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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

but / will put the average at half pint
to make the accusation as light as posi-
BILE. We will put the cherry season at
fourteen days, making fourteen pints of
cherries for each pair of birds. Seven
quarts at fifteen cents per quart Is $105.
The same pair of birds will eat or destroy
each berry that has a hole picked in it
is destroyed-one pint of strawberries
each day during the strawberry season,
which we will also put at fourteen days,
though it is really much longer. Seven
quarts of strawberries at fifteen cents per
quart is $105. The raspberry season fol-
lows, and they will eat one pint day for
say twelve days. Six quarts of raspber-
ries at fifteen cents per quart is ninety
cents. Of blsckberries they will eat at
least two quarts, worth thirty cents.
Total for each pair of birds, 80 30. Rather
high price to pay for a little sentiment
and few roundelays in the early spring
time This is no fancy sketch evolved
from my inner consciousness it is the
result of close observation, with all the
prejudice in favor of the birds. Brown
thrushes and cat-birds will fully equal the
performance of the robin. A friend assures
me that they are also very injurious to his
grapes, but I have not had time to inves-
tigate their operations on that fruit. l
have tried all the methods 1 could invent
or hear of to keep these birds off my fruit,
but to no avail. Stuffed hawks swinging
from the ends of long poles, cats, wind
mills, straw men armed with long sticks,
little bells rung by the wind, etc., were
no better than so many jack-straws. The
only really effective preventive is lively
boy with shotgun. have ascertsined
to my satisfaction that one toad will
actually destroy more worms and bugs
than any bird living, and have come to
regard him as friend indeed. He goes
abroad at night when cut-worms are out,
aud the number that he can stow away in
his capacious abdomen is actually aston
ishing. All he requires is cool, damp
place to repose in through the day, and
when thus provided he will never forsake
field while his favorite food is abundant"
Now can anybody give reason why
we should poison the rat, the potato bug
aud the currant worm, and not kill the
robin 2 We know none, except that the
robins give some pleasure to few senti.
mental people who do not have to suffer
their ravages. To the garden they are as
harmful as rats in granary.
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Ensilage.

Professor Caldwell asserts that there is
no longer any need to discuss the useful
ness of this system of preserving corn
fodder as if it were doubtful question.
Writing for the Rural New Yorker, he
says: "When l see it stated that in one
place silos are standing empty, and that
in another place such an il[smelling
product was turned out as almost to make
men sick to stand near it, etc., want to
see how such farmers manage their affairs
generally, before l accept their results
and opinions as valid against ensilage.
Familiar as every reader of the papers
must be with the oft.repeated accounts of
palatable, wholesome, and not ill-smelling
fodder, often even good-smelling fodder,
that these silos yield if properly made and
properly filled, l should be too much
ashamed of myself if got such bad re.
suits as these, and then talked about
them; would bury the stuff out of sight
and try again, resolved to do as well as
hundreds of others had done. l would as
soon think, if | were a cheese.maker, of
telling the newspapers that all the cheese
in my factory had turned out rotten, and
unendurably offensive, and of giving that
result any weight against the system OF
preserving milk by turning it into cheese.
1t is only folly to say now, in the face OF
the experience of even only few years in
which ensilage has been tried here, that
il must 60, or that there is any fear OF its
going; it has come to stay, and be uso1dl
to those who know how to make it So"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

"My experience has been that the most
economical fertilizers and the most last
ing in their effects are fish guano and
either sulphate or muriate of potash and
animal bone, for farm crops in general.
Within twenty years / have used great
many of the different brands of super
phosphates, but in all my experiments
with them l found they were not worth
what they cost. l have come to the con-
clusion that the manufacturers of the diff
ferent phosphates get more than the lions
SHARE"
Mr.. Judd's experience is the same as
ours, and the same as that of any man
who uses large quantities of artificial fer
tilizers and carefully notes the results.
Mr.. Judd, being near to the fish.oil fac
tories on Long Island Sound, uses fish
guano as source of phosphoric acid and
nitrogen, and the German potash salts for
potash. We have found the fish guano
so uneven in quality that we have pre-
ferred ground bone in its place, using
ashes as the source of potash. But ground
bone costs too much, and now we believe
the South Carolina phosphate for phos-
phoric acid, sulphate of ammonia, nitrate
of soda, or cotton-seed meal for nitrogen,
and ashes or German salts for potash will
give us the materials at the lowest price.
BY next season we have no doubt the
South Carolina phosphate will be accessi-
BILE to all, at moderate prices. Regarding
the permanency of the chemical fertilizers,
Mr.. Judd says:
81 have cropped one field, containing
number of acres, with corn three years in
succession. This field had not had any
fertilizer whatever applied to it for fifteen
years. The fertilizer used was half-dry
fish one thousand pounds per acre, and one
hundred and fifty pounds of muriate of
potash. The crop of corn increased from
year to year with an application of the
same amount of the same fertilizer each
year, producing the third year fifteen
bushels more of shelled corn than it pro-
duced the first year. I then seeded the
field down to grass in the corn and cut
good crop of hay the following year. /
have grown potatoes on another field, as
an experiment, four years in succession
with the above named fertilizers with
equally good results"
In regard to a more liberal use of fer
tilizers, MIR. Judd says:
"The mistake majority of farmers
make is in using fertilizers too sparingly.
When they buy fertilizers they look too
misery at the dollars they are paying out,
and accordingly use the fertilizers spar
ingly, while on the other hand, when they
haul their stable manure to the field they
apply bountifully, thinking that it does
not cost them anything, for they produce
it from their own stock. If they apply
$40 worth per acre of commercial fertil-
izers and do not get as good crop as they
get where they apply $50 worth of barn
manure, they at once decide that it won't
pay to use them"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

shoes would make print. The largest
and healthiest cabbages grew just in that
place. Very strong compression by rolling
and tresding has been proved to more
than double the crop of onions. The
heaviest straw and the biggest and fullest
heads of wheat in field were where more
than hundred loads of manure were
drawn across it in the spring after it had
been sown. Who does not know what
enormous weeds will grow as near as they
can to hard trodden path OF some
crops this is not true. Potatoes and some
other root crops Qong carrots and pars-
nips for instance) want deep, mellow soil,
but this is for q mechanical reason. 1t is
their nature to grow under ground. Many
of our readers will remember DIR. Sturte-
wants experiments in the deep tillage
of corn, and also that the deeper his cul-
tivators ran the smaller grew his crop,
Notwithstanding his sanguine anticipa-
tions and prophesies to the contrary.
Now we do not wish to be misunder-
stood in this matter. No soil is fit for
crops until it is fine and soft enough to
be freely penetrable to the roots of the
plants grown on it. To effect this upon
heavy, tenacious soils, undertaking and
thorough tillage, with the admixture of
vegetable matter in the form of dung or
sod, are requisite. How deep such tillage
should be depends upon the character of
the land, and to some extent upon the
proposed crop. But it must be brought
into what is called "good filth before it
will yield as it should. Much of such
land is never handled as it ought to be,
sometimes from lack of knowledge, and
sometimes from lack of capital. But it
should always be remembered that the
larger the crops you get by good tillage
the faster the soil is being exhausted, and
that therefore, while tillage makes large
crops on such land, tillage does so not By
adding but by using up fertility.
And in conclusion we say, without
hesitation, that on our lighter, naturally
drained soils in New England, the frost
does all and more than all the tightening
and fning of the land that is needed, ex.
cept for few root crops that grow en-
tirely or mostly under ground. This is
true always, but becomes more and more
conspicuously true the richer the land is
made.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23
Whole Manure.

In these days, when intelligent farmers
who aim to be abreast with their time are
studying plant.food and cattle-food, to
get the most profitable ration for each
crop and each beast, it is well to keep
before them the fact that even stable ma.
nure is not complete and perfect fertil-
izer unless it contains the elements of the
liquid as we'll as the solid portions. On
this question, the editor of the Popular
Science News says:
elbow strangely we overlook the value
of the liquid excrement of our animals.
A COW, under ordinary feeding, furnishes
in year twenty thousand pounds of
solid excrement, and about eight thousand
pounds of liquid. The comparative money
value of the two is but slightly in favor
of the solid. The statement has been
verified as truth over and over again.
The urine of the herbivorous animals holds
nearly all the secretions of the body which
are capable of producing the rich nitro
genous compounds 80 essential as forcing
or leaf-forming agents in the growth of
plants. The solid holds the phosphoric
acid, the lime and magnesia which go to
seeds principally, but its liquid, holding
nitrogen, potash and soda, is needed in
forming the stalks and leaves. The two
forms of plant nutriment should never be
separated, or allowed to be wasted by
neglect. The farQer who saves all the
urine of the animals doubles his manurial
resources every year."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

"Last Spring my two children were vacci-
mated Soon after, they broke all out with run
ming sores, so dreadful | thought should lose
them. Some one spoke to me about Hoods
Sarsaparllla as purifier of the blood. 1
bought bottle and gave 1t to the children.
Soon as they began to take it, they began to
get better, till it cured them completely and
they have remained so ever since" MRS.
G. L. THOMPSON, West Warren, Mass.
Mr.. J. N. Ketchum, of Barre, VT, says that
his boy had several very ugly scrofulous sores
on his leg Hoods Sarsaparilla cured him.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

Spring Medicine

The children need the aid Of reliable
Spring medicine as much as adults. The
warm weather has upon them an equally
depressing effect, which slight vexations and
hard study at school aggravate, making them
nervous, cross, and fretful. Plmples or scrof-
ulous humors are apt TO manifest themselves,
adding discomfort to depression. Hoods Sar-
saparlla has in thousands Of cases proved a
boon and blessing to suffering children, ex-
pelling all trace of scrofula from the blood,
toning up the body, and giving to the diges-
tive ORGANS healthy and regular action.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23
Strengthen the System

81 regard Hoods Sarsaparilla as the most
reliable and best Spring medicine. Ihad tried
many others without good results, until gave
Hoods Sarsaparilla a fair trial, when was
convinced it was superior to all others. Every
Spring take three bottles of Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, and know nothing Of that terrible
anguor so prevalent at that season of the
year" Mrs. j. M. CARTER, No. 26 Madison
Street, Boston, Mass.
Hoods Sarsaparila tones up my system,
purifes my blood, and seems to make me
over" w. j. BLAIR, Corning N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

Everybody knows what "that tired feeling"
Is. 1t aftlicts the human family when the
weather grows warmer in the spring and early
summer, just as Nature, refreshed from her
long winters rest, is preparing to display her
self In new beauty and power. The contrast
between the changing season, and the condi-
ton of the body at this time, makes one feel
even more tired, Respondent, and miserable.
The refreshing, toning, and invigorating in
fuences which the system Graves, will be
found in Hoods Sarsaparlla, the reliable
Spring medicine and blood purifier.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

NEVER will a person succeed in grow
ing small fruits until he becomes inter
ested in their culture. Buying bill OF
small fruit plants from sample is diff
ferent thing from properly cultivating the
same plants until they produce berries
like the sample, but If cultivated with
intelligence it will not only equal the sam
pie but be better.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

IT does not pay to keep poor stock of
any kind. If any animal is good of its
kind, it is always saleable and can be
turned into money whenever it may be
desirable to do so; whereas, an inferior
one is always drug on the farmers
hands.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23
Practical Experience.

E. II. Judd of South Hadley, Mass,
who uses thirty tons of fertilizers annually
ON farm crops, says;
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

"Hoods Sarsaparilla did me great deal Of
good. I had no particular disease, but was
tired out from overwork, and it toned me up"
Mrs. G. r. SIMMONS, Cohoes, N. Y.
"About year ago I commenced taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla. l was all run down. had
no appetite; my food would not digest, and
1 was troubled with nervous debility. On
taking Hoods Sarsaparila / commenced to
feel the effects of it at once. Have now
taken four bottles and can say l feel like
new man." jill. MCCALL, Rochester, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23
Purify the Blood

al have used Hoods Sarsaparilla for some
time, and have derived benefit therefrom. 1t
gives me an appetite, and strengthens the
whole system. / can cheerfully recommend
1t to all who need building up and strength
ening medicine" JOSIAH w. Cook, Presi-
dent Mutual Fire ms Co., Cambridge, Mass
II have made it a rule for years to use
Spring medicine to cleanse my blood and
tone up my system. Last Spring Hoods Sar
saparilla gave me a good appetite, and seemed
to build me over" L. M. HALE, Lima, Ohio.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for s5. Made
only by G. 1. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-23

Sold by all druggists. 81; six for S. Made
only by Q, 1. HOOD 81 CO., Lowell, Mass,
100 Doses One Dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10

] went to my dressing table this morn
ing, there lay little morocco case, and
inside was the dearest little watch, and
rich, curious chainl Forgetting all
my misery for the moment, began
rapturously telling Frank how pleased
l was with his elegant gift, expressing
special satisfaction that he should have
chosen the very pattern of all others /
most admired.
"' Yes he says, Il happened to
mention to Winslow that / was going
to look at watches with a view to sur
prising a dear little friend of mine in
about month, and he said you had ex-
pressed special admiration of his wife's
chatelaine watch, one he had made ex-
pressly for her. SO / took the liberty
of calling twice on Mrs. Winslow to
get correct idea of your taste in the
matter of watches. Mrs. Winslow was
very kind and interested in the matter,
which she understood you were to
know nothing about until the right time,
and she even went so far as to 90 with
me one day from her husbands office
to the jewelers. where the order for
her watch was sent abroad, and had
close work to get yours done in time.'
"Well, couldn't keep the tears out
of my eyes, and finally began crying as
though my heart would break; then /
told Frank-dear trusty old Frank
all my foolish suspicious, and he de-
clared he was just delighted to know
that was all that allied me; but as a
slight reproof and great safeguard
against another attack, he made me
promise that in case ever again felt
glimmer of suspicion, or twinge of
| jealousy in connection with any deed
of his l would tell him promptly, and
let him, at least, have fair chance
to clear himself at once.
And Frank says it would save
oceans of trouble if, instead of brood
ing over imaginary grievances, people
would only speak right out, and make
clean work of it. But haven't made
the greatest little goose of myself?
And only to think of the foolshness of
itr'-Harriet A. Cheerer, IN Christian
at Work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10

WOULD You BELIEVE IT.-Nature's
great remedy, Kidney-Wort, has cured
many obstinate cases of piles. This
most distressing malady generally arises
from constipation and bad condition
of the bowels. Kidney-Wort acts at
the same time as cathartic and heal
ing tonic, removes the cause, cures the
disease and promotes a healthy state of
the affected organs. James F. Meyer,
carriage manufacturer of Myerstown,
Penn, testifies to the great healing
powers of Kidney-Wort, having been
cured by it of a very bad case of piles
which for years had refused to yield to
any other remedy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10

strong mans desperate hold on life, but
the avalanche rushed down in all the
resistless might of 10000 tons of snow.
1t tore his bleeding fingers from the
tree; it curled wave-like above his head
and whirled him far out into its churn-
ing midst. He threw up his arms once,
as swimmer who sinks to rise no more,
and his dying shrek was as naught in
the pitiless roar that echoed up to
heaven
There was a little group in the cabin
door. The husband looking through
the hollow of his hands, the wife with
baby in her arms, and the children
peering out from behind her dress. AS
the woman looked it seemed to her that
great black spectre that called to mind
in some way things her scared childish
fancy had pictured when she pored
over Ali Bahia and Sheherezade swept
out of the darkness above, howled past
them and vanished into that below.
She pressed her babe closer to her and
looked anxiously into her husbands
eyes.
1t was the Slide" he whispered,
awesomely, "and if it hadn't turned
somehow up there there'd be none of
us now to tell the taleW
Providence turned it," said the
woman, for this is Christmas eve."
The Providence that moves in mys-
ferrous way, that interlinks each waving
leaf, each fluttering snowflake, each
breath of wind, each act and thought
into the changeless law that never
swerves, nor falters, nor delays; the
Providence that helps the helpless and
turns the impulses of death itself tc
work its saving end. And it was Christ
mas eve.-Chicago Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10
advertisements.
Downright Cruelty.

To permit yourself and family to
Suffer-"
With sickness when it can be prevented
and cured so easily
With Hop Bitters
Having experienced great deal of
TROUBLED" from indigestion, so much so
that came near losing my
LJei
My trouble always came after eating any
food
However light
And digestlble,
For two or three hours at time had to
go through the most
Excruciating pains,
"And the only way ever got
"Relefl"
Was by throwing up all my stomach con-
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I had to go through, until
AT last?"
was taken $50 that for three weeks l
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My sufferings were so that 1 called two
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SIoD buo pun, OnOIi
Efforts were no good to me.
At last l heard a good deal
about your Hop Bittersl
And determined to try them"
Got bottle-in four hours I took the
contents of
Onel
Next day was out Of bed, and have not
seen a
Sick! "
Hour, from the same cause since.
l have recommended it to hundreds of
Others You have no such
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ston, Boston, Mass.
Columbus Aduocate, Texas, April 81, 'S3.
| Dear Edtor:-I have tried your Hop Bit
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-12-10

No man is better known along the line of the
Harlem r. r. than Conductor Trowbridge. He
writes follows:
Conductors Room, HARLEM DHPoT,l
NEW YORK, February 1884.
DEAR SIR: take pleasure in saying good word
for DIR. KENNEDf'S FAVORITE REMEDY. l
have used 1t for two years for Dyspepsia and de-
rangement of the Liver, and can say with emphasis
that II always affords prompt and complete relief.
FAVORITE REMEDY is pleasant to the taste,
thorough in its effects producing the slightest
disagreeable or sickenng sensation.
Yours truly, ID. Z. TROWBRlDGE.
But Mr.. Trowbridge Is not alone In his praise OF
FAvoRITE REMEDY is a positive cure for Ma
aria well as Indigestion. Read the following from
X. A. Campbell, Foreman of the sorting room in the
Montgomery Paper Mill
MoNTGoMERY, ORANGE Co, N. Y, March 4, 1884
DR.. Kennedy, ROndout, NJ T.:
DEAR SIR: have used for some time your valua-
BILE medicine FAVORITE REMEDY, for Malaria
and it has proved an efectual cure. After having
tried great many other medicines for disorder OF
this kind without avail, find DIR. DAVID KEN
NEDYS FAvORITE REMEDY affords complete
satisfaction, and do heartily recommend Il TO all
who suffer as did X. A. CAMPBELL.
is positive for Malaria, Kidney and Liver Dis
eases; and for all those Ills peculiar to women.
MATAwAN, N j., March 3, 1884.
DR.. Kennedy, MD. Rondout ". T.:
DEAR SIR: l have used your valuable medicine
FAVORITE REMEDY, In my family for Liver diff
cuties, and find 1t excellent preparation, worthy
of the recommendation 1t bears.
MRS. MARGARET HAYES.