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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
Farmers, Gardens.

Although every well-regulated farm
can boast a garden where delicacies are
raised for the home table, there are still
many new farms on which this important
spot has not yet been set aside. Even
half an acre may be made to produce
enough small fruits and fine vegetables
for family whose table without these
luxuries would be bare indeed Start
the garden early. Do not allow it to
take the last chance. All new gardens
for vegetables should be arranged for
horse cultivation by extending the drills
across it from end to end. This will
greatly reduce the labor of keeping it
clean, and the few minutes required to
cultivate it once week will be trihing
compared with long and laborious hand
labor. The crops will grow vigorously
by keeping the soil constantly mellow
and clean by the frequent passing of the
narrow, one-horse harrow or cultivator.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14

digging a shallow trench around the tree
and filling it with boiling water. A
heavy dose of potash will have the same
effect. Filling the trench with ashes and
pouring on boiling water is said to work
cure, also. All these remedies are
based upon the supposition that root
fungus causes the disease.
A pomo!ogist experimental with soft
soap on the codling moth. The soap
was diluted, but it had an unusually
strong odor. 1t was sprayed thoroughly
through the tree once a week, by means
of fountain pump. The tree thus
treated, bore heavy crop of fruit with
not one wormy apple. A tree twenty
feet away, which had not been treated,
bore less fruit, and three fourths of it
was wormy.
Millemaine is the name of new cereal
which has been introduced into South
Carolina from Columbia, South America.
1t is allied to sorghum and Guinea corn,
and has the merit of an almost unlimited
capacity to endure drought. Cakes made
from the meal have been described as
better than corn cakes, and the grain has
been pronounced by the chemists of the
Savannah guano company superior in
food qualities to wheat.
English farmers keep three sheep on
every four acres of their land. In this
country we have one sheep for every
thirty-four acres. The English wheat
crop averages, in ordinary seasons, TWEEN
ty-nine bushels per acre. Ours is a little
less than twelve. There may be other
causes for this great difference, but the
greater attention given to sheep hus-
bandry by English farmers is undoubted-
ly one of the causes. "-Americdn Guilt
Gator.
Cultivators are becoming more and
more satisfied of the value of common
manure for bearing orchards. Those
which have been regularly top-dressed
have borne much better the past scarce
season than neglected orchards. The
owner of an orchard of six acres, in a re-
gion where not one-tenth of crop was
raised the past season, sold over 5000
worth of fruit from it. He has regular
ly top-dressed it for several years, and
two sheep to each tree have picked up
the fallen fruit infested with the codling
worm. y Country Gentleman.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Professor T. j. Berrill, in the american
Naturalist, refers certain blights and dis
eases of plants to the agency of bacteria.
Those organisms appear to be an active
cause of the blight in pear and apple trees.
The cell of blighted pear trees are desti-
tute of the starch grains with which the
healthy cells are filed, but traces of fer
mentation have been discovered in them,
and bacteria have been uniformly OBJ
served in the juices of diseased pear and
apple trees The death of patches of
bark on the trunk and larger limbs of
apple trees is ascribed by Professor Bur-
rill to the same cause. The yellows of
the peach tree have been shown by the
discovery of bacteria under the micro
scope to be caused by similar organism.
as are also the blights of the Lombardy
poplar and the aspen.
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Queer Things i'm New Zealand.

Moncure d. Conway, writes as follows
from New Zealand to the Philadelphia
Times: The queerest thing l have seen
out here is the so-called "bulrush cater
pillar" or vegetable caterpillar" This
is also found in New Zealand, where the
natives name it "Aweto Hotcte,n but |
have two specimens found in Tasmania.
The plant is fungus, spheria, which
ground, generally in single stem, round,
and curving at the end like serpent.
This end is ithicky covered with brown
seed for some three inches. 1t grows
near the root of a particular tree, the
rata" When pulled up its single root
is found to consist of large caterpillar
three inches long, which, when dis
;ected, is found to be solid wood Every
detail of this grub is preserved. The
sphpria always grows out OF the
nape of the neck. 1t is supposed that
when this grub chat of the large MOTH
burrows in the ground, one of the seeds
get between the scales of the neck, strikes
reot, and completely turns the in
terror of the creature into Its own
substance. Only the shell is left
intact, no smallest rootlet appearing my
where. The aborigines also eat this pure
white grub, and friend tells me that,
taken raw, it is delicious. The New
Zealanders also burn the caterpillar
and run it into their tattoo wounds. A
good many white people, it is said, be-
lieve that the plant actually develops the
caterpillar form, and if this be true, we
cannot laugh much at those who believed
in the vegetable Scythian Lamb and the
Mandrake Man, of which specimens are
preserved in the Surgeons museum at
London. The multiplication of rats in
these far-off towns (they are not found in
the bush, though mice swarm there) is
such as to incline one to Mr.. Walter
Besaut's belief in Whittington's cat.
Any sensible islander would pay much
to be rid of such pests. was unwise
enough to bring wicker trunk, and on
the Pacific steamer the rats entered it
and dcvoured the nice soft parts of my
boots. With their usual daintiness they
preferred patent leather. In Hobart I
was at Sunday supper in a gcntleman's
house, when suddenly the ladies began
to climb on their chairs in an astonishing
way, and the young men to rush about
with poker and tongs. They had not
thought it necessary to explain that d rat
had entered the room, which was in the
second story. 1t was not an uncommon
occurrence, and a gentleman present said
it was one of his amusements to shoot
rats in his bathroom with pistol.
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A recent subscriber wants advice how
to feed pigs of twenty five to thirty five
pounds weight that are to be kept over
winter and fitted for sale at about six
months old-whether coarse food will
not help them as much in winter as in
summer; how roots and pumpkins will
answer in lieu of grass, and what can be
fed when this green food is gone. He has
had poor success in growing young pigs
on corn alone. He has reasonably
warm pen for winter. The question OF
food is constantly recurring, and this is
one of the best evidences of the advance
ment of the country in the feeders art.
When people are making no inquiry
as to improved methods in any di-
rection no progress can be made. There
has been more progress made in
the philosophy of feeding during
the last thirty years than in the
century and half previous.
In pig feeding in the dairy districts
young pigs generally grow up in very
healthy condition, owing to the refuse
milk of the dairy, which furnishes the
principal food of young pigs. Skim milk
contains all the elements for growing the
muscles and bones of young pigs. This
gave them good, rangy frame, and,
when desired, could be fed into 400 or
500 pounds weight. But the fault at
tending this feeding was that it was too
scanty to produce such rapid growth as
is desired. 1t took too long to develop
them for the best profit. 1t had not
then been discovered by the farmer that
it costs less to put the first 100 pounds
on the pig than the second, and less for
the second than the third, ETC.; that it
was much cheaper to produce 200 pounds
of pork in six months than in nine
evident that profit required more rapid
feeding, then they began to ply
them continually with the most concen-
trated food-corn meal or clear corn. If
this was fed in summer, on pasture, no
harm was observed, for the grass gave
bulk in the stomach, and the pigs were
healthy and made good progress But if
the young pigs were fed in pen in winter
upon corn meal or clear corn the result
was quite different. This concentrated
food produced feverish symptoms, and
the pigs would lose their appetite for a
few days drinking only water, which,
after a while, would relieve the stomach,
and the pigs would eat vigorously again.
Now, had they been fed a few quarts of
turnips, carrots, bcets or pumpkins, to
give bulk to the stomach, and separate
the concentrated food, no harm would
have come, This gives the gastric juice
a free circulation through the contents of
the stomach, the food is properly di-
gested and applied to the needs of the
body, instead of causing fever by re-
naming in the stomach.-Lice Stock
Journal
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

Sweet apples are excellent feed for
colts just weaned.
Make experiments yourself, and note
the results of other peoples.
Put few ears of corn in the oven and
let them remain until reduced to char
coal. Feed this to the fowls and notice
the increased egg production.
Green clover turned under will increase
the fertility of land five times as much
as the same crop left on the surface to
ripen and dry up and then plowed under.
- Wsterm Agricultmia.
Feed the stock regularly. Let the first
meal be given at the earliest morning
hour The last chore at night should be
the feeding. For horses that are not
working these two meals will be suffi-
cient.
Professor Cook, of Michigan, speaks
as follows of destroying the canker
worm: "Unquestionably the best way
to treat these pests, or to make them re-
treat, is to syringe with Paris green.
This proves cheap and effectual way to
save our orchards from this worst pest of
the apple tree"
The calves and lambs need extra care
through the spring weather. with its sud
den changes. Do not let them begin
life on losing basis. Guard them from
exposure to sudden changes, cold winds
and storms. 1t may cost much extra
feed in the future to atone for a slight
check in growth now.
Watch your farm hands and note their
treatment of cattle. The brutal habit of
kicking COWS should not be allowed A
kick in the udder will very likely result
in bloody milk. Although the conse-
quences of blow or kick on the ribs
may not be seen at once more or less
damage will certainly follow.
Professor Kedzie, of Michigan, states
that yellows in peaches can be cured by
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14

In the Northwest pineries two-horse
teamsters get $50 per month; four horse
teamsters, $40; OK teamsters, $35; chop
pers, $40; cooks, $50; savers, $40:
swampers, $40.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14

Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, has served
nea ly thirty years in Congress, six terms
in the House and three in the Senate. He
is seventy years old.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14

In California they say if man buys
water he can have the land thrown in.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
No. 4.
Ne PLNO- PALMIKE Sa


March is at last whitfield down to point.
You gladly bid goodbye to the worst month
in the year. But-"Oh, my neuralgia pit
Is always March with human SYSTEM
"Deuce take that rheumatism that
moves along just below the health plain.
Physc you don't want, that weakens.
The tonic of rest and sleep would liftyo
but you can't get them.
Mrs. A. L. Seymore, Of Springfield, Mass, found
them, for she writes . have received great beneht
neuralgia is all gone sleep well, and am cured Of
all my nervous complaints"
Who ever knew disease to attack system
at par? Why, railways hits fellow smaller
than itself. Violate asingle health law, and
itsneaks in to gett the best ofyou. Yet, don't
you nightly violate one of her most impor-
tant laws when you come into contact with
old beds, feathers and hair2 Don'tyoupre-
vent the night from restoring the energies
wasted in the previous day laborH Ifyou
would begin square every morning, get q
common-sense bed and make it help you
out. Pino-Palmine has been tried in the
fires Of science, and here is the result:
"Haying tested Pine Palmine filing by actual use
a well as by chemical test, have no hesitation In
giving II the highest recommendation as one OF the
best materials for bedding that has ever been offered
10 the pubic."-DR. BOwKER, State Assayer, Mass.
II there is no agent near you, send orders,
with length and breadth OF bed, to Agent
Pho Palmine Co. ,115WaterSt. Boston, Mass
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7 Jksr THE
RAsoALsOJ7

rheumatism and Neuralgia have reigned
supreme ever since the world knew them They have
tyrannized over all classes OF people They have
laughed in the face of the medical profession.
Inspite OF alkaline treatment, acid treatment
hyrerdermc injections, pasters iniments and every.
thing else that the medical faculty could suggest,
Rheumatism and Neuralgia have held giant sway
All that medical skill has been able TO do for
these terrible malades is TO afford temporary relief
ATHLoPHoRos is announced as an absolute cure .
Mr.. Iiaden, OF Fair Haven, Conn, had been
torlnented by neuralgia for years Repeated failures
Of remedies had made him confirmed skeptc. lie
says: When Itook the first dose Of ATHLoPHoRos
hat no faith" Because everything had failed, he
thought ATHLoPHoRos would also. But the second
dose began to show its powerful effects.
With marvellous quiciness ATuLoPuoRos cast
out the old tormentor, and now there is no lack Of
faith on the part Of the gentleman who was thus
stored to perfect health
He tried ATHLoPHoRos just as q last resort,
and because somebody told him it would cure him.
Thus It has been with many and many a
victim of Rheumatism and Neuralgia. They had
tried many alleged remedies which proved worth
less, that it is no wonder they were skeptical.
Now whether youare skeptical or not, just TRY
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-14
AIHLoPAoRoa!

II you cannot get ATHLoPFoRos Of your druggist.
We will send It express paid, on receipt Of regular
pr1ce-one dol lar per bottle. We prefer that you buy
1t from your druggist but if he hasn't it, do not he
persuaded 70 try something else, but order at once
from directed
ATHL0PH0R0S co.. Il2 WALL ST., NEW YORK.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-26
PRICE ONE CENT.
Personal.

Miss Post, of Baltimore, is visiting
Miss Wilkinson, daughter of Capt.
Wilkinson, on Maryland avenue.
Mr.. w. w. Culver, late of the
Messenger, Kansas, and an ex-mem.
ber of the class of 'S5 of the Naval
Academy, is on visit to our city.
Mr.. Frank Goodman, a former
resident of Annapolis, is visiting his
relatives here.
Capt. Greer, of the u. S. N, ar
rived here last night, from Washing
ton.
Mr.. Shields, ofthe Revenue Marine
service and an ex-member of the class
of 'S4, arrived here, from Washing
ton, yesterday, on visit to his class
mates and other friends among the
cadets.
MI Schaaf Stocket, of this city,
reporters of the Court of Appeals,
will represent this county as one of
the lay delegates to the Protestant
Episcopal Convention, of the Diocese
of Maryland, which meets in Balti.
more on Wednesday next.
Mrs. Richardson, mother of Naval
Cadet I. r. Richardson, is boarding
at Mrs Judge Welche's
Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, of Erie, Pa,
are at Mrs. Schwarar's.
Miss Billings, is visiting Capt.
Ramsay's family.
Miss Dutton, of Washington, is
visiting Chief Engineer Farmers
family, in the Naval Academy.
Miss Lizzie Tilton, is visiting
Capt. Tilton's family.
Cadet Harrell's mother and brother
are boarding at Mrs Owen Igle-
hart's.
Mr.. Leavitt, a son of DR.. Leavitt,
president of st. Johns College, is
visiting his relatives.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-26
Graduates at the Naval Academy.

On Saturday the bill to equalize
the rank of graduates at the Naval
Academy, was passed. The bill pro-
vides that all graduates of the acade-
my who are assigned to the line of
the navy, shall be commissioned en-
signs, and abolishesthe grade ofjunior
ensign.
Also, the bill limiting the number
of graduates at the Naval Academy
was considered and passed. 1t pro-
vides that that part of the Naval Act
Of 1882, which limits the number or
graduates of the Naval Academy to
be retained in the service each year,
shall not apply to those classes which
had completed the four years. course
at the academy prior to the passage
of the act aAd those members of the
class of 1881 who have been honor
ably discharged may return to the
service, and take their places on the
Naval Register in the same manner
as if that part of the Act had not been
passed. The committee also recon-
mends an amendment reducing the
number of appointees to the academy
one-half
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-26
Half Hour Earlier.

Owing to the expected arrival of
the President an order was issued at
the Academy yesterday by the Super
intendent, that all exercises to-day be
held half hour earlier. The cadets
rise to breakfast, and recite and dine
half holr earlier than the usual time.
At 150 the cadets form in full dress
parade and receive the President; af.
ter which they will have an artillery
drill.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-26
Body Found.

The body of a sailor was found
floating in the water near Thomas
Point, yesterday, by Mr.. Frank Mar
shah, who reported the case to Es-
quire Welch of this city. There be-
ing no marks of violence on the body
an inquest was deemed unnecessary,
and the remains were inferred on the
shore near by. There were no papers
on the deceased whereby he could be
identified. The body is supposed to
have been in the water about two
weeks, and was very much disfgured.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-26

Maryland Avenue presented live
ly appearance this morning all in ex-
pectancy for the arrival of the Chief
Executive of the United States. New
life seems to be infused into our pa
triotic people A handsome new
bunting flag was suspended from the
roof of Mr.. Wolley's to the Masonic
Hall opposite, under which the pro-
cession passed. A large concourse
of people wended their way to the
Academy as early as II O'Clock to
witness the reception.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-26
The Fan Season.

The sudden increase in tempera-
ture,-the thermometer in the eigtht-
ies-causes one to resurrect the palm
leaf of last season or replace ii with a
new one. The fan Is an indispensable
article, argue as you may that the exer-
zion Of using it is warm in itself There
truth, no doubt, that tanning is hab-
see 70 q great extent, and an annoy
a %, sometimes, but give us fan
on not day and we are happy.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-05-26
TIME TABLE.
RRIEF SEENTlONING.
"A head wind-a a sneeze.

"A head Wlnd-a SneeZe.
Goodman Fountain was erected for you,
Godrink of his Soda all sparkling with dew
-134 deaths in Baltimore last
week.
For the finest and largest stock Of
Toilet articles in the city, go to the City
Drug store.
Summer garden operas were in
augurated at the Academy of Music
Baltimore, on Saturday night.
Your choice of an assortment of hats,
at L. FL Rehn's, cor Main street and Mar
ket Space. for 80 and 25cents.
The fire plugs on State House
Hill are being altered SO as to accom-
modate the new hose of the city fire
department.
Giving them away-dress goods of all
kinds at from to s cents a yard, and
many other goods at your own price, at
Kramers.
The numerical falling off in the
church attendance, yesterday, is to-
be attributed to the approach of the
warm season.
For the most delicious Cream Soda,
go to Rullman's City Drug store. The
largest and most improved Fountain in
the city.
The new and beautiful ice wagon
of Mr.. j. S. M. Basil, made its ap-
pearance upon our streets yesterday
for the first time.
CE Soc 50.-Kramer is selling out
lot of boots and shoes, all sizes from 25 to
80 cents pair.
Most time for those religious crea
tures-the mosquitoes-to begin their
evening song then lookout for the
preying that will follow.
The body, weary and exhausted by the
heat of Summer, will rapidly recover its
former activity by glass or two of Good
mans Cool Sparkling Soda.
The Rescue Hose Company re-
ceived their new hats on Saturday
night, through Mr.. D. w. Dorsey
They are of the regulation fireman
hat.
DIR. Pinkards original Compound
Syrup of Blackberry, for Diarrhea, Sum
mer Complaint. Collie, &c, at George Rull-
mans City Drug store, 25cts.
The Board of Corporation meets
this afternoon at o'clock and will
continue to meet every evening dur
ing the week from to 6, for the
purpose of revising the assessment
list.
-Ye lovers of good things remem-
ber that the Maryland avenue Drug Store
is now ready to slake your thirst with the
grandest of Soda and most delightful Root
Beer.
Music given away at Geo. Rullman's S
City Drug Store. Call early, the supply
being limited We don't mean trash, but
first class sheet music Every purchaser
of from % cts. and upwards gets a piece.
eE Bargains Bargains if you want
to get bargains in dry goods, notions,
boots, shoes, hats, caps, hose, &c, go 70
Kramer's Of. o. Whites old stand) to-
night.
Come early if you want to avoid the
rush, and secure bargains at Kramer's on
Francis Street.