sideboard collar with little
skinny black necktie because he got
used to it when he was young may be
sure that he is getting old and behind
the times. There is no surer sign that a
man is OUTLYING his usefulness than
that he is unwilling to change the fash
ion of his garments to keep pace with
the prevailing mode.
AS he falls, behind in the fashion of
his clothes, SO he falls behind in his
business methods and will be bank
rupted. One thing that is absolutely
fixed in this life is that all things are
constantly changing. This is the mean
ing of the spirit of the times. The man
who does not follow the current changes,
whether in newspaper management, lit
erature, commercial enterprise or man
ufacturing, is left Wide awake and
move on is the word Feel the pulse of
the time and change accordingly.
The man and woman who think the
thoughts of their youth and never
change them grow old. This is what
age is-when one cannot learn new
things any more. Mourning over past
griefs and losses destroys us. The losses
and griefs are past, let the sorrow for
them be past also. The world is full of
beauty and brightness, more and more
full of joy and richness every year.
Turn your face to the light and move on
in the swim.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
The Temperance Saloon.

Why not? Rev. DR.. Rainsford's pro-
posal to have the churches countenance
resorts where beer and light wines are
sold, and even to encourage such as a
temperance measure, is one that fills
total abstainers with horror. And GER
thinly If the reverend gentleman had
studied the figures of the awful increase
of drunkenness in Germany in the past
thirty years, where just such drinking
places as he suggests have been the
vogue for generations, he might have
hesitated before positively recommend
ing drinking saloons as church reform
measure.
But there might be real temperance
saloons without any intoxicants at all
offered for sale. 1t is the social feature
of the beer saloon that has lured many
good fellow to his ruin. The glow and
brightness, the merriment and human
good fellowship are what draw at least
half of mankind to the whisky shop.
Men go to it of evenings because they
have nowhere else. Their poor homes
or cheap boarding houses are not invit-
ing to those who toll all day.
But let us have the temperance saloon,
where workingmen may spend their
evenings. There can be many pleasant,
refreshing drinks without beer, ale,
wine or whisky. Light eatables might
be added. The men could smoke to their
hearts content and play all the games
they now are forced into the whisky
shop to enjoy. Such temperance houses,
carefully managed, would pay in every
town and city, and would be long dis
lance improvement on Rev. DIR. Rains
ford's church beer saloons.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

AT the Virginia station there was test
ed last season fifteen varieties of cab
bage. The plants were grown from seed
started in hotbed late in February or
early in March, and transplanted to a
cold frame about three weeks later, and
set in the open ground as early in April
as the ground was fit to work. The
growth was retarded by severe drought,
but seven kinds were fit to cut for cook
ing on July 2. They should have been
ready nearly four weeks earlier. Of
these seven early kinds the Wakefield or
Early Jersey Wakefield was pronounced
the best, having eight or ten heads fit
for cutting out of twenty plants, and
being the largest, weighing 2 pounds
81 ounces. Eighty-nine plants in a
hundred formed heads. The Winning
stadt headed ninety nine plants out
of hundred, and the average weight
was six pounds two ounces, but was from
five to twelve days later in time of cut
ting. Caulitlowers were grown, by SOW
ing and setting at the same time as the
cabbages, and the best were of the EARLY
Dwarf Erfurt type, although known as
Early SNOWFALL or other names, accord
ing to the fancy of the scotsman or of
those who originated them by selecting
the seed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
CONSUMPTION CURED,

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an
East India missionary the formula of a
simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent care of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarlh, Asthma aud all
throat aud Lung Affections, also a posi-
tive and radical cure for Nervous Debli-
ty and all Nervous Complaints, alter hav-
ing tested its wonde, full curative powers
in thousands of cases. has felt it his duty
TO make it known TO his suffering fellows.
Aciuated by this motive and desire to
relieve human sufie ing, | will send free
of charge, to all who desire it, this rec
ipe, in German. French or Euglish,
with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, naming this paper, w. A. NoYEs.
$50 Powers Block, Rochester, n. Y.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

What is called by its enemies the
"Cahensley conspiracy" has resulted in
raising most important question in the
Roman Catholic church in America.
Cahensley worked sedulously to obtain
papal authority to have the children of
Catholic immigrants in America in
structed in the language of their par
ents, both in church and in school
There should be, according to the Ca
hensley idea, priests, bishops and arch
bishops of all the nationalities repre-
sented by immigrants in America
Thus keeping alive foreign languages
and instruction and being presided over
by foreign priests, the Roman Catholics
in America would be more easily con-
trolled from Europe, Cahensley argued
Against this doctrine Archbishop John
Ireland, of st. Paul, set himself. He
was chaplain in one of the Minnesota
regiments during the war He is a zeal
GUS American, believing in the govern
ment of the United States with all his
soul. He wishes the children of for
eigners as soon as possible to be instruct
ed in the constitution and government
and in the workings of our free institu-
tions. For this reason he advocates in
struction in the English language in the
church schools, and would put instruc-
tors who teach in English over all the
children. Only by this means he be-
heyes the unity of the American Catho-
lie church can be preserved Where
separate English parochial schools can
only be maintained with difficulty Arch
bishop Ireland would have Catholic
children sent to the public schools,
rather than that they miss the thorough
training in English.
The question before the mind of Arch
bishop Ireland, as summarized by Albert
Shaw, is this: SIS the Catholic church in
America to be considered now and per
manently complex group of European
colonies, or is it to be made American
in language and sympathy, accepting in
the fullest sense the principles of Ameri-
can government and life?"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
Agricultural News and Notes,

Unless you have commodious quar-
tiers be content with raising one breed of
fowls.
The first shorn sheep to arrive in Chi
cago this season were received from Mis-
souri,.
The use Of English rape has, it is said,
been tried with success for fattening
sheep in Wisconsin.
Professor II. J. Cook, of the Michigan
Agricultural college, is hereafter to be
at the Pomona college, California.
The losses of sheep during the past
year throughout the country generally
were lighter than during any recent
season.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
Glover Hay for Sheep.

Many sheep fatteners give their sheep
clover hay, and it is good food for
them. But it ought to be remembered
it contains large percentage of nitrog-
enous food matter. We do not say this
to prevent them using the clover hay,
but to remind them that when they in
crease the quantity they increase the
quantity of nitrogen supplied, and an
allowance for this should be made
when arranging the amount of corn or
cake. Except for this, clover hay is one
of the best rectifiers as well as best foods
that can be given to sheep. AS means
OF lowering the quality of the blood Ep-
som salts are a mild aperient.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

An irrigation canal is in process of
building in Utah and Idaho by Chicago
capitalists, it is told, that will irrigate
100000 acres of land.
The New York state experiment sta
ton has been presented with two choice
Guernsey heifers by the American
Guernsey Cattle club for experimental
work.
Mr.. A. d. Hopkins, of the West Vir-
ginia agricultural experiment station,
estimates that 800 square miles of the
state are still covered by excellent black
spruce timber.
The department of agriculture has
commissioned an agent to investigate
and report upon methods of irrigation
employed in France, Italy and Spain.
Cornell university has opened dairy
school, where cheese and butter making
breeds and feeding are the subjects for
study.
Every bottle of Arnica and Oil Lini-
ment sold is warranted by the propriet5Is
to give satisfaction or money will be re-
funded.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
THE BEES AND THE FRUITS.


The Honey Bee Not Only INDICATED, but
Invited Into the Fruit Orchard.
Fruit growers have relented much to.
ward the bees since the results of ex.
periments made under the direction of
| the United States entomologists have
shown that wasps bit open tender fruits,
birds pecked them and they cracked
under the action of the sun and rain.
the bees only coming in to utilize the
Juices of the injured fruit.
But now Mr.. Fraak Benton says in
Insect Life that the bees have not only
been vindiCated, but that in the future
fruit growers are likely to be generally
regarded as more indebted TO the bee
keepers than the latter are to the fruit
growers, for the amount of honey the
bees secure from fruit blossoms comes
Far short of oqualing in value that part
of the fruit crop which many accurate
observations and experiments indicate is
due to the complete cross fertilization
of the blossoms by bees.
The observations and researches of
Hildebrand, Muller, Delpino, Darwin
and others, as we'll as the excellent ex-
PLANTATION of the subject by Cheshire,
have gone far to prove how greatly bios
SONS depend upon the agency of bees
for their fertilization, and hence for the
production of seeds and fruits. The
facts they have brought forward are
gradually becoming more widely known
among fruit growers and beekeepers,
and additional evidence accumulates
Mr. Benton states that there has come
to his notice a case very clearly illus
trating the value of bees in an orchard,
and the authenticity of which is con-
Ermed by correspondence with the
parties named, gentlemen recognized in
their locality as authorities in fruit cul-
ture, particularly cherry growing. The
facts are these: For several years the
cherry crop of Vaca valley, in Solano
county, Cal, has not been good, al
though it was formerly quite sure. The
partial or complete failures have been
attributed to north winds, chilling rains
and similar climatic conditions, but in
the minds of Messrs. Bassford, of Cherry
Glen, these causes did not sufficiently
account for all the cases of failure.
These gentlemen recollected that for
merly when the cherry crops were good
wild bees were very plentiful in the val
ley, and hence thought perhaps the lack
of fruit, since most of the bees had dis
appeared, might be due to imperfect
distribution of the pollen of the bios
SONS. To test the matter they placed
therefore several hives of bees in their
orchard in 1890. The result was strik-
ing, for the Bassford orchard bore d
good crop of cherries, while the other
growers in the valley who had no bees
found their crops entire or partial fail
ures. In 1891 Messrs. Bassford had
some sixty-fve hives of bees in their
orchard, and Mr.. HI. A. Bassford wrote
to The Entomologist: 'Our crop was
good this season, and we attribute it to
the bees" And he adds further:
'Since we have been keeping bees
our cherry crop has been much larger
than formerly, while those orchards
nearest US, five miles from here, where
no bees are kept, have produced but
light crops"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

The weevil of the bean bug deposits
its eggs in the young beans soon after
they have formed, puncturing through
the pod. The grubs or Larvae change
into beetles or weevils in the beans and
live over winter in them. Wick says
that the best way to manage is to place
the beans in a close box or cask and
then introduce into it cup containing a
small quantity of bisulphide of carbon,
the fumes of which, in few hours, will
destroy the insects. AS this substance
is highly infammable, one should not go
hear it with lamp or candle.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

Tho American made casemate armor
intended for the naval vessels Indiana
and Massachusetts, has been proved by
the tests of its strength at Indian
Head to be the best armor plate ever
manufactured anywhere. The progress
made by the United States in warship
building and equipment since we began
our new navy is scarcely less than mar
velous. The navy is going ahead of the
army in the path of progress.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10

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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
Difficult.

An aged Baptist elder. who was noted
for his intellectual vigor, was convers-
ing one evening with a number of the
brethren whsn the subject of old age
was touched upon. One of his friends
ventured to ask if he found that his in
creasing years had in any way impaired
his memory.
The good old man pondered for
awhile, and then replied, well, l can
not at the present moment remember
anything that ] have ever forgotten. >
Harper's Bazaar.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So, Londonderry, Vermont,

Newark, Il, j., has n loan and build.
ins 0#Su,jatioa composed entigely ui col.
orol T. ople, $50 whole cxY,usa oi cca,
duc,iuS lea W1sl b2!ding aszocia.ioui
in New jersey r,Asmts to coasi3osal,,
less thea x @, Per cont.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
GAPES IN CHICKENS.
Some Approved Methods of Com oating
This Troublesome Disease.

Some Approved Methods of Com batting
This Troublesome Disease.
A World correspondent writes: "Ihave
never met poultry keeper yet who was
hotinterested in gapes and couldn't name
a new remedy for them. There are of
course several approved methods of COM
batting this trouble. That these still
continue to be recommended is pretty
good evidence that, in some cases at
least, they prove effective. AS gapes
will be to the fore now and for some
time to come among the young chickens,
| will mention few of these remedies.
Zone authority says: IL cases occur, at
once put fluid carbolate, camphor or
lime in the water If there are many
cases place the chicks in cold pit (gar-
den frame) and fumigate with vapor of
carbolic acid till they are nearly suffo-
Gated by the fumes. Care must be taken
to hberate the chicks at the right mo-
ment or death will ensue, but if this is
well done it is an effectual cure.
"Stoddard says that camphor has been
used with success given in the form of a
pea, and that alum and sulphur in the
form of fine powder blown down the
throat will destroy the worms. Lime in
the air will also effect the purpose, and
may be applied by putting the chickens
into box covered with fine muslin and
sitting fine lime through this, but not SO
fast as to smother the chickens.
Another remedy is spirits of turpen-
tine, a few drops at time. By some
persons diet of crushed corn, soaked in
alum water or kerosene, is considered
good. This last remedy does not appear
at all reasonable to me. Gapes are caused,
as every poultry keeper is likely to learn
some time in the course of his experience,
by small red worms in the windpipe,
which obstruct the passage, SO that fl
nally the chick chokes and dies. To re-
move the cause is to remove the disease,
and the chicken, if not too much weak
ened, will recover.
"For few chickens, think the feather
treatment ought undoubtedly to be called
the best and surest cure. This consists
in stripping the feather from quill five
Or six inches long to within about an inch
of the top, then double this portion over.
Wet this with turpentine little diluted
with water, or with mixture of twenty
drops carbolic acid to one ounce glycerin.
Push the feather down gently through
the valve of the windpipe as far as it will
go; then draw it up, at the same time
twisting it quickly around. If you have
performed the operation dexterously, the
worms, or part of them, will come up
with the feather. 1t may be necessary
to repeat the process in order to get the
worms all out. Of course this remedy
is somewhat severe on the chicken, if
not skillfully and gently done, and it
cannot be applied to large focks because
it requires too much time. There is, I
believe, an absolute preventive for this
trouble, viz, keep the chickens on dry
ground and keep the yard and houses
clean. Wet and filth are the greatest
enemies of the poultry yard"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
NOTICE.
The TrOtting Bred Stallion
~:Allen Wilkes,:~
viii make the season of 1892 at the sta
Bile of his owner, at

Will make the season of 1892 at the sta
Bile of his owner, at
East Dorset, VT.
Sired by Mambrino Wilkes, 22S ga.
sire of Arthur Wilkes, 222, Mischief,
22i -, r. M. Wilkes, 225 l-2. &C., he by
Geo. Wilkes, 222; 1st dam by KearSar.e,
sire of dam of r. M. Wilkes, 225; I'd
dam by Gen. Lyon, one of 4 below go.
Allen Wilkes is sire of winners of LIST
and I'd money in 3-year- old race and the
first 3-year-old to get record better
than 8 minutes in race, bred in the
county, also one of the winners in three
year-old class at Cambridge, N. Y, over
a large field OF good ones. He was the
winner of first prize in the sweepstakes
for stations five years old and over with
their get, in 1891.
Call on or address
6. H. Fed,
East Dorset, Vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-06-10
A New Era for the History of Guano.

A New Era for the History of Guano.
When the deposits on the rocky is
lands off the coast of Peru were first dis
covered, the shipments of guano were of
high quality, the average percentage Of
ammonia ranging from 1898 per cent. in
the lowest sample to 1894 per cent. in
the highest. But there came change,
and as the old deposits began to be
worked out and newer ones took their
place there came also reduction in the
quality, and instead of Is per cent. to IS
per cent, of ammonia and "a per cent. of
phosphates many of the shipments went
far below these figures, and where there
was nitrogen equal to 10 per cent of am
monla the sample was exceptionally
good. There are now, however, says the
Mark Lane Express, indications of re-
vival Of the old guano days. Since the
Peruvian corporation took the matter in
hand search has been made among the
thousands of rocky islands which exist
on the west coast of Peru, where the
birds have their breeding grounds, and
large deposit Of high class guano has
been found. AS this has been found in
the rainless zone and has had time to get
into that mature friableness which was
such a characteristic of the earlier ship
ments, the discovery is a valuable one,
as the shipments which have arrived in
Europe prove. Several samples have
been taken, and these show an analysis
from IL to IS per cent. of ammonia, one
sample showing as high as 10 per cent.
There can be no doubt but that these
shipments mark the beginning of a new
era in the history of guano, and one
which will be marked once again by the
greater use of that manure.