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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

exhibition, next winter, which is briefly
outlined in the enclosed circular. Being
Vermonter myself, though away from
he green hills for more than thirty years,
feel a peculiar interest in having the old
state show the world something of her
resources in this coming fruit show. [
know of no person so prominent in horti-
cultural matters in Vermont as yourself |;
hence ask you to help us, if possible, in
this good work. How many varieties Of
apples of the late autumn and winter
kinds can probably be secured there :
Have you any state, or other active horti.
cultural society. that would take hold Of
this work of making an exhibit If not,
will you undertake to help us? The state
legislature should meet the expense of
making an exhibit of the states resources.
Possibly it will. If not, will private en-
terprise do it ? We intend to secure ex-
hibits from every state in the Union in
some way. Give me your suggestions,
and oblige yours truly, PARKER EARLE"
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Insurgents.

This is what the Ploughman has to say
of the motion of Mr. Fred Atwood of
Winterport, Maine Zone of the most ex-
tensive dealers in agricultural merchan-
disc in America), to abolish the organ !"
of the Loring .Needham show. Mr. At
wood sugared his pill by saying very COM
plimentary things of the Ploughman, but
he wasted his politeness to no effect, as
the following ebullition of gall and bitter
ness demonstrates
"The whole movement-this is the
right place to say twas directed against
the society itself. What was at first so
plausible about it was easily put aside,
and then the real motive stood exposed.
1t was movement set on foot by the
same handful of insurgents who have not
hesitated openly to traduce and Willy the
society, and even to 60 outside of New
England for assistance in their virulent
assaults; by the very men who have not
scrupled to try to stigmatize the society as
an ally with the rum interest during the
continuance of its annual exhibitions by
the men who have as good as proclaimed,
openly, that if they cannot rule the society
they will do what they can to ruin it.
The total discontinue on Tuesday may
perhaps be lesson to warn against such
aimless rashness in the future. At any
rate, it has cleared the atmosphere, and a
healthier condition may be expected as
the result of the society's positive and
vigorous announcement Of its temper and
determination"
As the vote against the organ was more
than two to one on Mr.. Atwood's motion,
and was only reversed by the frightened
and furious drumming in of voters to a
meeting held in its own Office, by the
Ploughman ring (and even them only on
a pledge that slips of the Transactions "
should be mailed at once to all the agricul-
tural papers in New England), this total
discontinue was not of the most salts
factory sort, and no wonder the Ploughman
is mad "clear through" Here it may be
said that the most barefaced of all lies
is the one so often reiterated by the whole
Loring-Needham clique, that the men
who denounce its vile and dishonest man.
agement do so because they have tried to
rule it and have failed. By implication
the Plougaman makes Mr.. Atwood such a
man, but it knows that it is telling bold,
unmitigated falsehood. Mr.. Atwood has
been an extensive exhibitor, and has per
haps learned by experience, like so many
others, how things are worked for the ad
vantage of " our friends" in the matter
of premiums.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

A CELEBRATED physician, DR.. Martin
of the Salpetrierie, Paris, has made Sc
ries of observations, stretching over Pc
Rod of years, on nervous affections
among the children of alcoholic drinkers.
In eighty-three families in which one or
more members showed nervous excitabil-
ity, traceable to alcoholic origin, there
were four hundred and ten children. Of
these one hundred and eight, more than a
quarter, had commissions, and in the year
1874 one hundred and sixty.nine were
dead, two hundred and forty-one were
still alive, but eighty-four, more than one
third of the survivors, were epileptic.
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eIarirnHnaL
t. II. HosKINs, Newport. Vt. Editor
Does Ice Iniure Butter z

The progress of accurate science, based
upon careful observation, is driving out
dogmatism-the mere l say so ~ of any
body-from all authority in the minds of
thinking men. A great many things that
were regarded as unquestionable truths
in dairying, twenty years ago, are now
known to be mere superstitions. We
think the belief that ice and ice-water is
injurious to butter ought to be among
these. There is very little, if any, water
in this round globe that has not been ice
and so we may regard all water as ice
water. Cold certainly does not hurt
butter; on the contrary, it preserves it,
Water, at ordinary temperature, is not be-
lieved to hurt butter. Our best butter is
washed with water, and cold we'll water
at that-often as cold as forty degrees.
Now if water at forty degrees does not
harm butter, why should water at
thirty-two degrees, which is the tempera-
ture of ice-water ? Or why should ice ?
Can anybody give reason why perfectly
clean water, in either liquid or solid form,
should injure any insoluble article of
food like butter? We believe, when
such injury is found to occur, that the
harm does not come from the ice or the
water, but is due to some impurity con
tanned in them. Cut your ice from pure
water, and you need not fear harm to your
butter from contact with it.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

THE amount of gold in the United
States at the present time is estimated to
be $57S,000.000, being an increase of
$300,0OO,0O0 within five years. The farm.
ers grew the crops that brought it, but the
gold is now in the hands of the railroad
magnates and the banking lords-men
who draw big dividends on shares they
never paid for, and men who, for twenty
years, have been receiving double inter
est on their capital-both by the favor of
ga government of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people,"
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eMew IdperfsementS.
Three PeCuIiarities

A popularity of Hoods Sarsaparilla which
is obvious to all, is one hundred doses one
doiIdr, 49, an unanswerable argument as to
strength and economy. If you are sick, try
this excellent medicines it has given health
and happiness TO many, and you may reason
ably expect it will to you. The cures effected
by Hoods Sarsaparllla speak volumes in its
praise, and are constantly adding to its in
luencc. No better evidence of its worth is
needed, than its enormous sale. An article
without merit cannot attain the popular de-
mand Of this medicine.
81 have frequently tested Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla, and know it to be an article of merit"
| NJ. Bxby, Holland Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

THE Hon. William ID. Kelley of Penn
sylvania, " father of the house of repre-
sentatives," says his health was never
better than now. He attributes the can
cerous tumor in the mouth, which last
year caused him so much trouble, entirely
to the use of tobacco. "For ffty-fve
years." he says, 81 chewed and smoked.
Last spring l endeavored to break the
habit, but it brought on nervous prostra-
ton. am happy to say that | have
conquered the habit, and now do not use
the weed in any FORM
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Temperance.
A LIQUOR DEALERS VIEWS.

Say, Mister Legislature,
You make an awful fuss,
An do heap o. talkin'
Jest on account Of us;
You sometimes pass liquor law
To please the Temperance crew,
But allus leave a loop-hole
Ter let us felers thro'.
You know we've got host Of votes,
An know we've got the cash;
We've kind o. got ye in our power
Yer darsn't be too rash.
Yer listen to them women folks
An meet 'em with smile,
But they've no votes fer ye ter gain
Yer know 1t all the while.
At times yer pass some pesky law,
But soon 'tis done away,
Fer SIGH az bear too hard on us
We allus disobey;
'Twould save a heap o. trouble
If our advice were asked,
An whether we'd obey SIGH laws,
Before yer had 'em passed,
We've only jest two things ter do,
Then rest our happy souls
The first ter keep the women folks
From votin at the poles.
Wen let 'em talk jest all they please
on ev'ry public walk
In politics the humblest vote
0utweghs the biggest talk.
The other thing we've got ter do,
Now, jest 'twixt you an I,
Ia ter keep the two old parties up,
Nor let old issues die.
Wen thus divide the temperance vote,
An make 'em work agin
Each other, while we hold the power
And make our own men win.
-ChriStidn at Vor
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Questions Answered.

Reading your article ON fertilizers in
THE WATcHMAN of January 30th, and
wishing to experiment some myself on
bone and ashes, / write to ask you the
name of some of the best brands of bone
meal, as you say you deal in it by the car.
load. What would be the cost of five or
six hundred pounds of the best brand,
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Unknown TO Others

"My little girl was afflicted with scrofula.
So virulent was the disease, that her neck had
been lanced ten times. At the time she began
to take Hoods Sarsaparila, there was a very
large bunch on her face. This we ex-
pected to open with the lancet; but to our
surprise the bunch began to shrink, and now
it has entirely disappeared. Baby is in good
flesh; sores all gone; her appetite is good,
and she seems as well as any child"
William II. Conant, Lyme Centre, n. II.
Attest: / live neighbor to Mr.. and Mrs.
Conant, and have always known them. The
above statement is true. Theodore Balch.
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The superior qualities of Hoods Sarsapa-
rila are secured by three pecularities; viz.
First - The combination of remedial agents
used.
Second - The proportion in which they
are mixed.
Third - The process by which the active
medicinal properties are secured.
These are peculiar to Hoods Sarsaparila,
and are unlike any other. The result of these
peculiarites is medicine of unusual strength,
which effects cures hitherto unknown. A
trial, or even glance at the article, inspires
confidence, because it bears unquestionable
Indication of Il thorough understanding on the
part of those who originated it,
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To RESTORE RUBBER RINGS FOR CAN

To RESTORE RUBBER RINGS FOR CANS.
The rubber rings used to assist in keep
ing the air from fruit-cans sometimes be-
come so dry and brittle as to be almost
useless They can be restored to nor
NAL condition, usually, by letting them
lie in water in which you have put little
ammonia. Mix in this proportion one
part ammonia and two parts water. Some
times they do not need to lie in this more
than five minutes but frequently half
hour is needed to restore their elasticity.
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Vermont Fruit at the New Orleans
Exposition.

Parker Earle, Esq, of Golden, Illinois,
one of the leading horticulturists of Amer
lea, has been appointed to superintend the
horticultural department of the proposed
"Cotton Centennial at New Orleans,
which will begin in December, 1884, and
close May 81, 1885. We have received
from him the annexed letter, which fully
explains itself. Mr.. Earle's nativity in
our state naturally makes him DESTROYS
that Vermont should be represented at
this, which will undoutt dly be second
only, if at all, to the Philadelphia Cen.
tennial. 1t is intended that the horticul-
tural display shall be the grandest and
most varied that has ever been made,
anywhere. Shall Vermont take part in
it? We should be glad to have express
sions OF opinion from fruitgrowers all
over the state. If sufficient assistance
can be secured, we know good show can
be made, one of which we need not be
ashamed. But this cannot be done with.
out general effort, and before responding
definitely to Mr.. Earle's request, we want
to know how many are willing to join in
contributing fruit for this purpose. We
are willing to do full share of the work,
and only ask that others will do what they
can. Let us hear from you, brother fruit.
growers We think the legislature will
be willing to appropriate money to pay
the expense of sending and properly dis
playing such an exhibit, which would not
be great. Will our brethren of the press,
especially our brother agricultural editors,
cooperate in making Mr.. Earle's invita-
tion known to their readers Don't be
restrained by the fear that we are desir-
ing to get any glory out of it. We will
turn all that over to anybody who will dc
the work. But we should really like to
see the thing done, and Vermont take hei
stand with other states in this national
display.
MR.. EARLE's LETTER.
"Dr. T. II. Hoskins: MY Dear Sir
Having long acquaintance with you
in the columns of the agricultural press
naturally turn to you when seeking fol-
the right man to help secure representa-
tion Of the fruits Of Vermont in the great
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

Henry Dickson, wholesale grocer, and pro-
prictor of Dickson's Opera House, Kenton, o,
writes: "My wife has been troubled with in
digestion, and her blood has been in poor
condition. She has used several bottles of
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and it has been great
benefit to her"
"For the last twelve or fifteen years have
been a sufferer from a milk leg; was almost
helpless, and could walk only on level floor
Hoods Sarsaparilla has certainly made me
all over new, and cured me of my lameness
[ feel twenty years younger than l did"
Harriet Vim, Durham, Me.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

THE father of Senator Allison of Iowa,
who died two weeks ago at the age of
eighty-fve, had been lifelong abstainer
from the use of tobacco and intoxicating
liquors, and never had been afflicted with
any disease.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

A QUESTION FOR c. E,J.-"Mr. Editor i:
If G. Il. j. will kindly tell us how he built
his vat for saving liquid manures, at a
cost of only ten dollars, / am sure he will
confer great favor upon at least one in.
terested FARMER"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

THE Rural New Yorker says Mrs. Lizzie
f. Cotton of West Gorham, Name whose
book on bee management we noticed last
week, has been repeatedly exposed for
fraudulent dealings, but does not particu
larize further.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

OF twenty-one presidents, fifteen have
been farmers, or were the sons of farmers,
and five lived on new or pioneer farms,
and the latter have been the most prom.
inent among the presidents.
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P0tIen
almost dead or nearly dvi

For years, and given up by physicians
Of Brights and other kidney diseases, liver
complaints, severe coughs called consump-
ton, have been cured.
Women gone nearly crazy from agony of
neuralgia, nervousness, wakefulneSs, and va
rious diseases peculiar TO women. People
drawn oIt of shape from eXcruciating pangs
OF rheumatism, intiammatory and chronic,
or suffering from scrOfula! erysipelas!
salt rheum, blood poisoning, dyspepsia, in.
digestion, and in fact almost all diseases frail
Nature is heir to
Have been cured by Hop BtterS, proof of
which can be found in every neighborhood
in the known world.
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Farms to Rent.

The subscriber has large and valuable farm, stocked
with dairy, which will be rented upon shares or money
rent for the coming year. Said farm Ia centrally located
the main road leading from Montpelier TO Bradford
and about four miles from Barre depot. The house
Is and buildings generally good, Possession
given any time after March st Also the subscriber has
several other farms In the vicinity, stocked with
part cows and sheep to rent for which he wishes &c
secure good tenants at Possession given April LIST
Address ORANGE FIFIELD, Montpelier, Vt.
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REPLY BY AGRICULTURAL EDIToR.-
All the fertilizer-makers and the large
dealers, also all large agricultural stores
in Boston and elsewhere, deal in ground
bone, and will ship it to anyone who Or
ders it and forwards the money. 1t is
shipped in bags and barrels. Buy only
warranted pure ran bone, ground fine.
This comes higher than the steamed
bone, and is worth more, though the lat
ter is pure bone. We have occasionally
bought carload of bone at once, to save
freight, which is about double on smaller
lots, but we do not sell it. Land plaster
is ground plaster (gypsum) rock, often
used by farmers as special fertilizer on
clover, and usually for sale by the bag in
all large villages. The price ranges from
six to twelve dollars per ton. How much
| it will take to make barrel of bone and
ashes, that has been wet, dry enough to
handle, will depend entirely on how much
water was used. We put in two or three
pailsful, and this, after setting three
weeks, takes about half bag (say
busheD of plaster to dry it so as to be
easily sown by hand, or scattered evenly
on the hill 1t is no doubt useful itself
as fertilizer, but the principal purpose
of using it, in this case, is to make the
bone and ashes dry. enough to handle.
Cotton-seed meal, at the rate of half a
bushel to barrel of the mixture, would
increase its value for most any crop.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-02-20

WILL we ever have the Swedish rule,
that man who gets drunk three times
forfeits his right to vote
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sulphate ammonia "a to 25 per cent?. cper H.
Nitrate Soda 95 per cent............. 22Oc per ~
Nitrate potash, "a to SO per cent?. 51s per H.
Dried blood Is to II per cent ammonia. 1928 per unit
Dried blood IL TO IA per cent ammonia 200 per unit
Dried blood 10 to Il per cent ammonia 200 per unit
Dried meat, IA to Is per cent ammonia. 200 per unit
Cotton-seed meal, per cent ammonia 24OO per ton
Fine ground bone, 81 to ~ per cent am
monia so S. per cent bone phosphate $500 per ton
South Carolina phosphate, ground, rs to
rs per cent phosphoric acid ......... 1900 per ton
No. superphosphate lime, Is TO l6 per
cent soluble phosphorc acid. ....... 20.O0 per ton
Acid superphosphate lime, IL TO Ia per
cent soluble phosphorc acid. ....... 1900 per ton
Murate potash 50 per cent........... $500 per ton
Sulphate potash, 60 per cent 5000 per ton
The No. superphosphate and acid SUI
perphosphate here quoted are made of
South Carolina phosphate treated with
sulphuric acid, in the manner recon-.
mended by DR.. Cutting, but having no
nitrogen, as DR.. Cuttings preparation, in
which bone is used, would have. This
plain acid superphosphats can be made a
complete fertilizer by mixing with it nj
trogenous materials (sulphate of ammonia,
dried blood, or cotton-seed meaD, and pot
ash, in the form of ashes, or muriate or
sulphate of potash. The plain superphos-
phate (without nitrogen or potash) can be
had, as we are informed, of Benz
Randall, East Boston, Mass. In order to
get low rate on freight, these goods
ought to be bought by the carload, hold
ing say ten tons, which could easily be
done by neighbors clubbing together.
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Vital Questions.
Ask the most eminent physician

Ask the most eminent physician
OF any school, what is the best thing in
The world for quieting and allaying all irri-
tation of the nerves and curing all forms
of nervous complaints, giving natural,
childlike refreshing sleep always,
And they will tell you unhesitatingly,
"Some form of Hops"
CHAPTER I.
Ask any or all of the most eminent ply,
sicians:
What is the best and only remedy that
can be relied on to cure all diseases OF the
kidneys and urinary organs, such rs Bright'
disease, diabetes, retention or inability tc
retain urine, and all the diseases and all
ments peculiar to women
And they will tell you explicitly and
emphatically, "Buchu."
Ask the same physicians:
What is the most reliable and surest
cure for all liver diseases or dyspepsia, con-
stipaton, indigestion, biliousness, malarial
fever, ague, etc., and they will tell you:
Mandrake, or Dandelionw
Hence, when these remedies are com.
bined with others equally valuable,
And compounded into Hop Bitters, such
wonderful and mysterious curative power
is developed, which is so varied in its ope-
rations that no disease or ill-health can
possibly exist or resist its power and yet
it is harmless for the most frail woman,
weakest invalid, or smallest child to use.
CHAPTER IT.
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ScrofuIa

Hoods Sarsaparilla will cure, when in the
power of medicine, Scrofula, Salt Rheum,
Dyspepsia, Headache, Constipation, Bilious
ness, General Debility, Pains in the Back,
Kidney Complaint, Catarrh, Female Weak
ness, Cancerous Humors, Humors of the
Face, Ringworm, Pimples, Syphilitc Affec-
tions, Ulcers, Sores, Tumors, Scald Head,
and all diseases arising from an impure
state or low condition of the blood.
appetite poor, bowels all out OF order,
scrofuous sores on my face and back. com
menced taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, and with
three bottles my sores healed, and | am at
business again" j. Amberg, Chicago, Ill.
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Wholesale Cash Prices OF Fertilizer
Materials in Boston Market.

Our friend and correspondent, Mr.. A.
II. Ward of Bridgewater, Mass. (now ag-
ricuJtural editor of the Boston Globe),
prints the following price-list of fertil-
izing materials, which will answer many
inquiries lately received. They may be
had of fertiizer-makers and dealers,
wholesale druggists, and agricultural ware
houses. The price "per unit " for fertil-
izers of which ammonia is the main con-
stituent, means so much per ton for each
one per cent of ammonia. Thus, ten per
cent of ammonia in dried blood, at two
dollars per unit, would be twenty dollars
per ton:
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Purify Your Blood

Hoods Sarsaparlla is made of sarsaparilla,
dandelion, mandrake, cherry bark, iva ursi,
dock, and other valuable medicinal agents
long and favorably known for their power in
Graduating disease and purifying the blood.
A Druggist says i" 1t is fortunate to have
preparation like Hoods Sarsaparilla that you
can recommend to your customers, confident
it will suit them"
If you are suffering from Scrofula, Salt
Rheum, Catarrh, Dyspepsia, or any blood dis
ease, and are DESTROYS of more information
regarding the value of Hoods Sarsaparilla
we shall be glad to send you book containing
a few of the wonderful cures effected.
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Some More Formulas,

Referring above to the price-list of fer
tilizer materials, we will now give, for
the convenience of our readers, few
formulas for making them up for differ
emit crops