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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Sweet Corn.

The best plan is to have plenty of seed
and plant as early as the ground will
work mellow, and then in about eight
days plant another patch, so if the first
should fail you have more coming on,
writes correspondent in Southern Gull
tivator, who further says: "If can get
corn up, smart frost will not hurt it,
it will only cut the top down, the bud is
under the ground protected and will be
coming the same. have not found this
corn much more liable to rot from early
planting than common field corn. This
corn requires richer soil than field corn
in fact it is useless to plant the small
early varieties without very rich soil and
it well MANFRED. The best soil for an
early crop is rich sandy loan. 1t may
be planted in hills three feet each way,
or in drills six to eight inches in the
drill, according to the variety grown or
strength of SOIL the taller the variety or
the richer the soil the greater should be
the distance between the rows.
The finest crop of sugar corn | ever
grew turned "a crop of rye under while
in bloom and planted the ground in
melons. The third time the melons were
plowed a furrow was run in the middle
between the rows and early Egyptian
sugar corn drilled in it six inches apart
After the corn was up to see it across
the field the whole patch was thoroughly
plowed and laid by. This corn came in
at time when sweet corn came into
fall market. Besides the ears it yielded
an abundance of stalk fodder. All things
considered, find it the most profitable to
plant the large kinds and depend on
early planting and manure for early
corn"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
To Him That Hath.

There is nothing dearer to the heart of
the average boy than to be the proud
possessor Of goat broken to harness
To own such a steed makes the boy the
leader of the neighborhood, and by the
judicious giving of rides the owner ac-
quires "pull" which lasts usually as
long as the goat himself can pull
Fully aware of this, the publisher Of
a popular youths magazine recently Of
fered as prizes for the boys securing a
certain number of new subscribers in a
given time handsome Angora goat,
harness and gig,
This set the young readers of the paper
adjusting, and when the time for re-
ceiving the subscriptions expired it was
found that every one of the competitors
wanted a goat,
AS the publishers had only ten goats,
of course every lad couldn't get one.
Each of the ten leaders in the contest re-
ceived his goat and outfit, and to each Of
the disappointed contestants kind let
ter was sent explaining the case, etc.
One of the lucky ten was western
lad. His goat was promptly boxed NJ
and forwarded to its destination. The
lad received the box. and on opening il
great was his establishment when he
saw not only the anxiously expected
goat, but in addition four goatlets, so tt
speak. born in transitu. Boston Herald
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Hubbard Squash and the Borer.

The great difficulty in raising the best
kinds of squashes is in dealing with the
squash borer. A correspondent of The
Country Gentleman, who had tried paris
green without avail, has had success
with the following plan in raising Hub.
bard squashes: THE moth that lays the
eggs that produce the borers appear
about June 20. The eggs are deposited
at that time and for month later, on
the vine or near the ground, and they
hatch in about ten days, and the borers
at once begin to eat into the vine and
pursue their hidden way along the CEN
ter of the vine, growing as they eat, and
when the vine has grown several feet in
length and has set fruit in abundance
the leaves begin to wilt, signs of death
appear, and all ones labor goes for
naught.
''The remedy is, as soon as the eggs are
first deposited, and once a week there
after, visit every vine, carefully lift it
and rub the part from the ground up
ward three or four inches with the fill
gers, and all the eggs will be easily
crushed. This can be done very rapidly,
and if done with care it is sure remedy.
Sometimes later in the season, till near
the end of July, eggs may be deposited
at the joints of the vine. These should
be looked after. The ground for squash,
es should be very rich as far as one ex-
poets the vines to run, and should be
kept free from weeds SO long as it can be
done without disturbing the vines. If
this is done roots will strike down at
every joint and send out an abundance
of fibrous roots that will support the
plant when it has been entirely cut off at
the surface where the seed was planted
Last season raised twenty good, ripe
squashes from single vine"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
PLANT THE BEST VARIETIES.
The Clear Profit of the Crop Depends
Mainly Upon the Seed Used,

The Clear Profit OF the Crop Depends
Mainly Upon tho Seed Used.
There is q wonderful difference in tho
different varieties of all farm crops.
Some varieties of wheat have large,
plump, solid grains, while others have
small inferior grains, A bushel of some
varieties of wheat will "overrun" the
allotted weight of sixty pounds TO the
bushel two or three pounds and more,
while others fall short the same number
of pounds per bushel, The same is true
of oats, If the most prolific varieties
were used by every farmer, millions
of bushels more wheat and oats would
be grown. There is great want among
farmers in this regard,
Again we look at the corn crop, and
here we find still greater difference in
varieties, Take the small ear, Pride of
the North, which is only intended for
extreme northern localities, where large
ears will not mature, and we find thou
sands of farmers "monkeying" with this
small ear variety away south, when
other varieties would produce twice as
much.
Take the Mastodon variety, a large
yellow ear corn, 1t will grow about
double as much as the little Pride of
the North. The ears are nearly twice
as large and the grains much larger and
deeper Other varieties of large ear sorts
have the same advantages over the small
ear kinds, but this is enough. Let us
take potatoes, and here there is still a
greater difference in varieties, Some
kinds will not yield over one-fourth as
much as others. Generally the potato
is maltreated in growing to a greater ex-
tent than Utmost any other farm crop.
Many variet.e have run out" and this
by bad treatment. Few suppose run
out" sort is used for seed alongside of a
fresh, new, prolific, large, growing va
riety. Why, almost every one has seen
two to four times the amount of yield
from the last to that obtained from the
run out" kinds,
You cannot be too particular about
Varieties. The clear profit of the crop
depends upon the kind of seed used. at
is no use TO talk" Everybody knows that
the best seeG must be used to get the best
crop. Why hen violate this rule known
in this univ, rsal, this unerring principle
in the vain hope of securing good CROP
1t is true that poor seed grown on good
soil with best corn and culture may pro-
duce as well as good seed on poor sol
with poor corn and culture, and ever
this is risk. But the only sensible
course left is to plant the best seed Of
the best varieties on the best soil yor
have or can have, giving the best care il
blowing, subsoiling, planting and cult
walton. This is the only sure road tt
success, says Western Plowman, after
making the above recommendations.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

There are many odd and curious speci-
mems of botanical rarities in the Govern
ment Botanical gardens at Washington.
None, however, attracts more attention
than that remarkable oriental oddity,
the "barber plant" 1t was not given its
odd name, as some might suppose, be-
cause its leaves are like razors or it's sap
like lather. Neither will it's inner bark
make splendid towels las is said of the
vegetable cloth tree, or its seeds make
razor homes. tits simply called the bar
Der plant because the juices of either the
leaves or fruit applied to the face pre-
vents the beard from growing. Mr..
Davis says that this does not apply to
cases where the beard has taken root,
but that it may be applied with perfect
safety by boys who desire to keep the
hair on their faces from getting start
st. Louis Republic.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

Chickens kept on low, wet land are
pretty sure to have gapes.
Sore eyes is sometimes a complaint
with young chicks, and arises from
colds. A drop of glycerin rubbed ON
the eye is the best remedy.
Sores on top of the head may generally
be traced to lice.
Swelled eyes, with running at nostrils,
indicates roup.
The cure for leg weakness is free
range, plenty of crushed bone and shell,
and not so much food but that they will
stir around hunting for little on their
own account.
Give the fowls green food every day.
If you have milk to spare, try its effect
as an egg producer
Never feed chicks for the first twenty
four hours after they are Matched, the
remnant of the egg continuing to furnish
nourishlnent for that length of time.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
What Geology Teaches.

We claim that geology holds rank
with astronomy or biology. The former
science tells us of the existence of other
worlds than ours and gives us some con
ception of the immensely of space The
study of plAnts and animals carries an
impressive lesson as to the unity prevail
ing amid all the diversity of nature, be-
sides affording the hope that we may at
some time discover the origin of life,
since it has already opened the way to
an explanation of the origin of the ex-
listing forms of life, while the grand
outcome Of geological study is that it
brings wildly before the mind the i'm
mensity of time, enabling US to realize
that time is only less than eternity
Professor A. S. Packard in Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
The Biggest Boat Built on the LAKES.
The largest boat yet to be constructed
on the lakes is being built at Detroit for
a transportation company at cost of
$225, 600. She will be 36212 feet long,
and will carry nearly, if not quite, 4,00o
tons on sixteen feet of water. She will
not be ready until fall.-Cor. Chicago
Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

The late Eugene Cowles, who died at
Ell Paso, Tex, was intended by his
father, Edwin Cowles, to be his success
sor on the Cleveland Leader. But the
young mans talents did not run that
way. He deserted newspaper work soon
after his fathers death and turned his
attention to invention. He it was who
first applied electricity to the separation
of aluminium from clay The process
was very successful and the Cowles
Aluminium company now operates the
largest dynamo in the world. 1t would
have been a consolation to the elder
Cowles, if he had lived, to find that his
son was success in one field though he
was not III journalism. Too many
wealthy self made men have the morti-
fcation of seeing their extensively edu-
Gated sons failures altogether.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

In reply to the query, care Italian
bees distinct racer" the editor of The
American Bee Journal says:
Italian bees are certainly distinct
variety, or, as some call it, race. Italians
do not breed their bees for color, beauty
or golden bands, while here in America
that appears to be the greatest aim of
breeders. In Italy the bees are dark,
and there are black Tor what appear to
be black bees there too. We noticed
this fact while there and to it we called
the attention of the gentlemen who ac-
companied us while ION the spot" Ital-
ian bees do not sport any more than
any other animals or plants.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
ODDS AND ENDS,
Siberia signifies Thirsty"

Siberia signifies Thirsty"
Buttons are made from blood,
II choked, get upon all fours and
cough.
There are GO, 900 miles of electric rail-
ways in the world,
The itch for gold doesn't belong to the
seven year variety.
1t is mistaken idea that loud talk
gives tone to society,
A show of opposition is very apt to be
IN exhibition of folly.
When angry the khedive taps impa-
Eiently with his left foot.
The income of the Church of England
is about 81 900, 900 per week.
Guido REM was incapable OF inspira-
ton unless magniticently dressed.
In 1880 we'll drillers found stone
idol SEQ feet below the surface at Boise
City.
A little Philadelphia boy has a pet
rabbit which he has trained to draw a
small wagon.
William Sharpless, Goshen, has a
lamb two months old which weighs
sixty pounds,
Have we not as much cause to be
thankful for what we have not as for
what we have?
BY mixing with people you find out
how much you know and how much
you don't know.
The majority of people think that
their favorite quack holds a patent on
the elixir of life,
Montaigne, when a widower, said he
would not marry again though it were
to wisdom itself"
If the color has been taken out of
silks by fruit stains ammonia will
usually restore the color.
The Tartars have species of hairless
horses, which all have beautifully striped
white and brown hoofs and glass eyes"
The captain of an Italian steamer has
discovered ledge of coal of excellent
quality in Shagnet bay, Straits of Ma
gellan.
The highest clouds, the cirrus and cir
rostratus, sometimes rise to an altitude
of 10000 feet, or six miles above the
earth's surface,
During a masked ball at Covent
Garden theater, thieves made off with
valuable diamonds and jewelry, which
they are said to have cut from the la
dies dresses.
A woman who lives at Concord,
N. c., the other night dreamed that
she saw her husband cut in two by
a circular saw. The next day, it is re-
lated, her dream came true.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

LAEGSHANS.
We are the birds from the high Ling Chin,
OF feathered shanks and snow white skin,
OF dark brown eggs and blood of blue
High cock-a-rorum, cock a-doodle-dool
PLYMOUTH ROCKS.
We are the fowls for flesh and eggs,
OF "blue back" bars and yellow legs,
What any other chicken can, we can do
High cock-a-rorum, cock
LEGHORNS.
Can we lay eggs? Well, we should smile,
That's our business all the while.
We lay and cackle the season through
High cock-a-rorum, cock -a-doodle-doo!
GAME.
Like the knights of old, we live to fight,
And never show the feather white,
Twas one of us for Peter crew
High cock-a- rorum, cock -a-doodle-doo!
BANTAMS.
We may be little, but we're not afraid
Of the biggest chicken ever made.
We crow and cackle-jrst listen at me
Little cock-a-rorum, high-diddle-deei
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Learning to Apply Dye.

The importations of dye from Paris
have fallen off to nothing, and appren-
tees in barbering don't have to learn
the business Of applying it as they used
TO. In this shop we had wooden ball
with a nail hammered in it, to which
we would attach some ordinary rope
tow. Then the apprentice would pitch
in and dye it, and when he could apply
the fluid so that it gave an even color
and didn't stick the hair together like SO
much glue, we would turn over a Gus
toner to him to try his hand on.-Inter-
view in New York Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
The TrOtting Bred Stallion
-:Allen Wilkes,:.
Will 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,
224 l-2, r. NJ. Wilkes, 225 l-2, &C., he by
Geo. Wilkes, 1922; LIST dam by kearsarge,
sire of dam of r. NJ. Wilkes, 225; I'd
dam by Gen. Lyon, one of below 800.
Allen Wilkes is sire of winners Of 1st
and I'd money in 3-year-old race and the
first 3-year-old to get a record better
than 3 minutes in a rae, 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
G.. H. REED,
East Dorset, vt.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

The late Colonel Richard Biddle Err,
win, of the editorial staff of the New
York Tribune, was a direct descendant
of Benjamin Franklin, being the grand
son of that beautiful Sally Franklin
who was SO dear to her fathers heart
But the family is not extinct. Colonel
Erwin left brother, Rear Admiral Err
win, commander of the Mare Island
navy yard at San Francisco.
There are now more men receiving
pensions for services in the last war
than there were soldiers in the first days
of the war.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
French Canadian Women.

Canadian manners in the province of
Quebec are oldtilne French manners, and
are sweet and unaffected. The ladies
are plumper and fresher than those of
the United States, and do not seem to
live under such high pressure. If they
find great satisfaction in being charm
ingly dressed and feeling themselves en-
beaute, they do not strike one as being
fiirty. Their clergy, | hear, take the
place of Mrs. Grundy, and keep strict
watch over their morals and their man.
ners.-London Truth.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

The New York legislature has passed
law prohibiting Me employment of
barmaids. The British barmaid seems
TO be all well enough in England and
nothing degrading is attached in the
popular mind to her work, But per-
haps the British barmaid cannot be
trusted with New York men.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

A German has invented for coast il
Elimination more powerful light than
even electricity, He soaks pumice stone
in benzine, then passes an air blast
through it, thus obtaining a benzine gas
The gas is carried over a magnesium
powder which further adds to its bril-
liancy, 1t is then passed through pipe
like gas and is ready for combustion,
So powerful is it that a small flame is
said to possess 100000 candle power,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY ID, 1892
A noft rnhher disk tixed nnon a r,

A soft rubber disk fixed upon rub
Der spring has been invented to aid the
hearing of the partially deaf This Ia
inserted in the ear, and is shaped so
that 1t will focus the waves of sound
upon the natural ear drum, 1t has been
used with eminent success, AS by ii
many partially deaf persons are able to
dispense with the cumbersome long
ear trumpets
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

In Holland the men have become such
devotees to the native gin that they can
no longer be trusted to work the switches
of railways. In consequence the switch
men have been discharged and switch
women put into their places. The
women are not drunkards IT'S well.
Women were ever good at working the
switch
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Satisf8ctipu

Is guaranteed to every one who takes
Hoods Sarsaparilla fairly and according
to directions. This is the only prepare
ton of which 400 poses one dollar" can
truly be said.
ES-Have you seen Hoods Rainy Day
and Balloon Puzzle? For particulars
send to C. |. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass
Hoods Pills cure liver ills, jaundice, bill
liousness, sick headache, constipation.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

Great Editor (not many years hence)-
just sent in long editorial on most
important subject.
Foreman-Yes, sir; it is already in the
hands of the printers.
Great Editor-Good! Be careful to
put it in the advertising columns, so it
will be sure to be read-Good News.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Takes Care of Children for a Living.

A Boston wOmaA makes business of
taking care of children by the day or
hour at her home on week days and
Sundays, to the great relief of mothers
not able to hire nurse and not wishing
to accept the charity of the day nurs-
cries. Her services are so much in de-
mand that she is sometimes engaged as
far as three weeks ahead Business
women and tired mothers who cannot
otherwise leave their homes find her
services of great value. This adds an
other to the many expedients by which
refined women, too delicate or retiring,
may earn a livelihood without leaving
their homes. Boston Letter.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Once o. Ho'landeT, Bradshaw 4 Folsom,
tt5 Washington ST, Boston, May II, $50.

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J. ). FOLSOM.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13

The continent of Europe seems to be
standing on adynamite magazine There
have been dynamite alarms on one and
the same day at several cities in France,
at Berlin, at Rome, at Brussels, at Vienna
and in Holland.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
Not many physicians make great thera

Not many physicians make great thera-
peutic discoveries. For the most part
they content themselves with administer
ing judiciously what is prescribed in the
books. TO DR.. J. c. Aver, however, is
due the credit of discovering that great
est of blood puriders-Ayers Sarsaparilla
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
An Eel Asleep in Crabs Embrace.

An Eel Asleep in a Crabs Embrace.
Eels have not yet fully awakened from
their winter sleep in the Hackensack
river, and on cold days many are
speared in the mud and brought to the
surface in a torpid condition Crabs.
which abound in the same stream, are
likewise lengthening their Information.
Lawrence Bryant, the son of Hacken-
sack blacksmith, speared a large eel
near the Jail, and when he landed the fish
he was very much astonished to find that
he had captured big crab also.
The crabs nippers were clutching the
sel and bending its body so that its head
nearly touched its tail. Crab and eel
were half asleep, and the latter did not
seem to be much hurt, its assailant hav-
ing apparently clutched it in a half
hearted way. Probably both creatures
selected the same alternating place, and
the crab was too drowsy to be very hun
gry.-New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-05-13
THE
Londonderry Sitter.
So. Londonderry, Vermont,
TIIE

Anything but horse cars" is the pop
ular cry ON the question of transit in
cities,