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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
More Fooiishness.

That hysterical Canadian by adoption,
Professor Goodwin Smith, is reported as
saying that Americas pretended love
for Gladstone is nothing but hatred of
England. Does the Tory professor
wish to be considered as going Sc far as
to say that Gladstone is the enemy of
England? Tory Canadian papers, not
ably the Toronto World, take their cue
from Goodwin Smith and strive to stir
up in Canada hostile feeling to the
United States by emphasizing our hatred
to England
We regret to be obliged to keep per.
sistently setting the public sentiment of
Canada right on this point 1t is
thankless task too. But must we keep
saying, until annexation is fixed fact,
that the people of the United States do
not hate England? The reason is as
simple as the Toronto World is silly
England cannot afford to hats the United
States--the United States cannot afford
W udbe Eng lduu 1t is pam ludtter Ol
money, and money talks. The larger
commercial interests OF Great Britain
and the United States run together Not
less than $300,000, 900 of good British
money is invested in the United States.
We use it to our own advantage in our
manufacturing and upon our ranches,
and return good interest to England.
The people of the two countries are one in
language, race and sympathy. They are
at once free and law abiding in their ma
lures. They suit one another. though
England is constitutional monarchy
and America is a republic.
Intelligent Canadians perceive that we
are more prosperous than they. For
this reason the desire for annexation is
growing year by year, and will grow
till it is an accomplished fact. 1t will
be peaceably accomplished, and no hys-
terics will stop it. 1t is matter of
money. not sentiment. Now we hope
not to be forced to refer to this little
matter again.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
How Rothschild Was Painted.

Baron Rothschild was very anxious to
have Horace Vernet paint his picture,
and visited him with this object while
Vernet was engaged upon his enormous
Algerian battle piece, LA Prise de la
Smala." Vernet said he would paint the
baron for $4,000 francs, and although
Rothschild visited him repeatedly to in
duce him to name a smaller sum he
stuck to his price. Finally, upon one of
the baron's visits, Vernet told him that
he had already painted him full length
for nothing, as he, the baron, could not
afford. to pay for his picture, and that he
would find himself in the "Prise de La
Smala" at Versailles.
The baron accordingly went to Yer
sailles, and there he was, the central
figure in the foreground of the enormous
picture, and he overheard the follow
ing conversation among the spectators:
"Who is that man to whom the woman
is appealing to save her child and who
appears not to hear herr" "Why, don't
you see? He is Jew running away with
a casket." Rothschild, by threats, en-
treaties and brides, could not induce Ver-
net to paint out the fgure.-San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
The Collegiate Life of Tennyson.

Little is known respecting the col
legiate life of Lord Tennyson, though
occasional references to it crop out from
time to time in the correspondence of
his fellow students. To what extent he
was a student in the learned tongues is
not clear in his early verse, or not so
clear as that he was student of English
poetry. Nor was he alone in this study,
and the practice which accompanied it,
for, besides his friend Hallam, his brother
Charles was bent, like himself, on win
ming the laurel. The two brothers pub
lished two more collections of verse in
1880, not together, as in the Louth ven
ture three years before, but separately.
Charles Tennyson's volume, which
was the smaller of the two, consisted
mostly of sonnets, or rather of carelessly
constructed quartorzains, which so many
English poets will insist upon writing
and calling sonnets, while the volume
of Alfred, though it contained seven Of
these unshapely compositions, had a
wider scope and range, as was indicated
by its title, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical 1t
was followed by a second collection two
years later. The reception that these
volumes met with is worthy of chap
ter in the 'Curiosities of English Crit
cism," should such work ever be writ
ten. 1t was as singular and unreason-
able as the reception of WORDSWORTH
Lyrical Ballads" Byron's "Hours Of
Idleness,' Shelley's 'Laon and Cythna"
or Keats "Endymion." = Harper's
Waekly
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
American Difference to Things English.

American Difference to Things English.
Mr.. La Fargo, than whom there is no
higher authority, has pointed out that
the reason why there was originally no
provision for painted glass in the pro-
posed art exhibition at Chicago was
that there had been no provision for it
in European exhibitions, and that the
reason for that omission was because
it is an art not now actively cultivated
in Europe. But it is an art actively and
successfully cultivated in this country,
the prominence of this department in
the exposition, came very near causing
its entire omission from the programme.
In politics and in mechanical inven-
ton we have attained to what may
be called national maturity; we have
not merely achievements, but we have
an independent basis of achievement;
indeed sometimes the basis is of more
value than the achievement, as our ma
tional constitution is better than most Of
the laws that are made under it. In
oratory, too, we have a certain self con-
fdence, but in other arts we have abso-
lutely been sliding back as to self con-
fidence since Emerson's death until we
really speak with more Difference of the
London of Lang and Haggard and Oscar
Wilde than men showed twenty years
ago in speaking of the London of OAR
win, Carlyle and Browning.
All the vast expenditure of the Chi
cago exposition will be trivial invest
ment if it can only initiate period
when we shall be little less colonial,
and shall at least put our own estimate
our own men.-T. w. Higginson in Har-
pers Bazaar,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
Some Hay Questions.

What is the shrinkage in the weight of hay2
Is it more profitable to sell directly from tho
field at S12, or after lying in the NOW three
months at from SIS to SIS?
When we say two tons per acre." do we
mean as 1t comes from the lot or after season
ing in the stack or NOV?
The foregoing questions were an
swered not long ago in The Rural New
Yorker
A. M. Lagrange said: ~ prefer to sell
hay after it has been in the barn, as
then there is more time to handle it. In
my opinion it shrinks very little until
cold weather. A yield of two tons to
the acre means one of seasoned hay fSpn
the NOV. have pressed hay over
thirty years, and find that to take the
chaff out as much as possible and keep
it at home for the cows and sheep pays
better than to put it in the bale, as the
consumers do not want it. for their
horses. label my hay and sell it lit
tie above the market price"
D. G. Lewis said: at would be more
profitable to sell hay directly from the
field at twelve dollars per ton than to
keep it and risk shrinkage and handling.
When we say two tons per acre we
mean hay taken from the NOW for mar
ket. 1t would be better, or at least as
good, to sell hay from the NOW immedi-
ately after the sweating process at
twelve dollars as to sell it the next win
ter at fifteen dollars"
Charles Chapman replied: LAS nearly
as ! can tell, in hay cut before it is in
full blossom the shrinkage has been
about one-sixth. From this l allow that
it would be more profitable to sell di-
rectly from the field at twelve dollars
per ton than three months afterward at
fifteen dollars, as fifty cents per ton
would not pay for the extra handling Of
the hay after allowing for shrinkage.
AT eighteen dollars per ton the case
would be reversed, as | could handle the
hay and stand the shrinkage for six dol
lars. When say two tons per acre
mean as it comes from the NOW after
seasoning"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
CULTURAL NOTES ON WHEAT.
Suggested by Results Gained Mt the In
diana AcrieulturaI Exnerino ant statlon

Suggested by Results Gained Mt tho In
diana Agricultural Experiment Station.
Here are some important points con-
corning wheat, set forth in bulletin
sent out by Director Plumb, of the Pur-
due university station, at Lafayette
Ind. He says;
Velvet Chaff, Michigan Amber and
Fultz varieties of wheat have been
grown for nine years on the university
farm and rank in order as named
though Michigan Amber surpasses Vel,
vet Chaff as a rust resisting variety
Red Clawson and Jones Winter Fife
are the two most promising recently in
troduced varieties.
For eight years six pecks of seed sown
per acre have given the most satisfac-
tory results. In the region of Lafayette
higher average yield has been secured
from wheat sown Sept 90 over other
dates of sowing,
Judicious rotations, including grass.
have given better returns than constant
grain cropping. Heavy applications Of
manure and fertilizers to a worn soil.
growing corn and wheat alternately
have given paying returns. The aver
age results of all experiments at this
station with fertilizers and manures
upon wheat during the past three years,
in full or two-third doses, have not been
profitable.
The use Of hot water or copper sui
phate failed to destroy the spores of
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
Elm Leaf Beetle.

The best remedies for this pest, says
The Country Gentleman, are spraying
the foliage with london purple or paris
green in water, one pound to 200 gallons
of water, and killing the Larvae as they
descend the trunks of the trees for pupa-
ton. The injuries of the insect are near
ly over for the present year, as the bee
ties are already land have been since the
first week in August) ceasing to feed
and leaving the trees to find sheltered
places in the tops Of buildings, ETC.,
where they may remain in a lethargic
state during the autumn and winter to
issuing the following spring for mating
and egg laying.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
FOR SALE.

My Farm, formerly the Newell Hunt
ing place, Said farm is in the town OF
Winhall joining Londonderry on the east,
Peru on the north, and on direct road
from So, Londonderry to Manchester.
Farm contains IS acres more or less, suit
ably divided into pasture, tillage and
wood land with splendid sugar orchard
of 500 trees.
The buildings consist of a large two
story house with l., two cattle barns,
horse barn and hennery and other out
buildings all in best of repair, running
water to house and barn; also nice well
in cellar, all the land lies to the soulh,
and is in high state Of cultivation.
Said farm is three miles from So Lon
donderry and twelve from Manchester
and near school, Farm cuts hay enough
to winter fifteen head of cattle beside
team and can be bought low this fall ON
account of poor health.
For further particulars enquire of 5.
M. Holden, So. Londonderry, OF the sub
scriber on the premises.
C. V. BRYANT.
Winhall, w., Oct. 10, '92.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
Red SQUIRRELS as Rat Traps.

Here is communication that is going
the rounds of the agricultural journals:
Some years ago rats were quite annoy
ing about our house and barn. The red
squirrels came to live with us. They
got into the house, walls and garrets
We rather enjoyed seeing them and so.
encouraged their sojourn in the house.
The only objection to their presence was
their early waking, and they some
times found and appropriated the chill
dren's nuts that were stored in the
chambers. After the squirrels came
the rats all left, and we have not seen a
rat for years, either at the house or the
barn. have no doubt that the SPUR
rels drove the rats away. If this would
work successfully every time, then it
might pay to introduce and encourage
the presence of red squirrels about the
house and barn. Three or four squir-
rels about the barn do no harm. So far
as have tried them can recommend
red squirrels as the best of rat traps.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
New st. Louis,

'St. Louis is already the fifth in size
among the cities of the land, and would
be the fourth if Brooklyn were rated
what she is in fact-a bedchamber of
New York." writes Mr.. Julian Ralph in
Harper's Magazine. He tells us about
the remarkable second growth which
the fine old city has taken on within the
past ten years. The inhabitants now
claim population of 100000, and even
its rivals do not deny to st. Louis 470, 900
residents
Mr.. Ralph's story illustrates strikingly
what a city may become when its own
citizens begin to hustle for it. A few
years ago progressive men of St. Louis
began to consider that their city was
getting left in the march of progress
They resolved it should not be. The
Merchants exchange inaugurated the
new movement with a boom. They be-
gan to advertise their city. They started
the Autumnal Festivities association
which prepares a sort of Columbus cele
bration for st. Louis every fall coming
just after the leading crops are har
vested. 1t has brought to the town
money fame and business.
A new tide of migration has set to
ward the southwest in the past decade
This passes through st. Louis and leaves
its contribution as it goes. The city is
the heart of a vast agricultural and
mining territory, whose future develop
ment cannot be fixed by the imagina
ton at present. The town is not all
huddled together, but its business dis,
trict covers a large territory 1t has
PA miles of street railway tracks, and
most of them are traversed by electric
and cable cars. New York would open
its eyes in surprise at the size of these
electric street cars. Some of them are
twice as large as New York street cars.
But a stranger from the east feels more
at home in st. Louis than in any other
western city, Mr.. Ralph says He
nasCens 10 explain, however, That this
is nothing against st. Louis.
In comparatively short time he
prophesies that the city on the Missis
sippi will have a million inhabitants.
Her greatest manufacturing industries
are beer and tobacco. The city has the
largest brewery on the continent, if not
in the world, and she is at the head of
the list in the trade in chewing and
smoking tobacco
st. Louis has one hearts desire at pres
snt 1t is that the United States gov
eminent should SO improve the Missis-
sippi river from st. Anthony's falls to
the gulf that it will have channel ten
feet deep at all seasons of the year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
Artificial Queen Rearing.

A. w. Tafts expresses himself thus in
The Agriculturist:
If allow my bees to follow nature or
their instinct / should have very few
bees left and should have to go to the
woods for honey. much prefer to rear
all my queens by the artificial method,
then | know exactly the pedigree and
can control the line of descent of her
royal highness, the queen, if cannot of
her consort, the drone. have over 100
colonies, and of that number only three
come up to the standard from which |
would like to rear my queens.
| rear about 100 year to requiem my
apiary, as do not find that it pays to
keep queens over the second winter, as
they rear too many drones. and do not
think that they winter as well as bees
from vigorous young queens. If at
tempt to rear all those queens during
the swarming period, should have to
keep 100 nuclei instead of thirty, as do
now. Those three from which wish to
rear cast 10 swarms this season, so there
are no cells from them by the natural
method. find by experience that queens
reared by the artificial or forced method
give the best and most satisfactory re-
suits in queen, bees and honey, and con-
sequently dollars and cents.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11

Mr.. Herbert Gardner, Chaplin's sue
cessor as president Of the British board
of agriculture, is as badly afflicted with
the foot and mouth disease as Chaplin
himself was, In answer to deputation
of Englishmen who waited on him peti.
tioning that the prohibition against the
importation of foreign live cattle might
be removed. Gardner replied that he
couldn't think of it. The prohibition
must remain, because through its agency
England was the only country in Europe
free from the foot and mouth disease.
The real reason is that Gardner does not
want American live beef coming into
Great Britain in competition with the
home grown Therefore the common
people there must do without beef.
Well, one thing remains, and that is the
importation into Great Britain of great
loads of dressed beef in refrigerator
ships.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
Km@sssSeN< $500
MGARM.F og2D
& HsA GARD Den
POULTRY FOR WINTER.
A Canadian with Four Years Experienc
Talks About Winter Layers.

A Canadian with Four Years Experience
Talks About Winter Layers.
David Lash, in report to the Ottawa
(Canada) experiment farm, says.
The experience of the past four winters
proves that the breeds which are often
stated to be most unsuited to cold eli
mates lay the best. 1t is often told by
the inexperienced or the prejudiced that
fowls with large combs are not suited
for winter layers because their combs
will freeze. If any one wishes to make
revenue from his winter eggs he must
not keep his layers where their combs
will freeze. Intelligence must be exer-
cised in the treatment Of winter layers
the same as In the winter care of other
stock.
OF the hens with the large combs, such
as Leghorns, Minorcas and Andalusians,
no better winter layers or harder fowls
can be had than the White Leghorns.
The Andalusians and Minorcas are also
excellent winter layers, butrequire to be
kept active, as do all the Spanish class.
Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes are
well known winter layers. Members Of
the Asiatic family-viz., Brahmas, Buff
Cochins and Langshans-require to be
Matched out early in the season to make
early layers. They require to be skill
fully handled during the close confine-
ment of winter to prevent them becom-
ing too fat. A farmer will not make a
mistake by choosing his winter layers
from the Leghorns, Plymouth Rocks or
Wyandottes. The Wyandottes perhaps
come as nearly filling the bill as pos
sible, having little or no comb, and are
good layers. The Houdans did not seem
to stand the confinement to winter
quarters as well as other breeds The
following classification may serve as a
guide in making choice from the best
known breeds:
Breeds with Large Contradictions,
Minorcas, Andalusians, Black Spanish.
Breeds with Small Combs-Wyan-
dottes, Brahmas, Cochins, Houdans.
Breeds with Medium Size Combs
Plymouth Rocks, Dorkings, Black Javas,
Langshans.
Breeds with Rose Combs-Leghorns
Hamburgs, Redcaps, White Dorkings.
While on the subject of winter laying
it may be stated that the layers do better
when they can enjoy as much freedom
as possible. Many farmers have their
poultry houses so situated that with very
little trouble or expense they can SO ar.
range as to allow their fowl access to q
barn, stable or inclosed shed, where
18Th l.
stances may be found for the hens to
scratch in. Fowls so situated are not
likely to give trouble in the way of eat
ing eggs or feathers or laying eggs with
soft shells.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont.

Apparently it Is not necessary to wait
for electricity to propel railway trains
100 miles an hour, Steam is nearly
equal to it now An express train be-
tween Buffalo and Rochester lately trav.
eled ten miles at the rate of ninety five
miles an hour, making mile in less
than thirty-nine seconds. The only
question to be settled is whether cleo
tricity cannot accomplish the fast travel
wit, less dust, noise and expense.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
In South Dakota this year Indians vote

In South Dakota this year Indians vote
for the first time and enjoy the sensa-
ton of casting their ballots for the great
father. A law passed by congress de-
clares that when Indians take farms in
severalty red males twenty-one and over
shall be classed as American citizens.
Considerable political log rolling has
been done amepg the Sissetons and Wah-
petons of the Lake Traverse region, who
took lands in severalty two years ago.
1t will be interesting to know whether
the Indian will become Democrat or
the honeyed eloquence of the Peoples
party orators.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
ODDS AND ENDS.
oliver cromwell's father was a bre,

Oliver Cromwell's father was brewer,
About a quarter of the people of Paris
live in apartments.
An inch of rain means 100 tons Of
water on every acre.
Spain has fewer daily papers than any
other European country.
Put teaspoonful of salt into kero-
sene lamp once in awhile,
A pretty woman's reflections are sell
dom deeper than her looking glass.
A yearly outlay of s5,0OO,000 shows
American enterprise in advertising.
The first omnibus appeared in Paris
in 1926; in New York five years later.
The Davy safety lamp for miners was
invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1915,
There is no time in life when books
do not influence a man.-Walter Besant.
Change the socks from one foot to the
other unless you wear anatomical socks.
1t is estimated that about $50, 900, 900
bricks are used monthly in Great Britain.
A gold leaf electrometer was invented
by Bennett in 1888, and subsequently
improved.
Only the wounds of self respect are
fatal, but the wounds of self love ache
the hardest.
Complete cable communication was
established in 1872 between Australia
and England.
The first telephone exchange was
established in London in 1879. Ten Of
fees were connected,
1t is the song, the picture, the book,
and the preacher that touches on the
human basis in man that is successful.
A medical man tells us that the habit
among women of biting off the thread
when sewing is the chief cause of blood
poisoning.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11

In India when an eclipse of the sun
occurs the natives regard it as a solemn
religious event, and troop from all parts
OF the country by the thousand to battle
in the sacred Ganges while the shadow
is on. 1t would not be bad idea if
some people had that kind of super
stition in the United States. They
would get bath at least once in their
lives.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
A Floral Clock.

A French novelty in the way of
timepiece is floral clock, the long
hands OF which sweep above twelve
doral beds, each bed being different
from all the others in the color and va
1ety of flower. The hands are moved
by subterranean mechanism.-Phi
phia Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11

1t must have been sight worth see.
mg-Emperor William and Emperor
Francis Joseph throwing their arms
about each other and kissing each other
repeatedly, on the occasion of Emperor
Billy's visitto Vienna. 1t is a good time
now for the nations of Europe to begin
to increase their ornaments.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11
Gents
SilverOid Watch,

Open face, three ounce case, warranted to
wear and keep its color, stem wind and set,
Waltham or Elgin full plate movement, safety
pinion and expansion balance, warranted to
keep correct time if properly used. Usually
sold for seven or eight dollars. This is the
watch that has recently been sold so low in
Brattleboro, dealers advertising them at $3.50
Price to our patrons only $50.
R-For $3.50 will sell popular styled,
rolled plate chain, warranted for five years,
usually sold for $500.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11

Do not suppose that because it is rec
commended for animals that Arnica & Oil
Eminent is an offensive preparation. 1t
will not stain clothing or the lairest skin
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-11-11

Ladies' Sviler Watch-Chatelaine
Solid silver cases, open face, stem wind and
set good Swiss movement. With good usage
will last for years. Regular price $500.
Price to patrons Of the Sitter So 90.