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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

and probably exceed the nutritive value
of the plant at any previous stage of its
growth. In this case the seed is obtained
in a form in which it can be fed without
any loss, but with the grasses it is differ
emit. The seeds are 30 small that they are
not masticated nor digested, and aside
from being to considerable extent lost
from Smelling in the handling of hay,
when taken into the animal economy they
pass through it, in large degree, I'M
changed, as every farmer knows who has
used manure for field crops from stock fed
on hay, the seed of which was fully ripe.
These views of very important sub
ject, with which the minds of our readers
will now be occupied, deserve all the con-
sideration that can be given to them.
The whole grass question is of the first
importance to our farmers. The men who
can make two spears of grass grow where
one grew before are not yet as numerous as
the prosperity of the country requires. We
hope our readers will give us their prac-
tical results and their methods with the
hay crop as soon as they can lay down
the pitchfork long enough to take up the
pen. Let us counsel together for the
good of all.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
Collier on Sorghum.

We are indebted to the publishers,
Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, for a
copy of our (and all Vermont farmers)
friend, DR.. Peter Golfers noble work on
" Sorghum, Its Culture and Manufacture
economically considered, as a Source of
Sugar, Syrup and Fodder" 1t is large
and well-bound octave volume of five
hundred and seventy pages, containing
fifteen chapters, an appendix, and thor
ough index of nineteen double-column
pages-making altogether comprehensive
and exhaustive treatise on the sorghum
sugar question and allied topics, including
the chemistry of sugar, sugar statistics, bib
biography, history and botany of sorghum,
description of varieties and investi-
cation of the sugar-producing quality of
each, full account of methods of culture,
complete deviations for manufacture Of
sugar and syrup on both large and small
scale, investigation of maize as sugar.
producing plant, and voluminous statistics
in regard to sugar from the national
bureau of statistics at Washington. The
work also contains all the illustrations
necessary for the better elucidation of the
text. 1t is, in fact, monumental work,
which is destined to add millions of dol
lars to the value of our national produc-
tions, and result in the saving of an outgo
for foreign sugar more than equal to our
whole production of gold and silver. 1t is
not often given to one man to 80 benefit
his native country as Professor Collier, by
his skill and industry, has been able to do
in the production of this invaluable book
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

Steele, the agricultural editor of the Phils-
delphia Press. Mr.. Steele's statement
was made before Major Alvord's, and not
as an explanation of it, and is worth more
on that account. Said he, The butter
which sells in the New York market at
the highest price, along side of the Darling
ton butter "a famous brandt, is made
from the milk of herd of Jerseys that is
fed exclusively on ensilage-.,cith lille
grain !" This reminds us of the poor old
lady down on Cape Cod, who told her
pastor that she had lived all that winter
entirely upon falkland a fen clans j.!
We intended to refer to several other
faults found with ensilage, but this article
is long enough, and we will take up the
subject again. Briefly. it is our belief
that rightly made and intelligently used
ensilage is great boon to the New En-
gland farmer. Many will make it care
lessly, and use it unintelligently, and so
perhaps create reaction against it; but
with careful, well-skilled dairymen it will
be good and easy substitute for roots
that none will want to be without.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
The Moan OF a Cabbage-Seed.

We find in the French edition of the
Quebec Journal Of Agriculture, under the
above heading, satire upon grocery-store
seeds. A cabbage seed tells his experience
there. He says he was born in Western
New York, of no particular family or
race, in fact bastard. He was sold to
commission dealer, and soon after began
his long and tiresome travels. The first
act of his new owner was to pack him in
little paper along with lot of aged re-
lations, who made fun of his freshness.
They were then deposited in box, with
some five hundred other packets of various
sorts, and finally dropped on the counter
of country store in Alabama, where
they sweltered through long summer.
The next year they were transferred to
Carolina, to repeat similar experience.
Lots of his companions of all sorts died
of the climate, and he, notwithstand-
ing an intense desire to be sold and
planted, had to be taken back North
for his health. Year after year he
was transported from one part of the
United States to another, feeling more
and more ashamed of being offered as
a good seed. However, he managed to
survive these experiences for nine years,
and was at last sold to Canadian, sun
der false pretexts and false colors." He
was planted and came up, weakly, making
so small growth and so poor head that
he was given to tramp, and took his last
opportunity, in the tramp's bag, to write
his mournful experiences upon one of his
| own wilted leaves. MoRAL-Don't buy
grocery.store seeds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
Currant Worms.

Mr.. Jameson writes "a Vermont writer
in the Country Gentleman says that if saw
dust is put on the ground under currant
bushes the worms will not attack them.
l think have some bushes that have not
been injured for several years by worms,
and l had sawdust under them for a
mulch. This year they are untouched,
while other bushes are eaten"
1t is possible that the sawdust of some
kinds of wood may be sufficiently often
sive to them to prevent the currant-saw-
flies from depositing their eggs upon the
leaves Of a bush mulched with it. But we
have mulched eight inches deep with
spruce sawdust without any preventive
effect. Coal ashes has also been recon-
mended for the same purpose, the idea
being that the larvae bury themselves for
the winter in the soil under the bush, and
are unable to come up in the spring
through the ashes. Where all the cur
rant and gooseberry bushes in garden are
heavily mulched with coal ashes, or even
sawdust, this effect may be produced, pro-
vided there are no unmulched bushes
within mile or so, from which the flies
may come. But this is not safe reliance.
Paris green or London purple may be
used up to the time the bushes are in
blossom, but not later. After that, helle
bore is perfectly safe, as the rain washes
it off the fruit before it is large enough to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
In the Senate.

Senator Van Wyck of Nebraska (who
don't seem to be ain the ring" very much
yeti, says of Wall street:
ats conservative bankers are thrown
into spasms at the sight of silver dollar,
but they will loan millions on watered
stock not worth cent. They know that
81 900, 100000 out of $6,000,000,000 of
railroad property and securities represent
no value-are mere paper, which mere
panic may scatter to the four winds. Yet
this is sufficient as basis of loans by the
bankers of Wall street. When the gam
blers have shorn all the lambs, and COM
menced to devour each other, and shake
the foundations of credit and confidence,
and threaten to engulf all interests, they
can easily reach a paternal government
through the secretary of the treasury, who,
by their gracious permission or demand,
unlocks the treasury, anticipates payment
of ten millions, to raise up and invigorate
the gamblers to ply again the same role
Of initiation and panic"
We did not know we had any agricul-
tural senators nowadays, but Mr.. Van
Wyck seems to take the farmers view in
this case. 1t does seem to be pity that
senators from almost exclusively agricul-
tural states should appear in congress
mainly as the representatives Of the man.
ufacturing, banking and transportation
interests. 1t is true that these interests
are able, without coarse and vulgar brib-
cry, to throw money into the hands of able
politicians, and quietly to make a poor
man rich on a congressional salary. But
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

the strange thing is that a man may spend
his whole congressional career in the SER
vice of interests which his own state has
little direct concern with, and yet retain
his influence, If not his popularity, at
home. Many states, as regards their real
interests, are not represented in congress
at all. As for the United States senate,
it is rapidly becoming "house of lords"
untitled, but rolling in wealth, much of
which has come out of the people in
"ways that are dark" and by "tricks
that are vain"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
Deposited Money.

1t is getting to be very serious ques-
ton with small depositors, who after all
furnish the banks the greater part Of the
money that those institutions receive,
whether the accommodation that they
get is at all adequate for the risks they
run of being seriously crippled by the
operations of thieving or specializing
cashiers and presidents. In investigating
the affairs of the recently suspended Penn
bank in Pittsburg, Penn, this week, for
instance, it was found that two accounts
together were overdrawn to an amount
$1,000 larger than the entire capital and
surplus of the institution. Who can won
der that the confidence of the community
in the whole banking system is shaken by
such developments as this, and the details,
which are gradually being made public, of
the wreck of the New York banks during
the past two weeks, or that small depos-
itors are withdrawing their funds quietly
from even the Oldest and most stable
banks in the country "
So says the New England Farmer ed.
itorially. There are good many people
in Vermont who are painfully realizing
the truth of the Farmers remarks. But
there is an easy remedy for the difficulty,
so far, at least, as the farmers and other
working men of the country are con-
cerned, in the immediate establishment of
post-ofice savings-banks. By taking de-
posits of money at all the post-ofices, and
paying it back on demand, or at short
notice, the government of the nation will
assume most useful function, and relieve
many poor men with small savings from
much Notwithstanding anxiety. So long
as the government has to pay interest any
where it might pay say two per cent on
these deposits, and use them to take up
the bonds as they become due. But So
curity is of more Importance than inter-
est, and such safe depository would not
be likely to be run upon in panic. These
post-office banks have proved great
success in England, and attempts have
been made to establish them in this
country, but the banking interest has so
far been able to buy up enough congress
men to defeat the project. In fact, our
congress is mostly made up of bank off
GERS and their paid attorneys.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

The authorities of the Iowa Agricul-
tural College make the following classifi.
cations of the relative values of various
foods as milk producers Corn, per one
hundred pounds, fifty cents oats, sixty
cents; Barley, fifty-fve cents; wheat,
sixty.fve cents wheat bran, seventy cents I;
oat meal, $1.45 clover hay, eighty cents /;
timothy, fifty cents potatoes, ten cents"
This may be all right, but calculation
that puts the value of wheat bran as q
milk producer above oats does not win
our entire confidence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
How Watch Cases are Made.

Most persons have an ambition to carry
gold watch case, and yet few people know
how watch case is made, or the vast diff
ference in Inequality Of them. Ina SOLID
GOLD WATCH CASE, aside from the neces-
sary thickness for engraving and polishing,
large proportion of the metal is needed
only to stiffen and hold the engraved por-
tons in place, and supply strength. The
surplus is not only needless but undesira-
bic, because gold is soft metal and cannot
furnish the stiffness, strength and elasticity
necessary to make the case permanently
strong and close-ftting. The perfect watch
case must combine gold with some metal
that will supply that in which the gold is
deficient. This has been accomplished by
the james Boss Gold Watch Case ~. - MANI
which saves the WASTE of need & D
less gold, and INCREASES the soLIDITY and
STRENGTH of the case, and at the same time
reduces the cost ONE HALF.
Send stamp keystone Watch Case Factories Pha
delph for band.ome Illustrated Pamphlet showing
lanes Boss and Keystone Watch Cases are made.
ITO be cOntinued)
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

A TON of average superphosphate con-
tains about forty-six pounds OF nitrogen,
two hundred and thirty pounds OF phos.
phoric acid in various degrees of solu-
bility, and forty pounds of potash-in all,
three hundred and fifteen pounds of these
plant-foods. A ton of average yard ma
nure contains about twelve pounds of nj
trogen, five of phosphoric acid and nine
of potash.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

The present great and growing pros
perity Of our republic is due to its az.
ricultural industries. They have fed and
clothed more than 100000 of our own
people, and then brought more than
$6l9,000,O00 into this country from other
countries, who have purchased our prod
ucts to feed and clothe their people in
one year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

CANADA YELLOW FLINT, eight.rowed
corn, planted in Georgia, Louisiana and
Texas, in three years changed so that the
ears were twelve to thirteen inches long,
large and coarse, the stalks grew ten to
fifteen feet high, and large in proportion.
White Flint corn from New York, planted
in Georgia, in few years changed to the
beautiful White Pearl, being much winter
and harder than the northern parent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18

The first duty OF the grange is 10 fit
the farmer to exercise his influence. 1t
encourages him to think, talk and act, to
read and make use of the knowledge and
culture drawn from books. Then the
farmer can see and appreciate the benefits
of cooperation.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
eMeiv Idrerfisemsnfs.
HEREDITARY
SCROFULA.


A RE you aware that in your blood the
~ faint of scrofula has prominent
placer This is true of every one. 1t is LA
BILE at any time, ON the slightest provocation,
to develop itself in some insidious disease.
Consumption and many other diseases are
outgrowtls Of this impurity of the blood.
HOODS SARsAPARILLA has a wonderful
power over all scrofulous troubles, as the re-
markabe testimonials we have received
Enthusiastically prove.
MEssRs. c. I. HOOD & Co.; Gentlemen
My youngest son has always been
troubled with ScrofulOus Humor; sores in
his head dischargng from his ears, and run
ming sore ON the back of his ear for two
years; his eyelids would tester and ulcerate,
discharging so that was obliged TO wash
them open every morning, his eyelashes
nearly all coming out; lie was exceedingly
dainty most of the time eating buttwo slight
meals day. We We're unable to find any
thing that had the least effect upon him It'll
last spring 1876, we gave him two bottles of
Mo S6cs Sar'9pg RS boaR "a Fit
UP without y scar, and not sore in his head
''" ''' Mis- GN n, G. sAxnoRx,
No. 10S Merrimack ST., Lowell, Mass.
ave do not as q rule allow ourselves to
use our editorial columns to speak of any
remedy we advertise, but we feel warranted
in saying word for Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Sarsaparilla has been known as remedial
agent for centuries and Is recognized by all
schools of practice rs valuable blood puri-
fer. It's put up in forms of almost infinite
variety. but Messrs. Hood & Co., UOwell,
Mass.l who are thoroughly reliable pharma-
cists, have hit upon remedy of unusual
value Certainly they have vouchers OF
cures which we know to be most extraor-
binary. "-EditOrs Lo1ceH Weekly Journal
HOODS SARSAPARHLA.
Sold by druggists. Price ST. six for s..
Prepared by &C. /. HOOD s. CO., Lowell, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-06-18
Central Vermont Railroad.
eastern Standard Time.
Commencing March 81, 1884.

Trains Going South ,oiH Leave Montpelier
as fottotos:
Q0h q m MAIL, from st. Adams and Burlington
0'lV u 'l'' for Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Wor-
cester, Lowell, Fltchbuig Boston, Spring.
field, New London and New York
10 2h m FAST TRAIN. from Montreal. ogdens-
iGvJ " ILL., burg and the West for Boston, via Lowell,
and New York Springfield and New
London Pullman Drawing Room Car to
Boston via Lowell and New York via
Springfield,
6.55 p. m. MIXED to Ho10nr''
10 An q m NIGHT EXPRESS, from Montreal, og-
'I'To u h'' densburg and the West for Boston via
Lowell, and all points In New England.
Sleeping Carr to Boston via Lowell.
Trains GoinD North and Vest:
Or m NIGHT EXPRESS, from Boston and New
OLD o. 1l' York for Montreal 0gdensburg and the
West. Sleeping Car to Montreal.
e d6o -, ACCOMMODATION, to st. Albans.
0 or N, LOCAL EXPRESS from White River
J'LJ d, ILL., Junction for Burlington St. Adams and
Richford.
ON n m DAY EXPRESS, for Burlington, st. Al
J'JU " I'LL bans, Montreal Ogdensburg and the West
Drawing Room Car TO st. Adams
e66n m CHICAGO EXPRESS. Pullman Sleeping
U'JJ " l' Car through to Chicago without change.
Trains leave for Barre at 100 a. M, iO45 a.
M and Alb p. m.
Through tickets to Chicago and all points West for
sale at the principal stations.
s. W. CUMMINGS, General Passenger Agent.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-24
Ventilation of Bed-Rooms.

Says the Herald of Health: The necessity
for ventilating the bedroom may be made
very plain by very simple experiment.
Weigh yourself before going to bed, and
then again in the morning after rising, and
You will find that you have lost from one
to two or more pounds in weight. This
loss is partly in water, but it is also partly
in the carbon of our food-the butter, oil
and starch which we ate on the preceding
day. These substances have been burned
up and their product carbonized, i. e., with
some animal matter has escaped into the
air of the bedroom. Now, if single ounce
of cotton were to be burned in bedroom
it would fill the air with smoke so as to
make respiration uncomfortable, and ifthis
were repeated every hour during the night,
even then il would not pollute the atmos-
phere more than the breath OF single
individual during the same time. If two
persons sleep in room they pollute the
air twice as much as when only one sleeps
in it. About 5000 gallons of fresh air
should be admitted hourly for each person
sleeping in bedroom, in order to maintain
a proper degree of purity. 1t is not enough
to keep the windows open during the day
time; they must also be kept open during
the night, or other methods equally efficient
employed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-24

NTANTED-SALESLAD FOR MILLINERY
w Department Apply WEINSTOCK Il IL
BIN. ap24-3t
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-24

The Cotton Semi 7fopic contributes this bit of
history and opinion to the discussion ofthe day
Here in southern California it is provincial
secret known too well to every voter, every tax
payer. that the railroads are annually cinched
pretty tightly by the Assessors. In a word, that
they are assessed out of all proportion TO other
property. rs an examination of the books will
demonstrate beyond the objection of even pro-
feSsional demagogue. Now we believe that the
railroads should he assessed just like other prop
erty, and when once this is done We will be the
first to demand that prompt measures be taken
20 compel payment of the taxes but we do as
Sert that to tax the railroads at full valuation,
perhaps over. and other property-such ms great
ranches ut one tenth of their value is not tax
alton it is species of Jesutieal confscation.
It is. in a word. cinchins the ralroads-the life
arteries OF commercial California"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-24
A Trick of .The Gang,

EDS. RECORD UNION: 1t is understood
here that the editor of certain Democratic
journal published in this county-whom
Mark Twain'once described as the long,
green swell of the Pacific has been
nosing about the several precincts in Ell
Dorado for the purpose of calling separate
meetings of Democrats next Saturday To
formulate resolutions eondemnatory of
Railroad Commissioner Carpenter, for pre-
sentation TO the County Convention, which
meets on the Sd of May BY this under
handed, star-chamber method of proceed
ure it is possible the Convention may be
imposed on to some extent But, despite
such dirty work on the part of this Dem
ocratic editor, the sensible citizens of this
county will continue to have confidence in
Mr.. Carpenters motives and official con-
duct. We all understand the animus of the
fight that is being made against him, and
that he will come out " on top" is the firm
belief of one who is always for decency in
politics and FAIR PLAY.
Georgetown, Ell Dorado county, April 20,
1894
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-24
SETTLED.

The Republican County Convention yes
terday settled the question as to the law OF
the party concerning Central Committees
1t is now decreed that Central Commit.
tee has no other power than such as is
necessary to carry out the expressed will OF
the party. 1t cannot name delegates, nor
appoint representatives to State Conven-
tons, nor make platforms or declare the
policy of the party. This is a step in the
right direction, and one that will strength
en- the party and promote harmony.