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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1883-06-27
Grain in Orchards, Etc.

The following by w. w. Higbee of
Charlotte, which we cut from the Mirror
& Farmer, is sound statement of facts
Experience has taught me not to SOW
wheat in an orchard, unless one is willing
to have serious setback on trees. No
matter if the ground is highly MANFRED,
the result with me has been largely the
same. The wheat seems to draw from
the soil the chemicals most needed by the
tree. Oats are exhausting to land, but
they do not tell on an orchard like wheat.
Corn or potatoes are the best, as their
cultivation benefits the trees. About half
of thrifty orchard / sowed to wheat, and
with the same soil and attention, that half
fell behind the other nearly two years in
growth. Wheat sown in young plum
orchard the next year nearly ruined lot
of extra thrifty trees. l am confident it
was owing to the crop, as the trees other
wise had the best of care. The high
price of apples for two years back has set
people wild, and orchards, large and
small, are being set out in all directions.
But this will not over-supply the market
probably, as about half of them will be
neglected and amount to nothing. A
great many set out an orchard, and fol
the first year or two care for it decently
well, when it gets to be an old story, and
the trees struggle along until they bear &
few barrels of culls, and, of course, or
charding is pronounced humbug. | saw
man the other day setting out nearl,
three hundred apple trees on choice land
and around his house was an orchard o
fifty to seventy-fve, that were once beau
tful trees, but too full of limb suckers t.
bear fruit, and regular hedge Of suck
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Subscription Agencies

New subscribers, and old subscribers having
WATERMAN receipts, as described above, can
apply to the following local agencies and re-
ceive the benefit of the following offers:
H. LOWE g. Son, Montpelier, for So. 80 will
furnish one barrel famous White Roll Flour
lowest retail cash price 81 50) and the WATCH
MAN for one year lowest cash price So
making saving of 81 to the buyer.
ARMS & HAINEs, Waterbury, for So will
furnish one barrel of flour, Browns Best City
Roller Mills lowest cash price 81, and the
WArcHMAN for one year 1927, saving the buyer
one dollar.
L NJ AvERILL Barre, for IS will furnish one
barrel Farbers Best Patent Flour lowest cash
price S7) and the WATCHMAN (S2); or for 81 %
one barrel Gem of St. Louis flour (retail S. 5)
and the WATERMAN one year.
J.K. LYNDE, Williamstown, for 81 80 will
furnish one barrel Detroit Mills Flour lowest
cash price Sc 50) and the WATcHMAN one year
(S2); or for IS one barrel of The Electric Light
Flour (retail 81 and the WATcHMAN one year.
BATcHELDER & DEWEY, Plainfeld, for So so
will furnish one barrel of STANDARDS Gilt Edge
Flour lowest cash price 81. SOY and the WATCH
MAN one year (S2).
A. w. TEwKsBURY g. Sons West Randolph,
for IS % will furnish one barrel of Browns
Best City Roller Mills Flour lowest cash price
S7) and the WATERMAN one year 1872.
EDGERToN BROTHERS, Mortified, for IS %
will furnish one barrel Browns Best City Roller
Mills Flour lowest cash price S7.25) and the
WATERMAN one year (S2).
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SOrrel and Lime.

have piece of very mellow interval ground
which is overrun with sorrel. wish to set it
out to Strawberries next spring. What could
be done to exterminate this sorre without in
jury to the strawberries next spring? Please
answer through the columns of the Farmer.
A. P. CoRTHELL
A good dressing of lime will generally ex-
terminate sorrel and would also be beneficial
to the strawberries. Sorrel shows an excess of
acid in the soil and lime will neutralize it.
We cut the above from the correspond
ence column of an exchange to express
our surprise that any agricultural editor
should make such a recommendation for
such reason. Sorrel, far from showing
an excess of acid, grows upon the dry
est and sweetest land, especially on new
burns, when the soil is strongly alkaline
from the presence of potash. The acid
in sorrel does not come from the soil, and
is made of atmospheric materials, in the
plant itself. No one can kill sorrel with
any dressing of lime that will not destroy
all vegetation.
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ers from the roots. Now, if he had taken
extra care of the orchard already grown,
it would have paid him well, but he
didn't, and the new one will fare just the
same, unless it gets into better hands. II
any one supposes that fruit can be grown
successfully without the outlay of money
and vast amount of close care and at
tention, there is mistake in his calcu-
lation. Don't spread yourself out too
thin; don't imagine that because hun
dred trees pay we'll that two thousand are
going to pay twenty times better, un-
less you give them twenty times more
care and encouragement. And if you
have reasonably large orchard, don't set
out any more until you make the one you
have just as thrifty and productive as
possible"
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Not Embarrassed.

Among the literature published by the
Department of Agriculture is a pamphlet
of nearly sixty pages about the climate,
soil and agricultural capabilities of South
Carolina and Georgia. The custom of
farming by "advances or the credit
system is deplored and the evils of usury
shown. Escape from these evils is con-
sidered essential to the farmers prosper
ity, and the way of escape is set forth in
this quotation 1t is said that few
years ago the farmers of the West were on
the verge of bankruptcy, and were only
saved by the capitalists of the East, who
relieved them of all embarrassment by
lending them money upon their real
estate. That some such means will be
afforded the farmers of the South in the
near future cannot be doubted" 1t is
we'll understood in the East that the
money-lenders are the most patient, Chris
tian-like good samaritans that can be
found while their money is loaned on
good security and the interest, with more
or less usury, is regularly and cheerfully
paid. But farmers, both East and West,
have found that, if from any cause their
payments Jagged behind, they were not
relieved from embarrassment, but rather
that their condition was worse than at
first. At first it was embarrassment, at
last it was ruin. Mortgages are often
foreclosed while the property will appar-
emily give full satisfaction for the debt
and the expenses of the foreclosure. The
farmer can figure out a margin for him.
self above the mortgage debt, but in prac-
tice he finds himself utterly ruined by
debt and interest money. If this is the
best financial hope of the South, they are
to be pitied. Is there any limit to the
greed of man who lives by usury and
agents of capitalists who live by extra
interest or extortion z.E.J.
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True Reform.

oval, stranger" said the Indiana man
to the traveller, "yes, both them roads go
there, and it don't make any difference
which you take; but afore you git there,
you'll wish you'd took the other" So
with temperance methods, by moral sua-
sion or legal suasion by open or by Sc
cret societies by discussing or by bollot-
ing both methods lead to the same goal,
but either method is so difficult that in
dividuals, societies, communities and
states are already wishing they had taken
the other way. We are fancying that we
can get the liquor question and the tenn
perance reform settled and out of the
way. Then we can get prohibition, and
get it we'll enforced that will be much,
but not all. Why Because wines and dis
titled liquors can be produced chemically
in large way, with few drops of natu-
raj material. They are even now 80 pre-
| duced and are made 80 as to be less hurt
| full than the genuine articles. And Just
as fast as artificial intoxicants can be
made so cheaply as to ruin the production
of the natural products, all such business
will be transferred to chemical latorato-
ries; aud the whole question will take on
new phases; then, again, the opium habit
is taking the place, to some extent, of the
drinking habit, and may grow into the
greater evil. Should it so prove, our pro
hibition war would have to shift ground,
and contend for protective tariff, of the
stringent sort, and then the cultivation Of
the poppy must take its place by the side
of that of the cultivation of grapes and
hops, among quasi-moral questions. No
while human nature is human, every CEN
fury will have to make temperance fight
in some form, and by moral suasion
mainly. Children must be so trained
that they will refrain on principle from all
hurtful or dangerous stimulants, intoxi.
cants, narcotics and what-nots. As fast
as people, old and young, becomes thor
oughly manly, moral and Christian, all
such things will get their settlement, and
only so.-Pacifc.
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Northern Maine.

Maine is a large state, much larger than
any one can realize who has not travelled
through it. Massachusetts has little
less than eight thousand square miles of
territory, while Maine has nearly thirty
two thousand or four times the area.
Aroostock county alone has sixty-eight
hundred square miles, an area about equal
to the whole of Connecticut and Della
ware; it is more than four times as large
as Rhode Island, more than three.fourths
as large as New Hampshire and about
two-thirds as large as Vermont. Column
bus Hayford of Marysville is good ex-
ample of an enterprising Aroostook pio-
neer. He commenced there young man
about twenty-three years ago with only
five dollars and fifty cents. He ran in
debt for a tract of land and commenced
cutting and burning. The cutting is
usually done in the winter and the burn
ing the next summer after the wood and
brush are partly seasoned. This gives
the man of small means several months
which he can use in working for others
who have lands already cleared ready for
cultivation. Mr.. Hayford worked out
enough to buy team and begin to gather
the material for a cheap house. The first
houses are usually of logs laid up in a
more or less artistic manner. From this
small beginning he has gone on till he
now owns five hundred acres of as good
land as there is in the county; two hun
dred acres are cleared for crops and eighty
acres can be moved with machine, and
this means that there is neither stone.
stump nor ditch in the whole area, and to
this he is adding from five to ten acres
each year, the first burning and clearing
and the final roofing out of the stumps
being from ten to fifteen years apart. This
year he has cut fully one hundred tons of
the best hay, harvested one hundred bush
els of prime spring wheat, four hundred
bushels oats and peas, grown together,
and has five acres of potatoes that will
yield not less than one thousand two hun
dred bushels. He has a new two-story
house, thirty-four by twenty.eight feet,
with L seventy by eighteen feet, barn
one hundred by forty-two feet, with twen-
ty-four foot posts, all thoroughly painted
and in such state of repair as new build.
ings should be. A little over year ago
the last claim upon the estate was paid
and the interest account stopped. A pair
of horses and good family carriage was
purchased and Mr.. Hayford and his wife,
who has done well her part in all this
working for home, made a six weeks
tour through southern New England
among their old friends and relatives. be-
fore settling down to the quiet enjoyment
of their well deserved possessions. The
farm now carries twenty-four head of
horned cattle, five horses and twenty-six
sheep. The work is all done with horses.
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This Proposal

will remain open until July 14th, and will be
subject TO changes in the market price of
flour, guaranteeing the buyer always the
same relative advantage,
Flour is a staple article of household use. II
the barrel is not empty to-day, it may be'soon !.
apd the wise man, although not in immediate
want, will take advantage of this offer Deal
ers unite in warning consumers that the price
of flour will, without doubt, soon advance
Subscribe early and save another penny.
Many acknowledge the great superiority OF
the WATERMAN, who nevertheless are induced
by low prices to take papers which are mani
testify inferior to 1t in all that constitutes good
local and family journal. The publishers lib
eral offer disarms all such objections. IL
brings the enlarged eght-page WATERMAN,
with its select, political, family and religious
reading, its good supply of local news, and its
unrivaled agricultural department within the
pecuniary means of every individual.
To know the WATERMAN well is to take it
continuously, as the great mass OF its sub
scrbers have taken it for long terms of years.
To give strangers an opportunity to become
acquainted with its merits is in large part the
motive in making the above proposal, SHOW
THIS OFFER TO YOUR FRIENDS.
w. w. PRESCOTT. Publisher.
Montpelier, Vt, June 10, 1883.
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Various Causes

Advancing years, care, sickness, diSap.
pointment, and hereditary predisposi-
tion-all operate to turn the hair gray,
and either of them inclines it to shed
prematurely. AYERS HAIR VIGoR will
restore faded or gray, light or red hair
to rich brown or deep black, as may
be desired. 1t sOftens and cleanses the
scalp, giving it Il healthy action. 1t
removes and cures dandruif and humors
BY its use falling hair is checked, and
a new growth will be produced in all
cases where the follicles are not de-
stroyed or the glands decayed Its
effects are beautifully shown on brashy,
weak, or sickly hair, on which few
applications will produce the gloss and
freshness Of youth. Harmless and sure
In its results, it is Incompatible as
a dressing, and is especially valued
for the soft lustre and richness of tone
it imparts.
AYERS HAIR VIGoR is colorless;
contains neither oil nor dye; and will
not soil or color white cambria; yet
it lasts long ON the hair, and keeps
it fresh and vigorous, imparting an
agreeable perfume.
For sale by all druggists.
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BREED BETTER.-The Rural Home
comes to the point in this manner: Son
no point do farmers more need to be ad-
monished and exhorted than in the mat
ter of breeding domestic animals. The diff
ference between good cow and poor one
is the difference between profit and loss
The best mixers return twice as much
as they receive; the poorest run their
owners in debt. Touching COWS, two
points should be insisted upon the prog
eny of the best must be raised, not de
stroyed, and they must be bred to the best
at whatever cost and trouble. No citizen
has moral right to own strictly first
class COW unless he takes the trouble tc
breed her to the best milking stock anC
put her progeny into hands that will cart
| tor it.
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Illustration 4!

New SUBscRIBERs.-A person desiring to
subscribe goes to the agency he may prefer.
By complying with the terms of the offer he
gets his hour, the agent gives him receipt for
the WATcHMAN for one year, and the paper
will be sent from this office. OLD SUBSCRIBERS
who have paid up to or beyond January l,
1888, by exhibiting their receipt or their
WATcHNAN to any of the dealers named, can
take advantage of this offer Subscribers who
have NOT paid up to January l, 1888, should
remit to the WATERMAN office the full amount
due up to that date, or beyond, and get
receint therefor
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The American Holderness Cattle.

The breeder is Mr. Cole of Solsville,
New York, whose " American Holderness"
herd, as Mr.. Cole calls them, has been de-
veloped by twenty-eight years of the
closest in-breeding. The animals are re-
markably uniform and vigorous, and his
herd averages annually, year after year,
three hundred pounds of choice butter
per COW, besides $50 calf. Mr.. Cole
has bred this herd for usefulness. They
are of medium size, have soft hair and pill
able skins, small heads, mild eyes and in
telligent faces. The milk veins are large,
and the teats we'll developed, and stand
ing we'll apart, and the empty udders only
a mass of loose skin. The color is dark
red, running into black, with stripes of
white running lengthwise entirely around
the body. The herd originated from a
single COW, and her own bull calf. The
COW was known to be one of the best ever
owned in the vicinity, and yet she was
probably no better than many other cows
in the county, whose calves have been
sent to the butcher for veal. If every
American farmer who finds himself pos
sessed of a superior COW, would strive to
perpetuate her stock, and let her calves
take the place of the inferior animals
which are too often kept for breeders, the
time would come after while, that we
could have an American breed of COWS of
such high excellence that there would be
little need of going to Europe and paying
fancy prices for imported stock.
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-" All your own fault
II you remain sick when you can
Get Hop Bitters that never-Fdii.

THE weakest woman, smallest child, and sick
est invalid can use Hop Bitters with safety and
great good.
OLD men tottering around from rheumatism
kidney trouble or any weakness will be almost
new by using Hop Bitters.
MY wife and daughter were made healthy by
the use Of Hop Bitters and recommend them
to my people. -MethodiSt Clergyman.
Ask any good doctor IL Hop
Bitters not the best family medicine
On earth.
MALARIAL fever, Ague and Biliousnes, will
leave every neighborhood as soon as Hop Bit
ters arrive.
MY mother drove the paralysis and neuralgia
all out Of her system with Hop Btters. I'D.
Os,cego Slm
KEEP the kidneys healthy with Hop Bitters
and you need not fear sickness
Ice water is rendered harmless and more re-
freshing and reviving with Hop Bitters in each
draught =.
THE vigor of youth for the aged an infirm in
Hop Bitters.
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Gfmpfranrs.
TWO EPITAPHS.

"Think of death I" the gravestones say
"Peace to llfe's mad strivingV
But the churchyard dsisies,-" Nay,
Think of Livingp
"Think OF lifer' the sunbeams say,
DER the dial flying;
But the slanting shadows" Nay,
Think of dyinrw
"Thnk Of Death p the night-birds say,
on the storm-blast drlving
But the building swallows,-" Nay,
Think Of Livingw
"Think Of Life /" the broad winds say,
Through the old trees signing;
But the whiring leaf-dance,-" Nay,
Think OF Dylngw
"Think of Death !" the sad bells say,
Fatefu records giving;
Clash the merry Yule-peal,-" Nay,
Think Of Living"
Dying, Living, glad or loath,
On Gods Rood relying;
Pray he At us all for BOTH
Living, Dying -Nev York Tribune
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SYsTEMATIzED LABoR.-A way to make
the farm pay is to systematic labor. l
often see farmers whose work reminds
me of the manner in which some of the
supervisors of our highways work the
roads. They dump one scraper of earth
in one place, another somewhere else, and
30 on, leaving the road in a much worse
fix than when they found it, So with
some farmers. They jump into one job
today; tomorrow they are at something
else, and at the end of the year they find
themselves, their farms, stock and nipple
ments worse off than at the beginning
We must have well matured plans and
work up to them, if we would succeed. w
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agricultural
t. II. HosKINs. Newport. VT, Editor.
TO A DAISY.

Wee, little rimless wheel OF Fate,
with silver spokes and hub of yellow,
What gentle girl, in accents mellow,
Has sought your aid TO find a mate?
who snapt your slender spokes apart,
Each one some dear acquaintance naming?
And who was he-the loved one, claiming
The choicest chamber in her heart2
o tiny hub of golden hue
Klst by her nngers' tender pressing,
Still yet, methinks, she's vainly guessing
II what you prophesed, were true.
You died between her nnger-tips,
Sweet gypsy maid OF wisdom magic;
Pray, is 1t worth a death SO tragic
To hear the music of her lips?
Frank Dempster Sherman, itthe Century.
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Example!

John Smith has paid for his paper to Feb
ruary, 1882, or James Jones has paid to De-
cember, $780, either of these subscribers by
paying in full up to January l. 1885, or beyond,
and by showing his receipt to any of the
dealers named can take advantage of this offer,
and so with any other subscribers in arrears.
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$l4.Oo for 1000,
A Penny Saved
Is Two Pence Cleari

Having greatly enlarged his paper, and i'm
proved it by putting it into the form of the
best city papers, with the aid of special ma
chinery, the publisher of the VERMONT WATCH
MAN & STATE JOURNAL offers to subscribers,
new or old chance by practicing Poor
Richards " maxim, to save penny" and to
get beside the new eight-page WATERMAN for
one year. Bread is the staff of life;" good
newspaper is life itself IT Is PROPOSED TO
GIVE SUBSCRIBERS BOTH, AND SAVE THE RECIP-
TENTS HUNDRED TIMES 1.-TWO PENCE CLEAR"
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Each Old Subscriber

who presents at one of the agencies named be-
low a receipt for the WATERMAN up to or
beyond January l. 1888, and complies with the
conditions of the sale, shall receive the en-
larged WATCHMAN for one year. A WATCH
MAN bearing the subscribers label and ind-
eating that the paper has been paid for up to
or beyond January 1, 1888, is equivalent to a
recent
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The Reason why

the publisher is able to make the above liberal
Off r is this: His arrangement with the dealers
named enables him to get from them the price
of the WATcHMAN,-thus advancing at the
same time the interest of the subscriber, the
merchants and the publisher.
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A PAwNDRoKER In Pittsburgh has
found that ninety-nine per cent of the
money he lends is spent for strong drink.
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New Subscribers |!

Any individual who applies to one of the
agencies designated below and complies with
the conditions of the sale, will receive the en-
larged WATERMAN for one year.
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Uem acknowledgements.
ElOOD's SARSAPAaILLA
Bjooworm Humor and SaH-Rheun.

Works through the blood, regulating, tonng
and invgoraSng all the functions OF the
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RAYNHAM, MASS, Aug. IL, 1873.
c, Hoop & Co.: Gentlemen
have had ringworm humor and salt-rheum
so badly that my body was covered with raw
sores; so, also. my head and face. l have
had any number of doctors in the last seven
years and none OF them could cure me. One
day my mother was In the city OF Taunton,
and found one Of your cook books, and IN
reading 1t found many people testiiyng to
cures from the use OF your Sarsaparilla ana
Olive Ointment. ! ielt forced TO try 1t,
although had seen many things advertised
that never did me any good. | have now
taken two small bottles and one large one OF
ment. l now call myself cured. Nothing
can be seen OF the humor but the dim out
lines Of the sores. / shall take two more
bottles, and then the cure will be complete.
1 am gratefully yours, ,,,,,,r,,.u