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Year: 1874

Some curious facts on this point were
brought out in discussion at the Massa-
chusetts State Board of Agriculture. last
winter. This may account for some Of the
sudden changes 10 amounto of butter obtained
from apparently the same quantity Of milk
DR.. Sturtevant, of South birmingham, said,
"under the same feed and under the same
circumstances, the same COW gave one day,
nine and half per cent. Of cream, and an
other day eighteen per cent. Of cream" There
upon, Mr.. Lewis, an old experienced dairy
man, said al can tell bigger story than
that. | have taken a good deal Of pains to
test the value OF my milk that ! have
worked into cheese. l have graduated
glasses for the purpose, and have found a
COW whose uniform percentage was eighteen
per cent. reduced 10 six in twelve hours, not
from any change Of food, but from q little
excitement You gentlemen who make but
ter, be careful and adopt my advice and
always treat your COW kindly and gently;
never get her excited, because every ounce
Of excitement will take from her milk one
per cent. Of cream. l have known COW,
abused by furious. brutal mixer, and the
percentage of her cream went down oHe.halE
1t is astonishing what an effect excitement
has on the percentage of cream in the milk
that COW produces. You will be aston
ished if you will make the test, and make
it carefully. have known COW, excited
from natural causes, to drop in her percent
age of cream in her milk from fourteen to
six per cent. 10 IL hours SO would again
repeat, whoever abuses his COW knocks out
of his milk large percentage of the cream"


1t has long been known that any ill-treat-
ment of the COW influences the quantity Of
milk, but that the proportional amount of
cream was also reduced had not been SO
well noted Some careful dairymen have long
since prohibited even talking while milking,
finding that even this influenced the quanti-
ty Of milk, and now it appears that not on
ly the quantity of the milk is reduced, but
the proportion of cream is also reduced one
half by any undue excitement.
Year: 1874

help the wall of anguish, reaches the farm
er; with heart and hand he gives Of his
abundance TO the calls Of humanity.


The home Of the tillers. Of the soil pos.
sesses many charms, Youth commences
life Of toll to build up home, name san
guine and expectant, with full faith that sue
cess will be theirs if they shrink not from
the duties before them. Love plants her
bower in the midst. Two loving hearts and
willing hands have toied together building
their earthly paradise, and success has crown.
ed their efforts And now, in later years,
they rejoice together in the view Of the
many blessings that have fallen TO their lot,
and as age creeps on and the sun Of life
sinks far down, together they survey the
broad acres, the fruits of their toll they
look upon that tree that years ago they
planted in hope, those shrubs that shed their
fragrance year by year to make them glad,
those flower beds around which pattering
feet have danced in widest glee and tiny
hands plucked the sweet emblems of purity,
and as associations Of youthful hopes aud
scenes crowd upon them they once more
clasp hands as in youth, and as the memories
of long life creep over them, in faith they
turn their eyes to their future home, the city
of the living God, just across the river.


Young men of Vermont, to you l would
appeal. The wealth and dignity of your
native state will soon rest with you. Let
me urge you to build up homes among your
native hills Feed your stock well, and keep
none but the BEST thus you will increase
the fatness Of your soil from year to year.
Add beauty to the landscape and wealth to
yourself by recovering the side hills and
waste places with forest trees, giving pleas
ure to the eye of the weary traveller, and
building up monument of your industry
and patriotism. Adapt yourselves and your
business to the character of your soil and
the markets that surround you. Aim to ex-
Gel. Let your work not only be done in
season, but let it be we'll done. Let your
buildings as far as possible be located for
the convenience and comfort of the family
and the purposes of the farm. Adorn your
homes with trees, shrubs, and flowers thus
adding beauty to the view aud refinement to
every member of the family. Identify
yourself with the tilers of the soil and the
interests of your native state. Thus you
will find competence of wealth and happi-
| ness in A life we'll spent
Year: 1874

i should find its way freely and speedily
through the system on its labor Of supply
and removal, cleanse itself in the lungs aud
other organs, and again pass on to It's du-
ties. This requires heart not cramped,
and lungs Of sufficient cspacity. Above all
is required laxity Of tissue, oapacious
vascular system, and quiet temperament.


We thus see how much of quality must
necessarily follow good udder If broad
aud level udder is desirable, then Il ought to
be demanded on q breeding animal, and
more stress should be laid upon this organ.
which influences by correlation so much of
the form, than upon any or all ether quail
ties combined. The perfect udder can cas-
ily be allied to perfect form, but an other
wise perfect animal can with difficulty be
changed in its descendants into one having
perfect udder-Cor Country Gentleman.
Year: 1874

The projection, organization, and healthy
growth of the order of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry goes to show what great increasing
interest is being taken in the promotion of
agricultural science, and that an intelligent
public, in spite Of the warnings of nOn-prO-
gressives aud old foges, is bound to hear aud
Judge for itself Of the merits Of this much
discussed NslO School AgrioaIturism, as it
has been deridingly called by some of its
snemiss,- but which by the way may prove
to be much more appropriate name than
Year: 1874




-"Somctimes it is necessary to feed
young lambs just dropped on cows milk,
Can you or some correspondent inform us
what should he added TO it TO make it so
like the milk of the mother rs to cause All
early movement of the bowelsP Unless
this is brought about, the "wee little thing"
is a sure "goner."


As my sheep are now dropping their lambs
any hints promptly given would be likely to
be of value to the writer, rs well rs to 9TH
ers. ID. T. AvERILLn
We have seen green tea gwen to young
lambs, with the best results. 1t seems to
warm and brighten the animal up and at the
same time to lack its usual astringent effect.
The question is open for an answer from
our readers.
Year: 1874

Agriculture was the result of necessity


We can easily let fancy go back to pre-
historic age when man in his nomadic state
lived by the chase and such edibleS as grew
spontaneously in the forest that evidently ex-
listed before the era of our race, How pre-
carious must have been the food supply /!
How uncertain to the father where the next
supply of food would be secured which was
to feed the loved ones at home,-lOved with
Year: 1874

Would you show yourself really good to
your daughtersP Then be generous to them
in II truer sense than that of heaping trinkets
on their necks. Train them for independ-
ence first, and then labor to give it Ia them.
Let them, ms soon rs ever they are grown
up, have some little money, or means of
making money, to be their own, and teach
them how to deal with il. without needing.
every moment, somebody to help them.
Calculate what you give them or will be-
queath to them, not, as is usually done, on
the chances of their making n rich marriage,
but on the probability of their remaining
single and according to the scale of living to
which you have accustomed them. Suppress
their luxuries now if need be, but do not
leave them with scarcely bare necessaries
hereafter, in striking contrast TO their pres
ent home. Above all, help them to help
themselves. Fit them to be able to add to
their own means rather than to he forever
pinching and ecOnomizlng till their minds
are narrowed and their hearts are sick.
Give them all the culture you can to every
power which they may possess. If they
should marry after all, they will be the hap
pier and the better for it. they should re-
main among the million OF the unmarried,
they will bless you in your grave, and say of
you what cannot he said of many doating
parent by his surviving child: my father
cared that should he happy, after his death
rs well as while was his pet and his toy"


----s-S-


So you are taking lessons ia drawing, Sal
lie' Yes, and the teacher says am AN apt
pupil, rs | draw more inierences, insinua-
tions, admirers and allowances than any
othar Oirl la tha a,a adanny
Year: 1874

President White, Of Cornell, says that, as
n rule, the young women of the university
average about 10 per cent. better on the ex-
animation papers thar the young men; that
they raised the average of conscience and
manliness and decency more than 10 per
cent; and that the young woman who took
II degree ut the last commencement stood
Year: 1874

The more we learn about ourselves the
harder it is to comprehend the intricate
mechanism of the human mind and body
and the less is our faith in the old adage that
seeing is believing. The mystery of the
nerve system and the imagination, which is
by some persons supposed to be the source of
the so-called spiritualism, is most interest
ing subject for investigation of this sort.
This was the chief topic of DIR. Brown
Sequards last lecture delivered in Boston
several weeks ago and now reported verba-
tim in New York. He is acknowledged
authority on such matters, and, like all in
vestgators of the present day bases bis con-
clusOns upon vast collection of facts which
taken even by themselves aside from the
theories that they establish, are exceedingly
attractive little stories. In this way lecture
or book on physiology, now comes to be
readable for everybody, ard the highe. the
authority that tells the story, the more it in
terests. The lecturer, now reported, took
up the subject of hypnotism or nesmerism,
and showed the power Ut the imagination
over the body in that process. The sec, ct


lies in making the patient believe that he is
unconscious and he then becomes uncon-
scious. The lecturer looked upon the dis
covery of an@sthesia The dscreetly omitted
to say by whom) at just the time it was in
vented as a misfortune. Physicians were
just then beginning to succeed in perform
ing operations with the aid of hypnotism or
Braidism and no patient ever died from this
rn@sthetic, while the chloroform and either
process is often fatal. Had the latter been
postponed little the former system might
have gained such hold as to keep in use.


The mesmerized person is said to be able to
tell time when watch is placed at the back
of bis nead. This is explained as due to tbe
innate consciousness of time tkat we all
have. Many persons can tell the hour on
waking always, and can wake themselves at
given time. He suggested that the watch
behind the head was OF no help to the pa
tient and that good test would be to put
one there that was out of time. Tn, dreamer
would probably give the true time, not that
of the watch. The imagination can produce
acute pain as in the case of the butcher VINO
in trying to hang piece of meat to nook
caught his own arm there instead, anu, ,".;, sa;


pended in air, shouted wildly with pain until
Year: 1874

The new popular History of
France is an honor to the ilDuStri-
GUS name of GuiZOt. 1t has been
accepted as a classic even by the
political enemies of the author.
Yet it is a popular history. written
to interest and inform all classes
of readers. There is no display of
eruditi0n. no accumulation of dry
details. The character and deeds
Of the great men of France and
the influence of decisive events
are developed with dramatic pow
er. TIE spirited engravings which
illustrate the American edition are
i'm harmony with the design Of the
author. Such a work cannot fail
to be a constant source of delight
and instruction to the pOssessOr.


JG EDWARD w. HALL,


Professor OF Modern Languages,


Colby University.
Year: 1874

ELDER RICH and wife, now of VII
mona, are back among their old friends in
this city, for short time. We understand
they are very we'll pleased with their new
home, but we may be permitted to doubt
whether they will ever find warmer, or
more earnest friends than they have in Red
Wing.
Year: 1874

"Wil the Grange permit the discussion
OF political questions Yes, it will. and
what are you going to do about it The
Grange Is social and business organization
OF farmers, and it will not only permit, but
will encourage the discussion of everv social
and business question which affects the in
terests OF farmers. Some of those questions
are political, some are not. 1t will discuss
them all impartially, thoroughly, fearless
ly. Ii some OF them have assumed such
importance as to get into the field OF politics.
II will discuss them none the less; but it
will discuss them in the statesman's vav
and not the politicians. 1t will discuss
principles, not exp -dients 1t will discuss
the right and the wrong of matters. not
their adaptability to further private inter-
ests. The farmers have been isolated long
enough; they have left their thinking for
other men to do long enough: gov they
common interests, and plan for their COM
mon good. Again, what are you going to
do about it?


We echo the question to the politi-
clans "What are you going to do
about it =


The election is now over; VIII you
keep the Patrons in ignorance lest a
year from now they might vote against
some men or party 2!


Discuss all questions underlying
your prosperity taxation, eorrup-
ton. imperialism, protective tariffs !;
but discuss them in the statesman s
way and not the politician Get up
into the higher atmosphere of political
economy; do not attack or abuse indi-
viduals; simply try to ascertain what
is for your interest: and let all men
and things that stand in the road of
your prosperity get out of the way


And If you have any scruples about
doing this inside the Grange, close your
work. and open the doors; invite in
the outer world, and talk as farmers
not Changers. Let the facts be heard.
Let the light shine where it is needed.


Turn Minnesota's long winter and
bright nights to account in this way,
and next spring will find you much
better prepared to understand and en-
force your rights than you are now.


The revolution must not turn back
ward.
Year: 1874

(From the Jackson Republic Rep.).l
This general rebuke which the Re-
publican party has received from the
people may prove of great value to the
party if the lessons it teaches are heed
ed. AS long as the leaders of the party
adhered to the loyal and pure princi.
Piles Of the party it was supported by
the people, but when those leaders
allow themselves to become COR
rupt-as all must admit many have
those same people rise in their might
and put them down and out. Thus
the rebuAe is not so much to the party
as to those who have used her cloak to
cover their base acts. We need not 60
outside of Minnesota for an illustration


At St. Paul, last Tuesday, we are told
by reliable gen eeman who can furnish
abundant proof, that one of Senator
Ramsey's candidates for the Legislature
bought vote after vote. rotes 6y the
dozen. at five dollars apiece, the meney
being paid on the spot. all in open bar
ter. Shall such man represent Min
nesota in the United States Senate
merely because his money controls
every daily paper in the State save one.
and there are none to cry out against
such corruption Republican princi-
pies are still as strong in the hearts Of
the people as ever, but such base usurp-
ers must be cast out or the party will
suffer as it has this year. Every mem.
Der Of the Seventeenth Legislature who
votes for Ramsey will be marked by
the people, and by tnat one vote he will
dig his political grave and heap the sods
high over his decaying corpse.
Year: 1874

We hear of worthy German who
three OF four years ago bought two lots
at the extremity of Seventh street in
this city of St. Paul for $500 each.
This year the assessments upon these
same lots for street Improvements are
over $1,100!!


The Legislature should tie up the
hands of municipal corporations, and
prevent them from confscating the
property Of the people after that
fashion.
Year: 1874

From the Constitution of the National


Grange
THE ULTIMATE OBJECT OF THIS oRGANIzA-
rIONIs FOR MUTUAL INSTRUCTION AND PRO-
lection.


Human happiness is the acme of earthly
ambition. Individual happiness depends
uDOn GENERAL PROSPERITY
Year: 1874

A reaction against the once general
belief that large farm possessed many
advantages over a small one has to a
considerable extent become prevalent
among the farmers of the Eastern and
Middle States. Statistics show that a
man can raise more produce to the acre
upon small farm than upon large
one. This is evidently common sense,
for it is reasonable to suppose that
greater care and bettet husbandry would
be exerted upon the smaller farm. It
is worth while for our Patrons of Hus-
bandry in this and all other sections of
this State to look into the matter, and
see whether they have not too much
land. Many Of our farmers in Mime
sofa have accumulated broad acres and
mortgages together. They would make
more money in the end if the foolish at
tempt to outstrip their neighbors in acre.
age was Abandoned at once, and concen-
tration of work made upon a compara-
tive small farm, Farmers,i if by scrupu-
lous care and attention to rotation Of
crops, you can raise as much grain upon
seventy-dve acres as upon one hundred,
why should you carry the dead weight
of the extra twenty-five?
Year: 1874

An OPIUM EATER CURED Dl7!g-
gist. n London paper, states thar a
young lady who had long been addicted
to the use of Opium applied TO an emf
nent physician 10 make hypoderInic in
jections of morphine. Beginning by in
iecting mixture Of morphine and water,
he gradually increased the proportion Of
water without letting the patient know
of it, until after short time he used the
pure water. After each injection she
would gently fall into refreshing sleep.
For several months the treatment was
continued. the patients system being
gradually renovated by tonics. At length
the lady was informed that for months
she mad not been under the influence of
opium at all, and was greatly reioiced to
find herself cured of any desire for the
drug
Year: 1874

1t is nonsense to pretend to prescribe
that the back should be long or short,
Of this length or that; although we
may, in a general way, fall in with the
common description Of what q back
ought to be, and say, "that to be good
one, it should sink a little below be-
hind) the withers, and then run
straight The back will be too large
or too short. or Though, to the observ.
er, of unusual longitude or shortncss.
still) of the proper length, depending
upon the formation and dimensions of
other parts with which, in structure
and action, it is associated.
Year: 1874

THE extreme low prices now made
upon almost all kinds of Dry Goods
in the St. Paul market, should not be
passed over by our readers without
their taking advantage of it, and
thus offset the low prices at which
wheat is now selling. The expense
of getting goods from St. Paul by
freight or express is trife COM
pared with the advantage gained
in price, and especially so if farm.
ers club together and send their
orders. Messrs. D. W. Ingersoll &
Co. are doing large business
in just this way, and are send
ing goods to all parts Of the
State. We speak of Ingersoll
& Co. because they are known
all over the State, and have
given much time and atten.
ton to this order business and
can be relied upon. They will
send samples to any one wish.
ing to buy, and we advise such
to send and see what can be
saved in this way.
Year: 1874

To break horse of paving in the
stable, correspondent Of the Farmers s
Union says: Take c piece of trace
chain two feet long, fasten it to the leg
that he paws with, just above the knee
with hame strap and let the chain
hang at the side Of the leg. He will soon
be glad to keep it still.
Year: 1874

Hilo is one Of the very few places on
these islands where you can see = truly
royal sport-the surf-bo,rd. 1t re-
quires rough day and heavy surf,
but With a geod day it is one of the
finest sights in the world.


The surf.board is a tough plank
about two feet wide and from six to
twenty feet long, usually made of the
bread'fruit tree. Armed With these.
. party Of tall, muscular natives swim
out to the first line of breakers, and.
watching their chance to duck under
this, make their way 6naIly, by the
help Of the under-tow, into the smooth
water far off beyond all the surf. Here
they bob up and down on the swell
like SO many ducks, watching their op.
portuhity. What they seek is a very
high swell, before which they place
themselves, lying OF kneeling on tho
surt-board, The great wave dashes
onward, but as its bottom strikes the
ground, the top, unretarded in its
speed and force, breaks into a huge
:comber, and directly before this the
surf.board swimmer is propelled With a
speed which We timed and found to
exceed forty miles per hour. In fact,
be goes like lightning, always Just
ahead Of the breaker, and apparently
down bill, propelled by the vehement
impulse of the roaring wave behind
him. yet seemieg to have speed and
melton of bis own.


tits very surprising sight to see
three Or four men thus dashed for near
lyazmiie toward tho shore at the speed
Of an: express train, every moment
sbout to be overwhelmed by . roaring
breaker, whose white crest was reared
high above and just behind them, but
always escaping this ingulfment, and
propelled before it. They look, kneeling
or lying ou their long surf: boards, more
like some curious and swift-swimmiug
6sh-like do]phins racing, as it SEEM
ed to me-than like men. Once in a
while, BY some misobance, the cause Of
which I could not understand, the
swimmer was overwhelmed the great
comber overlook him !; he was flung
over and over like a piece of wreck,
but INSTANTLY dyed, and re-appe.red
beyond and outside of the wave, ready
to take advantage of the next. A sue
oessfal shot launched them quite high
and dry on the beach far beyond where
We stood to watch. Occasionally man
would stand erect upon his surf.board,
balancing himself in the boiling water
without apparent difficulty,


The sutf.boa,d play is one of the
ancient sports Of Hawaii. am told
that few Of the younger generation are
oapable of il, and it is thought to re.
qulre nerve and coolness even among
these admirable swimmers, and to be
not without danger.
Year: 1874

A New HAMPSHIRE HERo.-There is a
true hero living at North Boscawen, y. H.,
and his name is Jonathan Plummer. 1t will
be remembered that in the summer OF 1871 an
old building on the place suddenly settled, and
one corner of it swaycd over on the railroad
track. The passenger train was due in few
miuu:es, and this MIR. Plummer, young and
active trackman, discovering the danger,
promptly seized an ak and cut off post of the
building in order to swing the structure from
the track He accomplished his purpose, aud
endeavored to leap from his dangerous position
but was crushed and mangled in the rui ms. lo
q moment the train, behind time swept by with
its passengers 10 safety. The brave sectiouman
was found to have been terribly injured in his
spinal column and lower limbs, and TO this day
has never been able to leave his bed The rail
road company has furnished cottage at North
Boscawen for himself and wife, aud continue
him on half-pay upon the section roll. MIR.
Plummer is free from pain only small part OF
the time, but 10 his misfortune he exhibits
patience and cheertulneSs that stamp him with
the highest nobility. - Boston Journal.
Year: 1874

We give considerable space this
week to the Letter Of Hon. VIM. Bax-
ter, of Indiana, on the License ques-
ton. It is one of the strongest and
most effective arguments against Lii
cense that we have seen, and we COM
mend it to the careful consideration
of every friend of Temperance-es-
pecially of every voter, whose ballot
on the 18th of this month will help
to decide the policy of our State in
regard to the liquor traffic, for the
next twenty years.