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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
NOTICE FOR PUHlICATION.--1 -1.ais; Office
~ at Mitchell. ID. T.. Feb !G. iss4

~ at Mitchell. H. l.. Feb iG. 1894
Notice is hereby given that the follovi,,o aa,,i
ca settler has flied notice Of his inteni!f,u X,
make max final proof IN support Of his elain,, r,S
Ihl SAM pr49i VIII be made before Register /:
receiver ut Mitchell ID. I. on Aprila 1854. viz
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q entry No. 22479 for the sell see town 107
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prove ms continuous residence llon and c,t,ti
walton Of said land. viz: Robert y. Hiatt Eici;
ry helllsS, John Nessey, Noah MoonsloMer. al,
of 1erauld co ID. Z. Gro. b. Eyr,.r1,r '''
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
NOTnCE FOR PUnLiCATIGN.~-I.and Cf)ice
- AT Mttchcll Daknta. Eeh G 1881

Notice is hereby given that the foowitc-uam.
ed settler has filed notice of her Intention t.,
mike i final proof in support of her claim ana
1l'ai said proof will he made before Register
lssi viz: MARY BURGER (wid6w OF Charles
Burger d. $: 2l45i for the swla see ! town l03
range 90. She names the following witnesses 10
prove her continuous residence upOn and ct{
tivation OF, said land viz: j. Nj Hanson. +
T. Hugh, Il. Lcb, MyroE Leib, of Elmer ID. T.
i22ln2S GEO. f. EvERI1yr Register
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
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Lynch, all of Elmer, d. II.
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLIC ArIOs.~-I.an OfFee
~ at Mitchell. u. L. EehluarY lG 1884.

Notice is hereby given thatthe folowingnanl-
ed settler has filed notice of his mention to
that said proof will be made before i!aaistei.
and Receiver at Mitchell u. Z. on Ayrl 3, 1881,
viz: II. f. SWAThlAN.
under his 81. s. entry No 2so7. for The nell see G,
town l0I range 80. And he names the followir,,
witnesses to prove his continuous residence III,
on and cultivation Of, said land viz Cliits. c.
Smith. Dave Paxton, nj. y. Crow Mortimer pe
Well of .Jerauid county, d. 7.
f22m2Sd&m GEO. b. ENERiTr Register.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21

HARVEY Is. GREGG,
lid entry NO 23l35 for the sw1l see 30 town lOf
range 81 He names tl.e f,lVvns witnesses II
prove his continuous residence upon. +ara ,uIti.
vation hf SAT-, Ettd. VIZ: Nnl. l)iXson, j. Iy.
ners >. A. Peters, A. IL. Hodson. OF Pla.kintuii
ID. Z. GEO, B j.yEnIyr.
N'ail c&mcc Register
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21

NOTICE FOR PUBIlCATION,. -,.on5 Oficn
~ at Mitchell. d. T., Feb. list. 1854,
Notice is hereby given that thefonowlngnain
make final proof i'll support of his claim and
that said proof will be made before Registerana
Receiver at Mitchell, ID. r., on the Stil day ol
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-21

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATLON.-Lg 4At,int
~ at Mitchell, d. I. Feb. 1s, 1881.
Notice is hereby given That the following nom,
ed settler has filed notice of his 'intcnlal e,
make final proof in snppurt of his cl;liln, ara
that said pNnof will be made befose Clerk tls,
trict c;rllJ Aurora county, at Planhinton, u, T.
mil 1.y. - - -
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Creameries In Iowa.

For two years the creamery business in
Iowa has been in deep waters. 1t came
in with boom engineered by the patent
can man. A number of men and firms
engaged in the business who had neither
natural qualifications for it nor previous
experience. 1t extended into portions of
the state not yet prepared for it. 1t un.
dertook to extemporize dairyman out of
a grain raiser or herder of cattle. 1t I'M
dertook to extemporize paying mixers
from COWS which had roamed the prsiries
with the calf at her side. 1t undertook
to measure by the inch instead of its but
ter value. Looking back at this we can
readily see, in the light of experience,
how foolish and unreasonable it all was.
The patent can man reaped his harvest
and vanished. We have no tears to shed
over his departure. The creamery counted
up its shortages and said, either the inch
has robbed me or the honest granger.
The granger rose up in wrath and de-
nounced the creamery. The cattle buy.
ers said, your calves are poor lot, and
cursed the creameries. The New York
buyer said that the gathered cream sys-
tenn was no good. Then came in the
butterine and the disgust was complete.
We state the simple, absolute fact, the
creameries have not been run at profit.
A few of them have made little money,
many of them have lost, and, averaging
them up, it has been q bad Investment
IOWa Harvester.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Clover Hay.

1t is matter of experience that clover
hay is far better fodder for COWS than
timothy hay. The reasons for this are
various: First, clover is almost always
in better condition when cut than timothy,
being younger and tenderer, and conse-
quently richer in nutriment and more
digestible than if cut later second, it is
better cured, as rule, because it must
necessarily be less dried to save the leaves,
or it would be nothing but stalks, while
timothy can be more highly dried with
impunity; third, clover is richer in nitro
genous matters than timothy, and the
nutriment contained in it is more diges-
tible. Thus, clover hay contains from
eleven per cent in poor quality to fifteen
per cent in the best, of heterogeneous mat
tiers, while timothy hay contains nine,
and mixed hay from seven to twelve per
cent of these substances in clover, from
seven to ten and three.fourths per cent
are digestible, while in timothy only five
and three-fourths per cent, and in mixed
hay from four to eight per cent are diges.
tible.-Ihe Ddirymdn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Nitrogen.

nitrogen in manures applied in the fall
is largely lost by teaching, especially in
wet winters. Therefore only mineral
manures that do not contain nitrogen, and
barnyard manures, should be applied in
the fall, and ammonia salts should be
sown in the spring. This fact has been
demonstrated by thirty years scientific
experiments at Rothamstead. 1t should
be remembered in buying fertilizers or
chemicals for seeding down to grass or for
sowing fall grains"
We cut the above from the Homestead,
and it is good advice, so far as applying
very soluble fertilizers to bare fallow is
concerned, quite late in the fall. Nitrate
of soda is especially Objectionable for
this use, on account of its excessive solu-
bility. But where there is not sufficient
dung used to Immediately supply the
needed nitrogen, there is no objection to
using sulphate of ammonia on early fall
sown grain or grass, while upon weak.
looking spring-seeded grass.felds nothing
else will make such change for the bet.
ter as the careful and even application OF
a heterogeneous fertilizer before the fall
rains come on. For this purpose fine
ground dry fish, or solid blood, or sui
phate of ammonia, will give excellent re-
suits. A large quantity is not needed, but
care to distribute it evenly is needed.
Here is where machine for sowing fer
tilizers broadcast comes handy. We
think broadcast seed-sower would dc
this work well. A hundred and fifty
pounds of the fish, or blood, or seventy.
five pounds of sulphate of ammonia, per
acre, applied just before rain, will show
almost immediate and often surprising re-
suits, especially when we consider that
seventy-fve pounds per acre is only a
trifle over thirteen grains to the square
foot, or about what can be heaped upon a
dime. Still more strange is it when we
consider that there is very little land in
cultivation which does not contain more
than ton per acre of combined nitrogen
within foot of the surface. This shows
the advantage of immediate availability,
when immediate results are required from
fertilizer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Race. Horses and Horse. Racing.

The Maine Farmer devotes a larger
space to the subject of race-horses and
horse-racing than any of our exchanges.
From its news columns we cut the follow.
ing item
William w. Lydston of Lewiston,
Maine, who has lately conducted the In
ternstional Hotel at South Lawrence, was
arrested Saturday at the request Of Mar.
shall French of Lewiston and returned to
that city to answer charge of embezzle-
ment. Lydston two years ago received a
legacy of $4,000, but owing to his inter.
est in horse.racing and its attendant evils
he has managed to dispose of nearly if NOT
quite the whole amount"
Now we ask the Farmer, in q friendly
spirit, if it has not reason to fear that the
constant reading of the class of matter
above referred to does not tend to produce
in its younger readers especially, just such
result as the deplorable one here chroni
cled2 Is it not preparing slippery
places for the unwary2
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Cutting Potatoes for Seed.

Prof. Henry of the Wisconsin Agricul.
tural Experiment Station made q careful
series of experiments to ascertain how
seed potatoes had better be cut, if cut at
all. The best yields were obtained from
whole potatoes of "good size"; the next
from the stem end; the next from the
seed end; the next from the ordinary
cut; the next from what he calls Dr.
Sturtevants cut; the next from thick par.
ings of the skin, aud the least yield from
thin parings. By ordinary" cut is
meant that the potatoes are cut to one
eye without regard to the direction of the
cut. The "thick parings " left only one
third of the flesh of the tuber. The par
ings were cut to one eye, and this was
thought to be directly the opposite of DR.
Sturte wants method, which has been fully
described in these columns, and expert
mented upon at the rural grounds. One
third of the potato was taken for the seed
end, and two.thirds for the stem-end. 1,
will be seen that from this test, as from
our own, there is more of ingenuity thar
of value in DR.. Sturtevant's method, which
consists, in short, in having the flesh Of
each eye cut through the center of the
potato.-Rurdl New Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27

the facts fairly in the face, and recognize
that properly made butter substitutes are
legitimate articles of trade. How would
it have looked (and what good would 1t
have done) for wheat growers in the early
days to fight Indian corn and denounce
it as poisonous Full as many "facts "
could be produced to substantiate one
charge as the other. In truth there is
serious disease, known in Italy as Pei
lagra," which is attributed to too ex-
elusive diet OF corn.meal. Yet how we
should exclaim, If that was brought for
ward in Europe as reason for excluding
American corn from its market on that
continent
The present cutlery raised Tin the in
terest of eastern butchers, and the pre-
tended interest of the farmers) by some
of the agricultural papers against Chicago
beef, is equally full of falsehood and folly.
1t is already quoted against American
dressed beef in Europe, with very damag-
ing effect. Yet the truth is that it is
much better to dress the beef as far west
as possible, for the meat is certainly more
impaired in quality and wholesomeness
when transported alive over long distances,
by train and by ship, than when it is
forwarded in the dressed state by refrig-
orator cars. The Cultiuator says the meat
is dried and injured in flavor by hanging
two or three days in the cold cars. Yet
the Boston butchers, in whose behalf the
Cultiuator is speaking, keep the Boston
killed beef hanging much longer in their
own refrigerators, and claim that it is
improved thereby.
We suppose that from some points of
view we may be considered as having
done a very foolish thing in writing this
article. An old physician once told us,
when we were young practitioner, that
we were too fond of butting out our
brains against peoples prejudices." By
this he meant that we did not fall in with
the mistaken ideas of our patients about
the nature of their diseases. He thought
that it was better to let them have their
own way about that-to "humor them
in their notions, in order not to lose their
patronage. As an editor, we suppose we
still have that same fault. But we have
been aching to tell the truth about some
of these popular decisions for some time,
and now we have done it. Those who
love the truth more than error will be
glad to have their attention drawn to the
matter, and those who still doubt may be
led to look into it. But there are perhaps
others who will think we are bought up"
by a grand combination of whiskey-
oleomargarine glucose and C hicago.beef-
operators. When lies are more readily
believed than truth there is indeed great
encouragement to the vendors of false
hood. Lies are now filling the political
atmosphere like cloud of grassboppers,
and it is vain to stem the blast. But
perhaps few who are getting faint for
lack of Whit of the pure air of truth
may take little comfort out of what we
have written above.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27

increased thirty-fve and one-half per cent.
From 1860 to 1870 the increase in popula-
ton was only twenty-five per cent, and
from 1870 to 1880 it was only twenty-nine
per cent. The growth Of population is
admitted to be one of the surest indices
of the condition of the great mass of the
people.
1t has been under high tariff that
hundreds and thousands of tramps, in
gangs and alone, have infested the country
from one end to the other that CONNER
cisl failures have been much more numer-
GUS and ten times more in amount than
they ever were before in our history; that
the number of children employed in factor.
les has tripled; that hundreds of little chill.
dren from six years upwards are compelled
to work in the coal breakers, toiling from
dawn till dark. In the upper part of
Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, out of
twenty-five thousand inhabitants, three
thousand children, between six and if
teen years of age, are at work in this way.
1t was during these years of high tariffs
that the bread riots of 1877 shook us like
an earthquake from the sesboard to
Chicago. 1t is during these years, and
now, that discontents are more prevalent
among the laborers than ever; that strikes
are more numerous, that socialism is most
rampant, and even nihilism seems to be
gaining foothold amongst us. Cotton
factories, paper mills, wooden factories,
coal mines and iron-works-sll highly
protected industries-are now being
closed, or running on short time, and
workmen out of work are nearing the
starvation state. 1t seems TO be demon
strated, by these close occurrences of
panics and hard times, that high protec-
ton does not give to the country what it
promises. On the contrary, like all pet
ting and coddling, it develops weakness,
rather than strength. Is it not true that
the intelligent people of New England
should look into this matter We believe,
not in free trade, but in just 80 much pro.
lection, and no more, as experience tells
us will keep our industries in healthy
state, which they confessedly do not now
enjoy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27

A. w. SIAs, Esq, of Rochester, Mimi,
one of the most extensive and successful
fruitgrowers of that state, and friend
to whom we are indebted for many kind
nesses, sends US the premium list of the
fifth annual fair of the Southern Mime
sofa Fair Association, which will be held
in Rochester the first week in September.
This is evidently live society, and indi'
Gates great activity in all things connected
with both agriculture and horticulture in
Southern Minnesota, which has better
climate for tree fruits than other parts OF
the state. Mr.. Sias was born but short
distance from where our own house stands,
on the banks of Lake Memphremagog,
and although he went West before we
came to Vermont, a long continued cor.
respondence and exchange of services
makes him, to us, an old and valued
friend.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27

quite late, ripening in the beginning of
July, a month after Dyehouse and May
duke. 1t is hardy and productive, rarely
failing to produce good crop OF fruit ;
and it is the best late cherry. For al
though Euglish Morello is few days
later, it is very acid, and has a distinct
astringency along with the acid; while
in good bearing (the strong point of the
latter) Late Duke is in no respect behind
it on go2d, dry cherry soil Strangely
enough, Dyehouse is from the South,
where many believe that cherries won't
do any good An accidental seeding in
Central Kentucky, in the orchard of the
gentleman for whom 1t is named, it re-
manned unknown for over thirty years,
bearing its large crop regularly, having
failed but once In that time from late
frost occurring when the fruit was about
the size of peas. Since it began bearing
here, ten years or more ago, it has pro-
duced its fine crops of excellent fruit
every year, the uncertainties of the
weather seeming to have no effect on it,
The fruit is medium size, bright red,
quite acid at first, but when perfectly
ripe it becomes rich and enjoyable eaten
from the tree. 1t is altogether superior
to Early Richmond. which it resembles
in appearance, but ripens usually about
ten days earlier, and has smaller pit
the smallest pit of all cherries, indeed.
For pies, preserves, ETC., it has no supe-
rior, if any equal. Its freedom from in
sect attacks, when other varieties close
by are much injured, is not easily &C.
counted for. Possibly it is because each
single fruit in the cluster stands out sep
arately by itself on its strong, stiff stem
of medium length, giving insects no good
hiding-place, as most of them prefer to
work under protection of some kind.
Mayduke is an old variety, obtained from
France many years ago, and deserves its
extensive popularity. 1t does not ripen
in May, as the name would indicate, but
in the beginning of June and its gradual
ripening, which some have considered a
fault, is really in its favor for family use.
1t is moderately acid, though less 80 than
Late Duke; good for culinary uses as
soon as it begins to color; and when
fully ripe delicious for the dessert"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Massachusetts, Farming.

Referring to this subject the Boston
Culhvator gives the following explanation
"The continued low price of farm pro.
ducts and the business depression has
caused heavy decline within the past ten
years in the Connecticut valley lands.
The depressing in the valuation of land
has been marked all through the valley,
except where it has been made valuable
for building purposes. Meadow land
that was sold for $500 per acre prior to
the war is to-day drug in the market at
1925 or $780,"
The depression in Massachusetts, farms
extends all over the state. They are
given away to anybody who will buy the
buildings, most anywhere. But we should
like to ask our Massachusetts contempt
raries how it can be that the GLOW price
of farm products should have 80 much
more severe an effect upon the rich to-
bacco lands of the Connecticut valley than
upon the farms of northern Vermont, far
from manufacturing cities and villages,
and subject to the most extortionate rates
OF freight. 1t costs more to take any
kind of farm product from Vermont to
market in southern New England than
from Illinois, or even Iowa-and this in
spite of the fact that there is a majority
of farmers with free passes in their pock-
etO in our legislature at every session.
Nevertheless, even these farmers in the
cold end of Vermont make good living,
and are moderately prosperous, though by
no means so prosperous as they would be
but for class legislation to their disadvan-
tage. What we particularly want the
hightariff men to tell us is, why their
predictions as to the prosperity of agrioul-
ture in proximity to manufacturers has 80
failed of realization. We want a reason
able answer, and not abuse as a free
trader" which we are not. Nor are we
going round with "British gold" or even
pamphlets from the Golden club in our
pockets. We are only one of the fellows
who "wsnt to know" you know. The
Rural New Yorker thinks it is due to the
lack of enterprise among our Yankee ag-
ricultural papers, but that is "too thin"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
Three Good Cherries.

An esteemed correspondent, r. j. Black,
ESQ.,, of Bremen, Ohio, recommends, in
the New York Examiner, from long list
of tested varieties, three cherries of par
ticular merit:
"The first of these, Dyehouse, is Mo
relic not nearly 80 acid, however, as the
Morellos usually are, but approaching
closely to the dukes. The last two, May
duke and Late Duke, are sub.acid varie-
ties, having flavor between the Morellos
and the sweet varieties though Late
Duke slightly resembles the Morellos in
its manner Of growth, and in the quality
of its large, bright, dark red fruit. 1t is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27

SINCE General CRAFTS misfortune the
lives of our ex-presidents have been looked
up: Washington went to Mount Vernon
and raised tobacco, and Jefferson, Msdi-
son and Monroe followed his example at
their homes John Adams returned to
Quincy and raised corn and oabbages
John Quincy Adams followed his faith.
er's example jackson returned to the
Hermitage; Van Buren, went to his
Undertook farm; Polk died a few
months after returning to Tennessee
Fillmore returned to his old law office at
Buffalo; Buchanan farmed it in mild
way at Whestlands.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-08-27
SlippeYY Places.

A woman correspondent of the Maine
Farmer writes g AT the close OF a bright
cold afternoon, was going to my home
from neighboring friends and by the way
was crossing the street, when saw boy
coming up on the other side slip into the
snow. He was up in half minute, and
saw he had no overcoat, no mittens, a
cap without visor, and tsttered clothes I;
but soon found he had noble heart
beating beneath his ragged jacket. On
getting up he shook the snow from his
little hands, which were red with cold,
curled them up under his arms, and waited
until reached the other side, then said ;
Take care 1t is slippery there I The
poor little boy was a young philanthro-
pist without knowing it. have often re-
called the boys kindly caution. Let me