smithclay/nortonstories huggingface dataset:
Year: 1875

EDIToR VERMONT FARMER AS l have
numerous letters of inquiry thought per-
haps it would bs interesting to the readers
Of the FARMER to answer through your col.
umns


First, would say | advise no man to sell
out to come here, if he is doing well,-I
mean making comfortable living and inn
proving little every year although twenty
years experience in the West has convinced
me this is better place to locate for profit,
as we'll as health and comfort. The great
trouble with us Americans is, we are iu too
great hurry to get rich we are not satis-
fed to let we'll enough alone.


Health is of the very first Importance !;
good society is the most desirable object.
Vermont is well adapted to that, being a
healthy country, and happy, virtuous peo-
pie, if they can only be cOntented.


But sat down to talk of Long Island.
The land is cheap, outside of cities and viii
lagos, averaging from ten TO twenty dollars
per acre some can be bought as low as five
dollars per acre Climber cut off of course) /;
nearly level, and free from Stone. Soil from
light, sandy loan to heavy clay loan.
1t all needs manure for any crop except cram
berries, although nothing near as much as
some places | read of. We get manure
cheap, from the numerous bogs, creeks, etc,
We get Manhattan or moss-bunkers for 81 .25
per thousand they average one-half pound
apiece. Four to hill Of corn makes as
good corn as they can raise on the Western
praires. Washes four cents bushel, de
livered on boat. Four hundred bus hes
per acre bring good crops of all kinds, Sea-
weed cabbage, negroes hair, etc, pay to haul
two or three miles, they say. They raise as
good wheat, corn, clover aud timothy here
as anywhere ever lived.


The middle Of the island is light, sandy
soil settled before the Revolutionary war
Large farms lie idle aud barren, with old
buildings with timber enough in one to make
a modern village of.


find on inquiry that these lands in early
days raised good crops without any manure
except the timber burned on the ground.


On the east end and north side Of the
island are heavy loan farms, aud have more
wealthy farmers with money in bank and
out on mortgage than can be found in any
other part Of this state, Of equal numbers
They all tell me they can remember wheI
they had to go to Coram, or middle island
for their grain, and to take land on shares
They were too far from the water, and did
not know enough to plOw in clover and greer
crops to keep up its fertility. So it was Onl.
a question Of time. 1t is or will be so witt
any land except river bottoms.


But ask why the new land will Onl
raise rye now without manure They an
swer they cannot tell. l ask, how long ha
this land been stripped of its wood for mar
ket 2 They answer, over hundred year
Yes, see the potash is all drained out it
only question Of time. .-


How the farmers can maintain the fertilit,
| Of their farms at present by baling up mos
all their timothy hay and straw, and sendin
ii to the city, l can't see. l am sure the
Year: 1875

The system or the want of system, Of judg-
ing at fairs in New England is very imper-
ieOt and exceedingly unsatisfactory to judges
aud competitors, Our experience land it is
somewhat exteuded) as a committee man, is
that it takes longer to get a committee
together than to do the work. Men are put
on several committees men are put on who
have no interest in the work; men are put
on who have no special qualifications men
are put on by interested parties. Then ira
crowd of five or six thousand, where all are
seeking their own amusement, the committee
men are to hunt each other up, and keep
together long enough to do their work we'll.
An intelligent man who goes through this
process, can give an opinion of the value
and reliability of the work.
Year: 1875

1t is not an easy matter to save all the
manure from pigs | have allowed for a
loss of seven per cent on many farms |
presume, seventy per cent loss would be
nearer the truth, The food of cows aud
sheep contains a large proportion Of woody
fiber. This is vOided in the faces. But the
food Of pigs contains very little woody fiber
nearly the whole of the food is dgestod, and


consequently we get small amount OF solid
faces and very large proportion OF liquid
manure. Now, pound of nitrogen 10 the
urine is worth more than pound Of nitrogen
in the crude, undigested matter found in the
faces. And this is true to still greater
extent in regard to phOsphorie acid. Prof
Year: 1875

Our friends at the West have at last dis
covered an effective mode Of warfare against
the grasshoppers. Prof Riley says, seat
them. He has tried them as diet cooked
in many ways, subsisting for whole day at
time on no other food, and he says they
are good. He read m elaborate paper at
the meeting of the scientific association at
Detroit, describing his culinary experiments
quoting the customs of many nations and
peoples from St John the Baptist down, and
recommending the locust as a delicious and
nutritious article of food. His paper is
printed in the Prairie Farmer.
Year: 1875

A correspondent at Massachusetts Agri-
cultural College writes that the grangers of
Franklin and Hampshire counties had pic
MIC in the woods above the vineyard on the
college farm, and the superintendent of the
college grounds "kept three or four fellows
up there watching the grapes all day." We
would like to know if it is Characteristic
of the grangers of our sister state that grapes
have to be watched when they are around.
Our Vermont grangers would scorn any
saCh piliering.
Year: 1875

even then the difference would be at least
fifty per cent in favor Of early maturity.
And this matter Of early maturity is entirely
within the control Of the breeder. A cross
Of Berkshire, Essex, Suffolk, small York.
shire, or other early maturing breeds upon
our best common sows will produce the
desired result. But this system has no
period Of storing animals; it must be one
constant progress from the first TO the last
day in the life of the pig.-[Buffalo Live
Stock Journal.
Year: 1875

SALT FOR HoGs.--I have seen salt fed to
hogs for fifty years, aud in the last twenty
years have fed many heavy hogs, ranging
from 800 to 600 pounds net, | fed them
all literally with salt have never lost one,
nor has one been sick an hour. These hogs
have bean fattened in a close pen, and their
principal food was corn meal made into
dough, This dough | have salted, at least
once day, Sometimes my hogs would fail
to clean out their trough in that case l
would put handful Of salt into my bucket,
with some water pour it into their trough,
aud they would lick it up with much relish.
In addition to salt, feed Goals from the
stove. make it a regular custom to feed
GOALS aud it is astonishing what quantity a
hog will eat, and how healthy and robust it
will make him. Let the hogs have plenty of
salt and charcoal, aud we shall hear less of
the cholera.--[J, L., in Country Gentle
man.
Year: 1875

Since, an English chemist, states that the
milk Of cows fed on grass grown on fields
manured with sewage became rancid in
thirty-six hours, and the butter grew rancid
sooner than that from ordinary milk. At a
session Of the chemical society it was stated
that milk of good quality is produced on
sewage farms when oil cake is fed, and it
was suggested that the real difficulty is this,
grass is too succulent, aud dry food should
be used with it. BY exposing milk to the
gasses from untrapped drains its composition
appeared to be altered but it yielded dis.
tillate which had very offensive smell.
This milk as we'll as that from cows affected
with foot and mouth disease caused sickness in
those who used it. Ordinary analysis does
not detect all these changes in the compo.
sition of milk.
Year: 1875

An experimental shipment of peaches to
England resulted in failure from the in
suficiency of ice which gave out in three
days. Twenty.four hundred crates were
packed in fifteen tons of ice. They kept
good four days after the ice was exhausted.
The high cost Of freight and other charges,
will probably interfere with the success of
the undertaking.
Year: 1875

We omitted by accident in our report
last week of horses at the state fair, to men
tion the large show of horses by MOultOn
Brothers of West Randolph. This is partly
explained by the fact that We did not have
an opportunity to look at them knowing
which they were, as committee work kept US
elsewhere most of the time while the horses
were out for examination. They were well
commended by good judges.
Year: 1875

The New York Poultry Journal says
that chickens fed on preparation of crushed
or ground new bone, grow to much better
size the use of this food postpones the time
when the bones harden or set, and the chicks
continue to grow longer.
Year: 1875

1t is stated that the broom corn crop of
the country has been reduced twenty-five to
thirty.three per cent from last years crop
by bad weather. In the Connecticut valley
the crop is good.
Year: 1875

Owing to the rain which continued SO late
into the afternoon Of Thursday, that Prof.
Clemmer was unable to get the children, who
are to take part in the jubilee, together in the
Hall to complete his arrangements, he was in
duced to postpone the jubilee, until Monday
evening next, at which time it will be given,
and he assures us that no postronement will
again be made on account of the weather.
Year: 1875

Washington special says a statement has been made upon high authority that the forthcoming message to Congress will COR tain the most urgent recommendation that the Indian Bureau be turned over to the management of the War Department. This is accepted as evidence that the President has finally become convinced that a. least some frauds charged upon the present man agement of the Indian Service have foun- dation in fact It also gives further color to the rumor that Delano will be superseded by J. Russell Jones of Illinois, as it is partially improbable that after having in this manner reflected upon Secretary Delano, the Presi- dent would retain him in his Cabinet The President has always been in favor of having the control of the Indians vested in the War Department, but has had desire to give the Pesce policy people fair opportunity to de- monstrate their peculiar fitness for the work, and now that they have failed 50 rEiserably, he will use all his influence to secure the adoption of system which he is convinced is the better one.
Year: 1875

PoRraBLE BEER PowDER"-An evil flu turc is inipariially preparing for both the apostles of the permisive bill and the great public-house interest itself. Science, with

 its wonted absence of prejudice, has just dealt each side of the question knock -dowr blow. 4 Frankfort journal reports that g chemist of that city has lately given public exhibition of his ability to make delicious beer at 8 moments notice out of nothing bu; a small quantity of brownish powder and a pail of water It is said that certain experts present-some Of them brewers themselves could not distinguish between the bever- age thus made on the spot and that drawn i, on the orthodox cask. The new bee! pow der Can be sold at five pence an ounce, and one ounce is sufficient to produce gallon of beer. At this rate glass of beer will cost about a farthing. And the process is so sim pie: take some pure, cold water, put the powder into it, stir well, and the beer is ready. The inventor. moreover, declares that by slight change in lis ingredients, he can alter the quality of the beer, and pro duce any kind that may be desired. Short ly, therefore, a great revolution may be ex- pected. With a few grains o1 Bass in one pocket and pinch or two of Ind and Coope in the other, tine thirsty, but not even bona tide traveller of the future will calmly make for the nearest pump and there contentedly drink confusion alike 10 Sir Wilfrid Law son and to the licensed victualler.- Pail Mall Gazette.
Year: 1875



 MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT RACISG.-Racing was royal fun. The public always Lad an idea that racing was dangerous whereas the very opposite was the case-that Is, after the laws were passed which restricted each boat to just 50 many pounds of steam to the square inch. No engineer was ever sleepy or care less when his heart was in a race. He was constantly on the alert, trying gauge-cocks and watching things. The dangerous place was on slow, popular boats, where the engi neers drowsed around and allowed chips to get into the doctor" and shut of the water supply from the boilers. In the '.flush times" of steamboating race between two notori- ously fleet steamers was an event of vast i'm p0rtance. The date was set for it several weeks in advance, and from that time for ward the whole Mississippi valley was in a state of consuming excitement. Politics and the weather were dropped, and the people talked of only the coming race. As the time approached the two steamers stripped" and got ready. Every incumbrance that ad ded weight, or exposed resisting surface to wind or water was removed, if the boat could.possibly do without it. The ''spars" and sometimes even their supporting der ricks were sent a shore and no means left to set the boat aflost, in case she got aground. When the Eclipse and A. L. Shotweil ran their great race twenty two years ago, it was said that pains were taken to scrape the glid- ing of the fanciful device which hung be- tween the Eclpse's chinneys, and that for one trip the captain left off his kid gloves and had his head shaved. But l always doubted these things. If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and half feet forward and five feet aft, she was loaded to the exact fgure-she would't enter dose ho meopathic pills on her manifest after that. Hardly any passen- gers were taken, because they only added weight, but they never will '' trim boat" They will always run to the side when there is anything to see, whereas a conscientious and experienced steamboatman would stick to the centre of the boat and part his hair with spirit level.-lMaTk Twain, in the August Atlantic.
Year: 1875

A PAGE FROM REAL LIFE The New York
correspondent of the Toledo Blade writes -
The story which / sketch 10 brief was told me
by legal gentleman, who also stands high
politically, as we rode homeward 10 the horse
cars last evening. He boards at one of the up
town hotels. One evening he was called upon
at the hotel By lady vino said she did not like
TO call at his Office, and yet desired his help.
She was wealthy, and had a daughter sixteen
years old, but was unhappy, and desired a di-
vorce from husband who had ceased to love
her. The lawyer responded that the matter
was easy. if she could furnish the proof of bis
open and fragrant ioideIity, which she promis-
ed. The proof was furnished, but still the
case did not progress. There was something
that remained untold, aud she was urged to
leave nothing unrevealed which could help her
suit. Still she equivoeated Fnally, after
great urging, the truth came out. Twenty
years ago the parties had been married and liv-
ed 10 tie same vicinity at a distance from this
city. They eloped together, and the husband
and wife who wereslett behind are still living
They came to New York. were married, grew
wealthy, had daughter just budding iutowo.
manhood, were socially popular, and yet the
world about them knew nothing of their story.
Maddened by the open in6deIity of the man
whose name she bore, the woman who was
really no wife of his determined to obtain a
divorce. She was told that it was impossible
under the law of New York, as she had no
standing as a wife. Subsequent, she went to
Indiana to obtain a residence aud bring suit
there, and while waiting death came to her re-


lief by carrying off her husband. She was di
vcrced indeed. Aud thus truth again outdid
fiction 10 the weaving of romance.
Year: 1875

Free from serious objections, yet palatable, even
inviting to the sensitive palate, which will create
no morbid appt tite for itself, and operate
sistant to digestion, as we'll as perform the func-
tions OF a stimulant. Such we confidently believe
is to be found in
Year: 1875

Flalulenoy, Sluggish Digestion. want of Tone and
Activity in the stomach and Bowels Cypress sion
after Rating, are sure to be relieved by single
dose taken after each meal. great want exists
for q
Year: 1875

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

The following from the "farm
and home department of the Chicago
Inter- Ocean will be of interest to the
owners Of hens: Com fed hens do
not lay in winter, for the simple rea-
son that there isn't any albumenous
material in the corn. When wheat
is fed there is fat enough in it to sup
ply all that is needed for the yolk,
and gluten enough to make the white,
and lime enough to furnish the shell !;
it does not thus seem difficult to un-
derstand why corn fed hens should
not lay, as they do not, and why
wheat fed hens should lay, as they
Dr." i.
Year: 1875

head issuing from beneath a stone.
With the rapidity Of a fash of light
ming the cbarmer dropped bis instru-
ment, and, selling the reptile with
marvellous skill, flung it into the air,
and caught it by the tail as it was
falling to the ground. On examin-
ing it, it turned out to be only harm
less adder. The sapwallah continued
his search with impassioned gestures
bordering On the comic; and in less
than second the tomril dropped, the
reptile was flung into the air and de-
scended, when the Indian, with sri-
umphant coolness, presented to me
the tail Of frightful cobra, over 3


feet in length. The hideous REPTILE
struggled; but with rapid move
ment the charmer seized him by the
back Of the head, and, opening his
] Jaws, showed me the horrible fangs
which distill death. This proved
that there was no trickery, for the
serpents which the charmers carry
about with them are always fangless.
He then took pair of small p1ncers
and carefully drew out every fang,
thus rendering the reptile powerless
to harm. Nevertheless, whether by
accident or from brayado he received
a slight puncture, and the blood
flowed from one Of his fingers; but
without any emotion, he sucked the
blood forcibly, and applied a small
black porous stone to it, which he
represented to be an antidote against
the bite of the cobra. I bought a
piece Of him F.; but, on analyzing it, I
found that the stone was nothing
more than calcined bone of very
fine texture"
Year: 1875

The English accident did, however,
establish one thing, if nothing else it
showed the immeasurable superiority
OF the system of investigation pursued
in the case of railroad accidents in
England over that pursued in this
country. There a trained expert at:
ter the occurrence of each disaster
visits the spot and Sits the affair to
the very bottom, locating response
bility and pointing out distinctly the
measures necessary to guard against
its repetition. Here the case goes to
a coroner's jury, whose findings as a
rule admirably sustain the ancient re-
putation Of that august tribunal. It
is absolutely sad to follow the course
OF these investigations, they are con-
Quoted with such an entire disregard
of method and lead to such made
quate conclusions. Indeed, how
could it be otherwise? The same
man never investigates two accidents,
and for one investigation he does
make be IS competent only in his own
esteem. .-4He atlantic for December.
Year: 1875

We have passed through two
weeks Of very superior brick-ma-
king weather, and If we pull for
a little spell of granger weather
the dirt daubers must not grumble.
The grangers are the bones and
sinners Of the country, and If they
do not get rain 10 bring up their
cotton, they can't buy brick, nor
pay the preachers, nor play poker,
nor otherwise contribute to tho
prosperity Of tho country.
Year: 1875

ut j. CENTRAL RAII.RoAD-TO LET CHEAP THE
Whole Part Of furnished House. 20 minutes from
Liberty and five from depot fine grounds stable &c
Address Of Ocean and Linden avenues Greonye,
jersey City
Year: 1875

THE FOUR STORY BROWN STONE HOUSE CORNER


Of Madison and Fityiourth street, with dining
extension elegantly and completely furnished will be
let reasonably to small family For particulars apply
LEWIS MAY. IL Broad street.
Year: 1875

ITO LET-THREE-sTORY BRICK HOUSE No lis


East l20th street within one minutes walk Of railroad
station perfect order all modern improvements fine gar
den rent very low unfinished partly furnished Inquire
premises
Year: 1875

Although we still believe what we
wrote, we shall nevertheless. 90 ptth our
pa'ty in the matter referred to. = Pine
Bluff Press


Bravely spoken That is the way to
talk, Brother Newman Van Buren
Prss.


Unprofssionaliy, not to say suhservi
emily, spoken by you both, gentlemen
Supposing the parry should go to the de-
vii, or should go wrong. or should decide
in favor Of Grant for the third term,
would you go too What respect can a
free people have for journalism that has
no opinion but that which is given to it
and prepared for it by political caucus
or ring Both our contemporaries above
named are among the very abest and best
conducted papers in the state, and the
pride in being party sycophant. express.
ed by them, is the more surprisiAg.--
Gentlemen. you are more independent
than you think, at least we should dislike
to think that you were not - l. r. Eve
ming Star.


Having the fullest confidence in the
democratic party, we are ready to pledge
our support to the nominees they shall
put forward, The lesson taught the dem
ocratic party of Arkansas, when the,
" went to the devil" in putting forwart
Joseph Brooks as their leader. will never
be forgotten and neper repeated The
Star can twaddle, now, between the Pa
irons of Husbandry, anti third term ane
independent party, but when it comes tc
trial, it will prove to be but faithful
stool pigeon to the extreme radical part,
Of the Nation and State.
Year: 1875

Re- Mr.. Kerr, the new Speaker, is n
tall, stately man, more than six feet in
height, broad shouldered, with head
well poised, full growth Of brown hair,
and eyes that seem to read you through
at glance His scholarship is of the
highest order books are his dearest
companions, and his Judgment OF men is
keen and discriminating The man is
wholly practical There is no element Of
humor or romance about him, and his
manners are dignificd almost to austeri,
man to do honor to the position which he
occupies