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Year: 1874




To three thousand homes the VERMONT
FARMER makes its weekly visits. Homes of
the middle classes homes, perhaps, of those
so atiluent and aristocratic as not to supervise
the work of their own homes and few so
mendicant as not to be able to own few
acres of land which, if rightly cultivated,
yield profitable reward. In these homes
Vermont homes-could we, with the FARM
ER, visit them one by one, we should find
each family identified with personal ndivid-
uality and invested with original tastes and
ideas; each family also differs from others
in age or numbers, and each differs from
others more or less in amount of property,
and in amount Of work to be done. These
differences create evolutions and involutons,
which identifies each household from any
other. Yet in every one Of these families
there is the same routine of principal work.
With each it is washing, ironing and baking;
with each it is clearing away things, making
beds and mopping; it is skmming milk,
preparing meals, and mending. Such as this
is the penipotentaries' track of housework
aud every housewife goes on the train.


Where there are invalid members in
family, or where great amount of work is
to be done, although more help is usually
employed, yet redundancies arc often made in
the nOn-essentials of housekeeping, but the
routine of main work is inaexibe and the
same in one family as another, as to general
kind. Exceptions to this general sway are
like the nonparei remarks in grammar, and
are the exceptions, whenever they come into
action. They apply to acute sickness, acci-
dents and unexpected emergencies, No
family is exempt. Yet they occur not as a
constant barrier, thing in general, but as
events that are intermittent, and detached
from the usual everyday flow of lilc


AT the present era, feeding pigs and rak-
ing hay is not in the category Of womans
common work. 1t is only very exception
ally that woman does the swine.feedng
when the male members of the family are at
home. As for raking hay; if shower was
Fastening, and | had plenty of time and
strength, would don the short Gabrielle
dress and small Turkish pants-the only
dress suitable for hay making, and which l
always keep on hand for the healthy and
pleasurable work in the garden-and trip to
the hay field But should not consider it
my duty to go dressed in this costume DUR
ing the hay season, even though some of the
hay occasionally got wet by my apparel not
being on mlnutocall for the hay field nei-
ther should expect the men to come into
the house with rolled sleeves, and apron
donned in readiness to assist me whenever
waiting in an hour Of heavy rain. As
general thing it is wholly unnecessary for
womans dress to be modified for out door
work. N. l.. d,


East CharlestOa, VI.
Year: 1874

A writer in the Webster Times says
these sensible things Ave never could
see what vice or deiormity lay in IL horses
eye, that should make it necessary to cover
it up, aud shut out its owner from at least
two-thirds of his rightful vision. The
poets say that old age looks backward but
we never heard such an idiosyncrasy charg-
ed upon the horse. The theory that horse
is less apt to be frightened when shut out
from everything behind him, we suspect to
be a fallacy, else sadde-horses and war
horses would be duly blinded, Every horse


is as familiar with his own carriage as with
his own tail, and, as far as his personal fo.-
titude is concerned is no more disturbed at
being pursued by one than by the other. As
for other scare-orows that come up behind,
they are mostly so familiar to the animal,
that, tho more fully the horse can perceive
them, the more quietly does he submit to
their approach. Then it is such pity to
cover up one of the most brilliant features
of this most brilliant creature. The horse
has borne such hand in the civilization of
this rough.and-tumble world that it seems
not so much a cruelty as discourtesy, as
well as a disgrace, to hide his form with
Year: 1874

In the FARMER for August II, | notice
short article with the above caption. |
have no doubt that the authors conclusions
are correct. Reason, experience, and OBJ
servation, all teach us that It is better for the
grass and better for the land, to NOV it only
once n year and to wholly abstain from feed
ing il afterwards. At the same time, MS
many of our farmers are situated. il seems
best To cut the second crop. With those
who keep sheep ii is almost necessity. In
my own experience have never found any
thing equal to rowen for feeding sheep and
lambs. Neither roots, nor meal nor the
best quality of first crop hay can fully take
| its place. Therefore I make il u point TO
NOW rowen enough 10 keep my sheep from
the timu they are shut up in the fall until
they are turned out in the spring. And
keep the flock in good condition and have
splendid lambs. While I consider il dis
advantage to the land. | think on the whole
it pays me great deal better TO cut the row.
en- than to leave 1t.


But in growing this crop there are certain
points winch must not he overlooked.
will briefly specify them. /, the best grass
land on the farm should be chosen for this
purpose; ,, the first crop must be moved
carly; 3, the rowen should be cut by the
middle of September; 1, il must be careful
ly tended aud Thoroughly d,1cd 8. if it can
be avoided the land should not he fed after
the second crop is taken OF; 6, the land
must bc kept rcry rich. 1t is good plan to
top dress heavily every fall with compost
and the next spring sow on five or ten bar
rels of ashes per acre. Tue compost should
be finely pulvcrizcd, either in the fall or
very early the next season, so tlSt the spring
rains can wash tho fertilizing materials
around the roots of the grass. Or, if il is
prepared, green stable manure may be put
ON in the spring, if it is done early enough,
and made fine enough, aud II good coating
of plaster sown as soon rs the manure is
spread. Either method will produce good
results.


1t is not profitable to run over u whole
farm to get little roven. It pays much
better to have field proportional to the
size of tho farm and the quantity of rowcn
wanted, fitted and kept for this purpose.
While have used this crop almost wholly
for sheep | have no doubt that it pays to
grow it for cows which give milk in the win
ter or early spring, and that almost every
farmer would find it for his interest to give
more attention TO its production than he has
thus far done. MASSACHUSETTS FARMER.


AnihcrSt, ldSS.
Year: 1874

\ lady correspondent Of the Ohio Farm
er has this sensible talk:


There are several reasons why dairymen
should provide themselves with sheds for
the purpose of coufning cows during milk :
ing hours. y large, airy, tight-rooicl shei,
provided with stanchions ou either side
will insure comfort ani convenience beside
adding large per cent. Of profit to the
dairy product. \ farmer who has had ox-
pcrience both with and without n shed, as.
sured us he was positive he gained enough
extra profit during the first season of milk
ing under cover to pay all cost of building
she'd etc. Then there is the security one
feels in sitting down to dTaw the lacteal
fluid, without fear of some yiciouSly in.
cliued brute coming up on the blind side
aud giving your COW ticklish punch in the
ribs-the consequence Of which may be to
find ones self sprawling upon the ground
immersed in milky way Not com-
Portable scene to dwell upon, surely, espec-
tally by those who have passed through like
experience. \ COW may kick, to be sure, if
she be sanctioned, but she cannot kick and
run away two.


Flies are not so troublesome when the
cows are under cover neither is u person
exposed to the fierce heat of July sun of
to drenching rains during milking time.
Quite contrast is the cool, breezy shed,
with its clean, sawdust.coycred earth ffo8f,
agreeable to both man and beast. In fact,
WE are free to confess we are not avcrse to
play the role of milkmad, and deem it
quite a pleasant pastime to milk six, eight,
or even twelve cows, especially when the
men are over.wearied by heavy aud long
continued labor, as is often the case during
the busy season.


Cows soon become accustomed to their
places, and, judging by their alacrity of en-.
trance and the s'Othfullness which they ex-
hibt when turned from their places, we can
but conclude their brute sense appreciates
the comforts derived whilst under this shady
retreat provided by the humane dairyman.
"a merciiul man is mercilul to his beasts"
BY putting in practice this divine precept
men would reap untold benefit and the poor
dumb brutes, so often treated ANONYMOUSLY,
would thrive and grow more docile under
the new regime.
Year: 1874

The idea of keeping our farms in good
condition by returning to the land all
the cOarser products in the form OF manure,


is an excellent one, but there is a great mis-
apprehension held by some farmers, who
think that the keeping of all the stock they
possibly can is the most profitable. Stock
of all kinds must be kept in a thriving con-
dition, or it will decline in value. There
is no economy in scantily feeding stock
summer or winter. Pastures should never
be so closely fed that they are not flush and
luxurisnt, and winter should never be com
Year: 1874

death to carpet-bag governments; and II the
people will but bide their time, the slow,
steady work of education and enlightenment
will render black and white equally fit for the
duties of citizenship, and divide between them
the honors and the responsibilities which the
one now refuses to share with the other The
twaddle about a third term ought not to Ill
vert them for moment from the serious task
they have in hand. Appeals to stolld Presi-
dent or benghied Congress must be equally
frutless. The work is before you, brother
of the South
Year: 1874

the political atmosphere of a great deal of
fogginess and foulness. And yet we have to
remember after all that there be platforms
and platforms, and that we have had great
multitude of them, and that parties which use
them to get into power have very often kicked
them down afterward. The great thing gained
in such platform as the one suggested by


the Illinois Democrats is that it is short,
sharp, and decisive and there is no fog in it.
Year: 1874

Our Paris letter gives an ineligible account
of the late crisis in the French Ministry and
the proceedings of NJ. FourtOu against a licen-
tious press, which must make men like Poland
and Shepherd regret that their lines were not
cast in the pleasant places where no paper is
allowed to run at large without a muzzle.
Year: 1874

The suspensions yesterday were not OF great
conseouence, and we do not believe they can
he used TO create unnecessary alarm. But
they do serve very plainly to lay hnger on
the sore spot in the financial world. Wherever
men are straining their credit to carry heavier
stocks than they can manage, IN the nope oi
a speedy return to ante-panic prices, or
wherever they are engaged III nursing SickJy
Year: 1874

The great victory" which the Carlists
claim neaI the French frontier is not likely to
improve their fortunes, seeing that the armies
of both belligerents are concentrated near
Estella, where the campaign will probably be
decided The menacing attitude of the Great
Powers toward them must also neutralize any
advantages they may gain in the field
Year: 1874

He was young and serious and in the fair gloam-
ing he escorted his wife to where the sparkling soda
gushed from marble fountain. Gravely he gazed
at the man who asked. what srup ~ and answered,
Crusade" Lifo seemed beautiful at that moment,
but paralyzng ,horror seized him as the gentle
young wife said she'd try some, too. He laughed
family it is said, but he felt like the silent tomb
a luDatic asylum-it didn't much matter which.
However, the soda man nobly fulfilled his trust he
preserved his presence of mind and handed the
wife dose of particularly energetic ginger, while
the alarmed husband was comforted with the fagon
he desired. He wishes never to stand upon such an
apex Of agony again.
Year: 1874

A mild regret agitates The London Spectator. 1t
considers the fighty and degenerate ghosts of the
present day and for the dignted old appari-
tions who behaved themselves in the grand STYLE
1t hath reason tho prancings and dancngs, the
familiar ways and frivolous conversation of the
modern ghost have lttlo of the impressive tone
which we naturally look for in members of that
family The fine old ghost of the ancient time had
pompous. measured and blood-curdling air. He
stalked and wore his good clothes IN the toga
fashion, and when he said things he said them in
deep and dignifed manner one would be apt to re-
member, Whereas his weak-minded descendant
pokes an unblushing face through holes in walls,
plays the light guitar and altogether acts as no
proper ghost of other days would have ever thought
of acting. 1t is calculated to awaken profound
gloom to reflect how the superfciality of modern
society has invaded the ancient, highly respect
able and awful family Of ghosts.
Year: 1874

The unwholesome sore in the Brooklyn body
social is still running, and, greatly to our own
dissatisfaction, we are still compelled to take
note of the discharge. Mr.. Francis ID. Moul-
ton seems to he the witness fer whom the
Court waits. He has had great deal more
prominence thus far in this unsavory matter
than a diligent course of minding his own
business would have led him to and now,
,-hAm for the frat TINA it h- h-admcss iia claar
and imperative duty to act, it is pity that
for the first time he should seem TO have any
hesitation. Meanwhile Mr.. Beecher and his
friends should understand that they are wear
ing out the patience of a community that has
meant to be very slow indeed to think evil of
them. There stand Mr. Beecher's letters. We
are told that he can explain them, and that
his statement is ready. He cannot furnish it
an hour too soon, or make it too frank and
cOmplete.
Year: 1874

Think not the cat hath not friend. The Atlantic
Monthly recently attended to a case in gentle and
entertaining manner. but it remained to an English
doctor to write of her with enthusiasm. He tells in


book specially devoted to her. all sorts of tales of
her sagacity fidelity and humanity, and particu-
larly interesting is this concerning the tabby of
Scotch plowman: The man was ill and poor. The
doctor ordered meat and WINE, and the goodwlfe sold
her wedding ring to buy the last. But what to do
for meat Oh, most excellent catl That very
night she brought fine rabbit and laid it beside her
suffering master And not once did she do this,
but every night for a month, now a rabbit, now a
Bird when, the man having got well and gone
about his work, she ceased her purveyiug Let the
traducers Of cats read and blush.
Year: 1874

a LIFELONG DISAPPOINTMENT. - Mary
Ham, the eccentric old woman who died at Rye
Beach recently, was the victim OF disappointed
love, ard, like the old woman in dickens
"Great Expectations" she always pre- -eryed
the wedding outfit which had been prepared in
anticipation OF her marriage. For many years
she bad lived alone IN a miserable howell, and
among the few personal effects which she lefr
behind was package OF well ll-worn lOve-letters
written more than sixty years ago. The day OF
her marriage had been appointed, but the m an
TO whom she had given her heart proved false
The disappointment nearly crazed her, and l.
charged the whole current of ber life. She b.
came sullen and morose, and lived in apparo vit
enmity with all the world She had surrour led
herself with the mementoes or her dissppointsd 60
hopes, and treasured them until the day of her
decease. The taI6ered quilt that covered her
witbered and emaciated form was the same one
that her skill had wrought to deck her MARI age
bed. The table and bureau and other parts OF
her wedding outfit stood conveniently near as a
perpetual reminder OF the shattered idol OF her
affections.
Year: 1874

RKpuCKD Cosr OF BUILDING IN CHICAGO
AT Chicago money to loan on real estate Is so
plenty that the most conservative loan agents
are urging il upon owners Of unimproved prop
erty, even at nine per cent for term Of years
and take Q mortgage upon the land and i'm
provements to be made with the loan. The
owners of the land burned over in the recent
fire, Including some sixty acres, mostly Of dwell
linRs densely populated, have been Compelled
70 rebuild to make their property productive.
Perhaps the most important cause is q reduc-
ton OF SO per cent In the coet of building. Good
common brick can now be had for Sc per 1000,
and labor is 50 cheap that the entire cost Of
brick laid in the wan, including the cest OF
mortar, is not over 90 per 900.
Year: 1874

A WOMAN DROWNED AT TNIAGARA.-Conroy,
the guide, discovered the body Of an unknown
woman at Niagara Falls Thursday afternoon,
below the bank on the Canadian side, above
the ferry landing. She was a well dressed per
son, apparently about thirty years Of ase and
supposed TO be Canadian, sf7 In Canadian
money being found on her person. The finding
member OF picnic party from Toronto which
visited Table Rock In the early part Of the week,
and had accidentally fallen over the bank.
Year: 1874

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CONVERSATIONAL
CHURoHRs.-Next Wednesday, the 30th of the
presen mt month, there will be assembled a ma
tional council Of Congreg atlonai churches at
New Haven, the city where the Central hurch
was founded nearly two and half ce INJURIES ago d.
This council will be the sixth ever convened oy
this denomination, and these have been held at
various times for special purposes, for, as the
name implies, the government of the various
churches and sc cieties is largely left with them
selves, so their denominatiOnal distinction is
more matter of church goverDm snt than doc
trinal difference. But circumstances which
have been pretty thoroughly advertised, render
1t imperative that the real weight of authority
belonging TO the whole Congregational BODY
should be a little better defined. There has
been considerable doubt whether Plymouth
church was justified By the unwritten law IN at
always comes TO have a more or less binding
force upon body OF such long establishment as
that which carries the banner of COngrega atom
aiism, in Ignoring or defying the wishes of
sister churches, and this question will be the
one which the coming council will undertake to
settle.
Year: 1874

BEECHBR AGAINST THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
Of the affairs of Louisiana we have this week
spoken at length. AS to the eouth in general
this is to be said: "Back of special causes OF
disturb lDce lies the broad fact that the lection
ss whole, is cursed with old and deep rooted
habits of lawleGsneg,, which no remedy can
remove in year or decade. In addition to
this there is suspicious Jealousy between the
races whose extent cannot be definitely meas
ured, but which in various ways breeds great
mischief. The conclusion seems to us newt able
that there Is no immediate aud radical cure for
southern troubles. The employment of the
federal troops, while it may be necessary in
special cases, is liable to abuse for political pur-
poses, and at best secures the temporary peace
at the expense of mischievous irritation. In
especial the national government ought to
avoid all measures which needleSsly stimulate
hostility OF race. We are more and more con


vinced that the supplementary civil rights bill
will do infinitely n ore harm than good. It is
abundantly established that its proposal hs


embittrcd the southern whites and postponed
the harmony between them and the blacks
through which alone happy Issue OF the
present trouble is possible. 1t is clear that the
majority OF the southern states will instantly
abandon their public school system il dis
Gpctlon OF race in them is forbidden. Popular
education is The supreme need OF the south, and
that the civil rights bill would 90 far to over
throw it seems to US the weightiest possible rea-
son against its passage.-ChriStidn Uaton.
Year: 1874

THE FAMILY OF Postmaster General jewell
will sail from Liverpool for the United States
about the first week in November, and will
come Immediately to Washington. The two
daughters of the Postmaster General will be
II C acquisition to cabinet society, as there
Is but ore young lady in the families of the pre-
sent clbnet minister's, and she ia the daughter
Of the SecTetSt Y of State. The Postmaster Gen
ersl has not yet fixed upon residence for him
-eit at the capital, but will do so before his
-mily arrives.
Year: 1874

II NoMnlATEs TILDEN FOR GOVERNOR.


SYRACUSE, N. Y. Sept. H.
The Democratic Convention nominated g. J.
Elden for Governor.


THE PLATFORM OF THE CONVENTION.


The platform adoption by the Convention
pledges the party to the principles adopted last
year-gold and silver to be the only legal tender,
no currency inoonvertable into coin steady
stops towards specie payments the payment
of the Public Debt in ooin Federal Taxation
for revenue only no protected monopohes
equal and exact justice to all men a free press
and no gag law official accountability enforced
by better civil and criminal remedies no third
presidential term economy in the public ex-
penses that labor may be lightly burthened
Year: 1874

Our readers will certainly thank us for
advising them to keep in their houses, for
use, Renne's Pain Killing Magic Oil 1t
is said to be the best remedy for painful
complaints ever discovered. 'It works
like a charm"
Year: 1874

Samuel J. Tilden returned to the city yester-
day from the Convention at Albany on Tuesday night.


reporter Of TRIBUNE endeavored to converse with
him upon the political situation but he declined at this
time to say anything. Mr. Tldens friends In this city
describe the at Albany on Tuesday night as an
effort of old Canal Ring to force Mr. Tden out OF the
canvass his persistent antagonism to the Canal Ring
particularly ev1nced last Wner-lead the ring to
make every effort to injure him In the coming Conven
ton Prominent Democrats here declare that Mr. Til
dens nomination is secured. and that all Efforts to de-
feat him will be in vain. The representation that
Judge Church will accept the nomnaton rendered him
by accaaon declared by them to be false in every
particular and to be desperate resort of the Canal
Ring to get rid OF Mr.. Tiden
Year: 1874

At LaIge. +. A. Merritt.


OPINIONS AFTER THE ADJOURNMENT.


Conversation with leading Liberals after tho ad-
iournment showed general satisfaction with the
platform and the opinion prevailed among most Of
them that the Convention had taken the
best course in not making nominations.
Many of the delegates from Kings County and
the interior and Western counties were dissatisfied
that no nomination had been made; but the num-
Der included few of the best known men of the party
The majority of these said that if the Convention
had nominated Judge Church he would have declined
the nomination; but not in any case the Liberals
by such step as his nomination, would
have bound themselves to one of the faction in the
Democratic party-a faction not unlikely to be de-
feated in the Convention and with its defeat would
come the casting down of the Liberals. The opinion
is freely expressed among prominent Liberals that
Judge Church's impetuous friends have In
jured his chances for the Gubernatoral
nomination. by the way in which they have tried to
prevail on the Convention to-day to nominate him,
together with their disappointment in failing to in
duce Mr. Tiden to withdraw in favor Of ChurcRs
nomination by the Democrats