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The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
War and Baked Beans.

It is good story, that told by R. f.
Munkittrick in Harper's Magazine. He
was walking "along the bluff at Sias-
consett" when he was accosted by a
venerable man who had been in the war.
The old fellows case seemed pathetic
one, as he told how strong he was be-
fore the war, how he could do anything
ere the fatal years of army service that
had Slapped his vigor and reduced him
to wreck. He said sadly that he had
been a whole week "a-paintin that there
stoop." He was not so old yet, he said;
would not be IS till February, and he
ought to be as lively as a cricket still.
He felt that he would have been indeed
only for the war that had ruined his
health and made him an old man before
his time. Munkittrick sympathized, and
the veteran told how the war had
knocked him out:
1T was the war that done it." he continued,
with great feeling II came back all chock
full Of rheumatic and malary, and amt never
been the same man since. tell you that war
was an awful failure for me-"
ut was q very sad affair."" said In kind
attempt to be sympathetic.
YES" he replied, sit was. Why, do you
know what could do before the WARP"
No"
WELL" he continued, II could sit down and
eat 10 plates Of baked beans for breakfast with
out turning hair, and now can't eat one
plateful to save my life."
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Hivinc swarm, on starter,.

Bookkeeping in the northern states is a
different thing from Bookkeeping at the
south, writes Texas correspondent in
The American Bee Journal. He says:
Mr. Hutchinson comes out with an
article on hiving bees on starters, or in
empty hives, as the best method. Well,
he is all right for Michigan, but all wrong
for Texas. 1t will not pay to hive our
early swarms on only starters, or, worse
still, empty frames. Our early swarms
are of no use whatever only to perpetu-
ate the colony and the means of our
having booming colony two months
later. We get no use of the bees that
compose our early swarms for storing
surplus honey.
Now, should we have swarm just
as our harvest begins, the way they have
it in Michigan, by this method we may
push the bees right into the sections and
get fair yield from the very bees that
compose the swarm. So say, give me
all the nice brood combs | want and
watch me gain ground on the beekeeper
that hives his swarms on starters and in
empty hives.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14

The question relative to site for the
exhibition of 1900 seems to be on the road
to settlement. The subcommittee of
municipal councillors appointed to re-
port upon the matter has given an opin-
ion in favor of again utilizing the Champ
de Mars. Not a tree of the Bots de
Boulogne would therefore be touched,
and not a blade of grass would be re-
moved from Lady Wallace's property at
Bagatelle The members of the sub
committee have also expressed them
selves in favor of organizing kind of
central exhibition of machinery and ag-
riculture at Vincennes in order to give
the Inhabitants of that rather neglected
portion of the metropolitan zone chance
Of turning few honest pennies.-Lon-
lon Telegraph.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
A Side Wipe.

We learn incidentally from the para
graph below what that astronomical ro-
mancer, Camille Flammarion, thinks of
newspapers. In his mathematical novel,
Omega" begun in The Cosmopolitan,
he predicts what would happen to the
earth if a great comet should strike it.
The time Of his story is the twenty
fourth century. All the astronomers Of
the globe could communicate with one
another in IN instant. and the main OBJ
aryatory was in the Himalaya noun
ralrs Maukind travelled whittier they
goald BY allslips. and every house had
rs own telescope. Plain working people
were Intelligent in the sciences of the
rs. 1t WAS one of these who discov-
900 tho egg-st mat it was feared would
t-y lie earth. The comet grew
iar;ef and larger. Calculations were
llasde where 1t would hit.
If comet of the size of the one in
question should hit our earth, then earth
and comet together would explode and
burn up in fragments If, however, in
stead of striking our world it went into
Jupiter, it would raise the temperature
Of that planet SO immensely that Jupiter
oaN ne a second sun, warming
49,. ..e,A,.llg the earth by night. At
length what was the CONSERVATION of the
Tnty-four ncentury people to discover
rous comet was coming
1870, = earth head onl All the
! -ronomers In various quarters agreed
nn this. What the twenty-fourth CEN
tlIy newspapers did Flammarion tells
l., aus:
The daily papers sowed broadcast this alarm
ing news, embellished with sinister comments
and numberless interviews in which the most
astonishing statements were attributed to SCI
entists Their only concern was to outdo the
ascertained facts and to exaggerate their bear
Ing by more or less fanciful additions As for
that matter, the journals of the world had
long since become purely business enterprises.
The sole preoccupation of each was to sell ev-
cry day the largest possible number of copies
They invented false news, travestied the TRUTH
dishonored men and women, spread scandal,
lied without shame, explained the devices of
thieves and murderers, published the formula
Of recently invented explosives, imperiled their
own readers and betrayed every class of soci-
tty for the sole purpose of exciting to the high
Est pitch the curiosity of the public and Of sell
Ing copies"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
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SMUT OF GRAIN.
The Hot Water Misunderstanding Seed
In solution of Sulphate of Conner.

The Hot Water Misunderstanding Seed
In a solution of suiphate of Copper.
The presence of smut in any degree is
lowering to the value of all grain. Elk
cellent wheat tagged with smut can
scarcely be sold at any price, Abroad,
where American wheat once had such q
fine reputation, it is now looked on with
suspicion. The men who buy wheat in
carloads and shiploads are not to be
fooled any more, and farmers must see
to it that their grains are pure and clean.
AT some of the experiment stations the
Jansen or hot water treatment has been
practiced with favorable results and is
recommended to farmers. The two
methods generally recommended are
Q) soaking the seed Is minutes in water
held at a temperature of 132-135 degrees,
then cooling with cold water; (2) soak
ing five minutes in water of 136-13S de-
grees and spreading out at once to dry.
At the Vermont station the first method
is approved for smut in oats. At this
station it is reported that soaking the
seed oats in hot water appeared to i'm
prove the quality, aside from the de-
struction of the smut. The hot water
treatment, however, for smutty seed
corn injured the vitality of the seed.
In an address before Manitoba farm
ers' meeting Richard Waugh made the
statement that there is nothing more GER
tain in farming than that smut is pre-
ventable. He called attention to the
seven years Investigations of DR.. Bre-
weld of Berlin. The doctor, after trying
80 different ways to kill smut, finally de-
cided that there is nothing better than
bluestone. One or two cents worth of
bluestone not agricultural bluestone,
but real sulphate of copper will kill all
the smut on bushel of an ordinary
sample of smutty wheat. He advised as
follows:
'Do not mix it by sprinkling in a wag-
on box, but put the dissolved bluestone
in big tub, soak the seed in it minute
or two, dripping it back into the tub SO
as to save the solution from needless
waste, Eight bushels may be treated
with one pound if not very bad, but
more bluestone is wanted II the smut is
bad. The experimental farms and others
have had clean wheat from badly smut
ted seed when properly treated. Just
how bad the seed may be before treat
ment we do not yet know.
'Some farmers find smut after blue
stoning, but that comes very often from
the tainted crop that grew on the land
the year before. What was shaken out
of the crop produced volunteer plants
enough to faint the next crop. That can
only be prevented by summer following
after smutty crop or growing green
crop of some sort 1t is safe to say that
a few years attention to bluestone will
kill out smut just as surely as strychnine
will kill rats if they eat it. One thing
bear in mind. Do not wait till the dis
ease is very bad before you apply the
remedy"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Eggs of the World For London.

There was time when all foreign
eggs in this country were known as
French eggs Now, thanks to i'm
proved means of transport, they come to
us from variety of countries. The an
nual import, according to the latest off
cial returns, reaches the enormous num-
Der of nearly 1900, 000, 200. valued at
G350, O00,0 900. France and Germany still
furnish more than one-half of the whole.
Belgium, Russia and Denmark come
next in order as egg exporters to this
country. The Canadian quota has in
creased from 1000, 900 to %, 600, 900 in ;
single year, and we have now laid under
contribution variety of minor sources,
smong which, it is curious to note, are
the Canary islands, Turkey and Egypt.
London News.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14

The change to paid members in the
British house of commons is significant
of the democratic tendencies in Great
Britain. The fact that hereafter men,
bers Of the house of commons are to be
paid for their services will enable poor
men to get into that body and work off
their "views" upon the British lawmak-
ing power. The British have found out
that the American way is best. Our
system is to pay members of congress
enough to enable them to live comfort
ably and devote their time to business,
but not enough to let them be society
swells.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
The next move in naval progress will

The next move in naval progress will
probably be to sheathe the bottoms Of
the new cruisers with coating Of wood
and copper. The sheathing prevents the
accumulation of barnacles upon the
ships steel bottom, and the consequent
frequent docking and cleaning which
this fouling makes necessary. The heavy
clogging Of the barnacles and other sub
stances makes the vessels bottom so
rough and heavy that her progress is
seriously impeded, and her coal bills run
Unfortunately high. Besides that, one Of
of our new cruisers could not run away
from an enemy if her bottom was foulee
with barnacles.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Agricultural Depression.

In this century the price of wheat has
not ruled SO low as it has done this
spring. Cotton was down to the bottom
last year, although it is little better at
present. Petroleum and corn are alike
depressed in price. All the raw prod
ucts which America ships abroad share
the same fate. The feeling Of dizziness
in agricultural circles is only relieved by
the upward tendency of the beef and
pork market. If farmers had now only
as much value in fat beeves and hogs as
they had excess of wheat last fall, they
would be collectively better off by many
hundred thousand dollars than they are.
The low price of grain and petroleum
is due, economists say, to overproduc-
ton. Russia is our most formidable COM
petitor in petroleum, not to speak of the
vast wheatfelds which she pits against
ours. Hungarian wheat is considered in
European markets of superior quality to
ours. Egypt and India pour the wheat
which their low priced labor has pro-
duced into the European market. Ameri-
can elevators are still gorged with wheat
awaiting sale. Enough of it will un-
doubtedly be consumed during the
Worlds fair to make an impression on
this store. Undoubtedly, too, in another
generation our population will have
grown to near the line of the country's
wheat producing capacity.
But meantime the remedy is for farm
ers not to raise SO much wheat and corn.
This country is varied enough in climate
and soil to grow almost anything that
will grow. If the agricultural expert
ment stations do not teach farmers how
to vary production and make land pay,
they will not be worth the money they
cost. When everybody raises potatoes,
all the world gets sick of potatoes. The
way out of tle present agricultural stag
nation is in varied production, and it
ought not to take more than two years
to get out. If farmers will use their
brains and intelligence, every man cal
decide for himself on something that
will help him out.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Things Told by Poultrymen.

An Ohio farmer AYERS that eight Brah-
mas are the best winter layers"
It is usual to run three geese with q
gander; it is not considered too many.
Embden geese are average breeders, but
some breeders claim that they are not so
prolific as the Toulouse, says The Poultry
World.
The live egg machine is the Leghorn
family.
The shell of the hens egg is composed
principally of carbonate and phosphate
OF lime, while the egg itself is very largely
albumen. with oil phosphorus, iron, col
oring matter, etc.. in varying quantities.
Many poultrymen say that hen OF
, years has done her best service.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Care of Chickens.

Here are a few of the many statements
of general interest made by Mr.. Abel L.
Stevens of Wellesley, Mass, in an ad-
dress on poultry delivered before farm
ers' meeting and reported for the Massa-
chusetts Ploughman:
First secure good, vigorous stock.
Mate carefully, with view of the OBJ
ject you are aiming for. Place in good,
dry quarters; keep scrupulously clean
and feed generously of the best quality
of food. Hatch the chicks early.
Food enough is stored up in the egg
from which the chick was Matched to
sustain it for the first "A hours. After
ward, and for the first two weeks, feed
little and often-every three hours-of
stale bread and cracker crumbs soaked
in milk; add to this hard boiled eggs and
fine oatmeal mixed in: also keep before
them dry millet seed.
From this good change will be
mixture consisting of 20 pounds corn
meal, 10 pounds wheat middlings and 5
pounds fine animal meal.
This should be scalded with boiling
water and fed at 6, 8, 10 a. m. and at 8 and
6p. m. Feed literally with cracked corn
and cracked wheat; give milk for drink
if possible: if not, clean, fresh water in
shallow iron dishes; also keep a dish near
them of finely ground bone and beef
scraps, and an abundance of green food
always. These methods will develop
young chicks faster and make them
stronger than any other system Of feed
ing.
Always keep young chicks shaded
from glazing sun and sheltered from
transforms; have boarded floor in
brooding coops, and as soon as young
chicks begin to roost provide Pinch
width smooth joist not over two feet
from the floor, protected from all enc
mics of the young chick, and with good
strong stock to start with and the above
good care you should raise nearly 100
per cent of your matches. Now, at the
age of IL weeks separate the young males
from the pullets. Feed these fast ma
turing pullets on good wheat and barley
oats to induce early laying, the cockerels
wholly on corn for size and flesh.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
pemoora, 0ndvisers.

Three gentlemen, an Independent, O
Democrat and a Republican, respective
ly, advise the Democratic party how to
use the great opportunity before it. The
Independent is Hon. Seth Low, president
of Columbia college, New York, the
Democrat Is Hon. Oswald Ottendorfer
and the Republican Is Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge.
Mr.. Low says that the election Of
President Cleveland was victory for the
principles advocated by him; also for the
man himself, because voters had conf
dence that he would adhere to those
principles through thick and thin. Mr.
Cleveland was elected, in the estimation
of President Low, chiefly because he fa-
vored tariff reform and civil service re-
form. and because he was opposed 10 ex-
travagant pension and other legislation.
If now the Democratic party will go in
for tariff reform, if it will destroy the
spoils system and also break up the DEM
ocratic local party machinakthen, in the
estimation Of Mr.. Low, it will be the rul-
ing party in this country for a long time
Mr.. Oswald Ottendorfer is especially
concerned about the silver dollar. He
plants himself on the gold basis as on
the rock of his salvation, and says this
country is now dancing on volcano.
The volcano may, so to speak, erupt and
blow us into financial kingdom come at
any moment just so long as we continue
Ito dump the proceeds of silver mines
into the national treasury and issue
therefor treasury notes interchangeable
for gold or silver COIN" This practice
Mr.. Ottendorfer considers on par with
the teaching that it requires only an
act Of congress to make 60 cents worth
of silver equal to dollar in gold" One
gathers that Mr.. Ottendorfer is "gold-
bug" and considers the repeal of the
Sherman silver act of 1890 as the most
bowling duty of the Democratic party
and the Fifty-third congress.
Then there is Hon. Cabot Lodge. He
is by no means obscure as to what his
idea of the Democratic duty Of the hour
is. It is to inaugurate free trade. "Un-
less the victorious party is false to the
plainest kind Of pledge, they must sweep
protection from the statute books" He
declares the new system must have a
fair trial, and the party in power must
raise government revenues by methods
which can give no protection whatever.
If their system is successful, we will
stick to it. If it Is failure, out the
voters of the country will whop the DEM
ocrats, and in will go the Republicans
again, thinks Mr.. Lodge
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Chemical Fertilizers For Corn.

A report has been made of general
Fertilizer experiment on corn, conduct
ed last season under the auspices Of the
Georgia agricultural experiment sta
ton. Here are the conclusions briefly
stated and drawn from results obtained:
The use of muriate of potash was of
doubtful benefit on this land, which was
of fairly good clay soil. Even if benef-
cial in small doses, limit is soon reached
beyond which an increase in the amount
is certainly injurious. The effect of su-
perphosphate was decidedly beneficial
The effect of nitrate of soda was also of
decided benefit. Cottonseed meal did
not seem so decided in its effects. In
general the results of this experiment
do not favor the use of concentrated
chemical fertilizers on corn. In no case
did the increased yield of the fortified
plots over the unfertilized pay for tho
cost of the fertilizer.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Worth Knowing.

The Ponderosa tomato is remarkable
for its large, smooth fruit
A new sweet corn is introduced under
the name Country Gentleman.
The Black Lima is black, notified
seeded pole bean. for which big claims
are made,
Progressive farmers practice a rotation
If crops.
Concentrated fertilizers and green ma
suring go well together.
The variety of white oats known as
the Clydesdale is early and productive.
The American Bronze, bald wheat,
1t is claimed, is especially adapted to
sandy and poor soil.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
POULTRY SHOWS.
Leassns Learned at These Exhibitions--In-
cubators-Different Breeds.

Lesssns Learned at These Exhibitions-In-
cubators-Diferent Breeds.
An increased and widespread interest
in well bred poultry is attested by the
frequency and Importance of the poultry
shows north, south, east and west. For
merly poultry was grudgingly allotted
restricted space at the agricultural fairs
and regarded as a second rate sideshow.
The last New York show, according to
one estimate, was attended by II 900 per-
sons; the aggregate sales amounted to
$4,000 and the premiums to 81, 1e2 in
general prizes and 81, 500 in special prizes.
These poultry exhibitions are decidedly
instructive to an observant attendant,
for here are congregated the finest types
of the standard breeds, as well as rare
and curious birds that delight the fancicr.
Here, too. is ample opportunity for not
ing the comparative merits of incubators
and breeders and learning many nice
points in the successful management of
the same. Incubators, by the way, may
now be selected just as one would choose
sewing machine or any other nipple
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14

Perhaps railroad corporations will give
some thought to T. V. Powderly's opin-
ion on the Ann Arbor case. Speaking Of
Judge Kicks injunction against the boy
cotters, Powderly says, Whatever way
it may end, it is in direct line with what
the labor organizations have been striv-
ing for during the past five or six years
namely, the naturalization of railroads"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14

After the reproduced flagship Santa
Maria does duty at the Chicago fair she
will be sent to Washington to remain
permanently, to show visitors what kind
of q vessel Columbus sailed in when he
discovered the new world. Will they
put the Santa Maria in the Smithsonian
institution along with George Washing
toms brooches and cooked hatY
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Setting strawberry Plants.

Every farm ought to have good, big
strawberry bed. Here are some direc-
tons given in report of the Ohio Hor-
ticultural society: "For spring planting
select rich, moist soil exposed to the
sun and free from roots and grubs.
Make it fine, deep and mellow. Take up
strong, healthy plants of the previous
years growth, remove dead leaves,
shorten the roots to three inches and
carry them in a pail of water. Give
constant and clean cultivation. Stir the
soil very often. Cut off all this years
blossoms and all runners till July. Then
leave two of the strongest runners to
each plant to root and grow. Cover in
November all bare ground between
plants with manure, and when winter
sets in the whole is to be covered with
fine manure, leaving leaves and crown.
Another plan, popular and excellent.
is to plant i'll July OF August on rich and
well prepared ground in rows two feet
apart, or three feet for horse culture.
Keep the runners off the first year.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14
Count Alexander Sajonkowsi, the last

Count Alexander Sajonkowski, the last
scion Of noble house, is restaurant
waiter in New York. People find their
level in America-even noblemen-but
Sajonkowsh had very little common
sense. He needed only to make his high
rank known in order to marry the daugh-
ter of first class American millionaire.
Perhaps that may be what he means to
do after all, since he has applied for d.
vorce from his old-country wife. We
hereby lay the facts before our million
aire young lady readers, so that if one of
them wants count for husband she
can follow up the clew.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-04-14

Europe will this summer miss any
where from $5o,oOo,oOo to 800, OOO,O 900
that American tourists annually spend
over there during the warm season. It
is enough to paralyze trade in all that
little corner of the earth. The tide will
for once set the other way if cholera
does not spoil all, and we shall see how
it goes to take in $50,0OO,0OO of money
IN summer from tourists.