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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24
Spiritual SlOth.

Thorwaldsen, having completed an ex.
quisite statue of our Lord, remarked to a
friend, with sadness, "My genius is de-
caying "What do you mean ?" said
his friend. "Here," said the sculptor,
ais my statue of Christ. 1t is the first of
my works with which l have ever felt
satisfied. Until now my idea has always
been beyond what could execute. t is
no longer So" A deep spiritual lesson is
suggested by this expression of the great
sculptor. Well may the Christian who is
satisfied with any present attainment or
achievement look with apprehension upon
such state. 1t is sure sign of decaying
life-of declining spiritual sight. For,
with enlarging views of our divine ideal,
comes increasing dissatisfaction with our
own imperfect likeness to it. Seeing him
more and more as he is we forget the
things that are behind, and reach forth to
those that are before. Every one that
hath in him the hope of being like Christ
"purifieth himself even as he is pure"
o, satisfied Christian, resting at your
ease, see we'll to it that yours is not the
rest of spiritual sloth, of decaying strength
that dreamless slumber which is slow to
waken at the touch of great ideas, which
once 80 thrilled you with holy zeal, and
made You eager in the service of your
Lord l-Presbyterian.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

These tables are worthy of study. 1t
will be seen that the soil would lose fertil.
ity very slowly if the total excrement were
returned to it. Over 90 per cent of the
nitrogen and ash constituents are voided
by both sheep and oxen. The last table
shows that solid and liquid excrements of
sheep are rich in both nitrogen and min
eral constituents when fed on hay. Two
thousand pounds of the solid would con.
tain fourteen pounds, and of the LIQUID
twenty-eight pounds-the liquid contain.
ing double but in feeding barley meal,
the liquid contained about four times az
much as the solid. When farmers fully
consider the value of the liquid excrement
of their animals, will they still think they
can afford to waste it? Many farmers
who give little thought to the loss of this
most valuable fertilzing matter on their
own farms are liberal purchasers of COM
mercial fertilizers. Our examination
shows what large loss must occur where
large stocks are kept, and only the ordi.
nary precaution is taken to save the liquid.
1t is more frequently thrown out of side
windows under the caves, to be washed
away by the rains, but a considerable part
of the liquid goes through the stable floor
into the earth under. Those who On.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24
Wheat In Vermont.

"Never has the wheat crop been better
in Vermont, at least in central Vermont
than it is this season. We have urged
farmers to grow more than they do. Even
at the present low price it is profitable
1t is profitable 10 grow it to feed. Mr.. j.
G. Rice of this town has just threshed two
hundred sixty-four bushels from six
acres of ground, averaging over forty-four
bushels per acre. 1t is spring wheat, OF
the Lost Nation vsriety-s kind that has
proved very valuable for this section
While such yield is exceptional, the
average yield of late years makes wheat.
growing as profitable as any other grain,
and more so in most cases."
So says the Farmer and News. The
wheat crop, and indeed all small grains,
are succeeding wonderfully all over north.
ern New England this season. The Lost
Nation, wheat which we were the first
we think, to bring into Vermont from
Maine, some twelve years ago, is good
cropper, even in poor years, and a good
milling wheat, though it does not make
80 much fine -four as some other kinds.
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Experiment Station Report.

The Boston CultiUator, though a very
good family newspaper, is not one that we
look to for any very profound agricultural
writing. But the following remarks,
which it makes on the abovenamed sub
ject, are both sound and timely:
4" 1t is a question If the frequent issuing
OF bulletins from experimental stations is
safe practice. OF all experiments those
relating to agriculture require most time
for their contamination and most deliber-
alton in the selection of methods en-
ployed. A weekly or monthly bulletin
must be chronicle of but partial results,
and although its author may claim no
more for it, yet its statements are too
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

THE Maine Farmer says: "Peter M
Gideon is widely known for his energetic
and successful efforts in producing new
varieties of fruits hardy enough for Min.
nesota. Among those which he has
raised is the Wealthy apple, variety
which promises to be as valuable for that
region as the Baldwin is at the East, and
which is estimated to be worth million
dollars to that state. o. Gibbs, Jr., stated
at the last meeting of the American Pom.
illogical Society that in recognition of the
valuable service Mr.. Gideon has rendered
and is still engaged in, the state of Min
nesota gives him thousand dollars q
year and the use of farm on Lake Min.
netonka, to continue his experiments
without interference, for an annual report
to the State University"
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deavor TO save IL best, wheel the manure
out under shed. But even here good
deal soaks into the earth. The only GER
tain way to save the liquid excrement
completely, is to have it flow into water
tight receptacle under the stable floor (;
and the most economical way is to have
liquid and solid fall together into this
water-tight gutter, and then both are
carried to the field together, and it is no
more labor to carry both than the liquid
alone. The German farmers who know
the great value of the liquid separate the
liquid in reservoir by itself, and pump
it into liquid-manure distributor, with
water added, and then distribute over the
soil. But this adds to the labor over that
of taking both to the field together. The
writer uses the manure spreader, which
distributes both liquid and solid together
evenly over the soil. All the manual la
Dor bestowed upon the manure is to shovel
with scoop the liquid and solid manure
into the spreader, and then the team does
the spreading much more evenly than it
can be spread by hand. The cost of these
water-tight cutters is but a trife compared
to the value of the fertilizers saved. One
hundred millions of dollars expended for
commercial fertilizers would 60 but
short way to replace the fertility wasted
in liquid excrement in this country in a
single year. This is a matter of so much
consequence that our farmers cannot
afford to treat it with indifference any
longer. The agricultural press is now
often calling attention to it, and trust a
few years will bring in better practice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

A CORRESPONDENT of the Homestead, writ
ing from Merrimack county, N. H., and
signing himself One Who Knows" says
81 am especially pleased with the Home.
stead's position in relation to the alleged
New England fair Allow me to kindly
add that the mutual admiration ring of
Loring, Needhsm & Co. never had much 10
say about the management of the fair, ex.
cept in the selection of the hacks in which
they rode over the grounds. Col. Riddle
has been the power behind the throne,
and he has run it to make the exhibition
pay" This Colonel Riddle (the horse.
jockeys are all colonels) is the same chap
who wrote the editor of the NeD Hamp-
shire Journal that he must not allow any
more of our wicked calumnies upon the
"ring to appear in his paper. "Cheek is
what ails the gallant colonel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

THERE comes time, of course. when il
will not pay to feed meal if the balance il
to be struck daily. After a COW from
natural causes has shrunk down to small
flow, the addition of meal to her pastur,
age will not produce enough to pay the
expense. So, too, when COW is dry OF
nearly 30 she will not pay daily for hel
pasturage or her hay. The yearly cost
must be set against the income for the
year, and when this is done it will be
found that those COWS which are fed all
they need the year through, will pay a
larger income above their cost of keeping
than those left to scanty pasturage alone
Maine Farmer.
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Ohio and Kentucky.

In 1880 the farms in Kentucky
amounted to 81, ACE, 240 acres, and in Ohio
to "a 529,226 acres, giving the advantage
of only about fifteen per cent to Ohio !;
but the value of farm products sold, con-
sumed or on hand, was in Ohio $156, Ill.,
152, while in Kentucky the value was no
more than $63, $50, 155, and the value of
the farms was almost four times greater
in Ohio than in Neutrality-suspicious. Cult.
UdtOr.
This is very unfair statement, which
no honest and intelligent editor should ex-
cuse himself for printing. Ohio has hardly
a waste or poor acre in its whole extent.
Kentucky has a large territory of rough
and mountainous land, almost useless for
agricultural purposes, and very thinly
peopled. The population of Ohio in 1880
was 3,19s,O62, that of Kentucky 1,64s, 800,
or but few thousand more than half as
much as Ohio. In that portion of Ken
lucky where the land is equal in quality
to Ohio land the valuation of farms is
greater than in Ohio, and this without
taking into account the fact that Ohio has
forty-six cities and villages of over four
thousand population, while X entucky has
but eleventh being we'll known that the
vicinity of these local markets adds
greatly to the value of neighboring farms
and of their products. 1t seems to
us that the North possesses advan-
tages enough over the South, without
wanting to make them out greater still by
such silly misrepresentation, easily re-.
futed by reference to the census tables.
we may add that little ciphering on the
basis of the figures given will demonstrate
that, without any allowance for the larger
amount of waste territory in Kentucky,
the value of the farm products of the two
states is almost equal, per head of popula-
ton, thus giving the agricultural suprem-
acy to Kentucky. But in other branches
of industry Ohio is greatly in advance
Let the truth suffice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

A GEORGIA man is reported in the At
lanta Constitution as saying: 81 can take
forty Jersey cattleon good farm and make
more money than any other farmer ever
made with forty negro slaves on the same
land. A man who owns herd of regis
tered Jerseys and Georgia farm is richer
than man who owned the same number
of slaves before the war. If every slave
freed in Georgia" said he, warming with
the subject, "was replaced to-day with a
good Jersey, in ten years Georgia would
be richer than she would have been if the
emancipation proclamation had never been
written. You'd better not print this,
though: for if you do, the Yankees might
take notion to come and free the cows"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

often accepted by farmers as we'll estab-
lished facts or principles officially an.
ed. If the agricultural press cir
culate it, the fact that the results are in.
complete, and therefore of no account, is
suits are of no use to the farmer. They
are exceedingly liable to modification or
to complete alteration, and confusion and
incredulity at once ensue. 1t seems to us
that bulletins upon one subject, or one
line Of subjects, containing the results of
decisive experiments, are to be preferred
to those which simply denote progress
without giving definite conclusions. Many
bulletins should be labelled Curious
facts in agriculture Careful expert.
mentors are exceedingly cautious in an.
nouncing positive results"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

THE Royal Agricultural Society of
England, the New York State Agricultural
Society, the Essex County, Mass, Agricul.
tural Society, and scores of other organiza-
tions equally meritorious, although, per.
haps, less influential, have never made
horse-trotting feature of their exhibi.
tions. This "fast.horse business +" has
wrecked many societies which gave prom
Use of usefulness, and the sooner it can be
" stamped out of the agricultural fair
the better. Let those who desire these
tests of speed take other opportunities
and other places for their qualification
than the agricultural festival and the
farmers fair ground.-Erchange.
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eIprirnHmaL
t. H. HosKINs. Newport. VT. Editor.

THE University Agricultural College
farm at Champaign, ILL.,, has over thou
sand different kinds of apples under trial
in its experimental orchards. 1t is doing
for that state what we have done for
northern Verm mt, SOLITARY and Alone"
unaided and almost unthanked. Mean
time Vermont's agricultural college fund
has been used to teach Greek and Latin,
and turn out professional men and poll.
ticians. Minnesota gave Peter Gideon
81, 900 and farm for doing just what we
have done in the same time, viz, supply a
fruitless region with fruit that can be
easily and proftably grown. Our only
public reward, so far, has been the
"grand bounce from the Board of Agri-
culture for telling too much truth about
the agricultural college.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24
Look Out for Thieyes.O

Referring to the week of the "New
England Fair " at Manchester, N. H., the
Mirror of that city says: "People can
not be too careful this week in guarding
their household property, and vigilance is
required by day as well as by night" But
does any one imagine that if this was
simply and solely farmers fair, for the
exhibition and competition of legitimate
farm products and farm implements, there
would be any such rush there of thieves
and swindlers as to necessitate such a
caution Is not that the consequence
and attendant Of the horse gambling,
which is at once the chief motive of the
fair, and of this vicious class of attend
ants 1t degrades what should be an
honorable and benefcent occasion to the
level of low circus, where all, from the
head man to the lowest attendant, is per-
sonally concerned in tricks for illegal and
immoral gain, which speedily slide into
still worse crimes and villainies. The
horse.raclng which the United States
commissioner of agriculture and his asso-
ciates in that fair are concerned with
may not be strictly illegal in that state,
or even in this, but who will deny that it
ought to be, and that it is actually as per-
nicious to the people, and as destructive
to both public and private morality, as the
lotteries which our ancestors were forced
to prohibit, or the rum business which we
are trying to extinguish No matter
how prominent the men engaged in it
may be, they are acting in way most
hurtful to the public welfare, under a
pretence of regard to the good of the
farming interest. As farmer, we protest
against all such sinful games"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

l. c. LIBBY of Burnhan, Maine, says the
Belfast Journal, has made over eight hun.
dred trips to the Brighton, Mass, market
in the last twenty years, and has sold in
that market over $4,000 head of cattle
and has brought back to Maine from
Massachusetts over one million nine hun.
dred fifty thousand dollars ($1,95O,.
000) He has paid the Maine Central
railroad over two hundred thousand dol.
lars freight on cattle. In doing this bust
ness he has travelled by rail over four
hundred eighty thousand miles, equiv.
alent to going around the globe eighteen
times, and has never been in a car that
left the iron, or got a scratch. He is hale
and hearty and is forty.seven years old
He claims never to have tasted of any kind
of liquor in his life, and does not use to.
bacco in any form.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24
Value OF Liquid Manure.

The average stock-feeder and general
farmer has very imperfect idea of the
value of the liquid droppings of his ami
mails. He thinks the liquid is rich in fer
tilizing matter, but, as compared with the
solid droppings, he rates its value as much
less. l write this article with the en-
deavor of showing the farmer, in ia
miliar way, the basis of value in the liquid
and solid droppings. We may regard all
the manure, both liquid and solid, as COM
ing from the food. This is not strictly
correct, as all the waste of the body is
carried off in the liquid excrement, and
the new matter to supply this waste of
the body is secreted from the blood,
which is formed from the food. All
farmers understand that part of the
food is indigestible-that the alimentary
matters which the digesting fluid does
not act upon are passed in the solid ex-
crement-but they do not seem to realize
that all the alimentary matters which are
digested and not used to supply waste in
the system, are passed in the liquid excre-
ment. The careful German experiments
proved that about ninety-fve per cent of
all the valuable fertilizing matters di-
gested were recovered in the liquid excre-
ment. 1t will be understood that all the
fertilizing matter in the liquid excrement
is in solution, that is, ready to become
plant food, and therefore has a greater
value per quantity than the same elements
in the solid manure, which are still in
soluble. Now the reader will perceive
that the solid excrement contains only
the insoluble refuse of the food, while the
liquid excremsnt contains ninety-fve per
cent of all the valuable digestible fertil-
izing elements in the food. This state.
ment would seem to render it easy to de-
termine which is the more valuable, the
liquid or solid excrement; the valuable
and digestible part of the food goes into
the liquid excrement, and the refuse and
least valuable part goes into the solid
excrement. We will give illustrations, by
some short tables made from the German
experiments, upon animals fed on barley
meal:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24
Hoods
SarsapanMa

as to derive their greatest medicinal effects
with the least disturbance to the whole sys-
tenn. In fact this preparation is so well bal
anced in its action upon the alimentary
canal, the liver, the kidneys, the stomach,
the bowels and the circulation of the blood,
that it brings about healthy action of the
entire human organism, that can hardly be
credited by those who have not seen the re-
markable results that have followed its use.
If the Sarsaparlla does not prove sufficient
ly laxative, take a few doses of Hoops VEG
ETABLE PILLS. 1t is well in all cases Of
biliousness to take these pills in connection
with the Sarsaparila for the first ten DAYS.
That dull, sleepy, sick feeling can he wholly
overcome by the use Of these remedies. VIII
you give them trial and be yourself again?
An ex-alderman of this city says of Hoods
Sarsaparilla " 1t is the strongest Sarsapa-
rilla l ever saw"
Each dollar bottle contains one hundred
(averages) doses. Sold by all druggists.
Price one dollar, or six for five dollars.
Hoods Sarsaparilla prepared only bye.
I. HOOD g. CO., Apothccaries, Lowell, Mass.
sY- Use HOODS TooTH-PowDER.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

WE knew an individual who claimed it
did not pay to feed meal to COWS, for he
bought bushel once and fed it with but
little effect. There can be no doubt of
the correctness of his conclusions so far
as shown in his practice. To realize
profit, the feeding must be continuous
course of good feeding.-Maine Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

Mrs. AsENATH CRANE of East Warren,
Maine, had a lot of new tin pans arranged
against the outside of her house on one of
the hot days last week. Seeing smoke
issuing from somewhere, she could hardly
tell where, she investigated and found her
house had been set on fire by the tin pans,
and but for this timely discovery, the
house would have been consumed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

No theories of politics, no soundness of
political doctrines can save us if the in
tegrity of our public men loses its attrac.
ton for the people for democracy is mot
born out of the sky nor wrought in
Dreams" but demands ceaseless conflict
of the people with ever-recurring moral
dangers.
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Mew Idpsrfisements
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-
PARILIA. 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, 1884-09-24

THE best results in dairying are secured
where good feeding is practiced the year
through. There are some pastures good
enough for profitable work without grain
feed, but average pastures will give better
profits If small feed of grain be added.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24

BY REV. j. 8. COGswELL, A. N.
CHAPTER vI.-GREAT CHANGES AT ELS
MORE CoTTAGE-GEoRGE FOREST
AND WIFE BECOME DISCIPLES
OF CHRIST, AND ACTIVE
IN RELIGIOUS WORKS.
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"All hail the power of Jesus name,
Let angels PROSTATE fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem
A nd nrnuta him L ord ~ nj %

Before she was aware of it, Mrs. Forest
was singing with the others. Her excel
lent voice was noticed and appreciated by
all the singers. Somehow that song
awakened deep feeling in Mr.. Forest. He
felt that the church was better place to
be in than many other places that he had
frequented during the years gone by since
he left college. At this meeting the min
lister took for his theme, "The Mercies of
God" He wildly set forth the facts con-
corning the mercies of God toward all
classes of people. He made it to be clearly
seen that God was merciful Being in
in all his relations with mankind. He
showed that God was merciful and gra-
cious to each individual in all the world
The closing hymn was:
When all thy mercies. my God
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view, I'm lost
In wonder love and praise"
Joseph Addison was favorite author
with Mr.. Forest. These words of the
hymn had great meaning in them to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-09-24
Real Estate for Sale.

On account of sickness and death In his family the
subscriber offers his residence In Planhed village VT
for sale. 1t of the most desirable residences in the
village, 0ne-haf of land twenty Ave fruit trees
brick house, nicely hnished shade tress and never
failing running water Good barn, and all in good
pair The will he sold at bargain. For further
particulars inquire of the subscriber al Painheld, Vt
o. l.. H0YT.
September 8, 1884. 65-67
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Combines the
BEST Remedies
of the vegetable
Kingdom, and in
sllch proportion
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NITROGEN STORED UP AND voIDED FOR ONE
HUNDRED CONSUMED.

ASH CONSTITUENTS STORED UP AND yoIDRD FOR
ONE HuNDRED CONSUMED.
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AThl0PH0R0S CO., Il2 WALL ST., NEW YORK.
ulllkMlluls2llllaR NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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The following table shows the compo-
sition of the solid and liquid excrements
of sheep fed ON good hay:

Solid
Cereremenf
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q Use HOODS TOoTH-POwDER