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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
A Poultry Town.

In the secluded town oil Little Comp
ton, II. l., poultry raising is made a
speciality by the farmers. Not many are
new in the business, writes a correspond
ent of the Neo England Farmer, and
some have been engaged in it many years.
All are farmers, but the tilling Of the
soil is in the poultry interest. The
largest poultry farm contains two hun
dred acres, Of which fifty acres are de-
voted to the range of fowls and chicks.
FIFTY hens comprise a colony and occu-
Ply separate house. Here they are fed
and here they roost and lay. The num-
Der of fowls on this farm is 1900, and
IS made up of Plymouth Rocks and Light
Brahmas. One man attends to all and
has ample time.
The yield feggs is about 1, COO dozen
month, and they are sent to market
twice a week, to Boston, New York and
Providence, as the demand comes. One
farmer receives all the eggs produced in
the nelghhorhood, and sends to market
In the busy season. 6, 600 dozen a week
is not unusual. The food in summer is
corn, wheat, barley and other grains; in
winter cooked food, meal and vcgeta-
bles, with beef scraps and ground bone.
The cost per fowl is about 81 per wear.
and the profit on each is also about 81.
Feathers find a ready market at eight
to twelve cents per pound. During
the year 1884 the price of eggs received
by the farmers averaged twenty-five anc
half cents per dozen.
On the large farm the hen as an egg
hatcher has been discarded. Four arti
fetal incubators had produced before tn
LIST of June 1900 chicks. Artificial
brooders are used also. Fifty to seventy
five per cent. of fertile eggs wcr
Matched. The unfavorable weather il
the early spring reduced the averag
lower than that of last year A man VIII
understands can give all attention neces
sary to an incubator in thirty minutel
dali y. Goslngs and ducks are Matched
by incubators, and the result is satisfac.
tory. About fifty stock geese are kept,
from which are raised annually five OF
six hundred green geese for market. The
geese are fattened IL pens, and the noise
made by five hundred, all speaking at
once, has no music in it mile away.
The cottage of the superintendent,
however, is near the goose-pens, but
like the man who lived next door to
steam gong, he is not disturbed by the
uproar. a professional goose pluckel
can strip twenty geese a day. He il
armed with a leather thumb and sharp
bladed knife. This may seem incredi
BILE to the farmer who raises few gees,
for Thanksgiving, when the whole fam
lily may spend day or two in removin,
most of the feathers from one goose.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
The lannon's Notrc Doma

On the Both of last January, the Sisters
OF the most noted Catholic ladies semi
nary in the United States, the famous
Notre Dame, at Govanstown, near Balti.
more, Nd, made public card. certify
ing to the beneficial results attending the
use of Red Star Cough Cure in that insti-
tuition. They state that they found it
efficacious alike for relieving coughs,
expressions on the chest and irritation Of
the throat. Officials of the Boards Of
Health of Brooklyn, Baltimore and other
cities have likewise publicly proclaimed
the virtues of this new discovery, which
is entirely free from opates, poisons and
other objections.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
The Sweetest bride.

edo you believe it is true that June
brides are the swcetestP saida Brooklyn
young lady to her best beau.
Not necessarily" he replied. 81
think the sweetest bride is the one who''
here he was interrupted by the sudden
appearance of his girls father, who said
you needn't try to blush, young
man, for know what you were going to
say"
"Why, I was only about to remark
that"
"The sweetest bride is the one who
has the most sugar che Oh, | know
all about it, young man. My wife was
an heiress when 1 married her. And
the jolly old joker chuckled till his face
looked like an auction flag -Aeto Torh
JOu1nal.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
A French Tower OF Babel.

1t is a French idea to erect in tn
grounds of the Paris exposition of 1899
an iron tower three hundred yards il
heighth-that is, twice as high as tn,
Great Pyramid and more than twice the
heighth of the Strasburg cathedral. AS
one hundred and sixty yards is considered
the limit of height possible in a struc-
ture in which stone is the principal ma
terial, it is proposed to use iron. The
base of the tower is of pyramidal shape,
and is to be seventy yards high; the SUI
perficial area at this height will be 5, 600
square yards; above this are to be three
other stages or stories, in which will be
room for various scientific and other pur-
poses The towers of Notre Dame will
be mere pigmies beside this colossal
structure, and will not reach to its first
floor. The protector points out
that, in addition to its monu-
mental character. the structure
will be useful for stragetical purposes in
war time on account of its vast range of
view; also for meteorological and as
Economical observation, for at such a
height the clearness of the air and the
absence of fogs would render observa.
ton possible which cannot be made
from the ground. The whole exhibition
and the surrounding neighborhood might
be lighted by one electric burner on this
tower. Many scientific problems may,
it is suggested, be investigated from the
tower, such as the resistance of the air
of different weights, certain laws of
elasticity, the study of the compression
of gas vapors, and of the oscillation of the
pendulum. In shape it is to resemble an
enormous light house, gradually taper
ering from wide base to the summit.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
An Honest Man.

"rm going down town. said a citi-
zen on Woodward avenue car ycster-
day, to return a lost wallet to its owner. .
Every man in the car pricked up his
ears, and one of them moved up closer
and inquired:
You found a wallet, ehl'
"Yes, sir"
son the street,"
eyes"
"In the daytime2"
"No at night"
"Anybody see you pick it up?"
mot a soul"
"And you would have been perfectly
safe in keeping it3"
81 wouldin
"Well, sir, let me shake hands with
you. l have wanted to live long enough
to find an honest man, and | Lave found
him."
They shook.
Many of the passengers were visibly
affected
"And how much money was in the
wallet" qucried the interrogation after
wiping his eyes on a pink bOrdered
handkerchief.
Not a blamed cent"
Then the curtain went down and the
audience filed out.-DetrOt Free Press.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Roaming Hens.

Hens like TO have their liberty and to
roam over the garden and fields and to
select their own nesting places in the
barn or among the bushes or tall grass in
the vicinity of buildings, but the profits
to their owners under such circumstances
are not always sure to be satisfactory.
Hens in the garden are generally unmiti-
gated nuisances, surely so if they are
your neighbours hens. Many persons
seem to think that poultry cannot be
profitable unless they can have their full
liberty, and can obtain most of their
living from what they can pick up while
foraging on their own account. But
this is mistake. Hens running at
large unless closely watched and cared
for, seldom pay very we'll They often
have to scratch too hard for a living, and
what eggs they lay are largely lost or
IN some way wasted Then the chick
ems get caught by hawks, foxes or other
animals of prey
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Grating.

In preparation for grating both stalks
and scions should be perfectly healthy.
says the Michigan Farmer. Select for
scions sound, ripe shoots from healthy
trees near the top, and keep them dor
mant until used. They are more certain
to grow we'll if taken off in November
and kept through the winter, free from
frost, in damp sand, pine or hemlock
sawdust, as the latter from dcciduous
trees will heat and injure the cuttings
unless it is very old and past fcrmenta-
ton. After a mild winter, scions will
sometimes do we'll if cut in February or
March, in VIII en- case they may be
wrapped in paper and buried in the bot
tom of the cellar until wanted. 1t is
better to sets gratis just before the buds
of the stalks swell, especially on cherry
and plum trees. which start flow of sap
earlier than the apple or the peach All
stone fruits should have strips of waxed
cloth wound around the cleft, after wax
ing it thoroughly, to prevent the bark
from peeling off around the stock. In
grating select such branches for the pur-
pose as will give the top the best shape
after the graft grows, and the other
limbs in future years are removed. If
the trees are large do not cut of many
large limbs in a single season,
even If it takes two or more
years to change the entire
top. Fine healthy trees have been killed
outright by excessive pruning in single
season. A severe wound or an amputa-
ton is always great strain upon vitali-
ty whether 1t be upon tree or on hui
man being. Cut some of the scions into
pieces about four inches long, and when
ready TO set them make the lower end in
the form of a wedge one and one half
inches long and little thinnest on the
inside, with bud on the outside lust
will come Just at the top of the stalk, as
the cambium stored in about the base of
the bud will cause the scion and stalk to
unite more readily. The bark of the
stalk to be grated being thicker than
that of the scion, the beginner is apt to
set the scion too near the outside of the
stalk, whereas the inside bark of both
should be in line, or cross each other
very little 10y slanting the scion outward
trtle. Saw the stalk oil smoothly.
Split lightly in the middle with knife or
chisel; insert the narrow wedge IN the
center of the stalk only enough to admit
the wedge-shaped scions. Set scions in
firmly, withdraw the wooden wedge
carefully so as not to disturb the scions,
and wax thoroughly the top of the stalk
and cleft, also put little on top of each
scion. Keep the sprouts rubbed from
the stalks, and examine in hot weather;
if the wax has melted or peeled off, put
on more. american CUhtcator.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
He Felt Hurt.

He was old and bent. His form had
seen the storms of fifty winters at least,
and as he sat by the roadside with his
head bowed upon his arms, he looked
the picture of misery without company.
He was only a tramp; but his detected
air show ed that he was suffering from
some sorrow perhaps too deep for words.
A kind hearted pedestrian passing by,
approached him.
Say, Old man, =" he said: "you look
pretty badly broken up
Yes" replied the tramn 81 feel sad
there's no getting around that"
What's the matter? Wasn't the cream
fresh that you had in your coffee this
morning."
sob, yes. I've had better; but it
was good enough"
Somebody been trying to work off a
silk hat two years out of style on you9"
"No, it's not that"
"What thcnl Has some fellow who has
always KEEP pug dog bought mastilfl"
"Oh, worse than that"
"Then," said the stranger, edging
away as if afraid of an outburst of un.
governable wrath from the tramp: "some
one must have offered you dry bread"
"No. that's not It,"
"Well, what on earth is the trouble2r
"My friend" said the tramp, slowly
raising his eyes, and heaving long,
tremulous sigh: 81 went this morning to
a house where they used to keep two
bull dogs and a shotgun, and instead of
bringing them out, they invited Inc in,
and tried to rope me into eating some
bread covered with rat poison. It's an
insult to the profession, that's what it is,
and I'm hurt. "-Puck.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
Color Blind Gnc I've.

EXaminer-"What is the color of this
dag2"
"Green, sir"
Fright. Now close your left eye.
What is the color of this flag"
"Green, sir Dark green"
"Just so. Shut your right eye. What
flag am waving nowg"
"A black one, sir"
Nonsense. It's bright red. And
this fag?"
"Black, sir"
"Pshaw 1t is white. Your left eye
seems little OIL"
well, may be it is. 1t is glass eye,
sir. > call.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
Farm and Garden Notes.

Take no weeds to the compost heap
that have seeds, but dispose of them by
burning.
Sheep quickly succumb to disease if
not relieved Immediately. For this rea-
son flock should be inspected daily.
A pound of poultry flesh may be pro-
duced as cheapiy as a pound of pork,
and it sells for twice the price in the
market.
Old cheese and cheese rinds, beaten
or grated finely, mixed with lime and
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18
TOLD BY THE MERRY MEN.
SHORT STORIES FROM TIE PENS OF
HUMoRIsTs.

evolution i'm Music-The Sweetest
Hride-COIOr Blind i'm Gnc Eve
I'm the Garden, Etc, Etc.
81 tell you, Bromley, I've married an
angel"
ooh, no doubt! Wait until you've
been married as long as l have"
"She's all smiles Bromley; never a
cross word. Her voice is as sweet as the
sound of harp. Her"
ooh, she reminds you of harp, does
sheI Inside of a year she'll remind you
of an accordion"
"Why Of an accordeon2"
because she'll make the most noise
when you attempt to shut her up. =
Pht(adeLphia call.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18

ALCOHOL WAS NOT INVENTED and min
erals were never used incidentally in the
days of old. 1nvigorating and Alternative
herbs were then the only curatives. Sick
animals, with unerring instinct, invaria-
bly, select strange herbs for their ailments.
VINEGAR B1TTERs is the greatest herb
antidote and tonic ever known.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18

Colorado has s15, 900 head of cattle
valued at seq, 600, 600 Only one State
west of tho Mississippi has a larger
showing-Texas, which has $500, 900,
valued at 500, 600, 900.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18

When you visit or leave New YORK city save baggage
e1press1ge anu 81 carriage hire and stop GRIND
Union Hotel. opposite Grand Central depot.
600 elegant rooms, fitted up at a cost mill on
dollars, and upward per day. Eur ,peqn plan Ee-
vator. r. staurant supplied with the best Horse care
stages and elevated railroads TO all dapots Fanlie,
can i've better for less money at the Grand Union
Hotel than at any other class no ell in the city.
NEARLY all the aged inhabitants of Persia
eat oDlum
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10 cOunteract Its ravages in our sam
pie grounds, where we test all our varie-
ties of cabbage and caulihower, we had
until this season dressed the land heavily
with oyster shell lime, using at the rate
of $50 bushels to the acre, sown on the
land after blowing, and then well har-
rowed in. But this year the man in
charge of our trial grounds was absent
at the time the ground was being pre-
pared for the cabbage and cauilower,
and the dressing of lime was, for the
1lrst time in five years, omitted. The
cabbage and caulihower plants, which
were strong spring sown transplanted
plants, were set out about the middle of
April. They started we'll but about the
middle of May the droop in the leaf
showed that the maggot was at work.
We at once scraped the soil from the
stem of each plant and busted lime
around it, again drawing the soil up to
the stem. In addition to this a good
handful of guano was busted around
very five or six plants, or about as thick
n the surface of the soil as sand is usu-
lily strcwn on the floor.
The application of lime at once arrest
ed the work of the maggots on the stems,
ana the guanO started quick growth,
causing each plant to make strong roots
above the wounds made by the maggots.
The result is that the crop to ali appear
ances is saved. We left few rows with
out applying the lime and guano, to test
the result of the experiment, and in
these rows hardly plant will head up.
OF course this remedy is expensive, prob
ably costing in guano and labor $40 to
$25 for every acre OF 10, 600 plants, and
1t would also fail TO be effective if the
ravages of the maggots were too far ad-
vanced before the application was used,
but that it is effective if applied in the
early stages of the attack we have proved
beyond question. However, preventing
is always cheaper than curing, and if
there is reason TO apprehend the ravages
from the attacks of this pest the ground
should be heavily dressed with lime in
the proportion and manner already given.
If this is persistently done with each
crop there is but little chance of any
trouble, at least such has been our ex-
perience in the past ten or fifteen years.
Peter Henderson, in Rural Neo Yorker.
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A Cincinnati man has invented a pow.
der which sprinkled upon small oysters
will cause them to swell up into large
and Juicy bivalves.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18

The school teachers of the United
States draw wages to the amount of
$50. 600, 900 yearly-an average of $500
each
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-09-18

is a French saying that finds exempification
in the way one disease will substitute itself
for another and graver one, in very many
cases. Liver disease, for instance, viii soon
induce blood disorders, throat ailments, skin
affections and eventually, because of impov-
erished blood, consumption itself unless in
progress by DR.. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery which acts as a specific in these
ailments, accomplishing q rapid cure by its
powerful Alternative action upon the great Or
gans OF the body.
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CAsT-oFF boots and shoes are made into
wall paper at certain factories

! CASl-OFF DOOIS ana SHOES are made into
wall paper at certain factories
Your Friends will Never Tell You,
| but perhaps somebody, who isn't your friend,
viii, that your presence i, rendered offensive
| by the foul, fetid smell o. your breath. Ev-
/ cry word You utter, though it be the very
echo of wisdom and poetry, disgusts your
hearers, and your laugh is productive of any
thing but mirth to them. 1t Is a duty you
owe, not only to yourself, but to society to
| remove this cause OF olfense DR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy will heal the diseased mu-
cous membrane, will bring relief to Yourself
and Others. DO not hesitate to employ it.
Or the twenty-five members of Grants two
cabinets six have died
Young or midde-aged men, suffering from
| nervous debility and kindred weaknesses.
should send ten cents in stamps tor large
treatise giving successful treatment. World 5
DiSpensary Medical Association, Buffalo, y. Y.
WHO sows thorns should not go barefoot
The purest, sweetest and best Cod Liver
Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh
healthy llverS, upon the sea>hOre. 1t is abS)-
lutely pure and sweet. Patient; who have
once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi-
clans have decided it superior to any of the
other oils in market Made by Caswell, Haz-
ard & Co., New York.
CHArrEp HANDS, face, pmples and rough
skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by
taswell, Hazard 4 Co., New York.
LYONS Patent Metallic Heel Stifeners
keep new boots and shoes from running over.
Sold by shoe and hardware dealers.
"BEEsoNS AROMATIC ALUM SULPHUR
SoAP,' beauties and softens Face and
hands, heals and cures all skin diseases for
sure. p cents by druggist or by mail,
VIM. Dreydoppel, Philadelphia, Pa.
If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water Druggists sell it. pc
ENGLISH manufacturers now turn out 20, =
600 incandesCent lamps per week.
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WHY Not TFv II

fyou have that extreme tired feeling, weakness
loss OF appetite, indigestion, heartburn headache
or other symptoms of dyspepsia, why don't you try
Hoods Sarsaparilla?
1t will overcome the tired feeling create an appe
tite tone up the digestive organs and cure dyspepsia
1t is the only medicine OF which can truly be said
100 Doses one Dollar" which is an unanswerable
argument as TO strength and economy
If you suffer from scrofula salt rheum sores boils
pimples, humors of any kind why don't you try
Hoods Sarsaparilla
1t is purely vegetable, free from all injurious in.
gradients, is undoubtedly the best blood purifier
and is almost certain to do you good.
This winter was troubled with a humor plmples
coming out all over me and itching a great deal
took several kinds OF medicine, but they gave me no
relief At last took Hoods Sarsaparilla and the
humor has disappeared. l feel right well now
HENRY SCHROEDER, st. Mary's o.
Hoods SarsapariIla
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for s.. Prepared by
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ECZ g w A!

Salt Rheum from infancy. We tried every known
remedy, but to no avail She was also anicted with
periodical nervous headache, sometimes followed
by an intermittent fever, that her life became
burden TO her. Finally determined TO try S. S. s.
She commenced seven weeks ago. After the third
bottle the Inflammation disappeared and sore spots
dried up ana turned white and scay. and finally she
brushed them on in an impalpabe white powder re-
sembling pure salt She is now taking the sixth bot
ue every appearance OF the disease gone and her
flesh Is soft and white as child's. Her headaches
nave disappeared and she enjoys the only good health
she has known in 40 years. No wonder she deems
every bottle OF S. S. s. is worth thousand times it,
weight in gold JOHN f. BRADLEY
Detroit Mich. May l6 1855. - Griswold ST
For sale by ali druggists.
" Y, 157 ". 23d St Drawer s. Atlanta Ga
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DR.. Railways Regulating Pills

For the cure of all disorders of the Stomach Liver
Bowels, Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Female
Complaints, Loss OF Appetite, Headache, Constipa-
ton Costlyeness, Indigestion, DYSPEPSIA Bilious
ness. Fever Inflammation of the Bowels Piles and all
arrangements OF the Internal Nlscera. Purely veg
Price, 20 cents per box. Sold by all druggists.
10 send q letter stamp to DIR. ROADWAY Il
CO., No.32 Warren street, New York, for
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Kidney and Bladder ComnIaints

Urinary and Womb Diseases. Gravel. Diabetes, Drop
sv. Stoppage of Water. Incontnence of Urine
BriShts Disease, Abuminuria. and all cases where
there are brick-dust deposits, the water is thick
cloudy or mixed with substance like the white an
egg, or there is a morbid, dark. bilious appearance
and white bone-dust deposits, and where there is a
prickling, burning sensation when passing wafer
and pain in the small of the back and along the ons
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100 Doses One Dollar

VNHE CHEAPEST AND BEST MEDICINE FOR
l. FAMILY USE IN THE WORLD.
In from one to twenty minutes, never fails to re-
IeNe PAIN with one thorough application. No mat
GER now violent or excruciating the pain, the Rheu-
matte, Bedrldden, lntirnn, Crippled Nervous, Neu-
"a nc or prostrated with disease NAV suffer, RAD
WAY 5 READY RELIEF will afford instant ease Ii
instantly relieves