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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
Good Points of Corn Fodder.

There are many good things about
corn fodder that are not always esti-
mated at their true value. One is that
it is crop that is soon grown and is
quickly available, and if at all properly
cultivated rarely fails of at least mod
erately good yield Another good thing
about it is that when corn is planted
for grain, as it usually is, the fodder
may be said to be chiefly gain. 1t is
quickly harvested and easily cured when
shocked up in the field where one can
leave it and take his time for husking
it, with but little loss to the grain OF
the fodder. Corn when raised for both
grain and fodder should be cut as soon
as the ears are mature enough to keep
well if the fodder is to be in the best
condition. Objection is sometimes raised
against corn fodder ON account of its
bulk compared with the portion actu-
ally consumed by the animals. When
it is tied i'll bundles as soon as it is
husked do not consider it at all diff
cult or expensive to handle. The best
of it is that when it is bright and sweet
all kinds of stock like it SO well that very
little will be left of it except The large
butts, These should be raked up in the
spring after they have been trampled by
the stock all winter, and be thrown into
piles where they will soon rot and be-
come manure. For cows giving milk,
corn fodder, il well cured, is at least as
good as timothy hay, and while it can.
not be as coinpactly stored away as hay,
it can be preserved out of doors in an
upright position with but little loss until
it is wanted for use
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
National Indemnities

The payment of $75, ZOO in gold by the
CHILEAN government, through Minister
Egan, to be distributed to the families
OF the two seamen who were killed and
to the men who were injured in the riot
at Valparaiso, ends that unfortunate
affair with credit to both the republic
OF Chill and that of the United States.
The riot occurred Oct. 16, 1891.
The United States government itself
has always done the square thing BY
way of indemnity in case of injury to
foreign citizens, thus setting good ex-
ample We paid to Italy last year $685.
900 damages for the Italians killed in
the New Orleans mob, and there are
people in New Orleans who believe this
country got rid of some of them cheap
at that. The indemnity paid amounted
to 50, $50 per head for the italian citizens
killed in the riot.
In 1887 four Japs were killed by some
of our unconscionable naval target prac-
tice in which officers of the cruiser
Omaha were engaged. For their pe
culiar style of target practice the gov
eminent of their country paid $4,000.
At Toulon, in 1884, some more of our
extraordinary naval target practice re-
suited fatally to two French subjects
and seriously to four others. Our navy
this time was engaged in firing salute
The United States paid France $4,000 to
be distributed among the sufferers.
On the other hand, in November.
1878, the American ship Virginius was
seized by a Spanish gunboat and
taken to Cuban port, where some of
her crew and passengers were shot on
the charge of being connected with a
revolutionary plot. Some of those shot
were British subjects, others American.
For this outrage Spain paid to the
United States government $4,000 for
each person killed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
California,s Fruit Garden.

The best, II not the earliest. example Of in
tensive fruit farming In the United States Ia
probably to DO found at Riverside, In Southern
California. About a score OF years ago few
courageous, enthusiastic mon and women
oranks they were called by their neighbors--
went to California TO put In operation well
digested project, formulated after full eonsld-
Grafton and discussion during tho long even
ings OF the previous eastern winter, Their
fundamental conception was of well regu-
lated settlement of desirable people upon small
tracts of fertile land, surveyed In regular
blocks of definite size and shape, with ample
provision for streets and avenues, the whole
to be artiflcially watered through q system OF
ranals and bitches receiving their supply from
some unfailing source.
This was one of the beginnings of the
wonderful fruit industry of California,
according to Mr. w. O. Fitzsimmons,
who writes its history in The Cosmopoli-
tan. The Riverside (Cal.) fruit garden
was painted as gorgeous picture on
the imagination of those who planted it
long before foot of irrigating ditch was
dug. 1t was planned out at eastern fire.
sides and realized foot by foot afterward.
The homes, the beautiful landscape,
the comfort, freedom and wealth the
cranks dreamed of PANIED out even
greater than they saw it when they
looked into the future. The Riverside
fruit region now yields an income
of $1,000 to $1,000 an acre from its
orange groves. The founders bought
the land from man who grumbled be-
cause it had been assessed for taxation
at seventy-five cents an acre. Now it is
worth 81 900 an acre in the open market.
Five acres of oranges will give indie
pendence for life to large family.
The most difficult part of the task of
the fruit garden pioneers was to make
the irrigating canals which brought wa
ter to their desert. for desert it was
when they went there. The water is
from the San Bernardino mountains.
forty miles away. 1t flows down into
sandy beds, and by tapping one of these
sandy beds-the Santa Ana river-the
Riverside pioneers found water for irri-
cation. Through Infinite toll, vexation
and discouragements" they finally
achieved success. Riverside now repre-
sents what is probably at once the most
intelligent, comfortable and yet thor
oughly republican community on the
globe. The landscape the "cranks" have
made is one of unequaled beauty. A
fall of forty feet in an irrigating canal
supplies power for electric lighting to
Riverside and also to San Bernardino,
ten miles away.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
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FLOWING IN GREEN CROPS.
Double Profit In Feeding to Stock and
Using the Manure.

Double Profit In Feeding to Stock and
Using the Manure.
A. w. Cheever, editor of The New
England Farmer, in his familiar talks
to farmers, says most decidedly that he
would not advise sowing Hungarian
millet to be plowed in for fertilizing a
field to be seeded to grasses in Septem-
Der, and in this connection he expresses
the following opinions:
have never had much faith in the
economy of raising good fodder to be
plowed in to enrich land. 1t is too ex-
pensive fertilizer, 1t is better to feed
it first to profitable stock and then get
two profits, one from the animals and
another from the manure made while
feeding. A crop of millet growing
through the summer months will ex-
tract from the soil about all the availa-
BILE plant food the soil contains and can
not give it up to the succeeding crop till
it has itself become thoroughly decom-
posed, which will not be in season to
help the grass much this year. And if
the grass fails to get good start. sown
in September it might about as we'll not
have been sown at all.
Turning in green crops for manure is
popular practice in sections where
wheat raising is the chief business of
the farm, and where crop of wheat
cannot be grown without manure often
er than once in two or three years. We
are being taught now that clover and
other plants producing root tubercles
are capable of gathering nitrogen from
the atmosphere, and so by their growth
the fertility Of soil may be actually
increased. Millet is not member of
this class of plants and can carry to the
soil nothing of special value as fer
tilizer but what it has taken from the
soil during its period of growth. Clover,
beans and peas turned in will increase
the fertility of soils after decomposition,
but even these are worth much more
fed to stock and the manure saved to
apply to the land.
| have no doubt that man could exist
on the earth without the aid of farm
stock, but at the present time and with
existing ideas and habits it is far better
to encourage the keeping of all the
profitable stock farm will carry and to
feed all the fodder grown rather than
turn it under for manure. There is a
great amount of vegetation grown that
man cannot utilize as food till it has
first been converted into animal food by
the live stock of the country. The study
of the farmer should be how best to
utilize this material. Turning under is
not the best way.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
The New Northwest.

The northwest will hold in the future
the balance of political power unless all
signs fail. Governor Merriam, of Min
nesota, presents in The North American
Review a summing up of the needs of
this vast region. He says it comprises
"a imitless empire of future greatness"
Montana holds unlimited mineral rich
ness, and above ground offers magnifi-
cent inducement for live stock raising.
Idaho is rich in minerals. Washington
state teens with grain fields and forests
Minnesota and the two Dakotas produced
last year in round numbers $50. O0O. 900
bushels of wheat.
What is yet needed to realize for mans
use the splendid possibilities here await.
ing him? First, Governor Merriam
would keep out by force of legislation
every man tainted with "anarchism,
communism and the like" Then he
would have the widest and highest pub
lie education for the young people, be-
cause on the intelligence of her citizens
depends the life of the republic.
Finally the new northwest needs cap
ital-millions of money-to help it de-
velop its mines and farms and build its
railroads and factories. He recon-
mends to the northwestern states, with
his blessing, such legislation as will
draw to them and protect capital from
the older, richer communities, and to
the attention of these older, richer COM
munities, also with his blessing, he COM
mends the investment of capital in the
new northwest.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

The remarkable formation Of Salton
lake in the desert from a break in the
Colorado river last year will be remem-
bered by all newspaper readers. The
lake gradually subsidized, leaving mud
and marsh, but where it was a change
no less marvellous than the appearance
of the lake itself has taken place. The
ground, which before was a sheet of
glistening sand and dust, is already COW
cred with a luxurious growth of vegeta-
ton, There will be no moro desert in
that spot. The vegetation that has ap-
peared shows the soil to be of great fer
tility. The break in tho Colorado will
be utilized to convey water to Salton
lake, and there in a few years will
spring up orchards, gardens and grain
fields capable of maintaining thousands
of people. The lake bed promises to
become as productive as the fruit region
of California.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
How a Painting Was Recovered.

A painting of the infant Jesus in the
possession of New York family has
curious history. II was sold to a men,
Der Of the family many years ago, and
the merchant declared his belief that it
was Guido Rene, although he was too
honest to certify to the fact. Years
later the purchaser saw in print shop
an engraving of a madonna and child
and recognized reproduction of part
of his picture, He turned the picture
over to cleaner of oil paintings, and
the latter, ON taking off the frame, dis
covered part of the canvas doubled
upon itself, Spreading out the whole
canvas he began to scrape at the point
where, according to the engraving, the
madonna should be. In due time he was
rewarded, for the madonna's face APP
peared, and the painting was plainly the
original of the engraving. The latter
was labeled rs from Guido Rene.-Chi-
cago Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

The wheelmen of the country will
finally make themselves heard to the
betterment of the highways of this
wretchedly roaded republic. They have
asked the senate interstate commerce
commission to introduce bill for the
appointment of a national highway COM
mission to take in hand the highways of
the country and improve them. But we
have already departments and commits
sions enough. If we keep on we shall
presently have as many as Great Britain,
that poor old commission ridden land.
No, we do not need any commission.
The simplest way is always the best
way; and the simplest way will be to put
the country roads of the United States
in charge of the agricultural depart
ment, and let it make examinations and
recommend such measures as will be
advisable. The machinery of office is
already there, the authority in a general
way is already there, and farmers are
more interested in good roads than any
body else, except our bicycling friends.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

Some people ought, they really ought,
to take vacation this summer. One is
the person who is always grumbling and
growing, another is he who predicts
that this republic is going to ruin. The
Boston Globe cartoonist adds another
to the list. He recommends the fash
ionable summer girl to take little sum-
mer outing at the washtub, just for va
riety. There, too, are the writers who
attempt to make us keep up with the
fashions this hot weather. Give us a
rest, dol Yet smother, from whom all
the world would like a rest is the per-
son who tells women through the news
papers what to do for their complications
the one who advises them to rub them
selves with cod liver oil every night, for
instance. Women have been using these
beautifiers now for twenty years, and
their compilations are just the same as
they always were. Let up. and go on a
yaratino
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
Politics of the Labor Unions.

What will organized labor, as repre-
sented by trades unions, do in the fall
political campaign? Practically moth
ing, answers in The North American
Review Mr.. Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor.
Members of the trades unions will vote
individually according to their political
affiliations, Democratic or Republican.
Some of them will vote with the new
Peoples party, but even that does not
represent labor's "views,' because it is an
organization mostly of employers-agri-
cultural employers-not of agricultural
laborers. There is an increasing dispo-
sition among workingmen to abandon
the old parties and flock each his own
way.
The trades unions, if we understand
Mr.. Gompers Alright, are at present much
in the go-it-husband-go-it-be bear attitude
as regards existing political parties.
Absolute economic independence for the
laborers Of field, farm, workshop and
factory is the goal Mr.. Gompers sets for
himself and associates first of all With
this complete economic independence
will come everything else that labor
calls for. Mr.. Gompers is happy to be-
heve that he perceives among the men,
bers of the labor organizations an in
creasing tendency to rely on themselves
and their own efforts and less on the aid
of other people.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
Since the days of Benjamin Franklin

Since the days of Benjamin Franklin
the United States has had few distin-
guished linguists and men of all round
knowledge to send abroad as foreign
ministers, though of course no presi-
dent ever makes mistake when he ap-
points a good newspaper man to one of
these posts. Since every foreign minis
ter cannot be newspaper man, how
ever. we must all take pride in the fact
that the important mission to Russia
will be filed by that man of interna-
tional, scientific, educational and liter
airy reputation, Andrew D. White-one
of the Invest of Americans besides.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

War, famine and pestilence was the
procession in which of old times came
the dark winged messengers of woe to
the human race. We have had no war.
but famine fell upon Russia and parts of
Asia last year and fingered through the
first half of 1892. Now has come the
pestilence cholera, following in the
wake of the famine. 1t has appeared in
Russia, and there is reason to believe
the suspicious cases in the suburbs of
Paris were real Asiatic cholera. Still it
does not follow that the scourge will
spread to America or through western
Europe generally, though it may do even
that. In any case, it is less fatal than it
was before mankind understood cleanli-
ness and the use of disinfectants.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
Disease in Celery.

The celery blight is prominent among
our destructive fungi. According to the
observations of various growers the prev
alence of the blight seems to depend
largely upon the weather, although d.
verse views upon the condition for blight
may arise from confusion of two or
more distinct kinds of fungi. At the
New Jersey station the following fungus
diseases of the celery have been studied
by the botanist, namely: The common
trust" or blight, as it should be Called;
the celery leaf spot, new species, a
second form of leaf blight, found in the
country for the first time during the
past season in Delaware and in New
Jersey, and a bacterial disease due to a
species of hacterium.
As desc bed i'll a special bulletin,
field experiments were made with the
celery blight, and the weekly spraying
with the ammoniacal carbonate of cop
per made the practical difference of a
fair crop where it was used and a fail
ure where it was not. Acting Director
Nelson believes similar treatment will
prove effective for all the diseases of the
celery, and wherever growers have had
blight or rust" they are encouraged to
try the same remedy or some other good
fungicide. The bacterial decay spread
through the plant after it is banked or
stored, and great pains need be taken
not to let the tender heart of the plant
become wet.
The formula of the department Of ag-
riculture for ammoniacal solution of
copper carbonate is as follows: In an Or
binary water pail mix five ounces of
copper carbonate with enough water to
make thick paste. Dissolve this paste
in three pints of strong aqua ammonia,
then dilute to forty-fve gallons. If
three pints of ammonia are not sufficient
to dissolve all the paste add enough to
bring about the result.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

The late Thomas Cook, who died at
bis home in England, aged eighty-feur.
was the founder of the railway and
steamboat excursion. He is another ex
ample OF man who caught one of the
happy thoughts that float about man.
Kind constantly and actualized till it
brought fame and fortune and did good
to the race. Only for him those admit
rable travellers who annually leave our
shores as Cooks tourists" never would
nave been thus known. Thousands of
them would never have been able to go
abroad atall only that his system brought
travel within the means of the best class
OF people alive-persons of moderate
means Good rest to the soul of Thomas
Cook!
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
A Queer Bargain,

jeff Bryant and his brother Abe each
owned large tracts Of land near here,
and they We're bachelors.
One day the brothers agreed that the
one that married first should have the
others land in addition to his own. One
Sunday about nine years ago Abe called
at Jefi's house.
"Good morning, jeff"
"How dye, my boy" answered jeff.
"Jeff, yoa remember that marriage
agreement we NADER" asked Abe.
"Well, reckon do" said Abe.
What about it?'
'Im going to be married Wednesday.
Are you ready to keep the agreement"
"Sure as you're alive" answered jeff.
| hain't got no use for man as will go
back on his word"
"Well, you are right, jeff, and you
shall be my best man."
So the compact was sealed, but jeff
did not intend to give up his 1000 acres
so easily. He just fooled Abe, Instead
of waiting for Abe to get married on
Wednesday, JEFF hitched up and called
on a neighbours daughter and proposed
that very Sunday night. He was ac-
cepted, and they were married Monday.
Then he went to Abe, saying:
"Abe, that little agreement of ours,
you remember"-
Eyes; well"-
"You see was married this morning,
and want to know if you allow to keep
your promise"
"Well, this is little suddint like. but
| reckon it's all right. I'll keep my
word"
And he did, Abe transferred his prop
erty to jeff. On Wednesday Abe was
married as per contract, and went to
live ON a rented tract of land.
Singularly enough the brothers have
been good friends all these years.-Cov-
ington Post.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

OF negroes and persons with negro
blood in their veins there are at present
In the United States 100000. They
constitute in the southern states over 80
per cent Of the population, in the north
ern not quite ~ per cent. But the pro-
portion of colored persons in the north
ern states is increasing, because many
of the southern blacks are migrating
northward,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05
Agricultural Notes.

AS to the amount of hay in feeding
horses, the rule of several London ON
nibus and delivery companies is ''ten
pounds of hay and four quarts of oats
per meal"
The estimated number of sheep in
Australia in 1892, according to an Aus
tralian exchange, is 100000 against
81 600, 900 in 1884.
Professo. Latta, of the Indiana sta
ton, gives the average length of time
required to mature corn as l15 days for
the earlier varieties and 125 days for the
later ones
The American Cultivator says That
Hungarian grass is not only good hot
weather crop, but succeeds on land that
in early sprtrg Is too wet for cultivation.
There is = rumor to the effect that an
effort is bei-Js made to revive tea plant
ing in the sSnth.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

Abby S. Estabrook
Whereas S. Gates Estabrook of
WartlSboro in the county of Windham,
aforesaid, has this day filed in the office
of the clerk of said county court his libel
for divorce against his wife, Abby S.
Estabrook, formerly of said Wardsboro
the cause OF wilful dcscrtion for more
than the three years last past, 10 wit, at
WardshoFo aforesaid, which said lioel is
reiuinable 10 the next term of the Wind
ham county court to be held at Newfane
within AID fol said " INDIAN county ON
the second Tuesday Of Sep.c nb.r, A.
d. 1892. And it Appearing that the said
ABBY s. Estabrook Is not within this
State so that The Ordinary process at the
court can be sawed upon her, il is order
cd that the i.bellant notify the said libel
lee tf his said libel. m OF tie term of
court To which the same is rclu nable, BY
publishing the substance OF his said libel
toeether with this or.!cr for til,ce weeks
successfully in tie Iontlonde ~ >if r. a
ncw-parer Published at l.oteinnd try in
; ii'l couuiy. ih,' list ~ ir'a i"n ts BIZ at
least six weeks priei. % III. session of the
court To- which sail libel i rcturnable,
which publication shall be deemed sulli-
Client notice for lhe said librllec to appear
and contest the same Shall She see lit
Given under my hand at Brattleboro
The 2d day of July. A. ID. 1892.
ROYAL Tyler, Clerk
Haskins & Stoddard Attys for libellant.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

Here is hint from the Chinese on
roast pork that Ia worth remembering till
cold weather and pork time come again.
After roast of pork is done and re-
moved from the oven the Chinese cook
hangs it up in the smoke of various
fragrant herbs, which permeates it with
q delicious aromatic flavor.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-08-05

A misstep will often make cripple for
life. A bottle of Henry & Johnson's Ar
nica and Oil Liniment at hand, will not
prevent the misstep, but used immediate
V will save being 4 crinple