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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
The Hoe in Growing CrOps.

1t has not been such long time ago
since the implements used in tending
corn by horse power were so few and so
rudely constructed that the hoe was looked
upon as indispensable to the work. But
now that these implements have become
so diversified. as well as better constructed,
the hoe is thrown aside as no longer nee
essary. Men are so prone to accept of
any theory that will enable them to live
with less labor, that farmers have readily
caught at the idea that all that was nee
essary to insure a crop of corn is to throw
earth enough to it with the pillow to cover
up the weeds. But that this is not all
that is necessary we shall now endeavor
to show. We start out, then, with the
established fact, well-known to all, that
the more the ground is stirred the better
will be the crop. And why2 Simply be-
cause the ground is then kept in its best
condition to absorb moisture as well as
fertilizing matter from the atmosphere,
with both of which it is always filled.
Not only so, but by the frequent stirring
of the soil it is placed in its best condi
. ton to draw up, through capillary attrac-
ton, moisture, as well as soluble mineral
matter from below. But, some may ask,
why may not all OF this be accomplished
by the pillow! We answer, so it could if,
by plowing, the whole surface of the
ground was kept mellow, but as the pillow
throws the mellow surface all into ridges,
leaving the spaces between as compact
and hard as ever, the power of the ground
to absorb is thereby diminished rather
than increased, and in so far the crop is
damaged.
1t is on this principle that summer fall
lowing is so beneficial to wheat BY this
additional stirring of the ground it is put
in better condition to absorb and hold
the fertilizing matter floating in the at
mosphere, especially when supplemented
with "A little plaster. The best chemical
authorities tell us that the main use of
| plaster to vegetation is its power to at
tract ammonia from the atmosphere and
! fix 1t i'll the ground for the use of plants.
Now the more the soil is pulverized the
more its absOrptive power is increased.
and, therefore better enabled to extract
fertility from the atmosphere. This fer
tility consists of gases emanating from
decaying vegetable and animal substan-
ces and which, being brought down by
the rains and SHOWS, are deposited on the
surface of the earth, and the more the alb
sorptive power of the latter is increased
the more this fertilizing matter it incor-
porates. 1t is evident, then, that the
greater the area of surface pulverized the
greater the amount of fertilizing matter
absorbed, and which is best done by the
Use of the pillow not in throwing the pull
verified ground into ridges, but in mel
lowing the whole surface, as well as in
killing the weeds. Weeds in corn hill
are like parasites on an animal drawing
the life-blood out of it, and not to use the
hoe in their determination is the very way
to establish them on the farm. Baltimore
San.
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The banana tree. says the New York
Sun, is the fruit of short, rapidly
growing tree 1t is an annual, the fruit
coming to maturity about year from
the time the shoot is planted, the trunk
of the tree then attaining a height of
eight or ten feet, and about three feet in
girth. From the trunk, which is of a
porous, tibrous nature, are thrown out
six or more long palmlike branches.
The bunch of fruit appears at the juno
ture of the trunk and branches, and con-
sists of four to twelve hands, each hand
having in its grasp from half a dozen to
a dozen bananas. From the root of this
tree shoots several sprouts, each of which
in turn may become a tree.
The method of cultivation is simple.
The land is first cleared A hole is then
dug into which the shoot is placed Ma
ture is left to do the rest, and unless The
season is very dry the tree is certain to
grow and bear fruit in from nine to
twelve months. The trees are usually
planted from twelve to fifteen feet apart
The fruit is sometimes carried to
market twenty or thirty miles on clumsy
carts. 1t is bruised by jolting and the
weight of the driver, who generally sits
on top. These defects do not show them
selves until the fruit has been in the
ships hold few days, when they result
in unsightly black patches, which lessen
the market value.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Setting Sirayyt cry Plants.

The best time for this work, as every
one is aware, is in the spring Just as the
young plants are beginning their growth.
Next to this in the season is immediately
after fruiting, while the plants are in a
partly dormant state, and before they
fully recover from the exhaustion of bear
ing, but more care is then required.
Most of the old leaves should beremoved,
the fine mellow earth pressed on the
spread roots, and if the soil is dry they
should be we'll watered and mulching
of manure given an inch or two in thick
ness. This mulching will prevent the
ground from crusting or baking if a sec
ond watering becomes necessary. Setting
ported plants late in summer succeeds
well, but the operation, first and last, is
attended with considerable labor, and it
is only adapted to- limited garden beds.
An easier, and quite as successful mode,
where the plants to he set are near at hand
or in the same garden, is to take up blocks
of earth with the plants by using spade,
and to set them with their mass of earth,
into openings previously cut with the
spade, where they are to remain. We
have now long bed Of the Cumberland,
and another of the James Wick, both in
full and abundant bearing, set in this
way during the latter part of last August.
The plants were scarcely checked in
growth by removal. With dry, light
soil the work would be difficult, as it
would readily crumble from the roots,
unless the plants were carried one at a
time on the spade; but with a strong
loan sufficiently moist, two or three
dozen may be taken up in compact blocks
and carried on wheelbarrow to the
place for planting. 1t is hardly necessary
to remark that last autumn rooted run
ners must be selected if the work is done
now, but later in the season the new
plants of the present years growth may
be chosen. - Country Gentleman.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

There is IA natural curiosity in Il G
shape of a bridge. erected by naturea
hand, over Pine creek, in the Tonic Ba-
sin country. The bridge is owned by
David Gowan, and is one OF the grandest
sights | have ever seen. 1t is 600 feet in
width; from the bottom of the arch to
the top is an average of forty feet; span
1i5 feet in length; lower side of arch,
80 feet. On the east side of the canyon,
and about 200 yards above, is the resi-
dence of the owner who takes pleasure
in showing visitors the bridge and its
numerous caverns. In all of the latter
are splendid stalactites, stalagmites,
petrifactions of all kinds of vegetable
matter, such as branches. moss. ETC.,
beside bones of animals and human
beings. Those which are in damp
places are turned to stone; others are
still in their natural state. All the
causes so far explored show by the pot.
tery found that they have been the hab.
itation of two races of Indians. In one
of the caves was discovered cache, in
which we found ollas filled with corn
and mesquite beans, In another was the
figure. in stalactite, of a beautiful woman,
which some artist had adorned with
chignon, bangs, etc. Mr.. Gowan said
she was called Lady Gowan, and would
continue to observe the latest fashions.
One of the curiosities of the stalacites
is this: Each has its own musical sound,
which is produced by striking with the
hand, and just one sounds like a rattle
snake. On the bridge are found many
kinds of timber, among which alc oak,
ash, cherry, walnut, alder, blackberry,
pine, three kinds of cedar, manzanine
and tree which in that country is
called mountain cypress. There are
also many kinds of fruit shrubbery, the
most prominent of which are dewberry
and grape, The bridge, ! believe, has
been formed by the water from tive
large springs, which rise about twenty
fret above the level of the bridge, and
which the owner uses for irrigating
purposes. They furnish about 100 inches
of water, which is about ninety We de.
grees Fahrenheit, and will take no effect
on anything until it runs 100 yards from
the spring, where it encrusts everything
it touches. -hansas City journal.
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Animated BarOmeters.

Two tree frogs bottled up in candy
jar sat on the top round of a miniature
ladder that reached to the tin lid of the
jar in Vine street saloon yesterday.
The tin lid was perforated with dozen
holes. The jar was one-third full of
water.
Dots my barometer said the saloon
keeper, pointing to the jar. "Yust
before der rain comes down dose dree
frogs oud uf the water gone und to der
dop uf der ladder CLIMB. Den poorly
soon right away der rain comes down.
Dose dree frogs vas no vools," and the
saloon keeper laughed till he choked.
"How long have you had the frogs
bottled up" was asked.
"Dree mont. IND dey neffer miss
climbing up ven der rain is coming. Ven
it is not going to rain dose frogs stay in
water all der time. Philadelphia Times.
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part ammonia and two parts water.
Sometimes they do not need to lie in this
more than five minutes; but frequently
a half-hour is needed to restore their
elasticity.
Delicious cookies are made after this
receipt: One cup of butter-a small
cup-two cups of sugar, three cups Of
-four two eggs, leaving out the white OF
one; roll out quite thin, cut in any shape
you choose-square ones are generally
preferred; beat the white of the egg
which you reserved and spread over the
tops of the cookies; sprinkle cinnamon
and sugar over them and bake them.
To make squash pudding Peel and
slice yellow squash, and boil it in boil
ing water until it is soft enough to rub
through a sieve with potato masher; to
each pint of squash add four tablespoon
fuls of butter, melted; half a nutmeg,
grated, or teaspoonful of any powdered
spice preferred, cupful each of hot
milk and sugar and four eggs, well
beaten; bake the pudding in an earthen
dish, with or without bottom crust; use
it hot or cold.
Here is recipe for squash fritters To
a pint of cold mashed squash add two
eggs, sufficient flour to make the mixture
smooth and thick enough to retain the
form of gridde cakes when put upon a
frying pan; heat a griddle or frying pan
well buttered or rubbed with piece of
raw salt pork and then bake the squash
upon it in the form of cakes, or drop it
by the tablespoonful into frying kettle
half full of smoking hot fat, and fry it in
the form of frtters; if the latter method
be followed take the frit;ers out of the
hot fat with a skinner when they are
brown, and lay them for a moment on
brown paper to free them from fat before
serving them.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
Wanted-A Friend.

One who will recognize me when am
compelled to wear patched breeches; who
will take me by the hand when am
sliding down hill, instead of giving me a
kick to hasten my descent; who will loan
me S. without requiring SEQ worth of
security; who will come to see me when
| am sick; who will pull off his coat and
fight for me when the odds are two to
one; who will talk of me behind my
back as he talks to my face. Such a
friend is wanted by ten thousand times
ten thousand human beings throughout
the broad earth. San Francisco Ners
Letter.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Sawdust is now being used as a sub
sttute for sand in house plastcring, and
is said to impart very desirable properties
to the plaster.
At recent scientific meeting in Lon
don it was stated that arsenic, in quanti-
ties large enough to poison beasts, has
been known to find its way through the
ground into wells fifty feet distant.
1t is found that the seaweed known as
Zostera marina, or wrack, can be made
to yield, by treatment with mineral acids,
substance quite resembling horn, capa
bic of being manufactured into forms,
and of receiving color from pigments.
This substance is called algin, and is
obtainable in large quantities on all ex-
posed shores.
DR.. Klaczko, of Vienna, suggests pow
erful preventive of cholera in petroleum
or paraffine. In Galicia, says he, there
are many petroleum wells and here it has
been observed that the work people have
always enjoyed perfect immunity from
cholera, even when it has broken out
with great viruence in the district
around them. This fact the peasants
themselves attribute to the emanations
from the petroleum laden soil, which,
they say, kill the pestlential germ and
all kinds of insects.
The deep-sea fishes taken by the United
State fish commission steamer during its
late cruise in the Caribbean IRE exciting
much interest at the Smithsonian. Gu
riosify is intensified by those specimens
of deep-sea fishes which are nearly or
entirely blind, the eyes becoming afro
phie or obsolete from disuse, like those
of the fish inhabiting the Mammoth cavo
of Kentucky, while others have large
eyes, and the blind fish of the cave are
allied to some superficial marine fishes
that have well-developed eyes.
A New York scientist who has col
lected a museum of about five hundred
casts of the interior of the human mouth,
in cases of partial deafness of one or both
ears. has written a pamphlet on the rela-
ton OF curious. crowded, aad disPlaced
teeth to defective hearing. He has found
from careful inspection of the mouths
of partially deaf pupils in our public
schools that in the majority of cases the
trouble had its starting point in the
mouth, not in affection of the ear as
would naturally be supposed.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22
Household Hints and K ecipcs.

The livers of chickens and turkeys are
nice fried with few thin slices of bacon
Cut the liver and bacon very thin; season
with pepper and salt. This IS good
breakfast dish.
The best labels for marking plants are
made from zinc, and nothing but com
mon lead pencil is needed to mark them.
The writing is at first faint, the same as
if made on glass, but soon becomes dis
tinct when exposed to the weather.
A teaspoonful of borax in the last
water in which clothes are rinsed will
whiten them surprisingly. Pound the
boraX so it will dissolve easily. This is
especially good to remove the yellow
that time gives to white garments that
have been laid away for two or three
years.
A nice way to cook boiled potatoes for
supper is to slice them as thin as posi-
BILE and still have them keep their shape.
Put some milk, butter. pepper, and salt
into the saucepan and let it boil up once
or twice; then put the potatoes into it
and let them cook for five minutes, not
longer.
Cabbage cooked in this way makes a
good entree: Shave the cabbage very
thin then let 1t cook until tender in "a
very little water; drain it thoroughly
Put lump of butter into clean sauce
pan, let it melt and brown, then put the
cabbage into it and let it brown; season
with salt and pepper; send to the table
very hot.
Rubber rings, such as are used on fruit
cans, often become hard and brittle
They can be restored by letting them lie
in water in which You have put a little
ammonia. Mix in this proportion: one
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A Valuable Postage Stamp.

While John Harkins, a rag picker,
was sorting over pile of waste paper in
New ork not long ago, he picked up
am old letter directed to Henry Rowdon,
Boston, Mass" 1t was one of the old
fashioned kind, folded and turned in,
without envelope, but had been sealed
In the upper left hand corner was dark
brown rectangular stamp finely engraved,
reading, "Brattleboro, Vt, p. o.. five
cents, with the initials az. NJ. C.n in
the center. 1t was Cancelled. and had
the postmark ''Brattleboro, VT" to its
right. Thinking the stamp was of some
value, he took it to Henry Collin, Nassau
street, and asked what it was worth.
IN give you $500 for it, " was the reply.
Harkins was positive that Collin was
lunatic, and was confirmed in his behalf
when the money was placed in his hand.
lie did not wait to count It, but bolted.
Mr.. Collin has won the pnilatelic blue
ribbon by securing the rarest stamp on
the American catalogue, and that means
in the whole world. 1t is the only can
celled Brattleboro stamp known to be in
existence. Eight uncanceled stamps.
leftover stock, are in collections and
are classed as gems At the last sale
where one was put up at auction sit was
given away for $685." but a stamp col
lector in New York, who has one of the
eight, values it at 81, 900. This Cancelled
stamp found by Harkins is almost price.
less, and the bidding Tor it among the
philatelomaniaes of the world will be
spirited. Even the sixty thousand dollar
collections of Baron Edward Rothschild
BH N 6 al L.
collections in England and this country
will lose onehalf their interest without
this "eye of the peacock throne"
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with poor appetite, and perhaps slight cough
in morning, or on first lying down at night,
should be looked to in time. Persons afflicted
with consumption are proverbially unconscious
Of their real state. Most cases commence
with disordered liver, leading to bad diges-
ton and imperfect assimilation of food
hence the emaciation or wasting of the
flesh. 1t is form of scrofulous disease, and
is durable by the use Of that greatest of all
blood cleansing, anti-bilious and invigorating
compounds, known as Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery
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and we might also say-time and pain as
well, in our advice to good housekeepers and
ladies generally. The great necessity exist
ing always to have a perfectly safe remedy
convenient for the relief and prompt cure Of
the ailments peculiar to women-functional
irreguarity, constant painsand all the symp-
toms attendant upon uterine disorders-in-
duces us to recommend strongly and I'M
qualifiedly Dr. Pierces "Fevorite Prescrip-
tion''-woman's best friend 1t will save
money
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

There are now in the employ of the
government 500 persons sufficiently ad
vanced in the science of meteorological
observation to he able to tell what to-
morrow will bring forth in the way Of
weather
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

Insurance is good thing whether applied
to life or property. No less blessing is any
thing that nsures good health. Kidney-Wort
does this. 1t is natures great remedy. 1t is
a mild but efficient cathartic. and acting at
the same time on the liver. kidneys and bow.
els, it relieves all these organs and enables
them to perform their duties perfectly 1t
has wonderful power See advt.
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Life is like a harness. There are
traces of care, lines of trouble, bits OF
good fortune, breaches of good manners,
bridled tongues, and everybody has 8
tug to pull through.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

A BAND of young turkeys routed an army
Of grasshoppers in Fresno, Cal, in two days
last week
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

There were about 80, 900 deaf mutes in
the United States when the last census
was taken.
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Thousands, yes, millions, of bottles of Car
boline have been sold, and the sale still goes
on If there were no merit in this great nat
ural hair renewer do you suppose that the
people would still buy as they continue to do.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-08-22

Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
cures all female and kidney complaints.
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AT least twenty food-reform societies r
now in a hourishing condition in EnglanC.
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Keep in the Fashion The Diamond Dyes
always do more than they claim to do. Color
over that old dress 1t will look like new.
They are warranted. 10c. at druggists. Wells,
Richardson & Co. Burlington, Vt.
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THE oldest American firm manufacturing
gunpowder was established ninety years ago
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Many imitators but no equal, as DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy.
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PARIS had 1888 fires within its limits last
year.
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Ask for Wells, Richardson 4 Co. S Improv-
ed Butter Color, and take no other Beware
OF all limitations and of all other oil colors,t for
every other one is liable to become rancid and
spoil the butter into which it is put. II you
cannot get it write to us ut arlington. Vt,
to know where and how to get it without ex-
ira expense Thousands of tests have been
mad, and they always prove it the best.
Hav-Fever After trying in vain for eleven
years to cure my Hay-Fover, | purchased
bottle of Elys Cream Balm, which entirely
relieved me.-R. W. Harris, letter. carrier,
Newark. n j. Price so cents.
For twenty years was a sufferer during
the summer months with HayFever | pro
cured bottle of Ely's Cream Balm; was cured
by its use. Charlotte Parker. Waverly, n. Y.
Pretty Women.
Ladies who would retain freshness and vi
vacity Try "Wells' Health Remover"
If a cough disturbs your sleep. one dose Of
Piso's Cure will give you a nights rest.
An international anti-vivisection congress
will be held in Paris next year.
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The Vacation Season

r. now upon us. when thousands seek pleasure and
recreation. But the first essential to enjoyment is
good health and if you suffer from biliousness dys
pepsa, scrofula, salt rheum diseases of the kid
neys and liver nothing will restore to health
quickly and effectively Hoods Sarsaparila There
fore take this great medicine before you take your
vacation.
During the summer months have been somewhat
debilitated run down. have taken Hoods Sarsa-
parilla which gave me new vigor and restored to
my wonted health and strength. WILLIAM II.
CLoUGH, Tlton. N. H."
81 derived SO much benefit from Hoods Sarsaparilla
that think it has no equal" Mrs NJ A. KNIGHTS.
Charlestown. Mass.
Mrs ". o. Ashton, Lynn. Mass, saysshe was great
sufferer from sick headache; she received great benefit
from Hoods Sarsaparilla.
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If you are losing your griPon life, try Wells
Health Remover "Goes direct to weak spots.
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Instant relief for neuralgia, toothache, face
ache. Ask for Rough on Toothache. "l5&25c,