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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
Healing BrOken.DOwn Horses.

1t is related in the life of Sir Ashley
Cooper, the eminent English physician,
that he required his coachman to at
tend every market day at Smithfield,
and purchase all the lame young horses
that could be had for seven pounds or
less, and would be likely to repay the
trouble and expense of effectipg cure.
They were placed on Sir Astley's farm
at Gaelisbridge, and when the cause of
their lameness was discovered they
were carefully treated, and with so
much success that large numbers of
these apparently worthless animals
were permanently cured and sold for
large sums. Sir Ashley himself had a
pair of carriage-horses, which he kept
for many years, which cost him orig
inally only twelve pounds ten shillings.
We have no doubt that in many cases
horses that seem to be broken down
and worthless might be saved to use
fulness by judicious treatment Even
broken leg has been permanently
cured by being carefully set and splin-
tered. And simple lameness, which
NAV have resulted from strain or harsh
treatment, may need only rest, good
fare and suitable applications to reduce
local inflammation, to restore the ami
NAL to soundness and vigor. Sir Ashley
Cooper's success in this branch of
surgery shows what may be done, by
well-directed skill, to save valuable
horse from the crows or the bone
factory
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
Barbed Wire Fence.

An experienced writer in the Home
Farm has the following to say on the
above subject. 1t is one worthy of
much consideration, and we should be
glad to have it discussed by our readers
in these columns:
For stakes use the best and stoutest
of the pine and cedar rails which have
been in the old fence for many years,
cutting them six feet long, squaring the
top end and sharpening the other one.
Then, having started the holes with a
steel bar, and made them just one rod
apart, j go along in a cart and settle
the stakes with a heavy beetle " eigh-
teen inches or two feet into the ground.
The starting stake or post should be
larger and more firmly set than the 9th
ers, as well as the last post in the sec
ton of fence. And these two posts
should be firmly braced by rail pass
ing dagonally from the top of the start
ing post to the bottom of the next post
The longer the brace the better And
the lower end should be against post
and not simply upon or in the ground
and it should be nailed to the posts
Then, having attached the wire to the
first post, place the reel upon bar
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STATE

were stored, covered with planks and
weighted. One month later the cover
ing was removed and more sorghum
added. Recently the silo was opened.
The top was dark and musty for about
six inches down, but the ensilage be-
low the moldy portion was in an excel
lent state of preservation, and would be
called first-class ensilage by those who
are acquainted with ensilage products.
From this experiment, says Director
Sturtevant, it becomes evident that en-
silage can be preserved when the silo
is filed gradually, as the convenience
of the labor dictates, and that but little.
precaution need be taken in filling.
The upper layer, which became musty,
served as a protection to the bulk of the
ensilage, but the proportion of this
spoilt ensilage to the whole mass is, of
course, greater in silo of little depth
than in one which is deeper. The pres
ervation was such that nine months or
more keeping seemed to be no detri-
ment, and it was very evident that it
might have remained closed even longer
without suffering harm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

THE Farm and Gorden says The
Yellow Transparent apple continues to
give universal satisfaction for an early
summer variety. The Yellow Trans
parent is one of the few Russian apples
that were introduced in 1870 by the
patent Office that has proved of value
in this country. Its fine size, beautiful
transparent yellow color, good quality
and productiveness make it one of the
best extra early apples in cultivation.
The tree is very hardy, withstanding a
severe climate in safety, and is also
capable of successful culture in hot,
dry climate equally as well. The variety
will prove standard one"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
Habits of Disorder i'm Early Years.

Dear me, Addie, do gather up these
apple-cores and parings, and throw
them out. They just draw a swarm of
flies. Alex. should have known bet
ter than to leave them here. But
that is just the way with all of you. 1t
keeps me cleaning up the whole time,
and the door-yard looks like fright.
was so ashamed yesterday, when Miss
Irving walked out to see the flowers.
Old papers blowing about and caught
in the rose bushes, and an old shoe or
two, and / don't know what else. /
take more pride in fixing up the place
and making it look like other folks
| am sure | have not the time: but you
girls might, if the boys will not.n The
reason of the disorder was not far to
seek. The children had not been
trained to neat ways from the cradle
up. They had never been taught, when
they had fruit or nuts to eat, to take a
plate and lay the parings or shells on
it, and then dispose of them properly
when through. They had not been
called back the first time they had left
such trash on the window-sill to come
at once and clear it away, and the same
the second time and the third. 1t takes
I" line upon line " to fix a good habit,
but once " set - it is there to stay. This
same habit of untidiness is very gen.
eral, as one may see by the appearance
of our public halls, cars and waiting
rooms. / have seen a well-dressed
woman eat paper of peanuts in a
ferry-house and drop the shells down,
one by one, on the floor beside her, as
calmly as if she were dropping them
into the bay But it showed ill-breed-
ing in the view of many who looked
on. a true lady is one everywhere,
and her manners will correspond. If
children were taught little tidy ways,
we should see vast improvement in
the appearances of our towns and vii
lagos, and also in and about the homes
of our land. Unsightly banana and
orange peels would cease to disfgure the
sidewalks, and better resting-place
than the street would be found for old
cans and tins and those weary way
farers, old boots and shoes" Lottie,n
IN Farm and Garden.
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" EVERY year the line is being drawn
more closely about dairy products, :"
says a writer, and each succeeding
year brings an increased demand for
strictly first-class grades and weaker
demand for the poorer ones. In all
probability the time is not far distant
when it will be almost impossible to
dispose of poor butter at all, except as
grease, and at grease prices. Notwith-
standing all that is said against imita-
ton butter, it is truth that the mean
est, filthiest imitation of all is made
from genuine cows milk, but in such a
slovenly, incompetent manner that all
value and trace of genuineness has been
eliminated
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

"THE Red Bietigheimer is a very
large and beautiful fall apple that must
rapidly take place among the list of
standard varieties for all sections. The
tree is a rapid grower, with large dark
green leaves, making beautiful tree.
1t bears large crops of fine, rich, red
striped fruit alternate years. 1t is very
productive, but not an unusually early
bearer. This variety is valuable for
market, where its fine appearance will
always attract buyers, and its good
cooking qualities will make it one held
in high esteem everywhere. We be-
lieve the tree will prove hardy in most
sections, and will prove popular and
valuable fall APPLE SO says the Farm
and Garden, and our experience is sim
liar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

A NOTED farmer and dairyman of
Androscoggin county is growing con-
siderable quantities of Hungarian grass
for his stock. His present practice is
to pillow up sod land when it gets re-
duced in grass, apply manure and SOW
to Hungarian with grass-seed So far
the practice has brought heavy crops
of Hungarian, with good stand of
grass following. The rotation omits
the hoed crops and the grain. The
land being continuously in fodder crops,
the labor item is reduced to a compare
lively small matter.-Maine Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

AT the poultry meeting in Boston,
March Dist, Mr.. Travis said: eff my
experience is worth anything, it is that
we must avoid moisture. My coop is
on the south side of the barn, and it is
glazed on the west and south. 1t is a
good place to keep fowls in. have a
high-faced wall, and there is good
drainage. In regard to the manage
ment-why some succeed and others do
not, or why three times as many fail as
succeed-there is this to be said: A
person to go into the hen business
must love it. The difference between
basket of eggs and no eggs at all lies
in that, and in the result of the fidelity
with which person will attend to the
business. Those who are faithful will
succeed in it,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

PROFESSOR BUDD of Iowa writes to
the Prairie Farmer of the Bogdanoff
apple, speaking of it in very high terms
for its hardness, color, size, keeping
and dessert qualities. During the last
cold winter it bore the severity of eli
mate exceedingly well, coming out with
its wood bright and uncolored, while
the Wealthy was discolored. He de-
scribes the Bogdanoff as similar in APP
pearance to the Domino, but larger and
higher colored, and keeps well until
Nav,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

PRICES for hogs have rarely been as
low in this country as they are at the
present time. Good hogs, for packing
purposes, have recently been selling in
Chicago for 1915 per hundred weight.
The highest price of the same class of
hog ten years ago was so, and yeal
ago to-day 1925 to 1915. The prices
of the best fat cattle are also from 81
to S1.l0 per hundred pounds lower now
than they were year ago.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

The great need of agriculture to-day,
says Science, is not new varieties of
plants, or improved breeds of animals,
new methods of cultivating the soil, or
improved systems of farming. All these,
and many other like things, are good;
but the two great wants are a better
knowledge of principles and greater in
telligence to apply them. For the lat
ter we must look to our agricultural
schools; the former we should require
from our experiment stations.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
An Interesting Experiment.

Some valuable results have been at
tanned by Director Sturtevant of the
New York Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton in the storage of ensilage at inter-
walls in the same silo. On three consec-
utive days in August last corn and sor-
ghum, cut in three-quarter inch pieces,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

A KANSAS farmer some time ago
concluded to spend his tobacco money
for books and papers, instead of the fra
grant but useless weed. The Sl2 to
1915 thus expended every year has pro-
vided great deal of entertainment and
instruction for his family, and, as con-
sequence, he finds his boys growing up
into intelligent men, who will one day
be an honor to their wise father and
the community.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

THE law of the harvest is to reap
more than you sow. Sow an act and
you reap habit; SOW a habit and you
reap character; SOW character and
you reap destiny.
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AGRICULTURAL.

csY- This department is wholly under the control
OF the agricultural editor T. H. HosKINs, Md,
Newport, w. and he alone is to be held responsible
for the opinions herein expressed.
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TINSMITHS!

ENGLISHMAN, seven years apprentice
ship, twenty-four years old SOBER AND
WILLING TO WORK, wants a steady job. Adj
dress Box POO, Montpelier, VT
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Notice!

The undersigned is DESTROYS of selling the wooden
mill or factory, at North Calais NO l0). Said mill
stands at the outlets of two ponds. The lower pond
covers one hundred htty acres; the upper one nun
stone dams, and never failing water. said mill Is
thirty by forty feet in size three stories high with
six looms -four narrow looms two broad loomsl two
custom cardng machines good rum. one factory
set of machines two fulling mills spinning jack
and all other machinery in good running order. I'm
mediate possession given Terms easy.
OS-2O JONAS q. ORMSREE, Proprietor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29

He who loves to read and knows
how to reflect has laid by a perpetual
feast for his old age.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-29
NEW ENGLAND
CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

BOstOn, Mass,, OIlDEST IN AmefIcAi LArgest
and Best Equipped In the WCRLD-l0O Instruct-
1871 students last year. Thorough Instruction In
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Piano and Organ Tun-
ing, Fine Arts, Oraory, Literature, French German,
and Italian Languages English Branches, Gymnastics,
etc. Tuition, to $40; board and room, IS TO IS
per term. Fall Term begins September 10, 1885. For
Illustrated Calendar, giving full Information, address,
l.. ToURJEE, Dir, Franklin So, BOSTON, Mass.
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Desirable Farm for Sale.

Said farm is situated one mile south of Plainheld
Springs, the main road to Chelsea, containing
about two hundred acres some nifty of II being
moved with machine plenty of muck and no Hill
work. Keeps about thrty:hve head of cattle;
Never-faing water at the buildings. Apple and
splendid sugar orchard of one thousand trees. Wood
and timber easy of access. Also the stock, hay,
grain. farming and sugar tools and about twenty
five cords of dry stove wood. with farm If desired.
For twenty years II has been my aim to improve
this farm for pleasant home, but circums stances
and health make it absolutely necessary to sell.
Possession given at any time. j. y. LADD
Plainted, VT, January 10, 1855. S3-tf
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Gbe 4ousebolo.

W Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor Dr. Hoskns, at
NeMpOrt. Vt.
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advertisements.
HOODS
SARSAPARILLA

Has decided" claims upon the public. This
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 the publish
ed testimonials, every one of which Is pos
itve fact.
CHELSEA, VI, Feb. "a, 1879.
MEssRs. G. !. HOOD & Co., Lowell, Mass:
The 9th day of last June was taken sick
with swelling on my right foot, and with an
awful pain. The swelling went all over me-
My face was swelled so that | could with diff
ficulty 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 and
sore could not step on IL, and it would run
In this condition Mr.. w. +. Hood (of the firm
of A. II. Hood & Son, druggists of this town,
handed me bottle of HOOPS SARsAPARiL-
LA, and told me to take it. ] did So and by
the time had taken one bottle found that
II was doing me good. / 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 i 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 TO your Sarsaparllla. write
this to let you know that / think IT deserves
the confidence of the public. especially those
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.. 7.
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 five dol
lars. Prepared only by G. /. HOOD g. CO..
Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
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his acting. A Pinkerton detective has been at
work month on the problem of McCulloughs
finances. His income was fully forty thousand
dollars year. clear of all except personal ex-
penses, and yet out of the certainly not less than
a hundred and fifty thousand which he got in
his final five years only twenty seven thousand
in actual value be found. He lived expen-
sively in the sense that he always boarded at the
best hotels and entertained his friends at times
lavishly; but his tastes were not much varied,
and he owned no horses, yachts or fesidences.
All the assets are $4,000 in shares of the ST.
Louis Boatmen's bank So, 900 in the American
Exchange stock, two houses in Colorado and
$4OO in money, the cost of his main
tenance since his incarceration having
exhausted the rest of his ready cash. In his
trunks were the notes of nine actors to whom he
had lent sums of 800 to $780, and there is debt
to him of $11, 900 by Capt. Billy Connor, presum-
ably money loaned him when Connor went into
the st. James Hotel. He used to have bank
accounts here and there but all had been drawn
out except trifing sum- The depletion of his
fortune is a mystery During his fractional
season last autumn he had no business manager
to whom all his affairs were entrusted. Captain
Connor had previously been partner, but had
then retired from the show business. AS nearly
as can be ascertaned, Mccullough had hun
dred thousand dollars at this time Thereafter
his mental disability grew rapidly, and the guess
is that during this period of wandering he
suffered robberies, or else gave away money
insanely. No traces of the losses have been dis
covered however, and there is little hope of any.
Everybody in the slightest association with him
has been able to present clear account. One
belief is that he was the victim of confidence
operators. who inveigled him into what they
made him believe was theatrical enterprise.
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Caring for the Morals of Chicago.

CHICAGO Aug 15-Yesterday afternoon two
policemen, armed with search warrant, arrest
ed the proprietor of wel-known periodical
agency, and seized a hundred or more photo
graphs which were displayed in the windows
and which they charged were obscene. The case
was called this morning and continued till the
18th, in bonds of 5000. The photographs dis
played were mostly copies of French paintings
exhibited in the Luxembourg and are all copies of
are of the opinion that while the pictures are not
in themselves obscene, they became so by being
displayed in a window as much for purposes of
advertisement as anything else. The window as
dressed became nuisance by attracting crowds
of men and offending large numbers of women.
The officers do not propose to interfere with the
sale of the pictures to artists, or such others as
desire them, but say that they must not be
openly displayed.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Movements and Doings of Singers, Authors,
Actors and Others.
LONDON, Aug 15.-The Court Journal denies
that Princess Louise. of Wales is betrothed 20 o
brother of the Duchess of Connaught, and men
tions the second son of the King of Sweden as a
suitor for the hand of the Princess
Lydia Thompson will take with her to New
York new burlesque. Her American tour will
begin next January.
NJ Sola has joined NJ. Busnach on the work of
dramatizing their germinal production, "Chate-
let"
A French adaptation of the Silver King is
being prepared for the Amoigul Theatre
Christine Nilsson sailed today from Hull,
England, for her Scandinavian tour.
Ella Russell, an American prima DONNA has
achieved success in ''Travata" in Berlin
The steamship Partisan, which sails next
Thursday, will take as passengers President
Stephens, of the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Company; the Hon. Mr. Donald Smith. the
Hon. Mr.. Henry Stafford Northcote, and Direc-
tor Maynard, of the Canada Land Corporation
Marine Minister Smith, and Director Scarth, of
the Canada Land company.
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LONDON VICE.
Interest in the Agitation Waning, and the
Public Becoming Disgusted.

Interest in the Agitation Waning, and the
Public Becoming Disguised.
LONDON, Aug 15-The continuance of the
agitation against the more fragrant forms of
London vice, as revealed by the Pail Mall Ga
zette, is wearying and disgusting people, and is
beginning to meet with general condemnation.
The Conservative press is commencing to decry
the business and number of established
church organs following suit. The Bishops
of York and Canterbury and other leaders of
religious thought are waning in
their support of the agitation On the other
hand, however, the Radicals and other asso-
ciated religious bodies are pressing the
agitation with all their might and
endeavoring to enlist popular SYM
pathy by means of great public
demonstrations All the influence possessed by
dissenting religious organizations seems to be,
at present, in use to make the Hyde Park meet
ing monster success. The council
list for this meeting includes Professor
President Roberts. of the Wesleyan Conference,
Ex-president Griffith, Of the Wesleyan Confer
ence. Mr.. Michael Davitt, Canons Wilberforce
and French, and many other clerical dissenting
notables.
In Liverpool, Manchester and other
large cities of England, vigilance
committees ere being formed for the purpose of
obtaining local legislation for the suppression of
open vice. Mrs. Fawcett, widow of Professor
Fawcett, is strongly in favor of continuing
the agitation Replying to certain criticisms
on her conduct in this respect. Mrs. Fawcett
contends that the agitation inaugurated in the
revelations made by the Pail Mall
Gazette has already resulted in many
benefits to the people of England
among which she enumerates "a great
arousing of the public conscience" and ''n-
creased severity in the sentences for crimes
against children" will tend to save young men and
women from walowing in vice" The Purity
Society has encountered much opposition in it's
work of putting shadows on public men. It's
numerous agents who have been engaged in the
work of acting as detectives against public
men, have been warned by the authorities to re-
frain from making nuisances of themselves, and
the regular police have been ordered to prevent
these spies from annoying members of Parlia-
ment, many of whom have complained of the
pestering
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Death of Knox County Pioneer.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNEs, Ind, Aug. l5-This morning, at
about o'clock Henry x. Wise, one OF the old
est pioneers of Knox county, died at his home,
in Palmyra township, after an illness of about a
weeks duration, aged eighty three years De-
ceased was born in Brownsville, Pa. in 1903,
and removed TO Knox county in April, 1924,
where he conducted tan yard on the Mckinney
farm until 1849. Mr.. Wise was of family of
eight children, all of whom preceded
him to the grave He leaves three children
Mrs Mary Craft, Mrs. Robert Patterson and
Mrs J. S. Pritchett, the latter of this city.
Henry K. Wise was the plaintiff in the cele-
brated Wise will case, and sought 70 set aside
the will of his brother W. j. WISE who died in
the winter of 1884, possessed of nearly million
dollars. The case attracted considerable atten-
tion all over the country, and was decided in the
Knox Circuit Court against the plaintiff, who
took an appeal to the Supreme Court.