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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

ones to get poor milk, because they buy
by measure. Selling by measure in
duces over-feeding of silage, because
that gives large. flow. Overlooking
with clover, or with roots, will have
the same effect. Such milk, loaded
with volatile vegetable matter, is sure,
when condensed, to concentrate those
odors and flavors, so as to make the
produce unstable. Even sweet silage,
carelessly fed, might be expected to
do this. Sour silage would inevitably
do il.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
LambreGuins, Etc.

Mr.. Editor You are not indebted
to Mrs. C. l.. F. for the good recipes
for buildings in your last issue. would
like to know the author.
HOME DECoRATIoNs.-Very pretty
and cheap lambrequins, table covers
and stand scarfs can be made in APP
plique. Cut flowers from cretone and
sew on any shade of canton flannel
wine color or maroon are very pretty.
The flowers can be sewed on with chain
stitch or button-hole stitch. If the lat
ter is used have a space between each
stitch. Another and nicer way is to
take any shade of flannel or felt, have a
vine or flowers stamped, to suit the
taste, and embroider with silk. Bronze
green, with yellow and white daisies and
fern leaves, make very snowy lambre-
quin. C. l.. F., East Bethel, Vt.
NoTE.-We cannot tell how Mrs. F. IS
name got attached to the pudding re-
cipes if it did not belong there. Will
the true author set us right? EDITOR.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
Value of UndissOlved Phosphate Rock.

We have been rather shy of making
statements regarding the availability of
undissolved South Carolina Phosphate
Rock, however fine, as plant food, be-
cause we have no personal experience.
This year we are going to try it, not as
farmer but as an editor The expert
ment will cost much more than it will
come to, agriculturally, because it must
be very carefully and conscientiously
done in order to be valuable as guide
to ourself, or others.
Meantime we will give the result of
experiments made in Georgia, under
direction of the state commissioner of
agriculture, upon the cotton crop. The
other elements of fertilization being the
same. phosphoric acid was offered to
the crop in equal quantities under five
different forms. The result, in seed
Acid Phosphate produced 1885 pounds of cotton.
Reverted Phosphate produced 3,495
Bone Dust produced. .......... 2,9i5
Orchilla Guano produced. 3,4OO
The South Carolina Rock was in the
finest form, called " floats" This re-
suit is quite encouraging to those who
want cheap fertilizers, but the expert
ment requires to be many times repeated
before it will be conclusive. AS regards
bone, we are sure that it does not pay to
make it more soluble with acid. But
we are not sure about the South Caro-
lima Rock, especially when ground in
the ordinary way. But it is very i'm
portant to the farmer to settle this mat
ter as soon as possible. In plain acid
phosphate &c dissolved " we have just
about one-half as much phosphoric acid
as we should get in the undissolved
bone, or rock, yet we pay as much for
it, and double freight on it for the same
value. That is, the acid and water used
in dissolving the bone or rock doubles
the weight, and being then sold at the
same price or more Casually more), we
must pay at least twice as much for the
same amount of plant food, besides
paying for the freight on the double
weight. Now if in many, if not in all
cases, the plain bone and rock will give
just as good crops, what is the use of
paying double or treble prices for hav-
ing it dissolved? 1t will pay better
than anything else now being done at
the experiment stations to have this
thing thoroughly tested as soon as pos
sible.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
Hen Manure and Potatoes.

Mr.. Editor 1t was new idea to me
to mix ashes with hen manure. My
way has been to put road dust under the
roost often enough to keep it proper
toned about three of dust to one of ma
nure. / work it over until it is well
pulverized, and think it makes an ex-
cellent fertilizer, particularly for pota-
toes. AS soon as the potatoes prick the
ground drop handful of it on the
hill, and hoe the potatoes, covering the
manure. / have tried it in the hill when
planting, but would prefer using it as
above. l use it for almost everything 1
raise in the garden, with good results.
l have once or twice seen something
about improving the potato by selecting
the seed, and / wish more would try it,.
1 have made practice of selecting the
seed while digging the potatoes. When
find hill with a goodly number of
potatoes of uniform size and no small
ones l save such hills, and am well sat
isfied with the results. have more
uniform size, less small ones and a
larger yield A. A. OWEN.
Montpelier, VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
Sugar.Making Under Difficulties.

Mr.. Editor Quite number of our
comparatively Independent farmers who
have usually got new dollar and
dime or two for an old one are sadly
puzzled to know how, with the present
prices of foreign sugar, they can run
their sugar orchards the present season
without loss. They claim that the
month of sugaring, in average years, is
the hardest and most exhausting for
men and teams of any month in the
year. They claim, further, that the wood
and labor and use of tools will buy more
foreign sugar than they can make from
their orchards, and they have concluded
to let the turkey sci" this year, let
the hired man begin one month later
and reserve their own strength and
their teams for the springs work. Now,
Mr.. Editor, as you generally look upon
the hopeful side of most farm subjects,
perhaps you can say few words to en-
courage and stimulate the Responding
farmers that will induce them to carry
on their sugar orchards, even if they only
get new dollar for an old one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
Silage for Butter.
An exchange says:

AN exchange says:
There is something not yet quite clear
with regard to the effect of feeding
silage to mich COWS. 1t is confidently
asserted, on the one hand, that it has
no deleterious effect on the milk, or the
butter and cheese made from it. On
the other hand, milk-condensing fac
tories, both in this country and in Eng
land, find great deal of fault with milk
from silage-fed cows. Some time ago
the New York state condensing fac
tories were obliged to protest against the
use of silage, and now the Aylesbury
England) dairy farmers who have been
supplying condensing factory are re-
fused new contracts unless they consent
to give up the use of it. More light is
needed.
The "more light which is needed ="
is unquestionably the light of expert
ence, And the light of experience has
long ago shown that there is no sort of
food given to cows which cannot be so
prepared, or so fed, as to injure the
quality of the milk. Among all absurd
tiles, there is none more absurd than
supposing a man who has always made
poor butter with grass and hay is goins
to make good butter with silage. We
know a good many dairymen who feet
silage, but we do not know one among
them who made first-class butter before
he built silo that does not still make
the same grade of butter, and sell it a
a corresponding price, without com
plant from the consumers.
With regard to the complaint of tn
condensing factories, they are the yer,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

RICH men should be content with the
advantages their wealth gives them.
Learned men should be content with
the advantages of learning. 1t is I'M
manly to use and to combine these in
fuences for the obtaining of legal ad-
vantages over men who are put at enough
disadvantage, already, by their lack of
wealth and knowledge. Under the
most equal laws, talents, wealth and
learning will endow their possessors
with great authority over their fellow
men. When to these are added special
powers and privileges by statute,
tyranny is at the door, and cannot be
shut out. Equal rights to all, exclu-
sive privileges to none," is funda-
mental maxim of liberty.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

AT no other season is the system so sus-
ceptible to the beneficial effects Of re-
liable tonic and invigorant The impure
state of the blood, the deranged digestion,
and the weak condition Of the body, caused
by its long battle with the cold, wintry
blasts, all call for the reviving, regulating
and restoring influences 80 happily and
effectively combined in Hoods Sarsaparilla.
floods Sarsaparilla did me great deal
of good. I had no particular disease, but
was tired out from overwork, and 1t toned
me up" MRS. G. L. SIMMONS, Cohoes, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
st. Johnsbury, vt.

REMARKs.-We are sorry our vener-
able friend has not given his own ideas
on the subject. Our experience in
sugar-making does not warrant us in
assuming to instruct others. We wish
Mr.. A. M. Foster of Cabot would give
us an article on sugar-making for profit
under low prices.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

RECIPEs.-We are greatly obliged
for the many excellent contributions of
this class that have been sent to us. A
considerable number of them have been
tried in the families of the editors, with
good results. But we wish to say that
only original or nell tried recipes are
deSirad.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
advertisements.
March April May

When the weather grows warmer, that
extreme tired feeling, want Of appetite
dullness, languor, and lassitude, afflict
almost the entire human family, and scrof-
ula and other diseases caused by humors,
manifest themselves with many. 1t is i'm
possible to throw off this debility and expel
humors from the blood without the aid of a
reliable medicine like Hoods Sarsaparilla.
al could not sleep, and would get up in
the morning with hardly life enough to get
out of bed. I had no appetite, and my
face would break out with pimples. bought
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
Farm for Sale.

The subscriber offers his farm of one hundred
eighty. five for sale. Said farm Is situated in
South Cabot, one-ha mile from schoolhouse' post,
ofce, saw-mill and repair shop. There Is good
quantity of soft and hard wood lumber on the place
Also sugar orchard that can be worked early IN the
spring of six hundred and fifty trees. The buildings
are all excellent and in good repair. There IS
house, workshop, and other out-buildings
also a new cow-barn, with good cellar under the
same. There is good apple orchard on the place
and running water at house and barns This will be
sold low. For further particulars enquire of the
suhscriber at South Cabot. JOHN AUSTIN.
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Desirable Property for Sale

On account of i'll health will sell my place, sit
uated in Chelsea, VT, one-half mile north OF the
hotel consisting of and one-half of land
we'll furnished two story house, good barn, saw
mill, carpenter and blacksmith shop. The property
will be sold cheap. f. Y. DENSMORE.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

Mr.. NJ. b. JARVIS writes to The
Husbandman that straw and grain are
better than hay and grain for horses
with the heaves. Numerous instances
are given in support of this view
which seem to leave no room for doubt
of its soundness.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01

THE HOMESTEAD differs with us in
regard to the reformability of the al
legged New England Agricultural So
ciety, and thinks our advice to let it rot
quietly away is wrong. Well, we are
willing to leave the job to the Home
stead, believing that we can put in our
work where it will pay better.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
agricultural.

w This department is wholly under the control
Of the agricultural editor, T. II. HosK1Ns, MD,
Newport VT, and he alone is to be held responsible
for tho opinions herein expressed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-01
Gbs 8ousebolo.

ry- Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor, DIR. Hoskins. at
Newport, vt.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20
UNJUST CHARGES.

The San Franciss 20 Call refers to certain
pleas interposed in litigation by the rail
road companies, as attempts to escape tax
alton. We ventura the assertion that the
record does not disclose and no action on
the part of those companies furnishes
ground for, and no utterance by their rep
resentatives warrants, any such expression.
We have carefully observed the proceed
ings in all the tax issues and litigation in
this State for years and have failed to dis
Germ any hypocrisy on the part of the Cal
ifornia railroad companies in this matter
We do not believe that any one of them
has desired or sought to avoid payment of
tly-ascertained taxes. 1t sounds trip
pingly to rattle off charges that impugn
the motives of corporation officials, but we
submit that it is scarcely the proper
method of dealing with substantial and
grave issues involving principles of
law and justice. When the railway man
ayers assert, as they constantly have and
still do, that they do not wish or seek, and
never have sought, to escape taxation of
their companies; and when they fortify
such utterance by acts that bear out their
protest of good faith, reasonable beings
should not continue to assail their motives,
1t is the easiest thing in the world to in
dulge in these iterations about the rail
roads seeking to escape taxation, but not
possible to establish them as verify.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20

HORACE GREELEY ON THE CHINEsE.-If
Horace Greeley had lived until the present
day. there would be one man at the East
who could clearly comprehend the Chinese
problem as it now presents itself upon this
coast, and not lose his head by oversenti-
mentalism. As long ago as the time he
wrote his work upon political economy, he
toresaw the coming invasion, and on page
SO says: " As yet, our Monaghan visitors
are substantially free to labor as they will
and for whom they will so long as they
render due obedience to our laws. As vel
judge that the benefits resulting from
their immigration have decidedly overbal-
anced the evils. But what has hitherto
been rlyulet may at an early day become
Niagara, hurting millions instead of
thousands upon us from the vast, over
crowded hives of China and India, to cover
not only our Pacific slope. but the Great
Basin, and pour in torrents through the
gorges of the Rocky Mountains into the
vast inviting valley of the Mississippi. This
prospect demands instant, earnest consid-
Grafton. The stream of Monaghan immi-
grafton may vastly enlarge itself, and vet
remain beneficial and fertilizing, but not if
it is to work-as many apprehend-a retro
grade change in our industrial organiza.
ton, and result in the establishment of a
novel and specious serfdom but little re-
moved in essence from old fashioned slay-
erv"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20

LARGE GRAPE VINE.-We print the fol-
lowing item from the Santa Barbara I,ade-
pendent, on the size of single grapevine in
that city On large grapevines Santa Bar
bara beats the world, and the quality of
grapes they produce is delicious. Last
| night through the kindness of T. S. Mar
tin, whose residence is on State street, be-
tween Gotta and Haley streets, we were
shown a grapevine that was almost as
much of a curiosity as the famous Centen-
NAL vine that was grown in the Montecito
and shipped across the continent in 1876 in
cars. AT the ground the vine measures
twenty-five feetin circumference. and where
vines branch out, nine feet from the
ground it measures twenty inches At the
present time there are close on to two tons
OF grapes on it, and the fruit is large, rich
and juicy. They are of the Mission vari-
ETY.. The vine is II years old, and is surely
novelty in its line Mr. Martin has
watched its steady growth from mere cut
ting up to its present size with a great
deal of interest, and it is growing al the
same ratio at the present time as in the
past. The ground It covers is fifty feet
square, and beneath this mammoth vine
during the summer months is where his
family partake of their meals, the foliage
being so heavy that the effect of the sun is
seldom felt
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20
AN ABSURD ACTION.

The San Francisco Bulletin makes a
good deal of sport of Governor Stoneman
because of his dispatch to the Sheriff of
! Santa Cruz OF course it was ill-advised.
But it probably came from the better side
Of the Governors nature and a disposition
to corteously treat the communication of a
representative of the British Government.
| 1t was probably intended to indicate the
readiness of the State to act in protecting
life and property ichen properly appealed
to. The Governor had not sufficient war
rant to address the Sheriff of Santa Cruz,
| though his telegram was no more than to
request his attention to Stanley's appeal.
| But the appeal of the British Consul was
absurd, and was entitled to sharp reply
from the Executive, to whom it had not
been made to appear that the law could
not be enforced in Santa Cruz county ac-
| cording to usual methods, or that local
officers were not doing their duty. If
| every foreigner who entertains fear that
some one viii assail him is to be permitted
to appeal to the State for protection, the
Executive will have his hands full. 1t
Will form the subject for any amount of
guying" of the Governor and since it
was unnecessary for him to have addressed
the Sheriff, he must stand the criticism.
In his desire to be courteous he lost the
opportunity to reply to Stanley as he
would have been justified in doing, and of
reminding him of the proprieties. But
the incident serves one good purpose, and
that is to inform the people, and especially
foreigners, that there can be no appeal to
State authority until local processes and
remedies have been exhausted. 1t will
| enlighten the honorable gentleman who
serves Her Britannia Majesty at San Fran
| cisco, also, upon the rights of English
subjects in the United States. 1t will
bring him to a realization of the fact that
such residents have not rights or privileges
superior to those enjoyed by citizens. In all
material matters they have equal rights,
and, according to the theories of many
people, too many rights and privileges. In
some States they cannot enjoy property
| possessions with the same freedom that is
the right of the citizen, and it is not so
long ago when they were not permitted to
devise estates by will The earlier re-
strictions upon them were more severe.
| but have in the main been removed
| through the generosity and broad-minded-
ness of this people. AS ii now stands, the
law guarantees them privileges not en-
Joyed by the citizen-as, for instance, they
are relieved of the burdens, save as TO tax
alton, that the citizen must bear in main
tanning the forms of government. But
they have not the right to appeal to any
higher authority for protection than can
the citizen. 1t would be very fine thing
fer the alien, if herrould whenever he i'm
AGNES he or hii property is menaced,
rush off to his Consulate, and through it
invoke the suprea e power of the State
without ayailing OF the usual avenues pro-
vIded for the protection of life and prop
erty. If that rule prevailed, most of us,
for selfish reasons, night well wish to be
aliens.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20

JAMES YOU'VE, convict in the State
Prison of Illinois, confesses that he is
guilty of the homicide for which William
Thomas has already served six years in
that institution. 1t is now asked what
reparation the State can make William
Thomas for the six years he has suffered ?
1t can follow the example of the State Of
California, which, in a similar case, paid
the innocent man fair wages for every day
he served wrongfully. That is the very
least that the State can do. 1t is of course
not bound to do anything, but the senti-
ment of pity should move the Legislators
to compensate the sufferer for the days Of
labor he has given the State under COM
pulsion. Nothing that can be done will
restore to him the opportunities of the
six years blotted out of his life.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20

has been gained that is fatal to the States
case against the companies. That this
last remnant of pitiful disguise on the
part of those who have been posing before
the people as their saviors from "devouring
corporations" he now offers to the At
torney-General to receive back the money,
neatly million of dollars, which he has
so long held, and which might all this
time have been serving the companies
some good purpose by its legitimate in
crease. He thus offers to place the whole
matter as if there never had been any
payment and no stipulation whatever pre-
serving all the rights of the State, and
which served the railroad companies only
to the extent of enabling them to have the
disputed questions speedily and fully
adjudicated.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20
RAILROAD ExrrNsIox.-we find the fol-

IOWIIIS III IHt LUItAa NeV.J 1SeNItllcl
1t Is reported that during the last few
months D. o. Mills has been quietly push
ing the Carson and Colorado River Railroad
from blanche, Cal, town on Owens lake,
in Inyo county, toward a connection with
the Atlantic and Pacific at Mojave The
Carson line runs south from Carson City to
Candelaria thence across the line into
California, past Benton, Owensville and
independence, and from its present termi-
nus to Moiave is only distance of eighty
miles. 1t is believed in railway circles that
this road is to be built through to the At
lantic and Pacific, with the intention of
inducing its purchase by the latter COM
pany
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20
BLACK LEe.-The Reese River New

BLACK LEG.-The Reese River New
Rereile says:
We are informed that the genuine black
leg has appeared among the cattle of Reese
River valley, and that already a number OF
young animals have died from it. There
seems to be no doubt that it is the regular
black leg, while what has appeared here in
former years was something else, even
though quite as fatal. The black leg only
seems to attack young and fat beeves. One
afflicted with the disease was cut open in
the shoulder which was lame 1t was found
to be very black and no blood flowed. Both
of these are regarded as sure signs of the
genuine disease. If it has appeared it
should be carefully guarded against. The
cattle of this section are now in very fine
condition.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20
The TESTIMONY OF A PHYSICIAN

James Beecher, N. D., of sigourney, Iowa,
says: "For several years 1 have been using q
SAM FOR THE LUNGS, and in almost every
case throughout the practice have had entire
success. l have used and prescribed hundreds
of bottles since the days of my army practice
1888, when l was Surgeon Of Hospital No. T.
Louisville, KY fe2i-is1y&wIy
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20

THE Current advises young men planning
reading courses to go to the works of James
Anthony Froude for the best modern ex-
amples of literary skill. This is sound ad-
vice. Nomodern writer has so successfully
invested text with that magnetism that
characterizes great orators. But beyond,
and above the charm of Froude's style, is
the clearness of his thought and the jul
dicial calm and wisdom that marks his
judgment, and especially distinguishes him
among historians.