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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
Impure MIX In England.

Great Britain is about as large as New
England, and has population half as
large as the whole United States. This
brings the people pretty close together in
some places, and where they are not clean
ly in their habits, things get to be pretty
putrid. We see it stated that the late
Social Science Congress at Hudders6eld,
England, spent some time on the subject,
and important facts were brought out.
1t was stated as susceptible of reasonable
proof that eighty.two recent epidemics,
which had affected upwards of five
Thousand persons and killed many of them,
were directly traceable to impure milk.
In some instances persons, in whose fami-
lies were cases of infectious disease,
MIXED the COWS, handled the cans and
delivered the milk; in others the tins
were washed in water which was unclean |;
in the majority of cases it was evident
that the COWS drank of water which was
impregnated with sewage. So serious
has been late epidemic of typhoid in st.
Pancras parish in London, as to lead to an
investigation. In one part of that parish
as many as four hundred and thirty-one
persons had the fever in two hundred and
seventy-six houses, and sixty.two persons
died. Of these four hundred and thirty
one, two hundred and twenty had their
milk directly from one dealer, and one
hundred and thirty more had it indirectly
from him. Investigation developed the
fact that this dealers milk became in
fected from a privy and drain, which
poisoned the water in which his pals and
churns were washed. While there is
much less danger from this class of in
lection and its consequences, in sparsely
settled and wellaired Vermont, yet it is
worth the while of every farmer to satisfy
himself without delay that the water
which his family drink and use, and which
his COWS drink, runs no possible risk of
being contaminated from his privy, his
stables, or his drains. In a porous soil
such contamination may take place from
a considerable dists noe. 1t is better to
err, if at all, on the safe side. Typhoid
fever, scarlatina and diphtheria used to
be counted as visitations of God. 1t is
now known that they are the results of
human ignorance, stupidity, laziness and
filth. There is far too much of this class
of diseases upon our farms, and while
some of it comes from distance by con-
tagion, it not unfrequently originates on
the premises. But unfortunately the class
of people most likely to breed them are
hard to be reached by instruction, or in.
huenced by advice.
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should know the average yield If not the
thresher2 But in making statements he
should be very careful to give them cor
rectly. Farmers have been injured very
much on account of grain reports, and 1
for one feel it duty TO give facts Just
as know them, and not as guess.
G. M. REESE"
It is estimated by Minnesota and Da-
kota wheat farmers generally that the
average cost of growing an acre of wheat
and getting it to the railroad is ten dol
lars. Wheat is now selling at the eleva-
tors at from sixty to seventy-five cents,
a bushel, according to grade, and the
editor of the Times estimates that the
fraudulent grading of wheat by the ele-
vator men will take over S125,000 out of
the farmers of that one county this year.
It is easy to see that there has not been
much profit for the Dakota farmer from
his wheat crop of 1883. Yet he cannot
grow anything else that will bring money.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
For the Young Farmers.

Brother Cheever of the New England
Farmer. in reply to correspondent, ad-
vises young farmer, asking the best To-
cality in New England for his business, to
seek home either in Vermont or Aroos-
took county, Maine. This is exactly our
view of the matter. On the whole, for a
young man of moderate means, Aroostook
is to be preferred, since the best land in
New England, and equal for farming pur-
poses to any in the Union, can be had at
less than one-fourth the average price of
good farming land in Vermont. Aroos-
took. as Mr.. Cheever says, is as large as
Connecticut and Rhode Island together,
with far less waste land. 1t has now about
$4,000 population, and since railroads
have been built through the county it is
increasing very rapidly in numbers and
prosperity. 1t is far preferable to Dakota,
even for wheat, and infinitely 80 in other
respects, being richly wooded and well
watered country, exposed to no billiards.,
and though all north of forty-five degrees
Gas is most of Dakota) not colder than
Vermont. A territory where there are
whole townships without foot of waste
land, and where the soil is as rich as
Western New York or Ohio, only 300
miles from Boston, with abundant fscili-
ties for transportation, and offering land at
from % to $40 per acre, will not long re-
main unoccupied.
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The Black Apple.

MIR. John Webster of Franklin, Vt,
sends us specimens of this variety, which
he says is an old sort, grown somewhat in
Highgate and Swanton. He has seen the
tree in full bearing in Highgate, set in as
pure sand as anyone ever undertakes to
cultivate, and it appeared to be doing
wonders. Its size is medium and above,
shape roundish oval, with scarcely any
cavity where the stem is inserted. Color
very dark red, handsome. Quality good
enough to be sought after by our most
particular people as dessert fruit. A
heavy bearer alternate years; keeps
through the winter" MIR. Webster re-
fers to description of what he believes
to be the same apple in Henry Ward
Beecher's "Fruit, Flowers and Farming"
page 314, where it is commended as a
spreading round-topped. healthy tree, with
wood ripening early and not subject to in
jury from freezing. Flesh tender, moder-
ately juicy, favor rather sweet, though not
asweet apple; color very dark red. Season
Tin New York; early winter. We find in
Downing's "Fruits and Fruit Trees"
page SO, a Black Apple" very briefly
referrrd to as can old variety described
and put out by Coke. Tree healthy,
spreading, with dropping limbs; a pleas
ant table fruit, though not of high favor.
Medium size, roundish oblate, deep red.
Flesh white, sometimes slightly stained
with red. November to February" Cole,
in his American Fruit Book, page 1913,
mentions the Black Apple briefly, and
says it is wanting in flavor. The speci'
mems of the Black Apple received from Mr.
Webster fit we'll with these descriptions
except that the flesh is greenish instead Of
white, as in Downing's description. We
have just tested them, and can but agree
with what Mr.. Beecher further says, that
ait has a peculiar dry, raw taste, some
thing resembling the taste of unlocked
corn meal" 1t may however be produc
tive and salable enough for profit, especial
" on sandy land, but for us we should fal
prefer the Wealthy in every respect.
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Apples In Franklin County.

Mr.. j. Webster of Franklin, VT, sends
us notes upon apples as follows: Red AS
trachan does we'll; Yellow Transparent
promises as we'll if not better; Tetofsky
grows and bears well, but fruit drops off
some; Duchess of Oldenburgh is great
success for a September fruit. Fameuse
Sucree Qrom your nursery has done
splendidly, and appears to be able to take
care of itself. Sorry to say, Mr.. Webster,
that those trees will turn out to be com.
mon Fameuse. The gentleman who kindly
went out from Montreal to get the scions
for us, cut them from the wrong trees.
But two years ago we went ourself,
and in few years we shall be able
to distribute scions of that choice ap-
pie which we know are genuine.] GRAY
enstein tender; Sherwood's Favorit (Che-
mango Strawberry killed outright by
the winter of 1SS1-82. Williams Favor
tie, four years planted, is apparently as
hardy or harder than Fameuse; Ben
Davis appears as hardy as Fameuse, and
q great bearer of handsome, but not very
good, fruit, yet remarkable keeper
Golden Russet, not quite 80 hardy as Ben
Davis, but l have few very nice bearing
trees, seven to ten years planted. The win
ter of 1882 killed five trees three years
planted. They stood alongside of Ben
Davises that were uninjured. The same
winter also killed ten Pewaukee in the
same orchard, same age, while one hum
dred Wealthys alongside were uninjured.
I have one tree of Pewaukee in the same
orchard, and same age, which for three
years has borne we'll and never shown in.
jury. From my experience believe that
it Is unsafe in this climate to cultivate
ground in which trees are planted, espe
cially if the land is very rich. I have
lost many trees by it. believe, causing
too late growth from too much or toe
late stirring of the soil, or from improper
manuring. Better set trees in heavily
top-dressed grass ground and keep them
well mulched with straw, chip dirt, dead
leaves or even sawdust or brush. McIn
tosh Red grows we'll and appears hardy
but has not borne at four years from
planting. Fameuse does pretty well here
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Experience with Bradley's Fertilizer.

Our Mad River correspondent, who
thinks bone and ashes far inferior to
Bradley's phosphate after single seasons
trial, is referred to the following note
from correspondent of the Vemont
Farmer:
al wish to give little experience of
mine in the use of the Bradley fertilizer,
and ask also for information. First
measured off three.fourths of an acre,
plowed it and narrowed it, then with a
marker checked it off three feet and six
inches each way, then took 500 pounds of
fertilizer and dropped it in the hills just
covering the piece, and planted the COM
mon eight-rowed corn. 1t came up gen.
orally well, looked nicely and seemed to
grow all right; it kept up with my other
corn all through the season, but when l
came to harvest, there was no corn to
speak of, but large growth of fodder.
Now wish to know if any one can tell
me why 1t did not ear. Where 1 used
manure right beside of the fertilizer, 1
had good corn. would like to hear how
others use it, if alone, and how much per
acre, with the results"
Here is another man, friend j., who
seems not to realize the need of thorough
testing before condemning any method or
treatment in agriculture. There is no
better or more uniform fertilizer sold in
the market than Bradley's. We know
this from long experience, yet just such
records as the above are sometimes made
against it. The very first year we tried it
we fertilized alternate rows of corn with
it, and were nightly pleased to see that
every other row came up way ahead OF
the others, until we examined our stakes
and found that it was Bradley that was
belated. We do not believe that ans
fertilizer will hasten the termination OF
seeds, because this depends upon the
temperature of the soil, but we know that
both acid phosphates and unleached ashes
will retard termination by weakening the
germ, when not properly scattered in
| the hill.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
Boiled Down FOOllshness.

"Let no guilty man escape" is what
President Grant once said. So said the
New York board of health, and they re-
Gently examined the cheese factory of
Lawrence Durand, Chester, N. Y, who
makes about five thousand Neufchatel
cheese daily for the New York market.
The inspection revealed the fact that they
use skim milk and lard, mixing them by
machinery. An indictment will follow, and
the parties punished according to law.
We cut the above from Brother Hib-
bard's Chicago ReuieD, but we confess that
we do not see the crime in putting lard
into cheese, or how it is going to hurt any
body. We are all of us (unless there are
few Grahamites Lefty eating lard, or u.s.
ing it in cooking, all the time, and what
tomfoolery it is Gf such thing has been
done in the great state of New York; to
pass laws against, and hunt down and i'm
prison, men for putting hogs fat into
cheese' If it makes the cheese better, it
ought to be put in. If it makes it worse,
their market will be spoilt, and they will
probably know enough to stop it. To
think of state 30 full of all sorts of cor.
ruption and public wickedness of every
description, leaving its tyrannical corpor-
ations, its political rogues, rumsellers, po-
litical bosses, plunderers and defaulters to
their villainy in peace, and starting pell-
nell in hue and cry after poor fellow
who is making cheeses so good that he
can sell five Thousand of them day on
their merits, because he puts little lard
into them, is about the perfection of pat
emit improved double back-action politics.
Amt il?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

tant locality to learn things that may not
be adapted to our climate and conditions.
Better work nearer home boys, for some
one who is making success right here.
You will find that hard work and hard
thinking, backed up by close economy, are
the prime factors of success at farming
everywhere. And don't be afraid of earn.
ing more than your wages. Do your level
best, and if your employer is man he will
appreciate it and you will profit by it in
the end. If he don't appreciate it, you
had better work for some one else. But
above all, get to work for yourself as soon
as you safely can. This was the advice
given me by the wealthiest citizen of my
native town before left home the first
time, and the more see and learn of the
world the more see the force of it. The
man that is working for home is good
citizen, and some sweet girl is going to
appreciate the fact when you ask her to
share that home with you. The man that
works out and spends his money as he
goes along doesn't amount to much. If a
man is going to make mark in the world
he has got to do something on his own
account. Look around and see if there
isn't some enterprise waiting for you to
take hold of it. They tell about the West
offering great chances for enterprise and
l can vouch for the fact, as went out
there last spring, and might have stayed
if my health had permitted. But things
do not move themselves even there. 1t is
the live men that move them. And when
you talk of comfortable living, the West
is nowhere beside Vermont. The polit-
ical editor of this paper hits the nail on
the head when he says Vermont is not
advertised as it should be. The opportuni-
ties for making gilt-edged butter and other
products, the established reputation of
the state for the best fne-wooled sheep in
the world, and many other things the best
Of their kind, including maple sugar, are
advantages not to be lightly passed by.
And, boys, look up this maple sugar bust
ness. Isn't there some good sugar place
going to be idle next spring unless you take
it in hand and make a" little spec - out of
it? l hired a sugar place in the spring of
1882, and in thirty-nine days made fifteen
hundred pounds of sugar Chat sold for one
hundred and twenty-five dollars) alone and
without team, and chopped as much
wood as burned. 1 wasn't of age then
either, but the folks at home were willing
that l should have little start if / made
it myself, and maybe it was just as well
for all concerned as if 1 had been studying
dead languages in some college at cost
of five hundred dollars year. Then all
the villages among our Vermont hills are
hungry for small fruits and fresh vegeta-
bles, and they are but poorly supplied, and
largely from outside the state, at that.
There is room, too, for much improvement
in our ordinary products, especially in
marketing them in an attractive form. 1
may say more at another time, if the editor
don't put this in the waste basket. And
in the meantime let's all brace up and do
something. Yours fraternally, H. L. C.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

but of late years spots pretty badly. Of
Sbiawassee Beauty, have only one, just
planted, and can say nothing of it, but am
told it will prove very valuable. Not so
hardy as Fameuse in Orleans county, 1
have one hundred and ten Wealthy, some
four, some three, and some two years
planted; they are the cleanest lot of trees
l have, and l have never lost one. have
great hopes of this variety and am i'm
patiently waiting for the fruit. You will
get some this year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
A Word to Vermont Boys.

Why do the boys leave the farm Be-
cause they don't think the old man is
making the business pay as well as they
want some business to pay them. That
is the reason / left the home-farm and
went to another state and worked year
for noted farmer, hoping to gain some
new ideas that I could put to practical
use on my return. Well, I did get hold
of some new wrinkles and may make
something out of them yet, when get
settled down on farm of my own; but /
would not advise others to go off to dis
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

"THE Blenheim Pippin," says COR
respondent of the New York Tribune, sis
one of the finest apples in the world. 1t
is good not for one locality alone, but its
constitutional vigor enables it to fruit sue
cessfully in very diverse climates and
soils. The apples are perfect in form,
coloring and size, and of fine flavor" We
may add that the Blenheim Pippin is
grown very successfully on Grand Isle I'M
der the erroneous name of Dutch Mig
nome. We think its culture might be
profitably extended in the Champlain
valley.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
ArOOstOOk County Honey.

Mr.. Jerrard of Caribou, Maine, writes
US as follows: al have received copy of
THE WATCHMAN of December 10, and
have read the communication of your Ad-
Olson county correspondent, and your re-
quest that furnish statistics of the honey
product of Aroostook. l sincerely regret
that cannot furnish the information you
desire, for have no reliable statistics at
hand, and l should not like to make an
estimate. There are great number of
bees kept in this county, and the honey
crop in favorable seasons is immense,-so
large, and of such superior quality, that
it has established for itself an enviable
reputation in the markets of New Eng.
land. The most of the honey we ship is
gathered from the Red Fire-weed (Epa-
obium AngustJolium), and we think it su-
perior to clover honey in that it is abso-
lutely white, does not soon granulate in
the comb like Eastwood honey, and is al
most free from the quality which other
honeys have of producing a disagreeable
feeling in the throat when eaten. Yours
truly, G. W. P. JERRARD."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
Farm for Sale !

The home farm of II. C. JONES' late of Barre, de-
ceased, containing about hundred and fifty acres,
all Of which suitably divided Into tage pasture and
wood land. Said farm Is situated about two miles
easterly Of Barre village There good sugar orchard
place. and excellent running water to both house
and barn. The buildings in good repair and the
farm il in high state of cultivation. Terms easy. In
W. A & 0 b. B0YCE.
Barre VT, November I, 1888. 2l-tf
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We heartily thank Mr.. Jerrard for his
kindness in giving us what information
he can on the subject of our inquiry.
Honey is so important and valuable a
product that it should have place in the
statistics of the census, but we find moth
ing of it in the compendium of the last
enumeration.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09
Mew Adrsrfissments.
PROBABLY NEVER

In the history Of proprietary medicines has
any article met success at home equal to that
which has been poured upon HOOPS SARsA-
PARILLA. Why, such has been the success
OF this article, that nearly every family in
whole neighborhoods have been taking it at
the same time. Every week brings new evil
dence Of the wonderful curative properties Of
this medicine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-01-09

NTOTICE.-Notice is hereby given that all orders now
~ outstanding against the town of Waterbury and
bearing per cent interest," will be paid presenta-
ton to the treasurer Of said town. And interest will
the first day Of February next on all such Or
ders not presented for payment before that date.
j. X. FULLERTON, Town Treasurer,
Waterbury, VT, January l. 1884. 29-3l
The state journal., 1884-05-03
Personal Mention.

LEwIsBURG, Pa, April %, 1884.
Miss Nellie Boley arrived home
safe after spending pleasant visit in
Washington, D. c., with her friend,
Miss Pryor.
Mrs. George Anderson, of Danyile,
is spending Sunday with her mother.
Mrs. Cora Waldron leaves this
week for Brooklyn on Thursday.
Miss Susan Boley will leave for
Philadelphia in few days.
Mr.. George Smith spent Sunday
with his family.
Mr.. Charlie Thomas attended the
grand cake walk and ball given in
Shamokin last Tuesday, He reported
a good time.
Mr.. Thomas Ransom, of Millers-
burg, paid us a flying visit last Mon
day.
Mr.. Charles Harrington left town
to take charge of Mr.. Bare's barber
shop in Watsontown, Pa.
Mr.. James Reeler, who has been
living in Shamokin all winter, has re-
turned home.
The state journal., 1884-05-03

injury of the race, was the fact of our
being too ready to follow the leader
ship of some other race, instead of
selecting leaders of our own race and
following their leadership. The at
tendance was very large. Among
the prominent Sabbath school work
era present at the services, were such
well known personages as Rev, DR..
Kennedy, D. D., and VIM. G. Reed,
Esq, of Falling Spring Presbyterian
Church, Miss Matte Shillito and Miss
Lydia Welsh, of NJ. e. Sabbath. school,
Rev. Foil, of U. b. Church, Mrs
Watson Craig and daughter of Fall
ing Spring Presbyterian, and DIR.
Plat, superintendent of Falling
Spring Presbyterian Sabbath-school.
The school recited the Apostles
Creed, after which the benediction
was given by the pastor.
Miss Elizabeth M. Crunkleton, of
Mercersburg, who has been spending
fortnight in Chambersburg, as the
guest of her uncle, James Crunkle-
ton, has returned home. Cell again,
Miss Lizzie.
The colored citizens of Baltimore,
under the auspices of the Private
Walters Association, will excursh to
our city June I'd. Their excursions
are always orderly and we'll behaved,
and they are always welcome.
Messrs. White, Carter and Wolf
have leased room No. l5, West Ger
man street, which they will open to
the public shortly in the shape of a
cigar and tobacco store. This firm
of enterprising young gentlemen
should, as they no doubt will, have
the generous support of their many
friends.
Mrs. Mary Dixon, who returned
home few days ago from an ex-
tended trip through the West; left
for Baltimore to-day, April 28th, to
remain for an indefinite period.
But, Mr.. Editor, your pardon for
this already lengthy communication,
but shall continue to look around,
and should be fortunate in picking
up anything of interest, | shall write
to you. OCCASIONALLY.