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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

m wing all the wood of the previous
years growth, clear back to the main
stock, and depending entirely on the
latent buds at the base of the cones for
the next seasons frutng.
The short spur system consists in cut
ting the wood of the previous growth
within one bud of the main vine. These
two systems are in general practice in
Europe and California, and vines by
these modes of pruning live to great
age.
The long cut system consists in cut
ting out the two years old wood that pro-
duced the bearing shoots of the previous
year and cutting back the canes OF the
present years growth that come from
near the base of the main stock to the
length of one to three feet, as the length
of the vine requires. The last named
system is the one usually practiced in
Ohio and the Western States, except on
the Pacific coast, where the European
plan is generally followed.
The horizontal arm system consists of
a main vine or arm, extending each way
from the main stock on the lower wire
of the trelis and the wood of the pre-
vious year cut back to within two or
three buds of the main vine or arm.
Whatever system is adopted, in order
TO carry it out efTcctually for a series of
years, the canes must be cut back as
near as possible to the main stock or
arm, as the case may be, and at the same
time reserve a sufficient number of buds
for the neat seasons fruiting. Mr.. Try
on after twenty-four years experience
with the horizontalarm system, com
mends it as insur ng success for garden
and vineyard culture.
For many years Mr.. Tryon practiced
summer pruning as usually recommend
ed, which consists in pinching back the
bearing shoots and not allowing
them to grow above the top wire
of the trells; also of removing or pinch
ing back the shoots or laterals, which is
not only tedious task, but in Mr.. Ty-
rons opinion unsatisfactory in its results
He explains his objections thus: This
checking the growth of bearing canes
has tendency to develop buds that
should remain dormant until the next
year, causing young shoots to grow and
blossom during the summer, so that at
the time of ripening there would be
green wood and grapes in different
stages of growth, when all of the wood
and fruit should be maturing at the same
time. For the past few years Mr.. Tyron
has allowed them to grow with their
burden of fruit through the season with
most satisfactory results, each year con.
firm ng the fact that in order to grow
perfect fruit the vine must be allowed to
grow perfect and ripen its wood with its
fruit
After the thinning process, which con.
sists in rubbing off the surplus bearing
shoots before these blossom, the sum.
mer pruning is done by Mr.. Tyron by
keeping Oft all the supelfuous shoots
that start out during the summer.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

This is one of our most popular
Covers, and though it is popular, an to
be found in most gardens, comparatively
few people understand its proper Guilt
walton with view OF obtaining the
finest flowers. They will 60 into the
grounds OF the florist and express amaze
ment at the great size and beauty of the
pansies they see there, will forthwith
purchase supply for their own plant
ing, and will be charmed with them,
and be determined to grow the same on
heir own PREMISES, though their pre-
vi JUS efforts have so signally failed.
When asked how they had been growing
them, they often reply: "Oh, | got
some from aneighbor who has large beds
of them, but they are all so small"
When told thar they should sow the
seed of the finest of those obtained from
the florist as soon as the seed was ma
tured, say some time in August or early
September, and that that was the only
way to have fine, large flowers, the idea
was jumped at. That is the way to get
them. Every August the seed of the
largest and most desirable should he
sown, and the old ones dug up and
thrown away. And we should say thai
this is easy enough to do when it is once
known. In the winter the plants should
be lightly covered. There are new
palsies advertised every year, but any
one growing them carefully, and taking,
as we say, the seed from the best every
year, will be as likely as anybody to
have large new kinds, and will thus save
the expense of purchasing them, which
at most last only for single blooming.
Ge,mantorn TteyriUh.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11
How TO stack Grain.

The fact that nearly one-third of all
the grain raised in the State is seriously
injured by bad stacking is a sufficient eX-
cuse for annually referring to the sub
ject. Generally stacking is done in
hurry, and under the expectation that
it will be threshed as soon as stacking is
done makes farmers more careless But
ii is nearly as rapidly done we'll, as to do
it slovenly. There is but one thing to
do to properly preserve the grain. 1t is
to keep the centre Of the stack solid and
high enough. Two many careful stackers
IRE sticklers for pacing the outside
course of bundles close together and
solidly placed down. Then carelessly
fill up the middle courses loosely. If
this practice is followed, no matter how
high the middle is kept in stacking, it
will settle so the inclination will he in
ward j. stead of out. The outside couse,
though placed carefully in position,
should be l1in So the bundles will scarcely
touch each other without being pressed
together. Then the inside courses should
be packed closely and as carefully as
possible. The greater weight on the
centre of the stack, when finished, will
cause the centre to settle twice as much
as the OUTSIDE If this is not counter
acted by making the centre much higher,
and much more solidIy packed than the
outside, it will settle so as to incline in
ward, a. d the first shower will wet the
stack to the centre, and all of the profit
of the years crop is gone beyond re
demption. Men who follow thrcshing
have do efu stories to tell of the de
struction of grain by wet stacks. -Nan-
chester LHtoH.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11
A Horse That Prefers Music to Oats

"Theres a horse that would ruther
listen to music than eat, " said the driver
of a Brooklyn livery coach team, point
ing to bright-eyed, Roman nosed,
shapely nag. The way | found out that
is this: | feed my team at o'clock in
the afternoon to be ready for evening
calls. Then 90 home for half an hour
for my own supper. Well, usually he
would have his mess all eaten up clean
when | got back; but once a week l
would find his oats untouched or that he
had Just begun to feed. 1t puzzled me
for a number Of weeks; but one day :
happened to stay at the stable all of the
afternoon, and then | found what was
the matter. Our boss, who lives next
door to the stable, has disabled child,
and one of the amusements he gives her
is to have some of these Italian street
musicians come and play under her win
dow for twenty minutes or so, when the
little girl throws them q quarter. This
makes them come very regularly On
the afternoon speak of they were theie,
ard just as they struck up that horse,
whose stall is near the door, turned his
head and seemed to listen as attentively
as a person. One day the boss asked me
why l didn't feed at the right time. l
told him the musicians had been around !;
and related what had discovered He
seemed to doubt the story; so to prove
it to him took harmonica from my
pocket an experiment had tried before,
and played several lively tunes. The
horse took his head out of the manger
and kept it up with cars cooked and nos
trils wide until stopped. 'Old OPERA
as we call him, has become curiosity of
the eighborhood, and has quite an audi
ence whenever the band comes around. ="
--Nelo York Tribune.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

Contempt, even in Its incipient state,
banishes all real benevolence or helpful
ness. 1t kills the sentiment, destroys
the desire, and banishes the power of
doing good. Attempts to assist another
made in this spirit are like aims thrown
scornfully to a beggar; they can only
insult and wound without benefiting
either the giver or the receiver.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11
Judicious Pruning OF the Grape.

There are several distinct systems of
winter pru ing of the grape, all of which
are founded On the same principle of
renewing ny cutting away ID WOO and
wood OF the previous years growth. to
within "A ieN feet or few inches, or very
near the main stock, as the system
adopted mn re iuire. In an exhaustive
and valuable pa lcr on grape culture, read
by j. II. Tnon, Lake county, O., before
the State Horticulture society. the four
systems in most general practice for vine
yard culture in this and other countries
were considered, viz, the set se cut
system" the ''short spur system, " the
"long cone system and the horizontal
arm system These systems, which ap-
pear to cover the whole ground of Judi
cious pruning, were explained as follows
by Mr.. Tyron;
The closecut system consists in re-
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

SIDE BY SIDE IN THE DRUG STORE
stand VINEGAR BlTTERs and the health
blasting preparations fired up with bad
rum. Take your choice between the
ritdl ejirH and the deadly poisoas. The
one cures every disease of the stomach,
bowels, liver and nerves, the others ag-
gravate all human ailments. VINEGAR
BIrTERs strengthens, the others weaken.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

Is a beautiful present to give any lady But
there is a little book published in pamphlet
form, with no pretentions to literary merit,
that would be as appropriate, and might be
the means of saving life. 1t is called DR..
r. V. Pierce's treatise on diseases of women,
for whose peculiar troubles the "Favorite
Prescription" is especially designed. 1t is pro,
lusely illustrated with wood cuts and colored
plates, and will be sent to any address for ten
cents in stamps, by the Worlds Dspensary
Medical Association. Buffalo, n y.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

George Stevenson, when advising young
men how to get on, would finish by saving :
"Do as / have done-persevere" For fifteen
years he plodded and worked before giving
the finishing touches to his locomotive. In
as many days those persevering in the use Of
DR.. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery have
experienced great relief and found themselves
on the high road to health. Liver complaints,
impure blood, chronic lung diseases and many
others yield to its healing influences never to
return. All druggists.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

Everything that has been learned in
youth, and everything that we learn day
by day, can be converted into power
that shall make us better parents and
children, better brothers and sisters, bet
ter neghbors and citizens, better men
and women, if only vitilized and brought
into living activity by character and
will
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11
Cannibalism Among Rats.

Mr.. w. Matthew Williams believes
that rats are, upon occasion, voracious
cannibals, devouring one another by
wholesale and without mercy. Being
troubled beyond endurance by these
pests, and getting no relief from dogs,
ferrets, and cats, and fearing poison, he
tried the effects of stutfng the holes
with broken glass. "This was success
full and some curious results accompanied
the clearance. At first, there were
streaks of blood on the kitchen-hoor in
considerable quantity, and distributed
over it, These appeared on several
mornings. At about the same time, and
subsequently, much seampering and
screaming was heard beneath. This
was fol owed by rapid reduction of the
number of the enemy. My theory" says
Mr.. Williams, 'ls, that when any one
rat was wounded by the glass, the scent
of blood excited the voracity of the
others, and cannibal struggle occurred !;
that this continued till extirpation
followed-the more fighting, the more
bloodshed and the more cannibalism. 1"
Mr.. F. H. Ialfpenny partly confirms
this view in "Science Gossip" where he
says that the black lat is still to be met
with at most OF the London docks; that
the Norway or sewer rat not only kills
its victim, but devours it. He describes
skins of freshly killed black rats turned
inside out, and found in various drawers,
boxes, etc, and states that this treat
ment of their victim is usual with rats.
As an experiment. Mr.. Halfpenny gave
the carcass of IL white rat 10 one of the
black and white variety. 1t was eaten,
only few bones of the head remaining
attached to the everted skin. Popular
Science Monthly.
Taking morphine leaves, in short
time, the head bare. Many persons are
nearly bald from this cause. Morphine
also loosens the teeth. so that it is as
good for the dentists as for the capillary
artists.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

when you visit or leave NeN York CITY, save baggage
express ana carriage mir. and stop at the CIR and
Union Hotel. opposite Grand Central d pot.
GO elegant rooms. fitted up at cost of mill
d lars, 81 and upwari per day. European plan. Ele
vstor. r staurant uppied with IN s best Horse
stages and elevated lroads to all dspots Families
cen live better Tor less money at the G rand Union
Hotel tnan at any other hrstcass no ell in the city
ARTIFICIAL ears are now made of celhl-
lOil
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

The distinguished U. S. Senator from
Indiana. Hon. Daniel w. Voorhees,, GER
titles that in case of rheumatism in the
back, he obtained instantaneous relief
from st. Jacobs Oil. He says it is q
remarkable remedy.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

AN ITEM OF INTEREST. Blossoms Aromat-
ic Alum Sulphur Soap prevents, cures and
heals skin diseases softens ana beauties face
and hands. 25c by Druggists, or by mail
Address VIM. Dreydoppel, PHILADELPHIA, Pa
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

For DYSPEPSIA. INDIGESTION, depression ofspir :
its and general debility in their various forms,
also az preventive against fever and ague and
other in termittent fevers, the "Ferro-Phosph or-
ated Elixir of Calsaya" made by Caswell,
Hazard & Co., New York, and sold by all Drug
gists is the best tonic and for patients recover
ing from feveror other sickness it has no equal.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

Valuable Horses are often lost through ig-
norance on the part of the owner. Send
25 cents in stamps to Horseback Co.. 1874
Leonard St, n Y. City, and learn how to
detect disease and how to cure it. This may
save the life of your animal
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

In experiments performed by Sir j. B.
Lawes he found that most plants exhaled
during the four or five months of their
growth more than 200 times their dry
weight of water, drawn up from the soil
in which they grew. DR.. J. II. Gilbert
stated that the amount of water given off
by plants during growth might be APP
proximately estimated as equal to
depth of three inches of rain for every
ton Of dry substance grown. Messrs.
Lawes and Gilbert found by actual ex-
pertinent that crop of hay growing on
land that had been MANFRED, and giving
about ton and half per acre, evapo-
MANFRED crop of less than a third of
ton. These two inches were equal to 200
IONS of water. A heavy crop of barley
evaporated nine inches, or 1 500 tons of
water more than bare land lying along
side. These experiments show the i'm
portance of undertaking so as to keep
the soil pulverized and mellow, to hold
like q sponge the water which falls on
it. and give it off to growing plauts as
they need it. \ good growing crop
keeps the soil in etter condition than a
soil without a crop, the latter being
easily flooded, and again parchcd by
drought: and without understanding,
either artificial or natural, the soil can
not be brought into a good condition to
absorb and mold surplus WATER Country
Gent e1nuR
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

If you are bilious take DR.. Pierce's "Pleas
and Purgative Pellets, the original Little
Liver Pills OF all druggists.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

The French have more suspension
bridges than any other nation on the
globe
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

THERE are 557 Grand Army posts in New
y ork State
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

ONE-THIRD Of all the banking done in the
world is done in England.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

Frazer Axle Grease.
The Frazer Axle Grease is the best and, In
trinscally, the cheapest Don't work your
horses to death by using poor grease. Try it.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

THE temples in Dahomey are almost en-
lirely built of human skulls.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11
Farm, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
wire-worms and scab on Potatoes.

Mr.. Alfred Rose says that he expert.
mented largely for forty years on potato
culture, and he thinks the wire worm
Qulus) causes scab; that these "worms"
are more prevalent and the scab much
worse on rather moist soils than on those
light and sandy; that where scab pre-
walls the sooner the potatoes are dug the
better, and that any thing that forwards
the crop aids in escaping the scab. He
has found that the use of lime slaked
with water which has been saturated
with salt, and in which two pounds of
sulphur have been stirred for each bushel
OF lime, has eiIectualy driven out these
worms and prevented scab. He thinks
that land infested with these worms,
should be p'owed in the fall aud have
2j0 pounds of kaint and five bushels of
lime prepared as above described, sown
broadcast per acre and well cultivated in.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

The population of the world is estimated
at 400, 900, 900.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

The crown jewels ir the cathedral at
Moscow are said to be worth S12, 900,
900.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-11

AMERICANS projected, built and now CON
troll the street railroads of Moscow, Russia.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-12-05

The Office of the Vice President
has been vacant eleven times. IA
ron Burr abandoned the Office to
carry out a grand scheme of treason
that consigned him to obloquy and
eternal disgrace. Clinton, Gerry
King and Wilson died in Office.
King served as Vice President pro
tempore during the administration
of Fillmore.
He was elected Vice President
with Pierce, was in Cuba at tho
time of the Inauguration, took the
oath of Office in that island, and
died without having occupied his
seat.
Tyler, Fillmore, Johnson, Ar
thur vacated the Offices Of Vice
President to which they had been
elected, by becoming Presidents by
the death of Harrison, Taylor, Lin
colu and Garfield. No President
has ever died when there was nc
actual Vice President to succeed
him. In 90 years two Presidents
have died, two have been killed,
whilst five Vice Presidents have
died in Office.
There have been seventeen cleo
ted Presidents of whom seven were
elected twice.
There has not probably been any
Vice President twice elected to
that position.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-12-05

Be not proud of thy own good works,
for the judgments Of God are other
than those of men 4; and what pleaseth
men oftentimes dIspleaseth Him.-A
kempis.
If you have built castles in the dir.
your work need not be lost ; that is
where they should be ; now put foun
datious under them. -Thoreau.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-12-05
Parish Educational Exhibit at the
Exposition.

Az the State Superintendent Of
Education is anxious ~ have this
parish represented in the education
al department "f the EzpO~i' ion, The
school Board has authorized the
Parish Supertnttn tent t." collect
specimens OF school work for 'raa,
mission to the commissioner of r,lu
cation of the North, Crntra, and
SOnIh American Exhibition.
Notice is Therefore given Tor the
information of public and private
schools, that collections OF work
will be received II HE office of the
SENTINEL, it forwarded between
this and The first of January.
The work should show, as tar aS
prAclicable, the method of in>truc
ton il: the schools OF the parish.
The exhibit should represent the
years wo,k.
Each specimen Of wO,k AMI each
collection ot pay, rs bound Together,
Should ct%early.Srt forth he facts Ut
execution, such as the nalnr Ut tue
school. the grade of the delar mrl'l;
the class OF the grade, whether tir 81
dr. tt or copy age aud Sex OF pn
pits doing the work, whether select
specimens of work of entire class
whether IL general examinations, an
exercise in review on regular les
sou !; GATE of performance, whether
! Il copy of original design ; Ill or
, u"i mag. wheth,r fiat or round.
Primary school sIa,es. with VIII
ting, Arabic or Roman figures, draw
ing aud musical notes, done by
GLASSES of pupils.
Writing books completed, attach
edtuyelhe, in volumes, OF all grades.
Specimens of writing should br
written OH paper Of the size and
shape Of an ordinary writing book
leaf, unruled, ruled by hand Or md
chine ruled, and neatly, bound, the
work Of Il school or class III Il .ul
ume individual specimens, on lar
ger paper, OF ornamental peumau
ship, for portfolios or framed tOl
wall exhibition.
Map drawing, from memory and
from copy. with and without print
ed skeleton, paper Of the size of the
leaf of the Ordinary quarto school
atlas ; written exercises, comprising
English compositions, theme. aud
translatiUns in different languages
exercises in lhe various elementary
branches.
Written exercises should, as E.
rule, especially those of all elenel
tary character, be OF the regular lei
ter sheet size, with margin tor tine
ing ulluled, ruled by hand, Or m'
chine ruled. They should be neal
ly and plainly bound in volumes q
moderate thickness, bearing nam'
of >caOol aud parish. -.
1t is hoped that specimens o
girls; haudwork in school will b.
contributed. The smaller article.
may be conveniently arranged to-
exhibition in large portfolios wnl
caru>bOaru leaves.
All specimens of work as above
described may ce sent to the office
ofthe SENTINEL, addressed Parrish
Superintendent of schools, parish
of Latourche. Express or other
charges will be paid by Parish Su
perintendent, and the binding OF
the specimens of work will Le done
by the board at their expense.