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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02
AGRICULTURAL.
The Ensilagc Congress.

At the meeting of those who had ex.
perimented with ensilagc, held at New
Y ork, last week, some noteworthy facts
were brought out. The Boston Journal
thus summarizes:
The meeting was remarkable for the
statements of those who met to relate
their experiences. These statements are
clined to ridicule them. Still there were
hundred farmers present, and so far as
they spoke their observations were OF. the
same tenor, namely, that the discovery
of the silo and ensilage is one of the
most important of the age. Still there is
reason why those ignorant of the won
derful merits of this new process of cur
ing food for cattle should be surprised
when a man states that she would have
been in the sheriff>s hands before this
but for ensilage,' and that 'he was now
making butter at 6 II cents per pound
which his housekeeper had the impu-
dence to ask him 81 cents for in the mar
ket." The most valuable testimony was
that of Col. j. w. WalcOtt, the we'll
known proprietor of the Vendome in this
city, who runs large farm. He an
swered many questions in regard to his
methods and results. The total cost of
ensilage did not exceed 81 per ton, while
the cost of harvesting was but Al cents.
Since November 20, he had given his
cows ensilage mixed with three pints of
corn-meal and three pints of cotton-seed
per day. TO his younger stock he gave
ensilagc alone. The most convenient
form of silo was one which could be
filled in single day. The silo which
costs but $50 is as good as one costing
$4,000, the whole secret being in having
continuous pressure sufficient to force
out the oxygen. He used 1870 pounds to
the square foot, but this was more than
was necessary. LeGrand b. Cannon of
New York had experimental with ninety
Short-horn cattle on his farm in Vermont,
treating some after the old method of
New England and feeding others on en-
silage. 1t cost 10 IL cents per day to
feed on hay and cents on ensiage
while the gain in weight by the latter
was ii IL per cent. to per cent. by
those fed on hay. Congressman-e elect
Potter of New York said that he got %
per cent. more milk when keeping his
cows in the stables during the summer
than he did when he turned them to pas
ture. All the experience was Of this
tenor. AS it Is experience, and, more
over, the experience of practical bust
ness men, rather than enthusiasts, this
matter is entitled to much more general
attention than it has hitherto received.
To no part of the country can it be more
important than to New England.
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Survival Of the Fittest.

The fundamental principle in the creed
of certain class of modern philosophers
Is that true development can only be Sc
cured by the survival of the flttest. That
is to say, that all diseased animals (in-
GLIDING men and women) should be pro-
hibited from breeding, to the end that the
diseases affecting them may not be trans
mitted to offspring. and that animals
having any other marked imperfection.
whether mental or physical, should be
alike disalowed the luxury of breeding.
We are not told by these philosophers
Just how these desirable ends are to be
reached, they being like most other phil
osophers of most other schools, in that
they have developed greater genius for
tearing down than for building up. But
they nevertheless argue with much show
of reason that their principle is correct,
and we have one example in our line of
business which seems to sustain their
theories and which we respectfully rec
ommend for their philosophical consider
alton. The history of the development
of the Spanish Merino sheep in Spain,
they will find, gives II case exactly in
point. These sheep were regularly driven
every year. to the mountains of Spain,
and allowing for the time consumed in
gong Il1erc anu TcIulHlES, III Is Sdl6 W
say they were quite nine months out of
every twelve on the go-or in other
words travelling. The weak, the lame,
the halt, and in short all that were not
vigorous in body. fell by the wayside,
and only the strong, vigorous ones re-
turned from the mountains. The result
was forced annual culling out of the
untttest $50 to speali) and the breeding
only of the fittest. In other words, the
principle of the survival of the tittest was
here practically enforced. and the result
was the gradual development of the
Spanish Merino, noted for its eXcelen-
cies the world over. While we do not
pretend to endorse all the tenets of the
school referred to, we say
that their idea of the survival of the
fittest as applied to the breeding of stock
Is the correct one and we heartily rec
ommend it to the readers of the Wool
Grower. If only good animals that are
fit to be bred are bred, scrub stock must
in short time disappear, and a great
be made even in our stock
now regarded as something better than
ordinary. Let sheep-breeders. there
fore, fall into line and act on the idea
above set out.--[Texas Wool-Grower
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02

"Lurine McCaflery stood in an orel
window with the sunlight beating in
warm, golden waves about her slight
form. and at her right, his hand out
stretched in eager expectancy, while a
half imperiousp half pleading look shot
from his big Brown eyes, was Marina
duke Short. The girl had been standing
there nearly thirty seconds without
speaking, the light streaming in upon the
soft waves of hair, the fathomlcss eyes,
and the calm. sweet mouth. 1t was not
a youthful face; the bloom and flush
had faded long ago, but it was so grand
and woman'y, there was such an I-know-
how-to-do-up-my-hair look upon it, that
in comparison mere girlish prettiness
lost UNNECESSARILY.
AT that moment Pansy Perkins enter
ed the room. She had twisted an azure
scarf around her shoulders. and her yell
low hair fell about her like cloud.
Throwing kiss to Lurlinc, whose
silence she did not ut all understand.
Pansy fitted away to the piano ut the
other end of the room and began TO low
Ell rents in the vicinity. Snatchcs of the
soft murmuring music filled the air and
made the place seem strangely sad.
The twilight was approaching, and as
the dark shadows fell the music sobbed
and surged through the room. Lurline
listened intently, and finally she spoke:
"A on really wish to break our engage
ment, them" she asked.
Marmaduke spoke no word, but the in
clination of his head showed that the girl
had not guessed amiss.
And you will marry Pansy?'
Again the head was bowed. and the
dimpled chin met his bosom.
Then will give you the ring with
pleasure; | could wish for no sweeter
revenge.' said the girl.
"What do you mean" asked the man,
his face pallid with fear.
II mean," she said, her every word
falling upon his tinted ear as fall the
earth-clods upon coffin, ''that besides
playing the piano, she sometimes sings"
i Chicago Tribune.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02

have the ice keep?
"Will you give me some information
about the culture of hops? What kind
of soil do they require? Do they have
to be planted every year? DO they re-
quire cultivation? Must the bloom be
ripe before it is gathered? What is the
yield per acre and how many hops can
one hand gather per day? What are
hops worth per pound? The New
York World answers these queries as
follows: Any land that will produce
a good crop of corn orpotatoes will grow
hops. A deep, well-drained, loamy soil
is best. Wet land must be avoided. Air
and sunlight are important elements in
the success of the hop crop. The plant
has a perennial root and n twining stem
which dies down to the ground every
year, but remains alive below the sur
face, where there are numerous strong
buds to supply vines another year; clean
culture is as important to hops as to an
onion bed or a corn field. The hon is
ripe when on opening it the seed appears
hard and of purple color; after that
they turn brown. and the seeds drop out
and there is loss both in quality and
weight; the yield varies, according to
the season, from 300 pounds to 400 or
more. The price also varies greatly !:
hops have been known to sell at six and
eight cents per pound, and at fifty cents
per pound. Good pickers can harvest
from 20 to 30 bushels per day; but 10
bushels is perhaps the average amount
for days work. The hop crop is one
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02
Miscellaneous.

c. c. Hoskins, stock buyer, and
Thomas Stevens, a livery man. both of
Cincinnati, during Il difficulty about
horse, pulled their pistols, shooting at
the same moment. Stevens was shot
through the heart, and fell dead on the
spot.
Prof. E. w. Gillian has been calcuat-
ing on the basis of the last five censuses,
and find that in 1885 the North will have
100000. 900 whites and the South 5000
600 whites and 1872 100000 blacks. This
will be serious business for anybody who
intends to live to 1888. 1t is of more
consequence that at the present rate the
whites and blacks will be equal in the
South in forty years.
The st. Louis Globc-Democrat, which
was one of the leading papers which
supported Grant in 1880, says: The
New York Sun wastes a good deal of its
valuable space in trying to show that
Gen. Grant is Il candidate for 1854.
There are three good and sufficient rea-
sons why Gen. Grant will not be Il candi-
date in 1881: Cd He does not desire the
nomination; CD he couldn't get it; and
CD he knows it. Should Grant live fifty
years more he will remain during every
hour 'of that period the greatest of
American citizens. but he will never pc
president of the United States again."
Rev. W. II. IIardman of Greenwood.
Neb., preached for small salary. but
managed to save up $1,000, which he
held in readiness for any promising mer-
camille investment that might offer. lie
met a man who said that he had IS, 900
worth of goods in Chicago warehouse.
the hidden property of Il bankrupt In
diana merchant. These could be Fought
for IL per cent of their value, if tn e sale
could be kept Il secret. The clergyman
parted with his money. and got Il due
bill for the merchandise, but he has
never been able 10 find the goods.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-02-02

DR.. Sturtevant of the New York ag-
ricultural station has made some interest
ing experiments with seed corn, testing
the terminating qualities of kernels
taken from the butt, the middle and the
tip of the ear. 1t used to be the general
practice of farmers, when planting corn.
to break off the tip Of the ear and reject
it, but the experiments of Dr. Sturteyant
tend to show that the tip kernels germ
mate the most readily and surely. and
start with the most apparent vigor.
For one year beginning Jan. l, 1882, }
Ezra A. Parks kept IS cOws-four two
year-olds, two three-year-olds, five four
year-olds, four five-year-olds. and the
rest older. Four were full-blooded and
the rest seven-eighths and three-quarters
Jerseys. Five of the oldest he sold in
October, Judge Parks thinks the %
COWS equal to about 81 or % in their
prime. The cows did not eat 50 worth of
grain, each, from June lst to November.
He sold 7,llO pounds of butter for
S2,434.25. He used $50 pounds i'm the
family, made 100 pounds of cheese equal
to rs pounds of butter), and the milk
and cream used In the family We're equal
to 100 pounds of butter.-making in all
1926 pounds, worth Sli5.5G. lie sold
milk equal to 73 pounds of butter, worth
$25. This made a total of ZOOS pounds.
worth S260i.79. lie fed sour milk to
swine worth $3.50; calves sold and raised,
5000; making a total product of $3O5I. 20.
He is now making 100 pounds of butter
week. In June he makes 200 pounds q
week. He sells over 5000 pounds of his
butter in tubs, which if stamped would
bring more money.-lSt. Johnsbury
Caledonian.
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of the most uncertain crops that is cul-
tivatcd. as is shown by the variation in
its yield. Its culture requires skill and
experience. and even then failures often
occur owing to injuries from insects and
diseases to which the hop is liable.
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NEUTRALIzED.
In what way Prevalent EVIL may be Shorn
of Its Power to Harm.

Malaria is a broad name for many Diseases
II originating in blood pOisonii <. Bilious fe-
yer. the typhus and typhoid fevers and chill and
fever are prominent members o: the family.
Malaria deies alike the builders the plumbers
anu the physicians. Despairng OF ordinary
treatment, the latter almost unanimously rec
ommend Bensons Capcne porous Plaster the
greatest anti malaria SPECIFIC of the age. These
plasters act upon the liver. spleen, bowels and
kidneys.
Worn over the region of the liver. and upon the
back oven the kidneys, they ward on malaria like
an armor. No other pllsters do tins.
Wnen you purchase satisfy yourself that the
word Capclne is cut i'll the center OF the plaster.
Seabury johnson, Chemists, New York.
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sYrho May be suffering from tn
w effects ct youthful fo,lies or indiscrcttan
vii do well to avail themselves OF this, the
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5sring humanity. DIR. Spicne4 will guarantee
TO forfeit $500 for every case OF Seminal weak
scss or private disease Of any kind or character
al sci, h.. undertakes ard fails to cure.
MIDpLE-AGED MEN.
There arc many at the age OF thirty :" sixty
rho, are troubled with too frequent evacuatlons
& the bladder, often accompanied by slight
l,.,r5in: ~ burning sensation and weakening
;. ,i.r >, stem n . manner the patient cannot
account for On examining tile urinary de-
-sosi.s rcpy sediment will stten re found, and
sometimes small particles of aleumen VIII ap-
pear or the c,lor skill be OF thin milk hue,
A,ain changing to q dark and torpid appear
a.he There are mang men VIII die OF this dit-
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ysarS such as Loss Oh Mf1nory, llissiCuue,
Noctx1r,sd Emissions. Arefsiors to Society,
pasness Of Vision, Noises in the Head, the vital
s,sit, passing ynobserved in the urine. and many
,ther diseases that lead to Insanity and Death
DR. MIMI who is a regular physician
Graduate Of the University IF Pennsylvania
Kill agree to forfeit FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for a case Of this kind the VITAL Res
rORATIy r (under his special advice and treat
,oent, will not cure, or fer anything impure o.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
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Debility. ENhaus-
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st Manhood,
Impoteucy. Pros
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Self Abuse, youth
full follieS and cA-
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RAILROAD TRAVEL.
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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-07-06
Volume XII. mo. 4.

Burmah to convert them from heath
enism, and the same vessel that takes
the missionaries there carries from
Boston cargo Of tin gods to sell to
the heathen! Why wouldn't it be
better to send the missionaries to Bos-
ton? | think the more a boy learns
the more he gets mixed
We'll, how's your theatre? Have
any of the great actors supported you
lately?' said the grocery man, to change
the subject.
NO, we are all of on vacation. Booth
and Barrett and lots of the stars
have gone to Europe, and the rest
work down to less Ugh toned places.
Some of the theatre girls are walters
at summer resorts, and lots are visiting
relatives on farms. II tell you, it
makes difference whether the rela-
tives are visiting you or you visiting
them. Actors and actresses feel aw-
fully when an old granger comes to
the town where they are playing and
wants to see them. They are asham-
ed OF his homcspun clothes and cow
hide boots, and they want to meet
him out in an ally somewhere, or in
the basement of the theatre, 80 the
other actors will not laugh at their
rough relatives, but when the season
is over, an actor who can remember
a relative out on a farm is tickled to
death, and the granger is all right
enough there, and the actor does not
think of the rough, nutmeg crater
hands, and the blistered nose, as long
as the granger relative will put up
fried pork and things, and support
the actor. My Uncle Ezra is pretty
rough, and it makes me tired some
times when | am down town with him
to have him 60 into store where
there are girl clerks and ask what
things are for, that ] know he don't
want, and make the girls blush, but
he is good hearted old man, and he
and me are going to make mint of
money during vacation. He lives
near a summer resort hotel, and has a
stream that is full of minnows, and
we are going to catch minnows and
sell them to the dndes for fish bait.
He says some of the fellows will pay
ten cents a piece for minnows, so if
we sell million minnows, we make
fortune. | am coming back in Sep
tember and will buy out your grocery.
Say, let me have a. pound of raisins,
ana I'll pay you when | sell my un-
cles mlnnows.'-Peck's Sun.
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Bashful Beaux.

We seriously pity the bashful young
man who is in love, and Just now
there is a plethora Of subjects for our
serious pity hereabouts. We often
wonder what the deuce they talk
about, when they talk at all, and how
they talk it, these beardless boy beaux,
who sport the manly air and these
sweet young misses, just out of short
rocks and not yet out of school, or at
least ought not to be, ifthey are. We
have several times quietly watched
these as the gage d'amour would pass.
and We have been several times aston
ished, but our interest never abated.
There is the bashful boy and the bow
who isn't bit bashful. Their ap-
proaches to the objective point of at
tack is widely different. The last fell
low, self poised, self-reliant and res
olute, pitches valiantly in and closes
matters at once one way or the other.
1t is not SO with with him of the bash
ful blush. His glances are full of
love and his sighs are the wailings of
desperate distress. 'Ah me, if | onlv
could, and she only would he seems
to think and thinking almost to say.
He is setting at an inconvenient dis
tance from her, presently he looks
timidly around the room to see if any
one is looking at him; satisfied in
that particular, he undertakes stra-
getic move and gently, oh! so gently
slides his chair in the desired direc-
tion, he halts for awhile, pull at his
shirt collier first one side, then the
other, tugs at the streaming ends of
his loud necktie, twists all the starch
out of his handkerchief. and the hand
kerchief itself into mere string as
he winds and coils it about his tremb-
ling, hands he hesitates muchly, looks
around again, but at last thinking no
observant eye is upon him, he says,
.Ahem, and business begins. The
shy little she bushes, bashfally too,
but always beautifully, then smiles,
then perhaps assumes indignation,
but presently she gets nervous also,
and Furnishes her fan very unnecessar-
lily; we are always sorry for the poor
fans under such embarrassing circum-
stances, for the shy little maidens will
pluck at them, bite at them and al
most eat them, but at last she proves
herself 'consen,ing She perhaps or
may be gracefully declining Helen,
who in touching sympathy said, 'For-
give, be generous and depart
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1883-07-06
Young Housekeepers.

No young lady should be willing to
assume wiieIy responsibilities or obli-
nations until she is fully capable of
taking charge CT "a house. Some SEN
sible person has said that household
occupations are in themselves an in
tell, ctual and moral exercise of no
mean importance, after which any
lady has enough surplus time for
books and the arts.
We fully endorse the sentiment, and
bic 5 the Improvement in our female
colleges, many of which beast whole
some department If domestic economy.
In the marriage outfit of the eldest
daug ghter, low n any mother has
been forced to the sacrifice of her own
! personal ease and comfort in giving
up her old experience cock 10 relieve
the yodng mistress of a burden Of en-
barrasment and trouble that would
otherwise fall upon her unframed
shoulders. But even With this admir-
able auxiliary (now almost obsolete
since tie extinction of slavery, there
will be oppressive miner Gales, duties
and anxleues rtqui1ng a sacrifice oil
time and ease that the mistress may
not be willing at all tines to WELD
unmurmurihgiy.
BE she ever so Lalrily endowed
with that enviable faculty of taking
things lightly and patiently. ever es-
timating little mishaps at their full
cost and no more, she will still find
her position one of trial and embarr.
assment. I here must lie a regular
aud general method in everything if
thrift, order and nealness prevail 1t
is VAIN to enjoin early rising, and
economy in pantry and cuisine, if the
mistress be unpuctual and extrava-
CANT, and servants are never slow in
learning that she does not practice
what she teaches.
Let no young housekeepers despise
industrial activity and personal ex.
ecution of all the rules instituted fol
the general welfare of her establish.
m'nt. Then and not until then, will
We see comfort, happiness and pros.
perity.
What men want is not talent-it is
purpose.
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Baltimore Advertisements.
THIN THINGS
FOR THE
THOU n DS.

Half lined and Ske etcn Suits in all the
new, ST and me st Gcsirab shades in Ser
ges also, Blue Flannels Yacht Cloth. Mo.
hairs. Drap DEE and worsted. Our as
sortment Of AlpacLs, Pong.e Silk and
seeTsucker Suits (sll c"loIsD was never ap-
preached in magnitude or v"r.e'y before
in this State
In busters we can astonish you. We
have ia, IN IN all the bts, fabrics in Linen
Mohair. Alpaca, &c.
We also have tie Largest Line If Boys
and Childreu's Clothi Z for Summer wear
ever shown.
A Separate D,yaltmut f,r White and
Fancy N'sIs, III whl,h uN,r 1850 Sly les
are shown fr' III ;55 CtLts To s.. co in Price
We aWaSs eAo,l IN get IL. up Clothing
for Summer wear, and VT sre Iruuu OF our
magnitiCet assortn..n