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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-08
Experimental Stations.


Mr.. Editor In some comments
upon the closing hours of congress it is
stated that an appropriation of $4,000
to each state for establishing an exper-
mental station very nearly passed.
One of the provisions of the bill was to
give the money to the college that now
has the agricultural college fund, and
another provision was for twenty acre
farm in connection with the station.
This action of the general government
would be very acceptable to such states
as have college that is trying to work
in harmony with the spirit of the law
originating such colleges, but in other
states, where the fund has been used to
endow classical college, the people
could very justly complain if other
thousands were Incorporated. The
legislature of each state ought to have
voice in this matter, and the people
through them. The New York station
is not at the college. In Pennsylvania
there are experimental farms. In
Rhode Island the fund is so completely
in Brown University that very few of
the citizens have ever known of its ex-
istence. In Vermont the fund has not
given so satisfactory results as to cause
the farmers to wish the station under
the same management. Such combi-
nation would be very disastrous to the
objects in view. 1t would be like CIV
ing the farmers dose of NORWOOD.
If men cannot teach the best theories,
methods and practices that are now
known, they are poorly prepared to in
terrogate nature with an experiment to
ascertain new and desirable truth.
Most men do not know when they have
made discovery. The new idea, the
new plant, new grain, new fruit, or a
new adaptation of what is old, is not
especially noticed by thousands, but
the right man sees all its possibilities
and works it for all it is worth. Thus
new grains, vegetables, fruits and fer
tilizers are brought to public notice, and
new methods Of butter-making and
cheese-making, new combinations of
food, new methods of sowing, cultivat-
ing and harvesting, new breeds of
animals, ETC., brought to public notice,
if to the ability of discernment there is
added an equally rare quality, an apti-
tude to teach with both voice and pen.
An apostolic fervor and zeal for teach
! ing the truth in season and out of
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crackers as a substitute for eggs, but
Flour is better.

crackers as a substitute for eggs, but
flour is better.
BAKINe.-In baking cake, when the
edges separate from the pan the cake
is done. This is good rule for pies
also, but custards should be tried with
small spoon-handle. If the custard
does not adhere to the spoon it is done.
observation-disclosures mixed wholly,
or in part, with sour milk requires less
shortening, and is more wholesome than
when made in the old way. A tea
spoonful of soda to two cups of milk is
good proportion. To prevent scorch-
ing, the crust of pies may be wet with
milk and water before placing in the
oven.
A GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE
An excellent and wholesome drink is
made from wheat, roasted like coffee,
but not ground. 1t should be well
stepped, and is better the second and
third morning than the first. A tea
spoonful or two of coffee added inn
proves the flavor. If the wheat is
ground, the coffee will not be clear,
and there may be "grounds of COM
plaint.0
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ELECTION CAKE. From that old
Vermont Receipt Book we take the fol-
lowing directions for I" Election Cake -:
"Thirty quarts of flour, ten pounds
butter, fourteen pounds sugar, twelve
pounds raisins, three dozen eggs, one
pint wine, one quart brandy, four
ounces cinnamon, four ounces fine cori-
ander seed three ounces ground allspice;
wet the flour with milk to the con-
sistency of bread over night, adding
one quart yeast; the next morning work
the butter and sugar together for half
an hour, which will render the cake
much lighter and whittier; when risen
light work in every other ingredient
except the plums, which work in when
going into the oven"
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Bread, Fried Cakes, Etc.

Mr.. Editor:-I am always interested
in learning the best ways of making
light, sweet bread, as we want no other.
Good cooks differ somewhat as to what
constitutes good bread. Most recipes
for bread require three risings, and
good deal of salt. To my mind, bread
is much better to be raised but twice
and sailed only by the yeast, which re-
quires only half as much salt as many
use. Bread made in this way retains
the rich, sweet taste of the flour. And if
that be Pillsbury's Best" or some
other equally nice brand, you will say
as did the little girl, this bread is so
good darSt to eat it without any but
ter" If care be taken not to let the
sponge sour, no soda will be needed. 1
seldom use it, summer or winter.
Raised biscuit that have become stale
may be just wet with cold water (not
soakeO and thoroughly heated in quick
oven. These will be just as nice as when
first baked and far more healthful. 1t is a
very convenient way to do. One can
furnish warm biscuit for any meal on
short notice. They may be raised three
times and if shortened with lard, add a
little salt to prevent the taste of the
lard.
In response to A. NJ. S., send a re-
cipe for fried Indian cakes: One egg,
one pint sweet milk, two teaspoons
cream of tartar, one of soda, one of
melted shortening, one of salt, four
cups of Indian meal, one half cup of
flour. Put into very hot lard with a
spoon, and fry several minutes longer
than flour cakes. Serve hot with any
nice syrup.
Fried hasty pudding is grand dish
for breakfast on cold winter morning.
1t is best fried in fresh lard and salt
pork together. 1t is quite knack to
do it handsomely and brown it to turn.
The fire should be hot and steady, and
there must be plenty of fat to prevent
it burning.
Cranberries may be kept in thick
paper bag in any place where they will
not freeze-an easier way than to keep
them in water, and just as good. They
will keep nicely till June. E.H.P.
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the old ideas awhile longer, and only
as the old professors die off are the
heretics of the old time, now the pio-
neers of the new, allowed to take their
places.
The principles of finance and trade
cannot be altogether excogitated from
the depths of mans moral conscious
ness, like the German professors ele-
plant. They are experimental in their
nature, and though some general
formule may be inferred, all must in
the end be conformed in the idea to the
actual facts of observ ttion. 1t is the
proved incongruity of the older doc
trines with facts that undermines them,
requires the laying of new foundations,
and the erection of much modified
superstructure. The unsoundness
really exists in those old assumptions
that refuse to hold water" when put
to the test Thus the utter inconsis-
tency of much of the present economi-
ical teaching, not only with moral ideas
of universal potency, but with the
course of events in finance and politics,
daily attracts more and more attention,
and will in the end cause such crack
ing and crumbling of once seemingly
solid walls that even the professors will
have to stand from under, or be buried
out of sight in antiquated rubbish.
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season, if by SO doing labor may be bet
ter applied, health and contentment
promoted, and everywhere the laborer
and producer be better rewarded for
his toll. Perhaps we have the material
in Vermont for several good managers
of an experimental station. Our Board
of Agriculture has good members, the
Dairymen's Association good officers,
but in my acquaintance about the state
the best man now for the place is DR..
7. H. Hoskins. u. L. JAMESON.
REMARKs.-We print Mr.. Jameson's
letter in full as he has written it, but
we take the liberty to add that there
are good many better men to run an
experiment station for the state of Ver-
mont, when it gets ready to have one,
than we are. The head of such an in
stitution should be an accomplished
chemist, and much younger than the
old chap he names.
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THE appointment of Colonel Norman
J. Coleman of Missouri as United
States Commissioner of Agriculture is
announced. Colonel Coleman is the
owner and editor of the Rural World
of st. Louis, an excellent paper, with
which we have long been familiar. He
was supported for the position by all
the leading agriculturists and agricul-
tural journals of the West, and as he
is well-known to them it is to be pre-
sumed that it is good appointment.
At any rate, in making the change
President Cleveland relieves the agri-
cultural interest of an incubus in the
person of George B. Loring, who, as
the Springfield Republicans Washing
ton correspondent says, has made a
charming sinecure " of the agricul-
tural department, and, it might have
added with equal truth, an unmitigated
nuisance of himself. 1t is reported
that Commissioner Coleman will re-
instate Chemist Collier in the position
from which he was expelled, as a mere
matter of jealous spite, by Mr.. Loring.
This will please DR.. Golfers friends in
New England (Which includes every
body but Loring, Needham g. Co.. and
be boon to the farming interest, for
Collier is an able man, a hard worker,
and an enthusiast for agricultural prog
reSS
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Cheese, DOughnuts, Etc.

Mr.. Editor Il have thought several
times that would send something to
The Household department of our
paper, just to show that 1 appreciated
your efforts in that direction, and not
because battered myself that l could
make it any more interesting. have
a recipe that l cut out of THE WATCH
MAN several years ago for making
cheese, and / used it successfully, al
though l knew nothing about making
cheese, nor had l ever even seen any
one make any. An old hand at the
business told me mine was as good as
any homemade cheese she ever ate.
If you wish me to / will send the
recipe to you to print again. 1t must
have been ten years or more ago that l
cut it from the paper. I'VE shall be
glad to get it.-ED.
DoUGHNUTs WITHOUT EGGs.-One
and one-half coffee-cup of dry sugar,
one coffee-cup of sour milk, and one
half of cup of sweet milk, two tea
spoons even full of soda, one of salt, one
dessert-spoonful of thick cream. Sea-
son as you like, and add -four sufficient
to roll smoothly.
CAKE WITHOUT EGGs.-One heap
ing tablespoonful of corn-starch wet
with four spoonfuls of sweet milk, one
dessert-spoonful of sour cream, one tea
spoonful of soda and one of salt. Use
little more flour than you would if
there were eggs in it. Season as you
like best. WILDRosE.
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A Question for Mr.. Wheeler.

Mr.. Editor: The article by Il. w.,
relating to the origin of maple sap, was
very interesting, but it could be made
vastly more so if he would, in addi-
ton, tell us how it is that when a
thrifty maple-tree is cut down in
the height of the sugar-making sea-
son, the stump will continue to dis
charge sap in large quantities for sew
eral days, while but a small quantity
will run from the trunk or branches,
and that for but comparatively short
time. Why should the atmosphere have
such an effect upon the stump as to
make it discharge apparently more than
its bulk in sap, while it neglects the
tree entirely after three or four days?
We think that it is rather hard on the
stump. r. d., West Townshend, Vt.
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NOTWITHSTANDING the low price of
sugar, the Rio Grande On j. sorghum
sugar factory has just concluded a sue
cessful seasons campaign. There has,
to be sure, been little profit, but, on the
other hand, there has been no serious
loss The product was $780, 900 pounds
of bright yellow sugar of excellent
quality, worth for refining four and one
half cents pound, and about $4,000
gallons of superior molasses, worth
thirty-five cents gallon.
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ALMOST every lady who grows a
few geraniums in her window has
mourned at times the yellow leaves that
come on the plants. These are the
tell-tales.' The plants have suffered
through excessive drouth or moisture,
destroying the working roots, and they
thus dumbly complain of the ill-usage,"
says Peter Henderson, the great New
York gardener, in the american Garden
for March.
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advertisements.
ECZEMA OR SALT RHEUM.
Clear and Positive Reoovery-An
Elderly Lady's Letter.

Among the numerous letters received by Dr. Ken.
nedy testifying to notable SALT RHEUM cures the
following will be found OF interest to our readers
who may accept assurance of its perfect suthen.
ITCHY and truthfulness:
WORCESTER. Mass, March %, 1884,
DR.. D. Kennedy, ROndout, ~ T.:
DEAR SIR: Until recently have been for three
years sufferer from Salt Rheum. 1t followed upon
an attack of Erysipeas, for which l was for a long
time under medical treatment. placed myself
again in the hands of the physicians who did have
doubt all that could be done. One thing Is sure
however, was none the better for all the medicine
they gave me. The painful and unsighty disease
made continual progress, until began to fear 1
should never get rid of II.
By means OF one of those accidents that often re-
suit In SO much blessing had my attention called
to your FAVORITE REMEDY, which l was told
would surely do me good. l used 1t, and within a
much shorter time than would have belle we'd posi-
BILE, received permanent cure: l am now per-
fectly free from Salt Rheum. What comfort this
is and how 1t places your wonderful medicine in my
opinion you may guess at, but never know. keep
II now constantly in the house a family medicine
Yours truly, MRS. DINAH PHAIR.
Mrs Phair sometime since. when on a visit to
Kansas, found a case of Salt .heum, could not get
FAYoRITE REMEDY, sent to New York City for it,
and cured the case.
=, For all diseases of the Blood, Liver. Kidneys.
bladder and Digestive Organs, DIR. David Kennedys
FAVoRITE REMEDY, Rondout, N Y.
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DEBT is one of the greatest of hind
RANGES to many young farmers, who
pay too high price, or who take the
old homestead with too many encum-
brances. 1t breaks a farmers spirit,
causing him to grow gloomy, cross, or
respondent. Many have too much
land, and grow too small crops. Much
land and little labor is the rule in this
country, while in Europe it is little
land and much labor, which pays far
better.
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Patterns Offered.

have excellent patterns of mems
shirts, ladies' plain wrapper, combina-
ton suits, work apron and sunbonnets.
Will furnish to readers of The House
hold any of them but the wrapper pat
tern for five cents each. Cannot afford
to cut the wrapper pattern for less than
ten cents. Any one wishing pattern
will please state whether for large or
small person.
Mrs. ALBERT WHEELoCK.
Putnamsville, Vt.
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THE Guernsey cattle are famed, as
well as their better-known Jersey COM
petitors, for the large yield and superior
quality of their butter. They are some
what larger, and not quite so attractive
in appearance as the Jerseys, but as
butter-makers there is little to choose
between them. They are at present
less than half the price of the Jerseys
of equal breeding, cows which have
tested seventeen to nineteen quarts
selling for 800 to 1920 each.
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A MERCHANT who should draw out
half his bank account once q quarter
and throw the money into the gutter
would be looked upon as lunatic.
But is the farmer any wiser who suffers
his manure heap to be exposed to all
weathers, and its most important ele-
ments to evaporate or leach away? He
is simply throwing away his capital.
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COMMUNICATIONS from men are not
desired for this department. We men
ton this because one has already slip
ped in, under initials, and others have
been sent. Let the women have one
column to themselves.
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WE congratulate Brother Boardman
of the Maine Home Farm on his ap-
pointment as one of the Board of Man
agement of the new State Agricultural
Experiment Station, and Governor
ROBBIE on his good judgement in max
ing the appointment.
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Practical Hints.

PUMPKIN PIEs.-Good pumpkin pies
can be made without eggs if for each
pie large tablespoonful of -four is al
lowed, and mixed with the pumpkin
before adding the milk. Some use
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Putnamsville, Vt.

To KEEP HAMs.-Cut in slices, trim
off the rind and outside, and fry it
slightly about half as much as for the
table. Then pack close in jars. Fry
out all the fat from the trimmings, and
pour over the meat, and keep closely
covered. Fry again for the table. I
have kept ham perfectly sweet for a
year in this way. A. M. S.
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BLUING.-Don't buy bluing for the
clothes at fifteen cents half pint when
you can get two quarts for less money
by making it as follows: Two ounces Of
French blue, and the same of oxalic
acid. Pour over it two quarts of boiling
water and bottle for use. A. NJ. S.
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MRS. E. c., Coos COUNTY, N. H.,
asks whether it is injurious to drink all
the water one wants?
REPLY.-The water, if pure, won't
hurt you, but the GOODNESS of it may.
Ice water is unsafe to drink, but aside
from the danger of chill, there is no
harm in drinking all the pure water
needed to quench the thirst. There is
no better preventive of stomach and
kidney diseases than free water drink
ing, and no medical crank more harm
full one than he or she who forbids it.
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AGRICULTURAL.

ry- This department is wholly under the control
Of the agricultural editor, 7. II. HosKINs, MD,
Newport Vt. and he alone is to be held responsible
for the opinions herein expressed.
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"INQUIRER" of Moretown, VT,
writes to ask where he can get detailed
information regarding lands in Aroos-
took county, Maine.
REPLY.--The selectmen Of any town
in the county will probably answer in
quiries of this sort. We may mention
DIR. Duren and Rev. M. r.. Keep of
Ashland, L. L. Parkhurst of Presque
Isle, p. p. Burleigh of Linneus, G. w.
p. Jerrard of Caribou, and William
Couperthwait of Masardis, as gentle
men who would probably respond to
inquiries, if sent with addressed and
stamped envelopes for the reply.
+. of WARREN, Vt, asks: " Do you
know anything about plant called
Branching Doura? 1 find it advertised
in a seedsman's catalogue and think lift
is nearly as good as he claims it to be it
must be the right thing for farmers to
raise. Question number two. If L turn
sod the first of July and SOW to the
common red clover will it obtain growth
sufficient to pillow under before cold
weather and give the best results?
Number three. Which will be the
more profitable crop to cut green, oats
or Hungarian"
Notwithstanding Doura is forage
plant of the sorghum family, of great
value in drouthy and hot climates, but
likely to disappoint growers in the chill
valleys of Vermont. 1t requires lots
of sun and not much water, and is
adapted better to the western plains
than to New England. Yet it may be
worth trying on small scale here.
Red clover for green manuring should
get a fuller growth than it can attain in
Vermont between July and November.
In the first place July is bad time to
SOW clover seed, as the ground may be
too dry and the weather too hot for it to
start well. Men of experience say it is
pSopj 40 @ iOhO'oVohJ w oOW OhONOi DO
early as possible in the spring Cor late
in the falD, take one crop of hay from
it, and then pillow under the second crop
in October. Of course, to do this your
land must be in sufficiently good order
to bear crop of clover. If you are
little doubtful about that, put on twenty
five or thirty bushels of good unleached
hardwood ashes to the acre and har-
row it in with the seed.
We SOW oats early, and Hungarian
late, for a forage crop. Both are good,
it is hard to say which is the best, but
probably oats for rather strong and
Hungarian for light soil. 1t is of no
use to SOW Hungarian before the ground
is warm, and good crop requires lib
eral manuring.
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risburgh, Vt, and G. E. Allen of Brat
tleboro, Vt, as reliable men to buy
plants of. We wish Mrs. G. the best
success, and all women, who love bor-
ticulture, the same.
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has won golden opinions. No traveller should con.
slider his outt complete unless It includes bottle of
this medicine. II You exposed to frequent
changes Of climate food and water Favorite Remedy
should always be within your reach 1t expels ma
larial poisons and is the best preventative Of chs
Tered as Trustworthy specific for the cure OF Kidney
ana LAYER complaints, Constipation ana all disorders
arising from an impure state OF the blood To women
Who sner from any OF the Ills peculiar to their ser
favorte Remedy constantly proving itself an I'M.
s 20 Dr: p Kennedy Rondout, n. Y q bottle. for
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Gbe YuuseboIo.

~ Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor, DR.. Hoskins, at
Newport, vt.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-08-07
CITY CLERKS OFFICE.
Sprlngflcll,O Ohio. IIlN Ill ISS

AZ . meeting of the Council e said City,
held on The 2i,tinst, u quorum being pI esent,
the following resolution was adopted
Resolved, BY the ci'y Council of the & ty OF
springfield, Uhio, twothirds OF the members
elected thereto concurIing, That 10 is ncces-
nary and that u intends 10 mAkcn pibIic
Improvement by constructing ihe suWer
hereinafter deSTribcd, according to tn plans,
profiles and sp. cincatiuns therefor on lille In
,he once OF The ,i'y Ciyl Engineer, recorded
Inspection OF AL parties Interested, ANA that
tne h'ld sewer IN The sewer district herein
after described said sewer and sewer dis.
trict being part Of the plan and system of
sewerage fni snid city heretofore adopted by
'"uhcIl- are required nnd are her, by desig-
nated Tor Immediate use. SAID sewer ig de
scribed Az follows, viz:
Commencing at the lnters, ctiou OF Foster
street with Main street, and runniug cnce
In, along aud upon Foster street north to the
inlcrcepting sewer designated ON the ptun of
se"ers for said city heretofore adopted by
.9,hhcii, as ying south OF aha nearly parallel
WIN the general course uf Buck Gre X, *.
tending west To the CORPORATION linz, with
u Il 10 connect.
Said sewer is In the Green Mount Sewer
District, Sr Sewer District No. 2, the bounda.
rIes of which are ns follows, VIZ: ON tho
north and northwest the center line OF Buck
creek ana the clrpo Otion line: on tic east
the corpnrotlon line; on the south the rprth
Inc oi High street, and on the west t., east
line OF Market ttrett
Inc plans and spec fcat ons required by
Jaw Tor ihe construction Of said sewe,S have
been prepared, and are on hIe In the on Q OF
me Clty Clyil Engineer fpi exalnina.ion and
ihspcc' Ion by parties Interested, and e. uncil
WIN hear raid parties AT its regular meet ing to
be held in the Council Cham ber of said city
on ths isth day Of Ansust, A. ID, 1885, com
mencins at O'Clock p IN.
The City Clerk H. hereby die TO u, .bIish
this resolution In newspaper Of genera cir
cnlallpn In tho rporotion for two conGccu-
tive weeks.
P.p. MAST, President
At'esl' } 5. sHEwALTER' city Clerk.