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chemistry, all girls should be taught
chemistry at school. Not that there
are not good cooks who have never
opened a chemical work, yet a good
practical chemist, just to that extent.
But to know the science systematic
ally is to make himself independent, to
great degree, Of the limitations of
mere practical teaching, because it
puts the student in possession of the
key to the whole matter. A knowledge
of the chemistry of food is, therefore,
as important to farmers wife, or
daughters, as knowledge of the
chemistry of the soil, of manures, and
of feeding-stuffs, is to the farmer. A
girl should learn the elements of chem
istry in preference to any foreign Ian
guage, or any so-called accomplish
ment. The latter may help to catch a
husband, but the former will make the
most useful wife and efficient mother.
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Children on Sunday.

l am not in the habit of writing for
the public, but noticing in your paper
of January 9th, the new department de-
voted to the household, l thought l
would like to tell my sisters who have
little children what was very helpful
in my own family several years ago
when / had four little daughters to keep
quiet and happy, and yet busy on the
Sabbath. l cut out of paper a picture,
and pasted it on a sheet of writing
paper, then gave them the Concordance
and their testaments or bibles, and they
printed the verses containing the name
of the picture. This would keep them
quiet long time, and, also help
them to remember bible truths, at the
same time giving the mothers the time
of rest they so much desire. l shall
not be offended if this is not used, but
the thought came to me, and l wrote.
MRS. d. S. HIBBARD.
Limington, Maine.
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fruit and on cutting into the flesh we
can sometimes trace the burrow for
little distance as distinct hole, some
times the hole is closed by the contin-
ued growth of the apple and only a dark
thread is to be seen and sometimes no
trace of the worms path is discernible,
but wherever the worm passed the flesh
is, for some distance around, either hard
or spongy. When hard it is of yell
lowish cast, but the spongy portions are
of the color of dried apples. These
hard or spongy places are found in early
apples and infer that they are caused
in winter apples by the dissolved excre-
ment of the worms being carried to the
adjacent parts by the circulation in the
growing apple. They are found most
abundantly in sweet apples, sometimes
rendering the fruit of whole tree ut
terly worthless except for feeding stock.
Mild sub-acid apples are also much in
tested but very sour ones only little or
not at all. This bids fair to be far
worse enemy to the apple than the cod
lin moth and if it cannot soon be
checked, apple tree planting will before
long be abandoned. 1t is evident that
the transporting of winter apples from
place to place will not spread the dis
ease, if it be right to call it disease,
but people ought to be cautious about
obtaining summer or early fall apples
from anywhere, lest they carry this pest
into their own locality.
j. T. MACOMBER.
Grand Isle, VT.
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Longitude.

The dread of editors is long-winded
article. In many offices lengthiness is
q through ticket to the waste-basket.
But after all, it is not mere length that
is so Objectionable. There are many
subjects that cannot be properly treated
in one or two short paragraphs. What is
objected to is length, without breadth
or thickness" There are writers who
write so Interestingly and instructively
that their readers are sorry when they
stop. Pity they are so few, and the
other kind so many. But this fear of
wearisome length may be carried to ex-
tremes. In some of our exchanges it
leads to choppiness, chippiness, and
worst than all, chaffiness. We have in
mind one of them which regularly fills
page with postal card correspondence
that does not, on the averge, contain
valuable information enough to fill half
a column. Mere brevity, as such, is of
no more worth than mere longitude.
Meatiness is the point, brethren. A
meaty writer is good, short or long.
But oh, how short we are of them!
Even the papers that pay well don't al
ways get enough from them to fill up.
Those who know, and can tell, are too
busy, and only those who don't know,
or can't tell, are left to spread them
selves out in an everlasting, wishy-
washy flood"
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"The New Apple Disease"

"The new apple disease" spoken of
several times in THE WATCHMAN, is, we
believe here, caused by an insect.
1t has been noticed here for several
years but it had been so slight as not
to attract any special attention until
within two or three years. In our sum-
mer apples we find small worm or
maggot about one-fourth of an inch in
length, that burrows in the flesh, never
entering the core. 1t does its work and
leaves the fruit at a time when early
apples are about ripe, but winter apples
still growing, consequently do not find
any of the worms after the apples are
stored in the cellar, but on examining
these apples we find many that have
small black dots in the center of slight
indentations and magnifying glass
shows them to be very minute holes,
probably where the worms left the
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Fertilizers, Etc.

Mr.. Editor:-Having been much
benefited by your answers to others
questions, l take the liberty of asking
few myself, which, if worth the while,
will you answer through THE WATCH
MAN?
l. What would be lacking in a mix
ture of cotton-seed meal, wheat bran, and
hard wood ashes, mixed, equal quaint
ties by weight, to make it "perfect
fertilizer?
2. How would it compare with Brad
ley's superphosphate in value, equal
weights?
3. Why, when no twelve-rowed corn
has been planted on a farm for term
of years, and none on adjoining farms
near enough to mix, should the pro.
portion of twelve-rowed corn be main.
tanned?
4. Why should it be greater with
some kinds of fertilizers than others?
Williamstown, Vt. QUEST
REPLY BY AGRICULTURAL EDITOR
We wish again to repeat, what WI
have several times said before, that NJ
reader of this paper who desires in
formation on agricultural subjects takes
any liberty, or has any reason to apollo
gize for asking for it, and this for tn,
simple reason that the agricultural ed
itor is employed and paid to do tina
very thing, and is himself much graft
fed to have his work cut out for him
by being told what is most desired b,
his readers.
To "Quest's first query, we repl
that mixture of equal weights of cot
ton-seed meal, wheat bran, and ashe
is not a well-balanced fertilizer, becaus
it does not supply the elements. o
plant food in the proportions in whicl
experience shows that crops requir
them. BY this it must not be under
stood that all crops require exactly tn
same elements in the same proportions
Yet, if we go by weight, we approx
mate the average ration, for an aver
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Medical Gleanings.

A girl having died of diphtheria, her
earrings were cleansed in an ordinary
way and given to her little sister, who
had been purposely kept from contact
with the patient during her sickness.
In few days the latter was taken with
diphtheria, which began in the pune
tured holes of the ear. In another case,
the child had remained in good health
while other members of the family were
sick with diphtheria. But the child
had slight wound, over which scab
had formed. The scab by some acct
dent was brushed from the wound, the
raw surface imbibed the poison, and the
child died of the disease.
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UnlOanable Funds.
An exchange says:

AT the close of last week, according
to a Northumberland statement, the
New York banks had on hand a sur
plus of S47 ,644 1916, showing a gain of
S7,623,75 during the week. 1t is
doubtful if there was ever more idle
money there than at present.
The great fall in the rates of interest,
and the difficulty of finding safe invest
ments for money, is a singular phenom-
enon of the past ten years in America
1t marks the rapidity with which we
are assimilating our social and financial
condition to that of Europe. In a
country where the large bulk of the
people are independent land and house
holders, and are engaged in occupa-
lions implying the possession of capital
there is wide market for lOanable
funds, for which security is given upon
real estate. But when the great cap
italistic rings and corporations, and the
individual millionaires and minor CAP
italists, by their usury and other sinful
games, have ruined these smaller capt.
talists, and taken possession of their
holdings, reducing them by thousands
to the state of wage laborers, they have
spoiled their widest and most profitable
market for loanable funds, and have
shut themselves up to the stocks and
bonds of corporations, the evidences of
national and state indebtedness, and
the limited field of banking operations.
All of these, except the best public
funds, are of very uncertain and fuc.
tuating character, and, after a fierce
competition for the best of these oppor.
tunities at very low rates, capital is left
stranded, for the lack of the wide
market for investment among the
minor industries which its greedness
has so largely destroyed. They have
killed the geese that laid the COLDER
eggs.
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Some Good Receipts.

Approaching the new Household De-
partment, send the follow receipts:
COOP PLAIN CAKE, WITHOUT EGGs.-
One teacup of sour cream, one cup of
granulated sugar, one teaspoonful Of
soda, one-half teaspoonful of salt, a
little nutmeg, flour enough to make it
stiff so that it don't Immediately settle
smooth in the bake tins. If there is
not -four enough, it will fall.
GOOD PLAIN DoUGHNUTs.- One tea
cup of sour milk, one-half cup of sour
cream, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of
soda, one teaspoonful of salt, flour
enough to mold soft, let them rise two
hours, then fry.
GOOD SWEET DoUGHNUTs.-O tea
cup of sour milk, one-half teacup of
sour cream, one cup of sugar, three
eggs, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of
soda, one teaspoonful of salt, a little
cinnamon and nutmeg, one tablespoon
full of vinegar, flour to mold soft. Let
them rise one-half hour, then fry A
little vinegar in all sweetened dough
nuts will prevent their soaking fat.
COOKIES. -One-third teacup of sour
milk, one-third cup of lard, one-third
cup of sour cream, one cup of sugar,
one egg, one small teaspoonful of soda,
one-half teaspoonful of salt, one tea
spoonful of caraway seed, flour to mold.
Roll thin, cut, and bake in a quick oven.
AUNT MARY.
Williamstown, VT.
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In November after milking through the season.
/ now have heifers which came in
last February at twenty-five and TWEEN
ty-three months of age, that were tested
October 81. They gave an average of
ten pounds nine ounces of milk, which
made eleven ounces of butter each.
They were fed morning and night on
corn fodder besides what they could get
in very poor pasture. The heifers
are not yet entirely dry, although due
to come in again the first week of Feb
ruary next. A. ID. ARMS.
Montpelier, January IA, 1885.
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CRUSHED Ice EoR BURNS. The
value of crushed ice as dressing for
burns and scalds, first pointed out by
Sir James Earle, is confirmed by DR..
Richardson. The ice, after being re-
duced, by crushing or scraping, to a
fine state of division as dry as possible,
is mixed with fresh lard into a paste,
which is placed in thin cambria bag,
and laid upon the burn. This is said to
Danish all pain until the mixture has Sc
far melted that a fresh dressing is
necessary.
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Influence.

We scatter seeds with careless hand,
And dream we neer shall see them more:
But for a thousand years
Their fruit appears,
In weeds that mar tho land,
Or bealthful store.
The deeds we do, the words we say,
Into still air they seem 10 fleet;
We count them ever past;
But they shall last
In the dread Judgment they
And We shall meet.
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To REMOVE RUsT-STAINs FROM Cot
TON AND LINEN.-A mixture of two
parts powdered cream-tartar with one
part powdered oxalic acid is used. APP
ply little of the powder to the damp
ened goods.
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agricultural.

aY- This department is wholly under the control
Of tho agricultural editor, T. II. HosK1Ns, MD,
Newport VT. and he alone is to be held responsible
for the opinions herein expressed.
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BAKED APPLEs.-Remove the core
before baking, and when ready to send
to the table fill the space with sweet
cream with little powdered sugar in it.
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Gbs 8OuseboIo.

tE- Communications for this column should be
sent 70 the agricultural editor, DR.. Hoskins. az
Newport. VI.
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Quest will perceive that these are
not the correct proportions. To meet
the average requirements of soil and
crop, as given above, mixture would
have to be made up differently. With
the above materials alone we could not
get the right proportions, because if
we put in enough ashes to make the
phosphoric acid right we shall have too
much potash, and if we use two sub
stances so rich in nitrogen as cotton
seed meal and bran we shall get too
much nitrogen for the other elements.
So we shall have to use fourth sub
stance rich in phosphoric acid. We
may use bone meal for this purpose.
A pure bone meal will contain, in one
hundred pounds, no potash, about four
pounds of nitrogen and twenty-four
pounds of phosphoric acid. Let us
mix it, then, as follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-02-04

age crop, on an average New England
soil, by ratio of one and one-half
pounds of combined nitrogen to six
pounds of phosphoric acid and three
pounds of potash. One hundred pounds
of average cotton-seed meal contain
about six pounds of nitrogen, three
pounds of phosphoric acid and one and
one-half pounds of potash.
One hundred pounds Western wheat
bran contain about two and one-half
pounds of nitrogen, three pounds
phosphoric acid and one and one-half
pounds of potash.
One hundred pounds unleached ashes
contain no nitrogen, about six pounds
of phosphoric acid and twelve pounds
of potash.
Now let us make up Quests fertil-
izer upon the above basis, and see in
what proportions its fertilizing ele-
ments will appear:
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advertisements.
HOODS
SARSAPARILLA

Has decided" claims upon the public. ThiJ
Is positively proven by the immense good it
has done to those who have been cured Of
diseases from which they have suffered in
tensely for years, as verified by tho publish
ed testimonials, every one OF which Is pos
Tive fact.
CHELSEA, VT, Feb. "a, 1879.
MEssRs. G. !. HOOP &c Co, Lowell, Mass:
The 9th day Of last June ! was taken sick
with a swelling on my right foot, and with an
awful pain The swelling went all over me.
My face was sweled so that could with diff
fculty see out of my eyes, and ] broke out
over the whole surface of my body; my right
foot up to my Knee was one raw, itching
mass, and my ankle and foot so lame ard
sore | could not step on 1t, and II would run
In this condition Mr.. w. L. Hood tof the firm
Of A. r. Hood & Son, druggists, OF this town,
handed me a bottle OF HOODS SARsAPARIL-
LA, and told me TO take it. ] did so. and by
the time had taken one bottle found that
1t was doing me good. l have since taken
FIVE bottles more. After ] had taken three
bottles my soreness began to leave me, and
have been growing better every day, SO
that to-day can walk without going lame.
] have no soreness in my ankle and II has
healed all up, and does not run at all. owe
my recovery 70 your Sarsaparilla' write
this to let you know that think i deserves
who are troubled with humors.
Yours most truly,
JOSIAH PITKIN.
P.S Every person that saw me said that
never would get over my lameness without
having running sore ON my ankle; but
thank God have. j. L.
Mother Sarsaparilla has such sharpening
effect upon the appetite. No other prepa-
ration tones and strengthens the digestive
organs like HOOPS SARsAPARILLA.
Price one dollar, or six bottles for Ave dol
lars. Prepared only by G. |. HOOD & CO..
Apothecarles, Lowell. Mass.
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SCROFULA

can only be cured by a thorough purifica-
the disease perpetuates its faint through
generation after generation. Among its
earlier symptomatic developments are
Eczema, Cutaneous Eruptions, Tu-
mors, Boils, Carbuncles, Erysipelas,
Purulent Ulcers, Nervous and Ply
steal Collapse, etc. If allowed to con-
tinue, Rheumatism, ScrofuIOus Ca
tarrh, Kidney and Liver Diseases,
Tubercular Consumption, and vari-
Gus other dangerous or fatal maladies, are
produced by it.
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KINGS EVIL

Was the name formerly given to Scrofula
because of superstition that it could be
cured by kings touch. The world Is
wiser now, and knows that
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WORK
Sewer Oh Oakland Street.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
CITY OF ST. PAUL Mimi. June 3, 1885,
Sealed bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works in and for the corporation of
the City of st. Paul, Minnesota. at their office
in SAID city, until IL III. ON the 18th day of
June, A. D. 1885, for the construction of a sewer
on Oakland street, as now extended, from
Floral street to Ramsey street. in said city, to-
gether with the necessary catchbasins and
manholes, according to plans and specifica-
tons ON file in the Office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties in
sum of at least twenty (20) per cent. of the
gross amount bid must accompany each bid.
The Board reserves the right to reject any
Or all bids.
JOHN HARRINGTON, President.
Official:
r. L. GoRMAN, Clerk Board of Public Works.
154-64
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CYrpE pnH PILES.

The first symptom of piles is an intense
itching at night after getting warm. ms
unpleasant sensation is Immediately re-
lieved by an application of DR.. Bosanko $
Pile Remedy. Piles in all forms, Itch, Salt
Rheum and Ringwom can be permanently
cured by the use OF this great remedy. Prlce
80 cents. Manufactured by DR.. bosanko
Medicine company, PiQua, o. Sold by A.
z. Wilkes, Seven corners; f. a. Henert,
ST4 Dayton avenue; John Boyden. 323 East
Seventh street, and p. c. Lutz, Waba sh
street, opposite poStoffice.
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PER SONALS.

Charles Dean, Milbank, is at the Mer-
D. B. Searle, ST. Cloud, is at the Mer-
chants.
d. E. Little, Duluth, was in the city yes
terday.
F. W. Mayhem, Grand Marais, is at the
Windsor.
W. a. Gamer, Milwaukee, is at the
Windsor.
George o. Pennock, Beardsley, is at the
Merchants.
A. G. Whitney, Sank Centre, was in the
city yesterday.
John McElroy, Grand Forks, was in the
city yesterday.
Henry L. Simons, Glencoe, is at the
Metropolitan.
D. H. Durham and wife, Bismarck, are
at the Metropolitan.
T. H. FIatan, Ada, registered at the Mer-
chants yesterday.
W. F. Sadley- Mile Laos county, was in
the city yesterday.
George H. Ellsburg, Tower City, was in
the city yesterday.
\. n Tyner, Fargo, registered at the
Merchants yesterday.
David Gamble. Ipswich, Oak, was at
the Windsor yesterday.
l. E. Hall and wife. Faribault, arrived at
the Windsor last evening.
4. c. Van Meter, New Richmond. was
a guest at the Windsor yesterday.
S. j. Stebbins and Miss Ida Stebbins,
Duluth. were in the city yesterday.
Il. Z. Chapman and Ed McEnery, Mo-
line were at the Windsor yesterday.
,John Il. Sanborn registered himself at
the Metropolitan as from White Bear.
Dr. E. ". Cross and II. II. NOVEL;,
Rochester, were at the Metropolitan yester-
day.
AT CHICAGO.
SPECIAL 20 the Globe.
CHICAGO, April 5.-AErs. G. W. Abel of
Hulon, Oak, and Alexander Mckenzie
and vile Of Bismarck are at the Palmer
john Butler of Ellsworth. w. Hastings
of NsiHoEa, are at the fremont.
E. T. Abbott Of Minneapolis and N. <.
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Doctor Whittier.

A regular graduate. PA East Seventh street,
treats, with unparalleled success, blood i'm
purities, nervous prostration, debility-dis-
eases from indscretion, excuses, exposures
Moderate charges, safely. Advice free. Els
tablished longer than any advertising ply
stefan in America. Record of cures for
twenty-seven years; never one published.
write.
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The volume of Illustrated Minnesota be-

The volume OF Illustrated Minnesota be-
ing prepared by the state board of immigra-
ton is rapidly approaching completion, and
it is expected that the Norwegian edition
will be ready for distribution next week,
and The English. German and Swedish edi-
tiGns about June Is. The book will con-
tain fewer pages than the one distributed
at the New Orleans exposition, but in all
matters of interest is said to be fully up to
fhnf
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4 Fine Piece

Of ground on Nelson avenue at auction.
Kavanagh Will sell to-day, on easy terms, 100
feet OF ground on Nelson avenue, near the
corner of Louis street. Sale at o'clock p. III.
The regular ,nouthl; meeting of the Wo-
mans Christian Home viii be held to-day.
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\
1NOt'l Seal1

STATE OF MINNESOTA,
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
l hereby certify that the within instrument was
filed for record in this Office on the 20th day of
May, A. D. 1885, at 1l:45 O'Clock a. m., and was
duly recorded in Book L of interpretations, on
page 600, etc. FRED Won BAUMBACH,
Secretary of State
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COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. o.
On this ed day of May 1885, before me, No
tary Public within and for said county, personally
came Peter A. Keller and l.. p. Keller, to me per-
sonally known to be the same persons described
in and who signed and executed the foregoing ar
ticles of incorporation. and they each acknowl-
edged the same to be their free act and deed.
JOSEPH BROBSTON
Notary Public, Philadelphia, Pa.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA, l.,

OFFICE OF THE REGISTER OF DEEDS.
This is to certify that the within instrument was
filed for record in this Office at st. Paul, on the
20th day of May, A. D. 1885, at 10 O'Clock a. M,
and that the same was duly recorded in Book D of
interpretations, pages g. etc. r. C. WILEY,
Register of Deeds
ByJ. P LEITNER, Deputy.
[Seall 15O-157
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