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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
Indian and Farmer.

Horticultural pursuits, besides the pleas
ure afforded, have civilizing influence on
our neighbors. The following little story,
told by Uncle Billy Rector, is case in
point. He came to Oregon in 1916, bring
ing seeds, gratis and tools, and took up a
square mile Of fine land in the Willamette
Valley. In the scrub growth, along the
edge Of the prairie, were some crab-apple
trees which he grated. The Indians were
Jealous of his intrusion, though peaceable.
By-and-by the chief, with his ponies and
squaws and pappooses, camped near at hand
on a fishing expedition. The red man
claimed all the valley-they always lived
there-and in proof of his claim, said they
came every year to gather the apples. Then,
sweeping his arm in a circle, he exclaimed,
san mine" The savage thought his argu-
ment convincing, and demanded beads and
fish-hooks as a tribute. Rector got rid of
him by yielding, and for two or three years
saw no more of the noble red man. Then
the chief, and his string of horses, squaws
and dogs, again sought the spot, now vastly
changed by Rector's improvements He pre-
tended to be very mad, perhaps to scare the
white man out of much beads, fre-water and
fish-hooks Standing erect, and sweeping
the circle of the horizon with outstretched
arms, he exclaimed, an mine A." Then Rec
tor said, u mine, too !" and beckoned tn,
Indian with him to the apple trees, whert
his gratis were bearing large red apples
lie looked and wondered. The power O
the white mans medicine to change thu
fruit on the tree was too much for his philos
ophy, and when Uncle Billy once more as
serted at is all mine" be gave grunt o
assent. The next morning the cavalcad
disappeared, and never returned.-Co,
reSpondence Country Gentleman.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
More abOut EnsiIage.

The Paris (France) Journal de FAgriculture
gives an account of a recent visit, by large
party of farmers, to the farm of Mons Golf
art, for the purpose of witnessing the process
Of ensilage as there conducted. We give
the following translation, from the Country
Gentleman: "The operation of gathering
and ensilaging the maize had been under
way for several days. One of the silos was
already full, the second was being filed
The gigantic maize is brought from the
field in wagons, which stop just behind the
feed-cutter. The stalks are fed to the
machine, which is run by steam engine
They are cut into discs of one certimetre
long (about four-tenths of an inch) and car
ried by an elevator above the wall of the silo
and fall within it. A man spreads the layer,
woman tramples around the silo. When
it is full, it will be covered with planks,
which will be loaded with large stones
About four hundred kilogrammes (about
nine hundred pounds) per square metre
(about ten and one-half square feet) will be
perfectly preserved, without fermentation,
until the time when it is needed for use. In
the month of May we took from the last silo
at Burton the last layer of maize. 1t still
kept the same temperature that it had at
the time of ensilage and it presented not
trace of any deterioration. There is no doubt
that the result will be the same this year.
All the agriculturists who have followed ex-
actly the directions of M. Goffart, have OBJ
tanned the same result, and their numerous
testimonials bear witness to it. There are
three silos for maize, and one for oats cut
green, which was filled in the Spring, and
which has been fed out to the working ami
mails. NJ. Gotfart has to-day sixty-eight
horned cattle in his stables, six horses and
one mule. With his resources of maize
fodder, he cannot only support for seven
months one hundred and fifty horned cattle,
but also put them in condition for the
butcher upon thirty-two hectares-about
seventy.nine acres" Regarding the settling
of the chopped corn fodder in the silos,
under pressure, it is said: "The ensilage
subsidies gradually to about one-half its
original height in the silo. 1t is this fact,
requiring continuous pressure, which was
ignored by the other French writer on this
subject, M. Lecouteux, whose articles were
first published in this country by Professor
Jordan, and others. They spoke of ensilage
as a fermenting mass that required layer
of straw on top to absorb the steam and
gases After M. Goffart struck the idea,
in 1876, of continuous pressure, the mass
no longer steamed and the practice of
ensilage was insured to the world as an i'm
provement over the method of preservation
by drying. The fact is, that the preserva-
ton Of compressed green fodder from the
air is not uncertain or difficult. Its own
closeness prevents the air from entering
The face Of the ensilage, as it is cut down
from day to day, does not need any protec-
ton, as the air cannot penetrate it to any
considerable extent"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
Interest OF Money.

The earnings of capital now become a
subject of greater interest than for many
years. We see that it is agitating both the
mercantile and the agricultural classes. The
bill before the legislature of New York to
make the legal interest on money six per
cent is taking very conservative view of
the question. Four per cent. is over the av-
erage earnings of real estate in New York,
and probably in most states and there is no
reason why the interest paid for the use of
money should be so disproportionate to its
real earnings. The farmer, above all, feels
the hardship of excessive interest. A farm
encountered to half its value is worked solely
for the benefit of the mortgage, as the legit.
innate income will only pay seven per cent.
ON half its value The legal interest in
several of the states has been only six per
cent. for many years, and the New York
movement may be considered very modest,
since at present there is more money than
business, Yet the money interest is com
bined aud vigilant in protecting its ex-
actions while the farmers, practically un.
combined and looking for some miraculous
intervention in their behalf will probably
find that the members elected by their votes
will represent the small money class and for
get their constituents,-Rural New Yorker
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16

Much has been said of late years about
hard times and extravagant and useless ex-
penditure Of money; and in this connection,
desire to call attention to the fact that
here in Kansas, where our people are at
least as sober and temperate as are found in
any of the states in the West, the money
spent annually for intoxicating liquors would
defray the entire expenses of the state gov
eminent, including the care and mainte-
nance oil all its charitable institutions, Ag
rlcutural College, Normal Schools, State
University and Penitentiary-and all for
something that, instead of making mankind
nobler, purer and better, has not only left its
dark trail of misery, poverty and crime, but
its direct effect, as shown by the official re-
port, has supplied our state prison with one
hundred five of its present inmates. Could
we but dry up this one great evil that con-
sumes annually so much wealth, and de-
stroys the physical and moral and mental
usefulness of its victims, we would hardly
need prisons, poor-houses, or police. | fully
realize that it is easier to talk about the
evils flowing from the use of Intoxicating
liquors as a beverage than it is to provide a
remedy for them. If it could be fully ac-
complished, am clearly of the opinion that
no greater blessing could be conferred by
you upon the people of this state, than to
absolutely and forever prohibit the manu-
facture, importation, and sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors as a beverage
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
Questions about Fertilizers.

The following letter got mislaid for a
week or two, or it would have appeared
sooner:
Dear Sir AS 1t is about time for farmers to
determine what kind of fertilizers to use, desire
you to answer this question Knowing the I'M
certain value OF commercial fertilizers, what diff
culties stand in the way of buying say sulphate
Tor muriate) OF potash nitrate OF soda and bone
black, instead OF these patented brands? This
mixture forms complete fertilizer Now what
unlocked for difficulty would find in its use? In
a late article you quote from Maine paper a
trial OF formula fertilizer with rye and add that
1t Is doubtful whether farmers can afford to buy.
My experience with phosphates has been that on
all hoed crops where you have not other manure
sufficient 1t pays; but on grain and grass never
could realize cost. Somehow, on hoed crops II
gives nature a jog in the right time.
Marshfeld, March 18th S. W. PIrKIN.
All properly made fertilizers 8" give nature
jog" and do the crops they are applied to
good. The question is entirely whether
they pay-that is, whether the increase in
the crop will be such as to leave the farmer
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
Mr.. Pike---IIis Doings and His Doom.

The grounds of an English gentleman
were ornamented with a small lake of clear,
pure water. With its CLASSY surface and
grassy edge it was beautiful as the eye of
child. lie stocked il too with all manner of
fish-gold fish and silver fish, club and trout,
and what not. In an evil hour some one
made him present of live Pike, and he
put him into his lake. But after a month
or two he noticed an apparent diminution
in the number Of fishes in the lake. A few
more months rolled on and he could see no
signs of fish. He became alarmed. Some
one must have poisoned the waters. At
length he drained the lake, and 10 there re-
manned just one solitary fish, and that fish
was the Pike. But he was fat as an alder
man lie had eaten up every other fnny
swimmer on the watery premises Vexed
beyond measure at the results of such COR
mandizing, the proprietor left the lubberly
Pike to founder and die in the mud
There was acertain beautiful village. Ithad
its school and its little church. The people
were Industrious and happy. The children
of Mr.. Steel, the blacksmith, played happily
with the children of Mr.. lakewood, the car
penter, and the wife of Mr.. Neatsfoot, the
shoemaker, visited the wife of Mr. Tome the
schoolmaster. But on an evil day Mr..
Pike of the scaly tribe, entered the town
and opened dram-shop. Mr.. Steel called
on him and took neighborly drink. And
Mr.. lakewood meeting Mr.. Neatsfoot there,
"treated him to glass of whiskey. The
months rolled on. By-and-by certain broken
windows were seen in the village, stopped up
withol clothes. Mrs. Steel was seen going
into Mrs. Neatsfoot's house with tears in her
eyes. The children of the town began to
look ragged Young men went through the
streets late at night bowling and singing
profane and obscene songs. One day there
was an auction. Mr.. Steel was sold out and
Mr.. Pike bought the property. After time
there was another auction. Mr.. lakewood
was sold out and Mr.. Pike bought his prop
erty. Aud SO it went on until Pike had
swallowed up nearly all the property in the
place and the whole village was poor and
miserable. But Mr.. Pike was fat and flour
ishing He was portly. He had very
red face, and very red nose, and very
bland smile. But one day his shop remained
closed. People waited till noon, and then
they broke open the door, and there sat the
dram-shop keeper dead in his chair He
had died of apoplexy. Very few went to
his funeral.
MoraL-Don't put pike into your fish
ponds, and don't let dram-seler open a
shop in your village.-Presbyteria
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16

any gain, one year with another, after pay
ing for the fertilizer.
| As TO a homemade fertilizer, made of the
German potash salts, nitrate of soda and
bone-back, suggested by our friend, it is
good but we should much prefer to use
ground bone composted with uneached
ashes well wet up for two or three weeks,
and apply the nitrate of soda 1--WE prefer sui
phate of ammonia as less likely to be washed
below the reach of the roots by heavy rains)
bones burned black and then coarsely
ground. The charcoal formed by the partly
burned animal matter in the pores of the
bone protect it from decomposition and make
it slow fertilizer, unless it is cut with
vitriol (sulphuric acdD. But the ground
raw bone mixed and wet up with strong
ashes is thoroughly cut and softened, and is
quite as good as superphosphate made with
acid. 1t won't answer to mix the nitrogen
GUS fertilizers, sulphate of ammonia, guano
or hen manure, with this ashes and bone
mixture, because the ashes will set the am
monia free. But it can easily be applied
separately. Ground bone of good quality is
sold so high Casually $40 ton, besides
freight that lately we have bought all the
bones we could from the boys at $40 ton
and burned them thoroughly, so that the an
imal matter is all burned out and the bones
left so soft that they are easily pulverized
by pounding with block of wood with
handle in it. By this method we lose the
heterogeneous matter in the bones, but what
there is of that in ton is not worth $40,
and much less the $50 which the dealers add
for grinding. This burned bone mixed with
unleached ashes and sown broadcast on the
land for potatoes, corn and other grain
makes, with nitrate of soda or sulphate of
ammonia applied i'll the same way or in the
hill, a perfect fertilizer, at about half the
cost of the purchased kinds or if you apply
equal values, the burned bone, ashes and
heterogeneous salt will be better for two years
than the purchased fertilizer for one season.
We have burned our bone little at a
time in the kitchen stove during the winter,
but if that is objected to, a ton of bones can
be burned in the open air with half a cord
of waste wood. The bones are full of grease
and burn freely. These fertilizers are ex-
tremely valuable, but we must get them
cheap to make profit on their use.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
eIerirnlfmal DeparfWrnf,
t. II. HosKINs. Editor.
THE sNOwDROP.


"Dear little flower dost thou not fear
To venture forth this dreary day.
Thou shonld'st have slumbered snug and warm
TIL Winter storms have passed away.
"Thou art so delicately fair,
SO sweet, so tender and so purei
Thou Iook'st as II thy fairy form
A Summer breeze could scarce endure.
"Thy lovely sisters sleeping lie,
And will not wake TIL sunshine smiles,
Nor will they leave their mothers breast
TIL coaxed by sprngtme's merry wiles.
"Then wherefore dost thou lonely brave
The biting blast, the chilling rain?
Thou hast no pleasure in a life"
ouoth l. that must be full Of pain"
The snowdrop raised her dainty head
And looked at me and seemed to smile
"who art thou that thus vanly tries
From duty's path me to beguile7
Doat thou not know we must obey,
Unquestloning the Chiefs command7
1t is not ours to choose our lott
our destlnies are in his hand.
"And II he hath ordained that 1
Shall bloom alone, when daysare drear,
Shall | refuse to do his viii,
From sinful sloth or foolish fear2
"Nay Rather shall do my best
To serve my Maker as ! may;
And duty done for his names sake
Shall brighten cen the darkest day."
Dear little flower thank thee for
The grand example thou hast set
The lesson thou hast taught to me
Iprayf never may forget.
Chamber Journal
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What the Gospel Demands.

The argument of the liquor vendor is
" No man is accountable for becoming the
occasion of another's sin, because the sinner,
as free agent, might have refrained from
the sinful act if he would" Now, will this
principle bear? Let us try it. Here is
man who keeps store of books and prints
of the most pernicious tendency, got up, how
ever, in most fascinating style, and by
their wit and elegance directly calculated to
captivate and ensnare the minds of the
young. Upon the principle laid down, this
man is not responsible for the mischief he
does, though scores Of youths are drawn in
and ruined. He may plead that they are
free moral agents-it is not necessary they
should be corrupted-if they would do as
they might they might improve their taste
and their style, and experience no injury
Would this satisfy parent, whose child
had been ruined by these pernicious books
But is the bookseller any worse than the
rumseller? Are bad books any more de-
moralizing and runous than intoxicating
liquors Let facts decide. Indeed, the
principle of morality involved in this plea
of the dealer is as wide from the morality of
the gospel as the poles from each other.
The gospel not only requires that we should
not put "a stumbling for an occasion
to fall in our brothers way" but demands
that, as far as in us lies, we should remove
from his path the stumbling-blocks that
another has placed before him. ale that
knoweth to do good, and doeth it not to
him it is SIM"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16

Ar the recent special election in Newton,
Iowa, to decide the question of license or
no license, ordered by the council, the
vote stood one hundred and seventy-two
for license and three hundred and nineteen
against. The women of the city, feeling an
interest, also resolved TO vote IN boxes of
their own in all the wards. The following
is the result of the womens vote For Ii
oense, one against license, three hundred
and ninety-four.
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Broadway and Twentieth St,
Grand, Chrystie, and Forsyth, N


From Rev. E. g. Taylor d. De- Pastor First Baptist Church.
Providence, II. l., January S, 1879.
can testify to the virtue of HUNTS REMEDY in KID
ney Diseases from actual trial having been much benefited
by its use. 4. q. TAYLOR.
From retired minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church
800 No. Seventeenth ST. PHILA. Penn, April Is, 1878.
WIN u. CLARKE; Dear Sir-HUNTS REMEDY has cured
wife of Dropsy Its form. All hope had left
for monhs An that isa miracle Water had dropped
from her right limb for months. Fortyeigt hours had
taken all the water from the system All other
had been tried. None succeeded but HUNTS REMEDY
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16
THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY
Value of Phosphate!

The following copied from the Graftoa County az. NJ
Journal DO superphosphaies pay9 Had the question
been asked me week ago should have answered In the
affirmative but to-day can answer what know about II
by actual trial used lsk pounds each Of the following
four superphospaes upon two of Corn OF $50 hills
each with the following results
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HUNTS REMEDY
IL purely vegetable. and Il
used by the advice of phys
iclans. 1t has stood the test
of time for 80 years, and
the utmost reliance may he
placed init. ONE TRI-
AL will CONVINCE
YOU.
send for Pamphlet TO
WIN. 4. CLARKE,
10 PRoviDEScE, II. !,
SOLD by A
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16

superb assortment Of fine French handmade UNDER.
WEAR comprising every requisite for ladys wardrobe
Also. children's suits for every age and size
Our Infants Furnishing Department is thoroughly
equipned Complete Wardrobes as low as $50; better
goods in proportion. Any article the Wardrobe at list
price really cheaper than the homemade article and
in IN
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HOSIERY, Gloves. & HandkerchjefS

The largest, rarest and most unique French novelties
In the city Also, the medium grades Of hose ladies
and children at very moderate prices.
Ladies', misses, and children's KID cloth and Lislc
Thread Gloves Of the best manufacture in all the
shades to match any dress material
superior selection OF plain hemmed linen. and all
linen hemstitched. and scolloped Hnndkerchets Also
embroidered Silk Handkercheis unsurpassed in beauty
Orc ol
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DRESS GOODS.

NOvelues IN Cnchemores. sutngs, Debcilcs, and the
standard cloths in splendid variety Also, 'Anderson's'
Scotch Zephyrs, printed cottor Dress Goods, Monte
Cloths, Coclines Percaes, Chevios, &c, with every
grade to be found in flrst-class establishment
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-16

For spring and summer, for Ladies, Misses. and Chill
drcn Cloth low button Shoes the novelty OF the
season. 50 sos genuine kid walking boots, 1913 Low
shoes from 81 70 s.; nne quality slippers from 81 IS to
$3.50 Misses best pebble goat worked button holes So
Infants shoes, all colors. SIPS
BOYS aud Youths French calf button boots g. IS and
a good durable laced shoe, Si.e5.
rg-Our goods are all 6rst-class. We HlI all
orders exactly and to the interest of pus-
chnsers, guarantee all purchases TO be salts
factory TO buyers, and stand ready 10 remedy
all errors. We invite orders, convinced that
~ first trial will insure US the regular custom
hereafter.
All orders for Goods to he accompanied by
the money; or, where pi rites wish, Goods VIII
he sent by express, q. q. ID. Where the remit
lance L. TOO large, we always return the diff
ference.
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Ladies' & Children's Undergarments.

Our SUITS and COSTUMES fully susta in that pre- emi.
nence so justly established. and always represent the
latest STYLES und fashions
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RIBBONS
Gents Furnishing Goods
BOOTs AND SHOES.

Every possible requisite gentlemans outfit First
class and medium grades OF goods at usual
able prices Quality style, and fit the prominent features
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Has received the most unqualified testimony from Phys
clans Matrons and Mothers of the highest character AZ
responsibility In this and other countries.
The New York herald., 1879-03-16
The closing prices of PhiladelphIa stocks were:
viRsr cALL-1i A. 4.

The sales Of mining shares vt the New York Mining
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