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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-22

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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-22

A MEXICAN CLUB SKATES, nickel plated and
II plain; nice line of these goods, as well as
tho cheaper Club and Wood stock Skates in store.
Prices low. JAS. F. CARLIN SONS,
dec12 Alexandris, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-22

NOTICE-An persons having claims against
IN the estate of the late. EDWIN r. CARLIN
will present the same to the undersigned for pay
ment and those indebted to said estate will please
call and SETTLE JAS F. CARLIN & SONS,
dcc11-1m 63 King street, Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-22

ZINE TOILET SETS and ODOR STANDS, in
i Bohemian Glass aud Silver, beautiful in
design and cheap.
deco SUMMERS { ALLEN.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-12-22

LARGE INVOICE OF SILK HANDKER.
n CHIEFS Prices Csc, 35c., Soc, Toe, 81: 90
and $500 at rde15l A. B. SLAYMAKER'S.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Chickens with Canes.

In reply to an enquiry, the Mirror
and Farmer says: Some writers are
very sure that this disease is caused by
a parasitic worm in the throat, while
others are as positive that the supposed
worms are fragments of membrane
which have become loosened by the
disease in the form of canker. Garlic
is mentioned as cure. A French
remedy is mixture consisting of yolk
of egg, boiled bullock's heart, stale
bread crumbs and leaves of nettle,
well mixed and pounded together with
pounded garlic" There can be no
doubt of the existence of the peculiar
syngamous worms in the trachea of
fowls afflicted with gapes, though there
is some dispute as to their being the
primary cause of the disease. If, as a
friend informs us, wheat bread crumbs,
well-mixed with lard, put down the
Threats of the affected birds, is sure
cure, the probability is that the worms
are the cause, as oil of any sort is often
fatal when externally applied to such
vermin. In this case some of the lard
probably enters the windpipe, where
the worms are, in passing down the
throat, and kills them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Addresses of Agricultural Schools.

The Homestead, in reply to a CORE
spondent, gives the following informa-
tion "The Storrs Agricultural School is
at Mansfield, Conn. The Massachusetts,
Agricultural College is at Amherst. Yer
mont has no agricultural college; the
State University gobbled the funds and
gives no agricultural instruction in re-
turn. In New Hampshire, the Agricul-
tural College is department of Dart
mouth College at Hanover. Maine has
a well-equipped Agricultural College at
Orono. New York Agricultural College
is part of Cornell, at Ithaca. A postal
card request to these colleges will bring
you catalogues and particulars as to ex-
penses, course of study, time the fall
term begins, etc."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
The Kendall Experiments.

The interesting experiments made
by Mr.. w. B. Kendall of Bowdoinham,
Maine, in the exclusive use of artificial
fertilizers for ordinary farm crops, the
reports of which in the Maine Home
Farm we have several times trans
ferred to these columns, are still being
successfully pursued. The Home Farm
editor has lately visited Mr.. Kendall's
farm, and says:
First, we took hasty look at Mr..
Kendall's first experimental field of
about ten acres, of which we have be-
fore spoken. This was neglected
piece of waste land when Mr.. Kendall
took it in hand, part of which was
originally covered with black growth,
the soil of peculiar moist, loamy
texture. In five years this field has
given crop of three hundred seventy
eight bushels of oats, and for four
years (ending with 1850 successfully
eighteen, fourteen, ten and nine tons
of hay of the best quality-a total of
fifty-one tons. This has been done by
a single dressing of fertilizer, costing
S25 per acre in 1880, or an average of
IS per acre per year. This fall the
field is to receive top-dressing of
about six hundred pounds per acre, to
fit il for good crops of hay for four or
five years to come. Next we drove to
Mr.. Kendall's large field, and here we
saw grand and unusual sight for Maine
agriculture-an oat field of eighty-five
acres in one body, separated only by a
farm road running through portion of
it for convenience of access. This
field of oats was sowed the 18th, 10Th
and Goth of May last, and, as we are
now writing, the twine-binding har-
vester is running over its broad eX-
panse, and men and teams are busy at
work hauling the grain to stacks, from
which it is to be threshed in true west
ern bonanza style. The bulk of this
field was seeded with Hogan oats, the
remainder with Welcome oats, the
former proving decidedly more stocky
and prolific. We cannot expect to i'm
press our readers with the real beauty
and fine appearance of this field of
eighty-ive acres-probably the largest
grain field in single body in the state
but more handsome sight in the way
of grain farming we have never seen.
The grain was uniform and stockv,
and the straw stout, for although the
growth was heavy there was little lodg-
ing of grain, and there were but few
thistles or foul weeds of any kind. OPP
posite to this field was a field of twenty
five acres of barley, rank, heavy and
uniform-a handsome sight The field
has been in oats for two years previ-
ously, and last spring received dress
ing costing 500 for the entire field. In
sowing the oats, barley and fertilizer a
Strowbridge seeder was used, of whose
work Mr.. Kendall speaks in very high
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

underestimates the size of these apples,
as with us, in good soil, they run quite
as large as average Porters. We have
this season had specimens fully three
and one-half inches in diameter, and
marvels of delicate beauty, selling with
a rush at $1.50 per bushel.
AS we have long predicted, the win
ter Russian apples, though rather slower
in having their merits recognized (be-
cause later bearers than the early sorts) &,
are likely to furnish us with equally de-
sirable fruit, large, beautiful and of the
highest quality. One of these, which
is already bearing large crops in many
places, bids fair to outrival Minnesota's
prize fruit, the Wealthy. An extensive
nurseryman and orchardist of Geneva,
N. Y. CIV. p. RuperD, writes us, under
date of August IA, " l have budded fif-
teen thousand of the Longfield this sea-
son. r. G. Chase and several to whom
l showed this fruit last year, and who
tested it, say it is one of the best apples
they ever tasted" On all hands the
Longfield is reported as an early and
heavy bearer, perfectly healthy and
hardy tree, and the fruit as good or bet
ter keeper than the Wealthy. We have
eaten the fruit sent us from Iowa. 1t
equals the Baldwin in size, and far ex-
ceeds it in quality and looks. Its ship
ping value is not yet sufficiently tested.
If it fails anywhere it will be in firm
ness for long-distance shipping, but we
do not think it will.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

A FINE BEGONIA.-At the house of
a friend we recently saw plant of
Begonia ricinyolia, so named from the
resemblance of its great leaves to those
of the castor oil plant, or Ricinus. 1t
is very striking plant, with foliage of
a dark, shining green on the upper
surface and coppery red below. Its
flowers are not remarkable singly, but
are borne high in cluster upon stout
reddish stalk thickly set with hairs
altogether very peculiar plant. 1t is
of the Begonia Rex family, we believe
yet very unlike that variegated sort,
being solid colored.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
About Farm Orchards and Russian
Apples.

Mr.. EditOr:-I send by to-day's post
an apple, name unknown, that has kept
to date in an open box, without any
packing or any care whatever. AS have
been grating and raising trees from
seed for the past twenty-five years, am
uncertain whether it is graft or seed
ling, but suppose it to be a graft. l
have CRAFTS much like it; can hardly tell
the difference only as | compare the
two together.
In the WATCHMAN of July 10th, 1884,
you speak of the hardness of few
trees in the old nurseries, and of all
such that are comparatively iron
clad" Why not graft from these, if
desirable fruit, and give them the same
care we give our grated fruit2 There is
scarcely farm in Vermont but what
will produce all the fruit, and more
than needed, for family use. In select
ing fruit trees to set for an orchard one
thing is overlooked, which is to get a
good cooking apple of good size, a good
keeper, and one that will hold its flavor.
Out of fifty varieties of CRAFTS that l
have had, my best cooking apple and
the best winter sweet apple that / ever
saw, the cion was cut from a natural
tree or Seeding.
Almost every one, in starting a
nursery, is apt to plant seeds from
cider apples. If they would take pains
to plant seeds from good eating apples,
but few would need grating. A few
years ago agents were selling a new
Russian variety called the Tetofsky. see
no reason why it should be sold as a
new kind, or why it should be called a
Russian apple, as it has been grown
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Russian Fruits In the West.

Horticultural Professor Budd of the
Iowa Agricultural College, who is also
secretary of the Iowa Horticultural So
ciety, sends us his very valuable re-
port for 1884, and a letter, in which he
says: " am pretty well loaded down
with work, or l would tell you the
many lessons of the summer. A
decade of existence is crowded into it,
During July l was over Northern Iowa,
Illinois and Wisconsin. Never before
has winter given us such a scourging
as the last. AS the Prairie Farmer
says, the only green foliage is Rus
sian.' l can only say / did not expect
so much from the Russians. Over fifty
varieties are on a table beside me, in
Guiding over thirty late sorts not yet
over half grown august 12). There
is no end or limit to the really good
fruit of that great Eastern Plain. 1t is
useless to tell of this or that as best.
We are not sure yet, but all are hardy
that is, all the true Russians. have
just cut an apple from South Russia
which is so near Fameuse that / can
see no difference in any way, except in
tree, which seems a true iron-clad."
Professor Budd's report is full of in
struction in regard to the hardy fruits,
especially the Russian, with which he
is experimenting in the extensive
grounds of the college. He speaks
highly of the Charlottenthaler apple
very much like Yellow Transparent,
elsewhere referred toy: "In size con-
siderably above Early Harvest; the best
specimens reach nearly the size of
Early Bough. In flavor mildly sub
acid, nearly as good for dessert and
better for cooking than the Harvest"
Mr.. Budd adds that the Yellow Trans
parent SIS still earlier, some smaller in
size, and some better in quality" Our
experience of them is that they are so
much alike that when once mixed to-
gether no one can correctly separate
them, while Grand Sultan and Sweet
Pear also closely resemble them, form
ing very remarkable series of almost
identical apples, yet differing in tree
more or less. Professor Budd rather
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

ALL contributors to THE HOUSEHOLD
who desire us to send them root of
that new mammoth rhubarb by mail can
receive it by sending us their address
and six cents in stamps to pay postage.
The root and our labor in packing and
mailing it is entirely free to our con-
tributors. If very large root is de-
sired, we will send it by express, in
which case no stamps need be sent. This
offer is free to all whose contributions
have appeared in the Household de-
partment of this paper since April /,
1885. Address DR.. Hoskins, New
port, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

CORNELL UNIVERSITY is to-day
famous-not from age, as she is young,
but on account of her educational facil-
tiles, that offer the student induce
ments to enter within her DOORS" says
Our Country Home. 1t is because we
believe that Cornell is the best in
dustrial school in the East that we have
so often advised our young friends of
the farm who want good practical
education to enter there. Every one
who has taken this advice (not a
few have thanked us for it heartily
afterwards.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Canning Sweet.COrn.

This is very difficult, and generally
fails. A correspondent of the Home
stead gives the following directions:
" Cut the corn from the cobs; fill your
jars and press it firmly down; screw the
covers on the cans without the rubbers
Place your wash boiler on the stove
covering the bottom with straw. Put
in your jars and fill up with cold water
to the top of them; bring to boil and
boil three hours. Remove, and when
cool enough to handle, put on the rub
bers and screw down firmly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

terms. AS soon as the barley and oats
are harvested from this field of one
hundred ten acres, the whole is to
be seeded with one-half bushel of
herds-grass seed to the acre and har-
rowed in. On this farm Mr.. Kendall is
to erect this fall hay-barn forty by
one hundred fifty feet, eighteen feet
posted, having a capacity for one hun
dred fifty tons of hay, and another
summer, when it is filled after haying,
we hope to be present at the celebra-
ton over the "last load"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
agricultural.
r. H. HOSKlNs, M. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.
The Young Workman.

Work, work my boy, be not afraid
Look labor boldly in the face;
Take up the hammer and the spade,
And blush not for your humble place.
There's glory in the shuttle's song;
There's triumph in the anvil's stroke;
There's merit in the brave and strong,
Who dig the mine or fell the oak
The wind disturbs the sleeping lake,
And bids 1t ripple pure and fresh;
1t moves the green boughs till they make
Grand music in their leafy mesh
And so the active breath of life
Should stir our dull and sluggard wills;
For are we not created rife
with health that stagnant torpor kills?
doubt If he who Tolls his head
Where idleness and plenty meet,
Enjoys his pillow and his bread
As those who earn the meals they eat.
And man Is never half so blest
As when the busy day is spent
SO as to make his evening rest
A holiday of glad content. Eliza Cook.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

here in New England for fifty years.
(See Report of the Department of Agri-
culture, 1875, p. 37S.) Perhaps it might
sell little better with some to call il
Russian apple. The verdict of the
farmers is that they get cheated when
buying trees. Now why not do your
own grating, exercising proper care?
Then you will be sure of good fruit.
w. r. BLISS, Corinth, Vt.
REMARKS BY AGRICULTURAL Ed
IToR.-The above is very sensible and
practical letter, such as we are glad to
receive. The apple referred to was re-
ceived in good condition, and we
judge it to be a small specimen of the
Ben Davis, otherwise called New York
Pippin. 1t is remarkable keeper, and
the tree is hardy nearly anywhere in
Vermont. We have raised large crops
of them, but last winter wiped out
nearly every tree. Though we got a
great many apples from them, and they
sell pretty well in the spring, when
other fruit is scarce, yet we do not very
much regret the loss (about thirty-fve
trees), because we now have what we
think much better and more hardy sorts
to take their place.
We agree with Mr.. Bliss in thinking
it very desirable to search out and
propagate from the best native seed
lings of our own vicinity. We have
been doing this nearly as long as he has.
Scott's Winter, Magog Red Streak and
Newport Winter Sweet are valuable
sorts obtained by us in that way and
widely distributed. But while this
practice has been of great advantage to
us, we have not thought of relying upon
it exclusively, because excellent sorts
have been found in other places and in
other countries, which should not go
without trial to see whether they may
not be as good, or even better, than our
natives. Every grated apple was first
a Seeding, the merits of which some
body recognized, and had the sense and
public spirit to distribute, either by
cions or grated trees. This was the
origin of all the leading sorts now so
widely and profitably grown and recog-
nized as leading market kinds. Some
of these have such great merits that a
new kind, even if much liked locally,
has almost no chance in competition
with them for the general market.
Nevertheless, the local seedlings are
well worth having and growing for
home use, if not for shipment.
In reference to the Tetofsky apple, if
Mr.. Bliss will turn to the Report of the
Department of Agriculture for 1866, p.
131, he will find cut and description
of this variety which is very correct,
except that the season is stated month
too early for Vermont. There is no
doubt of the Tetofsky being Russian
apple, having been imported with the
Duchess of Oldenburgh, the Red and
White Astrachan and the Alexander
some sixty years ago. All of these
the White Astrachan less than the
others) have become popular over a
wide extent of country. We have
about thirty trees, and find them profit
able, though less so than the Yellow
Transparent, Russian of more recent
importation, with fruit of higher
quality, earlier, larger and handsomer,
without the fault of dropping much of
the fruit before ripening, which is the
worst thing about the Tetofsky.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
advertisements.
PROBABLY NEVER

Inthe history of proprietary medicines has
any article met success at home equal 20 that
which has been poured upon HOOPS SARsA-
pARILLA. Why, such has been the success
Of this article, that nearly every family in
whole neighborhoods have been taking 1t at
the same time. Every week brings new evil
dence of the wonderful curative properties Of
this medicine.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Farm for Sale Or EXCHANGE.

The subscriber will sell or exchange for village
property his farm, known AS the Jacob Cutler ="
farm at" Cutler Corner" four and half miles from
Barre village. There are about one hundred eighty
acres of land three barns, and house recently
built with orchard, and sugar.place of hye or six
hundred trees. The farm win keep eighteen OF
twenty and ateam, is easy of culture quite free
from stone, smooth for machine moving ana well
watered. Parties desiring to purchase or exchange
for good farm are invited to examine these prem
Barre VT A. L. FIELD.
August "a, 1885, lel7
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Gbe 4ouseboIo.

~ Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor, Dr. Hoskins, at
Newport, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02

REPLY BY AGRICULTURAL EDIToR.-
The way proposed is, in our judgment,
the very best way to renew mowings,
and more profitable in the long run
than by an intermediate rotation, end
ing in small grain with grass seed, as
usually practiced. OF course land in
tillage for potatoes, corn and small
grains is needed, and must, in the end,
often be laid down again to grass. But
even then we believe it is best, in most
cases, to manure and seed to grass
alone when grass is the object. We
know that this is contrary to the almost
universal practice, which is after more
or less of rotation, to steal " a wheat,
barley or oat crop from the intended
meadow. But this is as Improbable in
the end as all like " stealing" of which
the pasturage of the second growth, a
rowen crop, is a common example.
Grass is the most profitable of all our
crops in Vermont. Except on very
light soils, it should be the main object,
instead of secondary one, as it be-
comes under the stealing" system
Our correspondent asks our advice, and
we tell him, as the result of our own ex-
perience on rather light hard wood land
(and we have often seen the same done
successfully on pine land), that the use
of one or two barrels of superphos-
plate equal to Bradley's, with ten or
more bushels of good ashes to the acre,
sown upon the top of flat furrow and
narrowed in with a liberal quantity of
good grass seed, has almost invariably
given us a good catch and heavy hay
crops for long succession of years
longer or shorter according to sea-
sons and the care given to the field
afterwards. In regard to immediate
answers to questions, we have several
times explained that, owing to our dis
lance from the office of publication, and
other reasons, this is not practicable.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-02
Fall Seeding to Grass.

Mr.. Editor:-I have some grass land
that want to break up and seed right
down again on the turf, so as to get a
crop of hay on it next season. l have
not manure with which to fertilize it..
l want to know if you would recon-
mend me to use Bradley's phosphate of
lime; and if so, how much ought to use
to the acre ? Please let me know also
how it would do to fertilize with ashes
wholly, or partially with ashes and par
TALLY with phosphate. 1 would be very
glad of an answer through the WATCH
MAN this eceek, if you can do so, as 1
wish to do the work Immediately.
A. J. COPELAND, Chelsea, VT.