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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Does Farming Pay?

There are almost uncountable ways in
which farmers lose money needlessly, from
lack of skill, industry and forethought.
No man of business training can visit an
average American farm, and stay there
long enough to learn the way in which
the work is carried on, without wonder
ing how any business could be made prof
liable, or long afford support to the
farmer and his family, where all the main
principles of trade are 80 entirely disre-
garded. 1t could not be, were it not that
there are not enough really good business
men engaged in farming to make any se-
rious competition with the vast majority of
incompetent workers. But this fact does
make, and long will make, intelligent
farming more than ordinarily profitable
business. We do not hesitate to say, in
face of the never.ceasing discussion of
the question, "Does farming pay ?" that
farming conducted by competent men
upon business principles is by far the
most profitable unmonopolized business
done ON this continent. 1t not only gives
the best living, but it gives the largest re.
turn for the money invested.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Shiawassee Beauty and RubicOn.

We recently addressed note to Secre-
tary Garfield of the Michigan State Hor-
ticultural Society, inquiring in reference
to several Michigan apples, one being the
Michigan Pippin, specimens of which
were sent US by Mr.. Levi Swift of Mid
dlesex, vt. OF this Mr.. Garfield says he
cannot determine by our description that
it is anything with which he is acquainted.
OF the Rubicon," variety the trees of
which have been extensively sold by ped
dlers in Vermont, he says The Rubi-
con (Pawpaw) has few or no friends in
Michigan. When it first came out many Or
chards were planted with it in southwest
ern Michigan, but most of them have been
grated over, and the trouble is that even as
a stock it is not a good one to work over.
The Shiawassee Beauty is a great acqui-
sition. OF course we cannot give it the
test as to hardness that you can, but it
bears full as well as its parent (the Fa-
meuse). The fruit is free from fungoid
blemishes, and great deal better for
general purposes than Fameuse. We
think of all the new fruits original.
! ing in our state, this and the Oakland
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THE MAGNEToN APPLIANCE CO..
2ls STATE STREET. CHICAGO, ILL.
In the Pilot House.

"Ies, sir; this kind OF work obliges a man to keep
sober judge. tOf all In the world, steamboat
pilots and railroad engineers should let liquor alone
For their cearness of sight and GOODNESS of head de-
ponds the safety Of life and property"
Keeping his hand the wheel he said this, Mr.. A.
Brockman of 29k silver Street. Chicago, added OF
course OF em drink; but the sober have the
beat positions and the best pay. Yes the work and ex-
posture sometimes tells us; but for my part find
PARKRR's TONIC to be all the invgorant need. I've
got bottle aboard here go on trip without
it, When haven't any appetite, am in any way out
of sorts 1t sets upn time. II drinking men would
use the Tonic 1t would help em to break OF. no. that
isn't lighthouses its star low down the water)
As was saying the Tonic is new life bettled up You
see that hag-stafP Well, with a bottle Of PARKERs
TONIC In the locker keep malaria far from me
that all the time Ny wife has used for three years
for complaints and collie and invigorant,
when she's tired from overwork She says the Tonic
is u daisy. Goodbye Don't break yoar neck going
below"
This preparation, which has been known as PARkKk's
GINGER Tonic, will hereafter be advertised and sold
ply under the name OF PARKKR's TONIC, As unprin-
opled dealers constantly decevng their customers
by substituting Inferior articles under the ginger
and as ginger is really an unimportant ingredient, we
drop the misleading word.
There is change however in the preparation itself
and all bottles remaining In the hands OF dealers
wrapped under the name of PARKER's GNoER Tonic
contain the genuine medicine II the fac smile signature
OF HIscox Co. is at the bottom of the outside wrapper
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A Few Guesses.

A correspondent of the Home Farm
says: &C. wish there were not 30 much
guess work in farming operations, but
guessing from my own experience, l can
not afford to keep butter cow without
some kind of provender. l also guess
that cannot afford to grow roots or buy
wheat bran for her. Corn ground in the
ear two parts, and cotton seed meal one
part, three quarts of the mixture night
and morning, fed dry, has given us the
best results in COW, milk and butter, and
our customers never find fault. l have
never had a COW eat the shingles from the
barn or chew bones while upon this feed.
If you have no cobs, throw in small
handful of ashes once or twice week.
Also give all the salt they will eat. For
beef oxen l have decided that two dollars
in corn meal and one in cotton seed will
do as much as four in corn meal alone.
The more experience l have in cotton
seed the better 1 am pleased with it,
while the more have with wheat bran
the less 1 think of it. 1 know that
smarter men than feed bran and stick
to it, and often think 1 must have been
mistaken and try it again, but always
with the same unsatisfactory result. Bar
ley meal gives good results for beef, pork
and butter"
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A Mountain Spring.

The Popular Science News says " A
friend who took his family into the country
to spend few weeks during the hot
weather of the past summer was inquisi-
tive regarding the source of the water
supply of the clearinghouse where he
was located. The proprietor stated that
the water came from a mountain spring
half mile distant, and was the purest to
be found in Vermont The next morning
he took walk to the spring, and was as
tonished to find it to be mud-hole in the
side of a hill and half dozen COWS were
wading in the water, which was saturated
with their excrement. The trunks of the
family were packed forthwith, and they
returned to the city, preferring to use
water with cucumber taste rather
than that from mountain spring with
a different fl lvor."
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Improbable Dairying.

The American Dairyman asks: "Can
any one estimate the loss annually en-
tailed upon the dairymen of the country
by keeping poor COWS on scant pastures,
stinted in winter, or compelled to drink
from stagnant pools, bounded to and from
the milking yard, MIXED by brutal and
rough hired men, the milk manipulated
in room unsuited for the purpose by
women or girls without the slightest idea
of the art of butter-making, and packed
and sent to market in an almost unmarked
able style ?" We do not think any one
can estimate the losses of this kind of
dairying, but it is not very hard to calcu-
late how long farmer can keep on in
the butter-making trade upon such pro.
gramme. In order to live by butter.msk-
ing the latter must be sold, and the buy.
ers of the kind Of butter that can be made
in that way are scarce as hens teeth.
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Iowa Orchards.

Samuel Bower, nurseryman, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, writes us that half the ap.
pie trees of that state are dead, from the
effects of last winter. 1t would seem that
Professor Budd of the Iowa agricultural
college did not go to Russia for new vari-
cites any too soon. From our long expe-
rience we believe that it is perfect folly to
undertake orcharding for profit in those
parts of the world where the thermometer
often goes to 800 below zero and lower,
with the apples of eastern Europe and
their seedlings, such as we now have in
the United States. There is occasionally
a stray Russian, or Russian cross, among
these, that is pretty hardy, but all the
genuine Ironclads must be of Russian
or Siberian stock, and pretty pure at that.
1t is only from this class of apples that,
in Orleans county, we have ever made a
dollar in the sale of fruit. Take from us
Yellow Transparent, Duchess of Olden-
burgh and Wealthy, and everything that
yields money return sufficient to induce
us to continue orchardipg for profit would
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Fall or Winter, According to Locality,

In Iowa and southern Wisconsin the
Wealthy apple is late fall and early
winter apple. With us in Orleans county
Gas in Minnesota) five years. experience
shows it to keep quite as we'll as Baldwins
brought from the south part of the state,
that is, all through the winter, and until
April. This is not the case as far south
as the White River Valley, where, as in
Wisconsin, it is an early winter apple,
the same as Fameuse is with us. Itkeeps
easily with us in the same cellar three
months longer than Fsmeuse. Many PEG.
pie do not understand this, believing that
a winter apple is winter apple, and a
fall apple fall apple, under all circum-
stances. To show how mistaken this no
ton is, we cut the following from an arti.
Gle on apples in The Farm and Garden,
by Eli Minch of Shiloh, New Jersey:
al will begin with the Baldwin, al
though in this section, it is all ripe and
gone by the middle or last of September,
its good bearing qualities and fine growth
of tree make it valuable in certain Sec
tions. 1t is in the northern part of thi,
state, so great are climatic changes, val
liable winter fruit, and the same may be
said of it on all high and rocky sections
of other states, being better than on a
sandy soil for keeping qualities, but is no
more productive. The Baldwin is a large
az pie, red and crimson, orange in the
shade; in warm soils, very dark red |;
tree an excellent grower and profuse
bearer, and in high, rocky situations, an
excellent winter fruit in warm soils, a
splendid August and September fruit"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14

THE Farmers Reviev and Rural Nep
Yorker have habit of putting in little
paragraphs advising farmers to have moth
ing to do with politics. These same
journals at other dates are loud in their
denunciations of railroads, and full of
fear of the growing monopolies. 1t
seems to us that little attention to poll
tics by farmers and other honest people
would curb illegitimate power of the i'm
mense corporations.-Farm and Garden.
Exactly so, Brother Child, but as long as
farmers 60 to the polls and rdtity (not
vote) the ticket made up for them by pot
house politicians and bar-room bummers,
they deserve to pay high taxes and heavy
freights. Unless farmers stop voting
" straight" their presence in politics only
increases the power of rascals. They go
like sheep to the polls, and then complain
of injustice from the very officials they
assist to elevate Farmers Magazine.
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county Seek-no-Further take the lead"
We received scions of Shiawassee Beauty
from President Lyon Of the Michigan So.
ciety, who highly recommended It as a
"Fameuse that will not spot" We do
not find it quite so hardy as Fameuse,
and the gratis have not yet fruited. But
if it should really prove to be free from
the spots which so disfgure and reduce
the market value of the Fameuse, it will
truly be a great acquisition to the orchard
lists of Vermont, with whom that apple
is so generally popular. The fruit cannot
be distinguished from Fameuse in looks or
quality, but the wood of the tree is dis
tipct,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14

APPREHENsIoNs carry only the main
thought. If you would strike a sharp
blow, you must trim your stick.
When we read the above paragraph
under the head of Farm Notes, in the
issue of October 8, we asked ourself, Did
we write that ?" and if so, what Did we
mean by it We had forgotten all about
it, but after some brain cudgelling con.
cluded that the first word was, or ought
to be, "Abhorisms." Try it that way, and
see if you can see any more sense in it;
and remember, as we shall, that it does
not pay to be wise and sententious in
print, unless you are sure of your printer
or can see the proofs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Farm Rents In England.

Mr.. Jenner Fust, the accomplished ed
itor of the Quebec Journal of agriculture,
sends US the following note, with which
our readers will be pleased as containing
accurate information upon a subject of
interest. 1t would be good thing for us
all, if we could have a few hundred of
England's skilled farmers settled amongst
us here in Vermont. We think they
might come, too, with advantage to them
selves, especially the dairy farmers.
The average land rent paid by the
farmers of England is said to be $50 per
acre. or an aggregate in the whole island
of 1856 900 600 per year, and this vast tax
has to be met whatever the harvest or
prices may be.
Dear Sir With reference to the state
ment contained in the above paragraph,
which appeared in THE WATcHMAN of
October 31st, will you allow me to say
that the average rent of land in England
is SO an acre. Rates, tithes, and taxes,
may raise the amount to, at most, SO. ]
fancy the error lies in the editor having
mistaken 80 s., for $50. The highest
rented farm l know in England belongs
to my cousin, Captain Hart Dyke. 1t is
situated near Sittingbourne, in Kent, and
lets for "a an acre. 1t contains about
seven hundred and fifty acres of wonder
full land forty inches of medium loan on
chalk subsoil. In 1852 the average yield
per acre of this fine occupation was sixty
four bushels of Chidham wheat, seventy
bushels of Chevalier barley, and ninety.
six bushels of black Tartar oats
Very truly yours,
ARTHUR X. JENNER FUsT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
wisconsin Swine Test.

The conductors of the experimental
station of the University of Wisconsin
have published in their first bulletin the
report of brief series of experiments
made to learn the value of sweet skim
milk as food for pigs and calves. They
conducted the experiments with great
care, feeding the animals for some time
before the experiment began the same
as during its continuance. Our interest
at present is with the swine-feeding ex-
periments, Of which there were three, one
where milk and meal were fed separately,
and two with their feed together.
In the first experiment four good Po-
land China pigs eighty-five days old were
selected, put into two lots of two each,
and the experiment continued twenty-five
days. The first lot weighed 113 pounds
at the beginning and were fed all the milk
they would eat, and at the end of the
twenty-five days weighed 1881 pounds, a
gain of SOY pounds. The second lot were
fed corn-meal soaked in water until
slightly soured. They weighed at the
beginning of the experiment 1862 pounds,
and at its close 14St pounds, gain of
42s pounds. At the end of the twenty
FIVE days the feeding process was reversed,
that is, the milk fed pigs were put upon
meal, and the meal fed upon milk. After
feeding in this way about week, till their
systems became adjusted to the changed
feed, the second trial began and continued,
as did the first one, twenty-five days,
when they weighed respectively 234 and
292 pounds per lot, the first gaining 81
pounds, and the second or milk-fed lot
gaining 70 pounds. The conclusion of
the professor in charge of these expert
ments is as follows: "That 400 pounds
of corn-meal or 1000 pounds of milk were
required to make 100 pounds of pork, live
weight"
The second experiment was a little
more elaborate. There were four lots of
two pigs each, same age, ETC., as in the
first experiment. The meal and corn
were mixed for three lots, while the fourth
lot was fed meal wet and sour. The first
lot was fed fourteen pounds of milk with
three and a half pounds of meal to each
100 pounds, live weight, of the pig. Fol-
the second lot the feed was twenty.six
pounds of milk mixed with two and q
half pounds of meal, while the third 10,
had nine pounds of milk and five and
half of meal. The gain was as follows
for each lot during an eighteen days
trial: SO, 764, ICY, and 334 pounds.
In the third experiment four lean
shotes "of uncertain age" were selected
and prepared for the trial by six weeks
good feeding. The trial lasted twenty
five days, during which the first lot fec
on ration of three and half pounds Of
milk and one pound of meal, gained 1913!
pounds. The second lot, fed on ration
of ten pounds of milk and one of meal
gained 100 pounds. Those in charge OBJ
serve that the greatest gain in all the ex
periments was with the third lot in thu
second experiment, where the feed wa
two pounds of meal with three and I
third pounds of milk, and they adopt tn,
rule of H. B. Gurber, That skim mill
skillfully fed is worth half as much pc
hundred pounds as corn meal is worth pc
bushel."
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agricultural.
+. H. HosKINs, Newport. Vt, Editor.
FLORIDA SEEDS.

A lady kindly sends the following versfed
offer to our readers, which we have no doub
many will be glad to accept:
Hol boys and girls in old Vermont
Ifyou the FAIRY Bean " seed want,
The land that Jack in days long past
Planted; that grew very fast,
Il think 1t must have been the same,
Though history does not tell its name)
Just send to your full address
And stamps to pay the back express
or-postage back-and you will get
The largest bean your gaze e'er met
Twill make winter window pet,
And then will grow and climb all summer,
And quite surprise you as q runner.
JOAN LAWRENCE.
Orlando, Orange county. Florida October l9, 1888.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14

WHAT kind of woman is that who,
when her husband offers to hang out the
wash, accepts the offer, and then sits at
the window, pencil in hand, to write a
humorous article for the newspapers, en-
titled How Man Hangs out Clothes ?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14

be gone. There are other bookkeeping
Russians, such as Antonovka, Arabskoe,
Titovks and the varieties Of Anis, that
we have no doubt will prove equally val
uable when tested.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Danger from Catarrh

Depends upon the amount and extent of the
Scrofulous infection. PROFESSIONALLY many
deaths from consumption can be traced to
neglected catarrh. There is a violent distress,
Frustrated and coughing spells, the eyes weep,
the nose discharges copiously, and the head
seems about to split.
In such cases Hoods Sarsaparilla corrects
the catarrh by its direct action in discharging
the poison from the blood through nature
great outlets, 80 that healthy sound blood
reaches the membranes and is wholesome.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14

THE Home Farm, in an article upon the
revival of the cheese factory interest in
Maine, says wherever factory dairying has
been introduced, steadfastly continued
and rightly managed, it realizes to the re-
spective sections all that is claimed for it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
100 Doses One Dollar

"I have been troubled with that distressing
complaint catarrh, and have been using Hood 5
Saisaparilla, and find it one Of the best rene
dies have ever taken. My trouble has lasted
ten years, and never could get any relief until
commenced to use Hoods Sarsaparilla. -
Martin ShiaId Chiaaun III
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
Ringing and Bursting Noises

in my head. Sometimes the hearing in my left
ear was affected. Five years ago, about this
season Of the year, began to use Hoods Sar-
saparilla. was helped right away, but / con-
tinued to use II until felt myself cured.-Mrs.
Eliza Il. Caulfeld, Lowell, Mass.
Jerome Brownell, merchant and extensive
miller at Victor, Ontario county, N. Y, writes
:" have used Hoods Sarsaparilla for my ca
tarrh and it has helped me. / consider Hoods
Sarsapsrila one of the best remedies for blood
disease to be obtained"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-11-14
TO PRESERVE THE HEALTH
Use the Magneton Appliance Co.'s
Magnetic Lung Protector
PRICE ONLY $5.

They are priceless to LADIES GENTLEMEN and Chill
DREN with WEAK LUNGS; no case Of Pneumonia OR
GROUP is ever known where these garments are worn.
They aso prevent and HEART DIFFICULTIES COLDS,
RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA, THROAT TROUBLES DIPH-
iberia, CArARRH, AND ALL KINDRED DISEASES. VIII
WEAR any service for THREE YEARS Are worn over the
under-clothing.
ATARRH 1t is needless to describe the symptoms Of
M MIMI this disease that ia sapping the life
and strength OF only too many of the fairesi and best OF
both sexes Labor, study and research In America,
Europe and Eastern lands have resulted IN the Magnetic
Lung Protector sfording cure for Catarrh. remedy
which contains No DKUGGISG OF THE SYSTEM and with
the continuous stream of Magnetism. permeatng through
the afiicted organs, RESTORE THEM TO HEALTHY
ACTION. WE PLACE OUR PRICE for this Appliance at
less than of the price asked by others for
remedies upon which you take all the chances, and
ESPECIALLY INVITE the patronage of the
who have tried DRuGGISG THEIR sToMACHs WITHOUT
EFFECT
1UW III UDR lN gist and ask for them. II they have
not got them write TO the propIeoTs, enclosing the
price, in letter at risk and they will be sent to you
at once by mail postpaid
Send stamp for the New Departure In Medical
Treatment WITHOUT MEDICINE" with thousands Of
testimonials.
THE MAGNEToN APPLIANCE CO..
2S STATE STREET. CHICAGO, ILL.
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R. R. RlKER, DRAPER and TAILOR,

state street, Montpelier, VT,
Cuts and makes up all garments In the fashion
his old stand. Buffalo and Coon Coats made and
repaired at his tailoring rooms, up stairs. 1850
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Hoods SarsapariIIa

Sold by drug sists. 81; six for So. Prepared
by c. |. HOOD CO., Apothecaries, Lowell,
Mass.
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Msw eIaperfisements.


At this season Of the year everybody has a
cold, and some very bad ones. BY frequent
exposures the membranes Of the nose become
very sensitive, and catarrh and inhuenzas are
epidemic. Relief may be obtained by the use
OF Hoods Sarssparilla.
For many years in succession, beginning 80
far back | don't remember when, had the
catarrh In my head Il consisted OF an Excess
awe flow from NV nose
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-17

Tho Now Tricycle..
This machine is propelled by steam and will
carry two people twenty miles in an hour, 1t
is said. 1t is quite an invention but tiOes not
compare with BurdOck Blood BiHerS, which
will carry the invalid along the road to health
to beat all. For sale by II. B. Cochran, drug
gist, 137 and 139 North Queen street.