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Year: 1875

1t has become a grave question to-day
whether the making of butter and cheese
shall be done on the farm or be entirely re-
moved to the cheese factory and creamery.
The action of nearly all of our dairymen's
associations tends to the one idea Of central
ization. 1t is not claimed that factory
cheese or butter is superior in quality to
that made by our best single dairies. But
the argument is that 1t can be done cheaper,
yielding greater profit, and above all that
the farmers wife must be relieved from the
drudgery of butter and cheese making. We
have before us a paper read at meeting OF
the state board of agriculture at Springfield,
by G. w. Mudgett, in which he talks long
and loud of the heavy drudgery OF butter
and cheese making, and the consequent doom
of the farmers wife aud daughters.


That the farmers wives are an overworked
class we fully concede; that by an eternal,
incessant round of cares and hardships health
too often fails aud they finally sink, wan and
weary, into premature grave. But that
it is chargeable wholly to dairying we deny,
and maintain that the making of butter and
cheese is the most healthy, as well as the
most delightful employment of farm life.
Remove the dairy house or dairy room from
the farm and you take the brightest jewel
from the casket. A drudgery for even a
ruffle-shirt farmer to put on his white frock
and assist his wife an hour or two every
morning in making delicious article Of but
ter or cheese! A drudgery to go into the
curing room and turn the golden cheese
while his wife dresses them over Call that
drudgery in comparison with cooking, wash
ing, ironing sweeping, or even chamber.
work True it requires skill to excel in
butter and cheese making, and it won't dc
to trust it to hired help that is ever chang
ing


Both the farmer and his wife should un
derstand the art of dairying so as to take
charge and give direction to the whole Oper
alton, yet very much Of the heavy work car
be done by hired help. The idea that thu
farmers wives and daughters must do all the
work connected with the dairy has long sinO'
exploded, and the introduction Of the larg,
pans 10 butter making and the vast improve
ment in cheese making has taken the rOugl
edge all off from the business Away, then
with the contemplate nonsense OF oVer-taxe'
muscle, premature decay, being the PatrimO
Year: 1875

Something has been published lately in the
FARMER upon the subject of grating. As
the topic is an important one to the farmers
of Vermont yOu will perhaps allow me space
in which to continue the discussion.


Our friend from Weathers6eld Bow, in
an article which sounded very much like an
advertisement, seemed to condemn all root
grated trees as humbugsi in this he is
wrong, for there are doubtless very many
trees that are valuable though root grated !;
this of itself is not sufficient to condemn the
tree. Your correspondent would do well to
Year: 1875

cutting, until Of desired height at which it
is annually headed back. At seven years
from planting, it will turn any animal"


E. p. Powell. in the Horticulturist for
March, says The buckthorn is the plant
Of ell others, where neatness and ornament
are the main objects combined with ordinary
protection, unless we prefer evergreens. The
buckthorn needs less care, and is more easily
put into shape than any other deciduous
plant. IL is rich in color and grows with
great rapidity.


The Country Gentleman says: Buckthorn
plants are very easily raised from fresh
seeds, or from seeds which have not been in
jured by being too much dried. They are
10 be planted in drills about an inch deep,
and they will come up as freely as apple
seeds In one or two years they will be
large enough to set in the hedge rows. The
roots are numerously 6brous, and they may
be easily transplauted without failure if the
soil is in fine mellow condition, and the
work properly done, as with other plants.
The buckthorn forms a natural hedge row
With leas cutting or training than most other
hedge plants, but having no real thorns, and
not growing TO very stiff tree, the hedge
does not become a really formidable barrier,
although making fue compact screen. To
make it strong for hedge, the soil should
be rich, and strip of land several feet wide
kept we'll cultivated and entirely free from
grass and weeds. Dry knolls would not
probably be rich enough to give it a strong
growth, and wet land would be undesirable
or late years, the buckthOrn has been mostly
superseded at the North by the honey locust,
and in favorable localities and on we'll
drained land, by the Usage Orange. The
honey locust is perfectly hardy, aud some
plants are very thorny, and when faithfully
cut back to keep it thick and hedgy, ii
makes good barrier The Usage Orange
does better on dry, poor land, and if the sub
soil is thoroughly drained, it will endure our
winters generally.
Year: 1875

Experiments in Sweden have shown that
the we'll known effect of thunder storms in
souring milk may, in a great degree be
avoided or counteracted by artificial heat
in the dairy. The plan is to start fire in
the room where milk is kept, whenever
thunder storm is seen approaching. This
is done even in hot weather, the purpose
being to drive out the excess Of moisture.
The explanation given is that during the
approach of such storms the atmosphere
becomes loaded with moisture and the
damp, moist, heavy air resting upon the
milk produces acidity and spoils it. Dry
air, then, is important in the dairy, aud
whenever there are atmospheric changes
which bring excessive moisture in the air Of
the dairy, FIRE should be at once started
to counteract the bad influence it would
have upon the milk.


If this explanation be correct, and if arti-
fetal heat has the effect Of preventing milk
from being affected by thunder storms, the
knowledge is important to butter dairymen.
In the best dairy-rooms the heating is pro-
duced by steam pipes, which give more
uniform temperature to all parts Of the
room than can he done by the heat from
stove-Boston CHltiUatOr.
Year: 1875

We could not help thinking of an
anecdote told of Mr.. Alcott by his
daughter, when he was conducting his
school and experimenting on the charae-
teristics of human nature as exhibited in
the youth of Concord. He had always
been strongly impressed with the idea
that corporal punishment was the curse
of our educational system, and he labored
steadfastly and persistently to demon
strate to the world the superiority of
moral suasion as means of elevating
the minds of the young. But he carried
the principle to extremes, as he does
every idea which originates in his brain !;
and one day he called q boy up for pun
ishment who had transgressed the rules
of the little society, for such he had
always considered his school. Instead
of whipping the lad for his fault he talk
ed to him for some time, and, handing
him the ferule, invited him to infiict
corporal punishment on his preceptor.
He did not count on SO much perversity
of human nature as he witnessed, for the
boy took him at his word and ad-
ministered few Justify dealt blows be-
fore he could be stopped. Mr.. Alcot,
seizing the ferule, gave him sound
thrashing, and never again fell into the
grave mistake of giving boy chance
to he reyenged on his tutor.
Year: 1875

DR.. Hall is opposed to the immoder-
ate drinking of water, He says The
longer one puts off drinking water in
the morning, especially in the summer,
the less he will require during the day; |;
if much is drank during the forenoon
the thirst often increases, and very un-
pleasant fullness is observed i'll addition
to metallic taste in the mouth. The
less man drinks the better for him, be-
yond a moderate amount. The more
water man drinks the more strength
he has to expend in getting rid of it, for
all the fluid taken into the system must
be carried out, and as there is but little
nourishment in water, tea, coffee beer,
and the like, more Strength is expended
in carrying them out of the system than
they impart to it. The more he drinks
the more he must pcfspire, either by the
lungs or through the skin; the more he
perspires the more carbon is taken from
tile system; but this carbon is necessary
for nutrition, hence the less man is
nourished the less strength he has. =


Drinking water largely diminishes the
strength in two ways, and yet many are
under the impression that the more wa
ter swallowed the more thoroughly is
the system "washed out" Thus, the
less we drink at meals the better for us.
If the amount We're limited TO single
cup of hot tea or hot milk and water at
each meal, an immeasurable good would
result to MS alla Many persons have
fallen into the habit of drinking several
glasses of cold water, or several cups of
hot tea or coffee ut meals, ALI such will
be greatly benefited by breaking it up at
once. 1t may be very well to drink a
little at each meal, and, perhaps, it will
be found that in all cases it is much bet
ter to take single cup Of hot tea ateach
meal than q glass of cold water, however
pure. ...
Year: 1875

We report seven cases of suicide to-
day, says an exchange, all of them of a
better class of persons. The majority of
them come from depression incident to
disappointment, loss of business, and
the cares and sorrows of life. That, in
deed must be dark future and sad
present when life becomes so intolerable
as to make sefTmurder preferable to
continued existence. The shutting out
of all faith and hope, love Of offspring
and kindred, of the good and beautiful
in life, and the substitution for these of
the pistol, the knife or poison, is indeed
n doplorable estimate of human exist
ence.. Pain, disease and poverty arc in
deed bad enough; but to plunge into the
undiscovered country, as one leaps into
the sea, defying the future, destroying
the present, and lamenting the past, is
not the purpose f0f which nla,S wasbori.
There is.hothhfg manly in such an end.
Suicide, at, best, is .eowardice or in
sanity, and 1t is but charity to call it the
latter. -EtIlIN =. Z
Year: 1875



 Subscribers who are in arrears must make up aErsargss before taking advantage of the forego- ing propositions and subscribers who are in advance may deduct the amount their subscrip- tions are in advance.

 Money should be sent by post-ofice order, check or registered letter, if possible. Ifremit- sances are made by mail we cannot be responsible for loss before the letter reaches us, but will take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peri odicals.
Year: 1875

dred used TO vote the Republican ticket Tho
mill now stands stil. The owner and 40 much
OF his following as remain In these parts sup
port old Bill Allen. Mr.. Blandy, whom nave
already mentioned, is ON the stump daily for
the Democrats. lie Is one OF the largest steam
engine builders in the state. Until now he
never swcryed from the Republican standard.
He has been over much OF tho section | am
talking about, and has no doubt Of the election
Of Alien iy large majority. might add per-
aonal statistics Of this kind suficiont to nli a
column.


In pite Of this manifest drift OF tho tide the
Republicans are working vigorously In all this
part Of the State. They make no beadway in
the manufacturing and mining localities on the
currency, but try to innamo the prejudices and
arouse the fears Of the agricultural districts In
regard to the Catholics. They may well play a
desperate game to win, for II they cannot now
wrest from the Democrats great state which
never failed TO elect a Republican Governor for
eighteen years they must despair of carrying
the country IN 1879. This will account for much
Of the money, energy, buncombe, bigotry, and
bitterness which they throw into q campaign
which has no precedent In Ohio.
Year: 1875

On the subject of sea.sickness, Col.
Knox, who is great traveller has this
hint to offer:


To those who contemplate going to
sea, l have n piece of advice to offer
that may save them the pangs of the
marine malady.


The night before you are to sail,
take blue pill-ten grains-just be-
fore going to bed, and when yeu get
up the next morning, take, the first
thing, dose of citrate magnesia
Then eat your breakfast and go on
board, and | will wager four to one
that you will not be sea-sick moment
though the water may be as rough as
an Arkansas travellers manners.


The above presc ription was given to
me several years ago, and have rigid
ly followed it every time have gone
to sea since ! received it. 1t has saved
me from sea-sickness and it has been OF
equal value to many Others TO whom
have given it.
Year: 1875

HO MAN SALIVA KILLS SNAKES


The Marietta (Ga.) Journal was told
by gentleman the other day that hu-
man spittle was as deadly to poisonous
snakes as their bites were deadly to
man, He says while picking up bun
ole OF straw and trash under his arm,
while cleaning field, a ground rattle
snake, four feet long, crawled out from
1t and fell to the ground at his feet. He
at once placed his heel on the head of
the snake and spit in its mouth. Short
ly after wards the snake showed symp-


toms OF inactivity and sickness, and ho
plc&ed 1t up by the tail and carried it to
the hou e and showed it to his wife, tell
ing her he had spit in its mouth and it
was poisoned. At the expiration OF If
teen minutes the snake was dead. To
further experiment, he came across a
blowing adder (snake), which elected
from its mouth yellowish liquid. He
caught it and spit in its mouth, and it
died. He caught another blowing, and
1t refused to open its mouth. He spit
upon stick and rubbed the stick upon
the adder nose, and it died.


Afterward he came across a black
snake, regarded as not poisonous, and
he caught it and spit in its mouth. In
stead OF the spittle killing the black
snake, as it did the poisonous reptiles,
1t only made it. stupidity sick, and very
soon 1t recovered. This conclusively
shows that poisonous snakes have as
much to fear from the spittle Of man as
man has TO fear from their bites.
Year: 1875

Flatulency, Sluggish Digestion, want of Tone and
Activity in the stomach and Bowels, Oppression
after Eating, are sule to be relieved by single
dose taken after each meal. great want exits
Year: 1875

Free from serious objections, yet palatable, even
inviting to the sensitive palate, which will create
morbid appt tite for itself and operate as an
sistant to Digestion well perform the func-
tions OF a stimulant. Such we confidently believe
s 10 be ionnd In
Year: 1875

THIS elegant preparation is prepared from the
true Jamaica Ginger combined with choice aro-
matcs and genuine French brandy. and is vastly
superior to every other Extract or Essence of Gin
ger before the publi,-all of which prepared
with alcohol by the old process,
Year: 1875

idea of the completeness of the wreck
or the terrific force of the shock, which
broke up nearly hundred feet of the
strong boat in pieces, from the hold to
the hurricane deck. The boat struck
the point nearly at right angles, and ran
up on to the rock about 100 feet. She
lies with her prov high and dry on the
shore, tipping seaward and backward,
her stern on the starboard side under
the water to the promenade deck. Under
the larboard wheel house the boat rests
on the rocks, while under the opposite
wheel house the water is 35 feet deep.
She is broken just in front of the ma
chinery, but is not likely to separate,
before she is dismantled. The cause of
the disaster is still shrouded in mystery
Mr.. Eldridge, the pilot, says he cannot
explain it-he supposed he was all right
until the shock came; and the question
is, did he fall asleep at his post, having
but just awakened to take the wheel; or
did he have some kind of a fit, which
for the moment benumbed his faculties.
There is a rumor afloat that he was in
the habit of taking opium, which, if
true, would of course furnish sufficient
explanation.
Year: 1875

There have doubtless been many evils
attending the policy of universal suffrage
adopted at the South since the war; one
evil has been the encouragement which
has been given to the mistaken notion
that the right of suffrage alone Is suffi-
cient for the protection of society and
the re-establishment of peace. Votes
have been relied upon rather than thrift
and industry and obedience to the laws
in many instances as the basis of pros


perity. But while many evils have re-
suited necessarily from this policy, we
have now the authority of two gentle
men of sagacity and unquestioned abil-
ity to attest the wisdom of this policy.
In recent address before the Yale Law
School. Governor Chamberlain, one of
the most scholarly and cultured men
now in political life in this country-a
man whose recent election was a grand
triumph. and who can speak from the
exnerience which is earned in a hard
fouobt battle--a politician who has main
tanned his character for honesty in the
midst of temptation and opposition both
from friends and foes-gave the mos'
emphatic endorsement to the policy OF
reconstruction which was adopted by
the Republican party. scarcely eign'
wears have passed., he says, land hall
the accumulated evils of two centuries
are already passed away. Education Il
already reaching fully two-thirds OF
those who but yesterday never turned
the pages of book. Property, not BY
Year: 1875

The buffalo-gnat is credited with occa-
siOning a widespread mortality among
the horses and mules of West Tennessee.
Many farmers have lost all their working
stock at q season of the year when they
can least afford to do without them. The
bite of this insect seems as deadly as that
OF the African tsetse, the pest of all
travellers in South Africa. Man and wild
animals appear to be invulnerable to the
tsetse, but camels, dogs, oxen, and horses
cannot long survive its attacks. In one
expedition DIR. Livingstone lost forty
three oxen from this cause. He was in
clined to believe that the ass was bite
proof, but the experience of his last
journey convinced him that he was in er-
ror. The donkey, though not so suscep-
tible as some of the other animals above
mentioned, still succumbs before the lit
tie brown fly with yellow stripes. It's
proboscis pierces the skin of its victims,
and draws thence plentiful supply of
blood. No special harm at first seems to
have been done, but in few days the
eyes and nose of bitten animal begin
to run swelling makes its appearance
under the jaw the muscles grow weak,
and finally the digestive organs are dis
ordered and death soon follows. When
dissected, the cellular tissue under the
skin is found to be injected with air, as
if soap-bubbles were scattered over it.
We have not yet received full details of
the operations of the Tennessee insect,
but whatever it is, its ravages are quite
like those of the tsetse. Cincinnati
G1zeffe
Year: 1875

LOOK TO Your NIcKLEs.-Some en-
terprising parties who object to the duh
routine of labor necessary in the honest
struggle for existence have taken upon
themselves to rival the United States
mint in the production of five-cent pieces.
They have entered the business under
the most auspicious circumstances.
Their skill is equal to that of the recog-
nized minteis, and their material doesn't
cost near as much. The imitation they
turn out is so perfect that it will pass
current with even the sharpest-eyed car
conductor, and the government itself
knows it's own nickle from the spurious
coin only by the use of a peculiar acid.
The manufactory is at Birmingham, En-
gland, and, even If the extradition treaty.
covers such case, it will be difficult to
apprehend the workers, since they know
how to hide as well as to counterfeit.
Year: 1875

The DEAcos's REToRT.-The deacon
was not much behind if the following
be true In small town on the Schuyl-
kill river. there is church in which
the singing had run down. Ii had been
led for many years by the deacon whose
voice and musical powers had been grad
ually failing. One evening the clergy
man gave out the hymn, which was in
odd measure, rather harder than usual,
and the deacon led of. Upon its con-
clusion, the minister rose and said


brother B-will please repeat the
hymn, as ! cannot pray after such sing.
ing"


The deacon very composedly pitched
another tune. and the clergyman pro-
eeeded with bis prayer. Having finish
ed be took up the book 10 give the sec
ond hymn. when be was interrupted by
the deacon grayely getting up and say
ing in voice audible 10 the whole con-
gregation:


"Will Mr.--nake another prayer
II would be Impossible for me 10 sing
after such prayer a. that
Year: 1875

If the pew be now as punetual as the
pulpit-if there be no steps heard in
the aisle from the earliest whisper Of
the organ to the announcement of the
text, and the sound of opening doors
keep time with the football of every new
addition to the audience-there is dis
turbance of the quiet, not only of the
minister but of every devout breast
that is turned toward him. All are
conscious of the interruption and one
of the number, who has most need to be
calm and collected, must eminently suf-
fer. Every newcomer must affect, to
some extent. his concentration of mind.
In his efforts for the right discharge Of
his sacred duties, every footstep cannot
but disturb his attention. The effect
will be different in proportion to temper
ament one will be effected more than
another; but to all it must be more or
less disturbance. 1t may be thought
to be enough to he in time for the chief
part of the service, and particularly for
the sermon but If, on the part of the
pew, we make bold to claim for prayer
and praise an Importance not second to
that of the discourse the pulpit will not
gainsay the assertion. 1t will concur in
the argument that supplications and
psalmody, chapter and chant, highten
the value and deepen the emphasis of
the word of exhortation. They promote
that respective frame and aptitude of
mind which the preacher seeks to possess
in the pew. The service which he con-
ducts does not consist of unconnected
parts it Is cOmpacted unity. From
the first syllable to the last what passes
is complete. Every word of morning
and evening service has its meaning and
intention, and we should deny ourselves
no portion of either. We should study
the harmony of the whole, and make its
quiet common enjoyment. 1t is a
lyric piece, whose music should flow un-
broken to the end, and when the last
word of the benediction has fallen with
its sweet influence on our ears let US
rest for moment in hallowed silence,
that the thoughts and feelings awakened
and kindled within us may sink deep
into our hearts, and remain with us
through the whole. We should neither
be slow to come nor in haste to co.
London Enquirer.
Year: 1875

A bad little boy in st. Louis tied a
very large toy balloon to the tail of a
very small black-and- tan dog, the result
ing effect being described as follows -
The animal started off with a yelp,
while the balloon Strengthened out the
tail in an instant so that it pointed tow
ard the zenith with kind of excelsior
expression. The wind freshened up a
little, and the dogs hind feet were lifted
off the ground, and then began series
Of remarkable but ineffective movements
on the part of the animal. 1t didn't
seem to be trained dog, but it turned
somersaults and stood on its fore feet
and sung little snatches of song. 1t
would make the most tremendous leaps
and land exactly in the spot it jumped
from, and then it would settle down to
work with its fore legs and ply them at
the rate of 100000 revolutions min
ute. The red balloon scared with all
the persistency of Columbian orators
hyperbole, and the terriers tail refused
to break. Then the dog got desperate
and bounded and struggled and vaulted
while the big balloon in the air bobbed
up and down like the cork on the line
of giant fishing for whales. And all
the while the animal sang. Finally the
string broke, and the balloon shot up
toward the clouds. The dog disappear
ed at the same time, though the boy
noticed something like black-and-tan
streak reaching for seventeen blocks,
which lasted for minute only. The
performance, as whole had been sue
ces, but it left bad impression on the
boys mind. He had been taught that
body impelled by two forces operating
at right angles to each other would take
an intermediate course.