smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1874

Take dairy salt box which has the cover
removed, turn it on its side with its open
top toward you or in front, bore some holes
in what now forms the top of box of sufi-
cient size to insert glass tubes letting the
lower ends Of tubes stand on what now forms
the inner side OF bottom of box. These
tubes may be made from lamp chimneys OF
the German student pattern, which may be
had at nearly every country store, and if the
bottom or bulge part is broken off, all the
better.


Now stop up the contracted part of chin.
ney with a cork coated with gum-shellac
melted sealing wax, or anything which may
assist in holding the cork and making it milk
tight, and you then have a uniform column
OF milk about eight aud one third inches
high, which divided into one hundred pa rts
will make twelfths of inches which degrees
may be put on card board or piece of shin.
gle forming scale of which each twelfth OF
an lhch represents one per cent. Alter these
tubes are set into their places, pour into
them the milk which has just been drawn
from the respective COW whose name should
be attached on piece of card to the COR
responding tube, care being taken to proper.
ly stir or mix the milk of each COW separate
ly, so as to get uniform quality, for the
milk remaining in the pail few moments
will be found richer at top than at the bot.
tom Of the pail, and such unstirred milk
would be an unfair test.


Let the milk stand in these tubes in a
room of a temperature of from 6fty-sight to
sixty'fve degrees until you think the cream
has all risen, which will vary in different
cows from twelve to fOrty-sight hours, and
you can then readily tell by applying the
scale to the side Of the tubes the per cen.
tags Of cream Of each COW, as we'll as see its
Year: 1874

above, but, until my manuscript met his
eyes, he had no idea thai intended to vrite
anything Of the kind. | write it on the
principle of giving "hOnor to whom honor
is due" and also the best advice 10 my pow.
er to the readers OF the VERMONT FARMER.


If this article is not already too long let
me say a word about the


Brooks RED Seeding Potato.


A year ago or more one Of my Massachusetts,
correspondents sent me copy Of the YER
MONT FARMER in which was an advertise
ment of this potato. One of my friends
said he would take part Of them and sent
to the proprietor Of the Memphremsgog
seed farm for barrel. They arrived in
due time and were some Of the finest look
ing potatoes ever saw. My friend took
what be had engaged and l was intending
to plant the rest. But two of my neighbOrs
happened along before | got them planted
and 1, very foolisbly, sold each Of them a
peck. planted what remained, giving
them Enrequhl chance with the Early Rose
which planted on the same piece. l also
had other varieties 10 different fields. The
season was extremely dry and l do not
think the yield OF potatoes was half what
it would have been in a good year. My
other varieties did not yield over sixty or
seventy bushels per acre while tie Brooks
produced at the rate Of one hundred and
sixty bushels. This, considering the season,
was remarkable yield for this locality.
The three men whom furnished with seed
all report large yield and speak highly Of
this variety. Not only was the yield good,
but, what is nearly as important, the quality
is also very 6ds. Either boiled or baked
they are, what every farmer wants, good
potato.


| ought also to mention my trial Of


Kingsbury's Excelsior Corn,


the seed of which obtained at the same
time and place as the potatoes, but as l am
interested in the sale Of rival variety my
remarks will be quite brief The seed
looked finely aud germinated perfectly. l
planted it on dry land and the drought hurt
it severely. 1t grew as we'll, however, (when
the season and the natural dryness Of the
land are cOuo;Aered) as could expect, and
yielded double what any sensible farmer
would have estimated when it was cut. l
saved some seed aud shall plant it this sea-
son. On the whole think it is one Of the
most valuable varieties have ever grown.


MASSACHUSETTS FARMER.


amherst, Mass.
Year: 1874

| nee many notices Of commercial ma.
nures, and Of almost endless varieties, which
L have no practical knowledge of. The
phosphates are but little used in this region,
and with what results report does not say,
and for some reason am led to suspect that
many commercial manures are put into the
market mostly for the benefit of the trade,
and not Of the land. 1t is but just, howev-
er, to acknowledge that so varied are the
soils in different regions that what is worth
less in one section may be of greatest value
in another. 1t was never my fortune to re.
alize any benefit to the land or crops from
the use Of wood ashes, either leached or un-
leached, yet know how the best farmers of
Massachusetts for 100 years have valued
them at fabulous prices. In like manner
have witnessed the value of gypsum or plAs.
ter in Eastern and Northern Maine, which
leads me to suggest experiments in all grass
growing regions till it is fully known where
it may be used with profit. 1t is certainly
a mystery to us all what buShel of plaster
on an acre can do when distributed over the
surface, yet the wonderful effect Of doubling
q crop Of grass can not be disputed. Not
all results are alike, but the most worn-out
lands are most affected and most strongly
improved. give the facts Of a single old

barren farm Of Alvin Haynes, OF Passad um-
keag, Penobscot County. The farm, settled
90 years ago, was left 35 years ago for the
buildings of tavern stand on the opposite
side of the wide river, a mile,) since which
no more plowing or manuring has been done.
after cutting the hay for the tavern ten
years, much Of it cut but One-f6urth ton to
the acre, and they were about to give it up to
pasture for what it would fetch at that time
Twenty-Five years ago facilities for getting
plaster cheap induced a trial. 1 do not
know the amount used, but plaster was
cheap AMI used literally. The moving la nd
soon came to yield ton and more to the
acre, and think has continued that yield
now for rs years. The old fears Of ex-
hAusting or sappng land by the
use Of plaster have entirely dis
appeared in this region. might give an
instance Of an old run out pasture in Fort
Fairfield with equally strange results. No
va Scotia plaster comes here where | write
for about % or 80 dollars per ton, and yet
l hear good farmers say they will give go
dollars if need be, Tobiqus plaster is de-
posit OF the mineral several miles in extent
forty or fifty miles from here, easy Of access,
and free to all until lately bought up Boston
capitalists.


Long continued experiments 10 some Sec
tiOns seem to make it probable that the per.
petua use Of it will make the growth Of
grass as perpetual without our returning to
the land the manure that is made from it.
There are some wonderful undeveloped ma
terials for fertilizing the farm on our deeply
indented sea coast, in the form of kelp, aud
muscle beds, aud other inexhaustible prod
ucts of the SEA, which are not yet but will
hereafter be brought into use.


M. II. KEEP.


Dalton, ArOOstOok Co.. Me.
Year: 1874

into her had it went OF discharging its
contents into the forehead of her newly
espoused. Great confusion and excitement
follow among the guests, but to their as
tonishment the bridegroom does not fall;
he rushes out, finds water, bathes his head
and drinks glass Of wine; after which he
announces to the company that the shock
is ever, and that he feels entirely well. The
family, however, insist upon calling ply.
sician, who examines the head, discovers
the location of the ball, and pronounces the
wound beyond immediate danger. This
occurred six days ago, and the gentleman
is reported as retaining perfectly the use Of
his mental faculties and without an ache
or pain.


The spring weather commences, and the
season for amusements here only changes
location. The beautiful little colored
feathered singers in nature will soon cele-
brate their victory over the swallow tailed
white wasted ones. The brilliant gaslight
will shrink pale away before the light of
heaven, and as the flowers open again their
eyes, after a long, cold, death-like sleep,
waking upon the call Of the Great Master
who gives them life, we commence to feel
oppressed by the four walls Of our dwell
ing, forgetful of the kindly CRATE whose
glowing Goals warmed our chilled blood
and made glad our hearts during the win
ter and long to fly out with the birds, and
add our hearts songs to theirs, and as they
soar up to the blue sky in new gained hap
piness and freedom, so also expand our
souls in love and gratitude.


Yours, LEAH.
Year: 1874

At No. loo Canal street, in the store of
William E. Seebold, are exposed for exhi-
bition ard sale several beautiful paintings,
the work OF resident and native artists.
There is a landscape representing scene
on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Mar
shall Smith, Jr., young artist of only
nineteen years, is the creator of this simple
but beautiful work. Marshall Smith was a
pupil of the late Richard Clague, and
though that master hand lies cold in deaths
embrace, yet the influence Of his genius
still is apparent.


The painting referred to is quiet and
subdued picture of still life. There are the
two shanties of the fishermen, the moss
wrcathed cypress, the placid lake and the
far away, lazy and creeping sailboats.
Over all the deep blue Southern sky and
the brown tinged floating clouds so peculiar
to our locality. A spirit of happy Incidence
seems to pervade the picture, and while
gazing thereon one is apt to imagine that the
best thing in the world would be to dream
away existence under the Southern azure, to
the soft murmur OF the ripples of Pontchar-
train.


There Is also to be seen at Seebold's a
companion picture by the same artist, rep
resenting another of our lowland scenes.
Up stairs, over Seebold's store, is the studio
of Mr.. Harold Rudolphe, one OF the best
portrait painters that We have ever had in
New Orleans. In his atilier now stands a
life size portrait of DR.. Warren Stone, that
for fidelity of outline and happy conception
of expression, entities it to be classed with
the best efforts Of the great artists OF
Europe. Our standard Of art here is neces.
sarily limited, but it does not follow be.
cause the culture of the fine arts must some.
what languish from obvious causes, that
the-beautiful and true in art is without an
exponent in our midst. We wish to bring
to notice the fact that we have artists
among us who are worthy of great
praise and deserving of all patronage.
Proof conclusive Of what has just been
written may be obtained ny visit to See
bold's store and study of the paintings
there displayed. There are two gems OF
landscape art, the work Of Richard Clague.
One represents the wa erworks at Mobile,
and the other is a scene of thicket of
woods at Spring Hill. These two gems of
art are for rattle at s. per chance, the
scheme comprising only 100 chances.
Year: 1874

A HIGHLY SEAsoNABLE POEM. The
poem we publish this morning on our
fourth page must commend itself to every
cultivated mind. The subject is one which
will interest all, and the moral is SO good
that each reader, no matter what may be
his religious belief, will find it agreeable to
his views
Year: 1874

1t is understood that the carpet-bag Sem
ators are considerably irritated over the
manner in which they have been treated of
late. They allege that they have not the
same influence with the President
as the Northern Republican Sena-
tors; that their recommendations for
Year: 1874

COLUMBUS, o., Dec. IA citizens
meeting was held here this afternoon to de-
wise some plan for the relief of the poor of
this city. A committee was appointed
whose duty it shall be to provide work for
willing hands, the same TO be raid for by
voluntary subscription Preference is to
be given to resident poor. Six hundred
and fifty dollars was subscribed at the
meptino.
Year: 1874

Office are disregarded by the Executive, and
that they are continually snubbed by
two or three members of the Cabinet.
They ask that select committee shall be
appointed, with power to make the fullest
investigation into Southern affairs, and
they claim that, if this is done, they will
be vindicated from the charges brought
against them, and those with whom they
affiliate. The Republican majority in the
Senate is very much dependent upon the
good will of the carpet-baggers, and realiz-
ing this fact, the caucus was constrained
to promise to take the matter into consid-
Grafton.
Year: 1874

THE new Administration organ in
New York, the Republic, is reported in
q bad way, and is evidently about to
expire. The Washington correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial
states that the anxious friends who
have been sitting up with it for some
time, give it up, and do not expect it
to last longer than this week.


The telegraph this morning an
nounces the suspension of the Republic.
Year: 1874

An effort was made this morning to in
troduce five or six colored girls as pupils
into the girls upper high school, which re-
suited in the withdrawal Of over fifty Of the
graduating class. This is the first attempt
that has been made TO place negroes in the
school.
Year: 1874

THE Guernsey Times, published out at
Cambridge, Ohio, says that there are q
dozen or more flour dealers in that place
and vicinity, most oI whom are supplied
from abroad.


William Barton sent away from Gam
bridge during the past year not less than
$4,000 In cash for the single item Of flour.
It Is considered that $75 600 Is q low esti
mate Of the total amount sent away from
hero In one year ior this purpose. Can
our Guernsey county farmers not devise
means whereby this demand may be met
from the products Of our soilS We regret
that 80 great an amount Of our earnings
goes into the pockets Of strAngers."


These remarks are evidence Of q short.
sighted view Of the case on the part oil
the Times The Guernsey county farm.
ers, like all other farmers In this region Of
country, have found out that they can do
better by not raising wheat than they can
BY raising it. They have very generally,
therefore, gone into stock farming, especi.
ally sheep raising. We do not see that It
ought to make any difference as to how
much money is sent out Of community
Tor flour provided en- equivalent amount
comes in for something else, And we take
1t that the farming that allows the largest
amount Of whatever Is raised upon the
land to return to 1t again, as, Tor instance,
the food that is eaten by animals, Is the
farming that pays the best in this coun-
try. The land Is kept up by this means,
Instead Of being exhausted, and the farmer
himself Is delivered from vast amount
Of unremunerative drudgery. This coun.
try cannot compete with the West in rails.
ing either wheat or corn, but It can com.
pete in raising hay and wool and fruit,
aud also the better grades Of cattle and
horses. Tkerc Is therefore no occasion 10
deplore the fact that our farmers do not
turn their attention to wheat, as long as
the fact remains that they can do better
with other crops.
Year: 1874

We observe that out at sherrard, in
Marshall county, they are debating that
same old question that Lyceums have
been debating from time immemorial-
viz-"ReSOEued, That the signs Of the
times indicate the downfall Of the
Republic" The south debated this
question in Congress for h whole
generation and finally became en-
tirely satisfied that the downfall oi
the Republic was at hand, but when
they proceeded to put their theory to the
test It didn't pan out worth q cent. We
suggest this somewhat notorious fact for
the consideration Of the Lyceums that arc
eternaIly debating this question.
Year: 1874

WHATS IN A NAME ply the will of q
very wealthy lady of Virginia, all of her bonds
aud some other property of considerable amount
was devised to the Baptist Theological Semi
nary of South Carolina. The will was contested
aud the lower court decided that it was void,
as the name OF the beneficiary was the South
did not appear fully in the will. The Court of
Appeals Of Virginia has reversed this decision
and the seminary above mentioned is better OF
by over eighty thousand dollars The case has
been nearly eight years 10 litigation.
Year: 1874

The Objectionable clause to the total
abstinence people in the platform re-
Gently adopted by the German-Amer-
lean Club of this city is that which
expresses the determination of the
members of the club not to vote for
candidates for office who favor the en-
actment of such temperance laws as
are represented by the one created at
the last session of the Legislature un-
der the name of Local Option. We
do not propose to write homily on
the evils of intemperance, nor shall we
indulge in eulogy on tempe rance, to
be followed by a catalogue of the bless
ings which flow from a well-kept res
olution not to look upon the wine
when it is red. The evils of the one
and the happiness of the other are
pictures that are constantly before us.


We are panied at the sight of one and
gladdened with the glimpse of the
next from one end of the street to the
other. They come as panorama of
darkness and sunlight. The world is
full of temperance lectures, and as full
of arguments against intemperance.
1t is to these lectures and argu-
ments and the lessons they teach
that we must look for the ba-
sis of the great temperance reform
we are all so anxious to see. The
rights of citizens to do or not to do a
thing not prohibited by law, is an
other matter altogether, and as this is
u land of equal rights and equal priv
ileges, the members of the German
American Club may be pardoned if
they inquire why the organs of So
ciety traduce them for doing precisely
the same thing the society itself has
been doing almost from the date of its
existence. We believe the proceed
ings of the last session of the Grand
Lodge of Good Templars of the State
Of California will show that all MEM
bers of the Order were instructed or
requested not to aid in the election to
office of men who are not known to be
strong and uncompromising advocates
OF the temperance cause. This is a
wise move and one that will do much
good, but is the anti-Local Option
plank In the German-American Club
platform greater stretch of the rights
OF citizens? 1t certainly is not. Urge
as strongly as you like that it is the
embodiment OF an immoral and a dan
gerous principle, and we shall not at
tempt to combat this argument, but
on the question of the right of the
Club to insert the plank in its plat
form, we hold that the opponents of
temperance laws have the same right
to oppose Local Option candidates that
societies have to oppose all
who are not Local Option candidates.
Year: 1874

OUR expressed disbelief that the at
tacks of the Express OIL Mr.. BEAUDRY
were made for blackmailing purposes,
is branded by that paper as a "hood-
lum paragraph" We hoped for the
sake of respectable journalism that our
little cotemporary would accept our
doubt of its guilt in the spirit in which
it was made, and give us at least a
protestation of innocence, but as it
thinks it proper to maintain signifi-
cant silence, we are left to the suspi-
cion of having thought better of our
neighbor than our neighbor thinks of
himself.
Year: 1874

The indications are that there will
be a great rush for the Panamint
mines in the Spring. A large amount
of mill machinery is en- route for the
locality and when these mills are set
in operation they will throw out tons
Of silver weekly. A great many new
and rich ledges have been discovered
in the district, and as soon as the
miners have facilities for prospecting
the rock, still other ledges will be
opened. The idea of Senator JONES,
that Panamint will prove second
Comstock, seems likely to be verified.
Year: 1874

EDITOR HERALD: Permit me to say
to those interested that the first by
law adopted by the Southern Calfor-
MIA Sanitary Hotel and Industrial
Association gives the smallest stock
holders as much voice in the affairs of
the association as the largest This
was contended for not without consid-
cradle opposition, for manifold reasons,
but principally from our experiences
in the defective justice to small hold
ers under many corporate societies
which has obtained almost universal
usage. | refer to the custom of
"freeze-out," practiced extensively.
Those who desire to act with the
stockholders in their important meet
ing of the 18th instant, can do so by
subscribing to the capital stock on or
before that date. Considering the
vital import to the large land-holders
OF this movement, it is thought that
they may wish to avail themselves of
this opportunity for the furthering of
their interests. +. Nj. SHAW,


superintendent.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, October 9TH. - The
appropriation for the continuance OF
the Pacific Ocean survey, under the
direction of the Bureau of Naviga
ton, was thrown out by the Commit.
tee of Conference at the last momen
of the last session of Congress. The
necessity for these serveys has been
apparent to the Navy Department anC
urged by the photographic officers
and the purchase of suitable vessels
for that purpose is now advised by the
Bureau of Naviga ton.
Year: 1874

J.D. CUsENBERY has recently arrived in the Territory for the purpose Of com promising with the creditors Of the Vul- ture mine, upon the basis of paying 2O per cent. of the indebtedness. We believe the creditors are willing to compromise on these terms. Mr. Cusenbery says that the money is on deposit to not only pay the creditors but put the mine in flr5t-class working shape. The capital will be ad vanced by English capitalists and 1t is their intention to convey water to the mine or build a narrow guage railroad from the mine to water, and add to the 4O-stamp mill already erected to more stamps. There is ore enough in sight to run a hundred-stamp mill for years that will pay largely when these improvements are made. Smith and Taylor, who are working on one end of the V4lture mine, are constantly running out a yellow stream of gold which is enriching them and making all about them happy.
Year: 1874

AN assay of something less than S3,000 per ton was made at Yuma a short time ago and published in the papers without any definite information as to where the ore came from. It is said by those who ought to know that the ore was taken from a mountain heretofore uneXplOred and that when the discoverers make all the locations they desire and get them secured, they will open up to the public gaze @ mining district that will cause as big an excitement as did the famous Comstock in '59. If it is genuine it cannot come too soon.

 JAS A. MOORE arrived this morning from Maricopa Wells, and says that the mine from which an assay of S2200, was made, and is referred to elsewhere, is lOcat- ed about 40 miles south from MaricOpa Wells. The discovery was made by Pat Morgan, an old prospector, with whom we have climbed many a mountain and des- cended many a deep gorge. The noun tain where the discovery was made is call ed Morgan mountain in honor of the dis coverer. MT. Moore says he has been at the mine and that it is bound to create such an excitement in Arizona as we have not before seen. We hope to be able to give full particulars next week.
Year: 1874

DELEGATE ELKINs has introduced bill in Congress to enable the people of New Mexico to form State government. Hope it may pass. The interests of Arizona and New Mexico are so similar that the influence of State government there would rebound to our benefit, without subjecting our people to extra taxation.
Year: 1874

TIE latest news from Mojave county in dicate that the Hualpais are about tired of wandering about in the mountains and seeking a living for themselves, and are anxious to return and live again on free rations provided by the government. They should be taught that it is crime to break out and murder and steal, and this can only be done by punishing the leaders.
Year: 1874

s. H. DRACIMAN has at his store a lump of gold bnilion worth $l2O and sev- eral pounds of silver. The gold came from the mines southwest of Tucson and was brought in within week. MT. Drach- man will try and find time to visit the mines in a week or so for business purpos- eS.

 So many of our citizens are now engaged in mining and looking after mines, that it is difficult to keep track of all their move ments, and the best of it all is that with out exception, so far as we can hef.r, all are meeting with success.