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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
How to Air Beds.

The most effectual way to air beds
and bed clothing is to throw the clothes
over a chair and lift the mattress partly
over the footboard in round, hoop
like fashion, and if feather bed is
used pull it off upon chair. Then
open the windows and door so that a
current of air can pass through the
room, and let it remain so for two or
three hours, or even longer. Beds
thus aired are always healthful, and
will induce sound sleep in their occu-
pants. Each member of the family
should be trained to do this daily, and
never allowed to leave the room until
it is so arranged. Boys as well as
girls can be taught to do this, and they
will reap the benefit of it through their
lives, and be sure to have their children
trained in the same way.-American
CultirdtOr.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Best Cross for Pigs.

Colonel Curtis of New York is an ex-
pert in pig-breeding. In recent Rural
NeW Yorker he quotes the following
paragraph from the Boston Cultirator:
Poland China pigs are, perhaps, the
very best to cross with the smaller
breeds. The sows are always kind,
have large litters, and rear them with
less difficulty and loss than any other
breed the writer has tried. The Ches-
ter White and Jersey Red sows become
cross and unmanageable after rearing
one or two filters, and it is at this age
that good SOW should be worth more
to the breeder than she is at any other.
The Poland Chinas are of the large
breeds, and are well adapted to furnish
the SOW in crosses with the small kinds.
The Colonel then goes for the writer
of this paragraph as follows:
A more preposterous pig paragraph
was never written. The man who wrote
it was "A Poland China crank. There is
no large breed of hogs which has smaller
6tterS and raises smaller per cent of
pigs than the Poland China. The Ches-
ter White and Duroc Jersey breeds
average one-third more pigs born and
raised. The best breed of hogs to cross
with the smaller breeds is the Duroc
Jersey; although all are good, and the
pigs of such crosses will be more prof
table than those of the smaller breeds,
for the reason that there is more growth.
The Chester White ranks next to the
Duroc Jersey for crossing.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Girdling the Grape.

Some experiments have been made
at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
lege in girdling surplus branches, which
were to be afterwards cut away. A re-
volving knife cut rapidly ring of the
bark a fourth of an inch wide, just be-
low the bunch of fruit, about midsum-
mer. This treatment was performed
on twelve rows of grapes. The enlarged
and early fruit sold for S36 more than
the same amount of the common or
main crop, the labor being less than
half this sum. No injury has been APP
parent to the vines so treated, the
girdled canes being cut away when done
with. IT, however, many surplus canes
were girdled on vine, an obvious in
jury would doubtless be the result.
There would be no harm in trying the
experiment on vines intended to be
dug up.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Note ON Grass Seeding.

An intelligent correspondent writes:
" Grass seed does better with me sown
and rolled than when narrowed in with
the grain. | made valuable discovery
the first spring of using the roller. 1t
was after an open winter and the
ground was deeply frozen. AS soon as
we could go upon the fields, with the
frost out to the depth of few inches,
the roller was set at work on all our
moving lands. When this work ended
it was with the middle of a field I'M
finished. Before cutting the hay the
line was all the way distinctly seen
where the rolling ended, and when cut,
the rolled ground yielded about double
the other.n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
How to Pick Fowls.
anne.

l have known persons on market-day
to go out and kill thirteen or fifteen
fowls, and to bring them into room
where there would be half dozen men
and boys pulling few feathers at a
time, between their thumb and fore
finger, to prevent tearing them. Now,
for the benefit of such, will give our
plan: Hang the fowl by the feet by a
small cord; then with small knife give
one cut across the upper jaw, opposite
the corners of the mouth. After the
blood has stopped running a stream,
place the point of the knife in the upper
part of the mouth and run the blade up
into the back part of the head, which
will cause twitching of the muscles.
Now is your time, for every feather
yields as if by magic, and there is no
danger of tearing the most tender chick.
Before he attempts to flap you can
have him as bare as the day he came
out of the egg.-Correspondence Ne,o
England Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Can the Apple be Raised with
Profit!

The important question which our
northern fruit-growers have now to de-
eide is in regard to the apple. Can it
be raised with profit? We cannot, at
present, examine the question in de-
tail, but it may be said that the plant
ing of apple orchards has greatly fallen
off for Il few years past; many have
been neglected and left a prey to in
sects, mainly for the reason, perhaps,
that some seasons of unfortunate
weather have prevailed for awhile, and
left us without crop until last year;
and for the same cause some have even
cut down their orchards. This course
is wrong, and a few years more will
make it plain. We shall always need
the apple in abundance; no other fruit
can wholly take its place. With the
present low rate of orchard planting
the demand for good apples will soon
exceed the supply, no matter what other
fruits are in the market.-Vick's Mag
0zjnp
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Lemons for Malaria.

The newest remedy for malaria is adj
vertised in the drug-stOres as the Roman
cure. 1t is described as the discovery
of a physician in the miasmatic old
city of the Caesars and the pontffs,
where malaria is included with every
lodging without extra charge in the
bill. 1t consists simply of lemons cut
up, peel and all, and boiled, the juice
being taken cold on an empty stomach.
The pharmacists claim that it has cured
cases so stubborn that quinine had no
more effect on them than sugar or salt.
The method of preparation is so simple
that any one can make an experiment
who chooses. The lemon must be cut
up in small pieces, rind and pulp, each
good-sized lemon being allowed pint
of water. When the water has boiled
down to half a pint the medicine is
done. 1t must then be strained through
a cloth and put by to cool. 1t is sour
enough to give a marble bust a wry
face. The dose is from tea-spoonful
to a tablespoonful, according to the
staying powers of the PATENTS stomach,
taken an hour before meals. Like the
hot-water cure, wonderful stories are
commencing to float around about the
lemon cure, aud it bids fair to become
very popular. A physician who is a
member of, and has many patients in,
the New York Athletic Club, informed
the Ne,cs reporter that he had been
giving concentrated lemon in malaria
cases for nearly year, and now scarcely
ever uses quinine. The new remedy
does all the work of quinine without
affecting the nerves or the head, as
quinine certainly does.-New York
Mems
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Political Seeds.

No one has had longer or more
varied Washington experience than
Ben: Perley Poore, the Boston Journals
veteran correspondent. On the above
question he says, in the Cultirator:
Even the great Commissioner lie Due
seemed to think at one time that the
seeds put up by the department of agri-
culture ought to be planted, and they
ought to be of some use to farmers.
He undertook to support this foolish
doctrine in a letter to a complaining
congressman, who thought he hadn't
received his share in the distribution.
He ridiculed what he called "the old
plan" of doing the seed divisions
work. Commissioners had, he said,
turned over to members tons of seeds
which were sent by the mail-bagful to
their rooms. Here they were some
times subdivided into smaller parcels, >"
he continued, "and thus sent to polt-
ical friends, or were sent in full bags
to friendly postmasters, who were duly
instructed to make such distribution as
would be of value in making voters and
influence for their principals" He
added that he had records showing that
some of these postmasters sold the seeds
or fed them to their hogs and chickens.
Why lie Due wasted ink and paper in
telling the congressman what the latter
already well knew, and in displaying
his ignorance about political seeds, we
do not know. But it does not appear
that the bureaus course was changed
by these remarks, or that congressman
ceased to take an interest in the seed
division. Seeds of the political variety
continued to be in great demand, and
the demand has thus far been supplied.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
May-FlOwers In Winter.

1t is very easily done. made sue
cess of it the first of any one that |
ever learned of, and for the first time
in print with your permission) will
tell your readers how to do it. Now is
the time obegin, They bud in autumn
and are well-grown now. Take up the
best root you can MISUNDERSTANDING
ones are best, with large ball of its
own earth on its roots-and set it in a
deep pot about three inches below the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Knitted Rug.

A nice way of using odds and ends of
worsted is to knit them into rug.
First cast thirteen stitches ON knit
ting needle; then knit plain strip I'M
tilyou have, perhaps, fifteen yards; then
cut the strip lengthwise through the
middle. Take piece of bed-ticking,
the size you wish your rug to be; then
begin and sew the selvedge of your
worsted piece on to the stripe of your
ticking, round and round, until the sur
face is entirely covered. AS soon as
the worsted is cut, it will unravel and
be crinkled.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14

Mr.. PETER HENDERSON remarked to
us, the other day, while we were looking
at specimens of Favorite, Cardinal,
Mayhower and Perfection tomatoes in
his warehouse, that it is pity that to-
matoes so closely alike should be called
and sold under different names. We
there saw several of the Russian musk
melons, a few seeds of which were sent
to us two years ago by Professor Budd
They ripened early with us and the
vines were immensely productive, but
the quality was not very good. Those
of Mr.. Henderson (grown in Canada,
we believe) were of excellent quality.
The Russian melon is round and of "A
greenish-yellow color. The rind is very
hin.-Rarol New Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
The Best Wine Last.

so Cana said but still the first was good,
For skilful Nature wrought her very best;
Turning the sunshine into hues of blood,
Bringing the rpened clusters to be pressed.
But this the Master brings His silent eye
Flushes the sunshine of a lettering year;
BE still, o guests, for heaven is passing by
Bow down, o Nature. for your God is herel
And 1t is always so. Earth's Joys grow dim,
Like waning moons they slowly disappear;
Our heavenly Joys fill up the widening brim,
Ever more deep and full, more sweet and clear
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14

PIE OF VEAL.-The scrag, breast or
neck of veal will be suitable for this
dish. Cut the meat into slices about an
inch thick, fry some slices of salt pork
in an iron pot, flour the slices of veal,
put them in the hot fat and brown
them; cover them with water and sim
mer for half an hour. Season with salt
and pepper, and dredge with flour.
Make common paste, roll half an inch
thick and cover the meat. Cover the
pot with an iron cover, and cook gently
for an hour.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Farming Ministers.

An exchange says: THE country
clergymen of New England did much,
until within thirty or forty years, to en-
courage agriculture, and many of them
were excellent farmers. The reason
probably was, in the first settlement of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14

The Mirror and Farmer says that
quart of sawdust will make handful
of ashes. Perhaps newborn baby's
handful.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Gbe 4ouseboIo.

~ Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor, Dr. Hoskins, at
Newport, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-10-14
Is prepared by an
COMPOUND

Tor s5UO and may be obtained Of every Wholesale and
retail druggist in the United States or of the proprietor
NJ. X, PAINE, Windsor, VT
tzB- To introduce The Celery Compound in
places sOiere dealcyS DO net k1Ue Stock will,
receipt OF two dollars send two bottles to any address
in New England securely packed and express charges
paid 10 your nearest express office.
A. G. FISHER, General Western Agent, 81
Wabash Avenue, Chicago. H.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-08

The safest and the best aoay 10 secure the
s'iS,rnday Taller is to order yoalr neaos dealer
to deliuer it at your house
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-08
CORPORATION NOTICES
Notice to Taxpayers.

The following resolution was adopted by
the Board of Finance and taxation, Febru-
airy 13, 1886, and approved by his Honor
the Mayor on February is, 1885.
WHEREAS. BY an act of the Legislature of the
State Of Nav Jersey entitled "An Act relative to
arrears of Taxes and Assessments in incorporated
Cities, approved February 9th, 1885, power is
given to this Board to direct the City Collector and
City Treasurer to receive certain arrears of taxes
the rate of seven per centum per annum, provided
such taxes be paid within one year, and,
WHEREAS. it is deemed inadvisable that so long
a time should be allowed for such payments;
therefore,
Resolped, That in accordance with said act the
the City Collector and the City Treasurer be and
they hereby authorized and directed to receive
the amount Of any tax due upon any real estate in
this CITY, laid imposed prior to the year one thous
and eight hundred and eighty-four and now re-
manning unpaid with interest at the rate of seven
per centum per annum said interest to be cal Gu
lated from the time interest is properly chargeable
thereon to the time Of such payment together with
the actual expenses Heretofore incurred for the
enforcement and payment Of such taxes; provided
however, that this resolution shall not be con-
stred to authorize the receipt of any such taxes at
such rate of interest in where lands and real
estate have been sold for taxes and bought in by
any other person than the city of Jersey City or
some officer for the use Of said city, and provided
further that such payments be made prior to the
thirtie-h day of April 1885, and
Resolped, That this Board will not extend the
time for payment of taxes under the provisions of
said act beyond the said thirtieth day OF April 1885
and further
Resolved, That copy of this resolution. when
approved by the Mayor, be published three times
in the official papers.
ALLAN L. McDRRMoTr,
Pres't Of Board Of Finance and Taxation.
GEORGE F.. McANENY.
Clerk Of Board of Finance and Taxation.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-08
0HER1FFs SALEM cHANcERY OF NEW

y JERSEY.
Between Isaac l. vanDerbeek, Complainant and
Mary Ann Brassiel and Michael Brassiel, her hus
band, defendant.
Fl. ia. for sale of mortgaged premises.
Returnable February Term, 1885.
Thomas W. James, Solicitor.
BY virtue of the above-stated writ, to directed
and delivered, I shall sell by public yendte
at ]. R. Van Syckle's Real Estate and Auction
Rooms No. IS Montgomery street. Jersey City. on
Thursday, the twenty-second day of jan
uary, A. d., 1885,
at two o'clock in the afternoon all the following
described land and premises with the appurten.
ances, being the same described in said writ that
is to say; 1890
All that certain lot of land land prem
ises, situate. lying and being in Jersey
City, in the County of Hudson and State of New
Jersey, beginning at stake fortytwo feet from the
centre of the Railroad avenue and at right angles
Herewith on the northeasterly corner of said lot
thence running north sixty-two degrees and twenty
minutes west parallel with said Railroad avenue
twenty SIX feet thence south twentyseven degrees
and forty minutes west, one hundred feet; thence
south sixty-two degrees and twenty minutes east
twenty-sx feet; thence north twenty-seven degrees
and forty minutes east to the place of beginning p-
on which said lot of land and premises the large
brick house heretofore known as Hatch's Hotel is
situate; being the same premises conveyed by the
said Isaac VanDerbeek and wife to Edward Fitzpat
rick by deed bearing even date with said mortgage
Also all that part of certain other lot or long strip
Of land situate in JerseyCty aforesaid and which on
a map of the farm of the late Cornelius Van Worst
made for him by Joseph F. Bridges of the CITY OF
New York. surveyor. bearing date of June 18th,
1885, runs nearly through the centre Of block num-
bered Nineteen (19) as laid down on said map the
part of said strip of land intended to be conveyed
by said mortgage is bounded as follows: Beginning
on the northerly line thereof at point fifty (56j
feet easterly from the eastery line of Grove street
formerly called Kellogg street,; thence running
easterly along said northerly line parallel with
Wayne street, on said map seventy five f75) feet:
thence southerly parallel with Grove street ten 10)
feet thence westerly parallel with Wayne street
seventyhye t75) feet to point fifty feet easterly
from the easterly line of Grove street. thence
northerly parallel with Grove street ten 0 feet to
the point or piece of beginning being part of the
same premises conveyed to the said Edward Fitz-
patrick by the said Isaac /. VanDerbeek and wife,
by deed bearing even date with said mortgage, said
mortgage being given in part payment of the con.
sideration money for the above two tracts of land
and premises.
CORNELIUS J. CRoNAN Sheriff.
Dated Nov. sth. 1884,
Dec IA st $3.50
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-08
MARLAND'S APPLICATION.
A Newark Wife's Pursuit of Her Biga.
n NOUS Husband. if& t4sE

~ & u
1 NEWARK, March lone of the men who
was wanted this morning by the police at
the First Precinct was Jeremiah MARYLAND, a
silk weaver, who lives near the silk works
on Bank street. His wife, Maria, charged
him with bigamy. A year ago, according
to her story, she and her husband arrived
in New York and went to live in Paterson.
A fellow workman, Joseph Aselough, who
was also married man, became intimate
with Marland and his wife. The two
families lived near each other, and Mrs.
Marland soon saw. with growing dis
pleasure, that an intimacy was growing mp
between her husband and the wife of his
friend. The two women had exchanged
visits during their early acquaintance, but
they mutually avoided each other there
after.
Aselough raised storm about his wife's
ears. That was on January g. On the
same night MARYLAND, Mrs. Aselough and
her youngest child suddenly disappeared,
breaking up both of the houses.
Mrs. Marland finally found her husband
in the Bank street silk works in this city.
She called in to see him. Her spouse re-
fused to be interviewed by her. Then she
told her story to the proprietors of the
mills, and they forced MARYLAND to see his
wife. But he was deaf to her entreaties to
return to her. He has since fed.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-03-08
THE MIDDLESkx JUDGESHIP.
Is IL Savage, Cogswen or Covvenhoven
j. What Is Said of Each.

Is 1t Savage, Cogswen or Cowenhoven
What Is Said of Each.
New BRuSsw1cK, March THE presid-
ing iudgeship Of Middlesex Common Pleas
is exciting good deal of interest in the
County Just now. There are three candid
ates for the place, the most prominent and
by all means the one most fitted to the
appointment is Hon. Edward S. Savage, at
present Assemblyman from Woodbridge
Mr.. Savage lisa lawyer of large experience
and is well known in his section of the
county. He is serving his second term in
the Assembly. The other two applicants
are the present incumbent of the office,
Andrew Cogswell, and Mr.. Cowenhoven.
Mr. Cogswell holds Court every day it is
possible during the year. This blunder is
not from indifference of the cost, but from
the inexperience of the man who presides
on the bench. Whatever it may be, GER
tain it is that the Court has been run, dur
ing Judge Cogswells incumbency, at
cost totally unwarranted for the business
transacted. 1t is said that all the business
of the Court could be transacted on an
average, all the year around, of one day
per week-yet while Mr.. Cogswell has
presided, the annual cost to the county
for the maintenance of the Court has been
$35,O00 This the citizens all over the
County declare is an outrage and reform
is demanded by them irrespective of party.
Mr.. Cowenhoyen, the other candidate, has
been Judge and Prosecutor of the Pleas
for years and in fact has always held of
fee to within the past three or four years.
Besides he is shaky in his politics; and
even if he were not, certainly he has been
recompensed handsomely for all the SER
vices he has ever rendered his party. One
of the strongest points against him in this
fight, however, is his position against
Miles Ross when that gentleman ran for
Congress few years ago. Cogswell has
never taken any interest at all in politics.
The whole fight may be said to be between
these two gentlemen, both of whom reside
here. Neither are antagonistic to Mr. Say
age; on the other hand each would favor
Mr.. Savage were it impossible to capture
the appointment for himself. Mr.. Savage's
only antagonists are the personal adherents
and friends of the other two candidates,
and outside of the city of New Brunswick,
the county is unit for him His ap-
pointment would meet with universal sat-
isfaction. I