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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
ORION AND THE GREAT DOG.
Some of the Numerous Wonders Of the
Heavens.


HWhy did not somebody teach me the
consultations and make me at home in the
starry heavens, which are always over
head, and which do not hall know to this
day." respectfully exclaimed Thomas Car
lyle
There are many persons who, like Car
lyle, regret that they have not learned, or
had the means Of learning, the geography
of theheavens. The adyances of astronomy
in our day have been so rapid, and the
stars have made to the telescope and the
spectroscope so many strange and wonder
full revelations, that nobody should be ig-
norant of the names and places of these
great suns blazing in the depths OF space
and many of which are far larger and
more splendid than our own magnificent
orb of day. The consultations, too, al
though the practical astronomer does not
think much OF them, possess extraordi-
nary interest, because they are among the
most ancient and the most enduring crea-
tions of the human imagination As
DR. Seiss says: Heather, Mohan1-
nledans and Christians, the Oldest
with the latest, disagreeing in so many
things, yet agree in adopting and honoring
these primitive notations OF the stars
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22

In counting all that came up of each
the per cent. did not reach fifty-exeept
in the oats and wheat, the seed of which
[ raised myself. In selecting seeds of
various plants the following suggestions
will be found valuable to the producer:
Select the head, ear, panicle, raceme
and spike that ripens earliest; because
such repeated and continued selection
has a tendency to shorten the period of
maturity. Select the upper ear on me-
dunn and the most prolific stalks; the
middle or main stem on the raceme
and panicle; the parent head of the
stool OF wheat, rye, barley and timothy;
the first pistillate flower on the main
vine of squashes, pumpkins, etc. By
following up such a system of selection
have made the cereals double the yield
in two seasons and quadruple it in five.
The quality also will be improved il
proportion. For many years / have
sown only thirty pounds of wheat, oats,
barley and rye per acre in field culture,
and only ten and twenty pounds in ex.
detrimental work. Under favorable
conditions thirty pounds will invaria-
bly, produce more and better grain than
sixty, ninety or one hundred and
twenty. Of course the seed must be
sound, clean and genuine. This sea-
son, on ordinary clay loan, a single
ounce each of 1853 kinds of wheat was
sown to the square rod. The whole
number of pounds raised on the 1853
squarerods was 2,499, averaging 16 1-3
pounds per square rod, or over 431
bushels per acre. With two ounces OF
seed per square rod, of twenty pounds
per acre, the yield was very little
more in the experimental ork-Prof.
4. e. Bl0unt, an ~ Y Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
VITALITY OF SEEDS.
/ 4 Matter OF Great Importance, with IIins
trations from Experiments.

trations from Experiments.
My experience in seed-planting, seed,
raising and selection places the per
cent. of vitality quite low in seeds pur-
chased or homegrown. During ten
years | have found the average loss to
be near 81 per cent when the planting
alone is taken into account; and when
both planting and non-selection are
reckoned, at least half the seed and
plants of any value are lost IF we
would have thing done we'll we should
do it ourselves" is an adage particular
ly applicable to the seed-raising busi-
ness. 1t must be done with the great
est care and closest attention. It is an
expensive business to buy and plant
cheap non-selected seeds; crops too
often show large proportion of them
to have been not only lifeless out in
many cases criminally adulterated.
While testing all kinds-exotic and in
digenous-that can be grown in this
latitude. many of them coming through
the Agricultural Bureau at Washing
ton, have found but about IS per cent.
vital enough to terminate and not
more than so per cent. of those germ
mating produce crops of any value. I
have yet to obtain from any source
samples 100 grains of which have pro-
duced 100 healthy plants. To illus
trate: From over 500 packages of diff
ferent seeds selected 100 Of the best
| specimens from each, and carefully
planted them in good soil and under
the most favorable conditions. Five of
them will show the highest and lowest
| 1at11,a ha,. cro,.,,, N, N
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
WHY SEEDS FAIL.
Words of Advice on the Proper Keeping
of Seeds.

of Seeds.
The proper keeping of seeds has
much to do with their termination.
While there are many seeds of peren-
malls that should be sown as soon as
ripe, it is different with ANNALS and
biennials. The carrot, parsnip and
most other garden vegetables are in an
unnatural condition. Cultivation has
caused these to produce roots many
times larger and much more succulent
that in their wild state. The seeds OF
these when self-sown as soon as ripe,
produce degenerate plants, which have
reverted to the natural state, and are
no longer useful. In the experiments
of Prof. Buchanan and NJ. Vilmorin on
the Improvement of the carrot, radisb,
etc., from the degenerate forms known
as weeds, it was found that keeping
the seeds dry during the winter and
sowing them in spring was an import
ant agent in restoring these plants to
their useful condition. Rest, suspended
growth for time, has an important in
fiuence in keeping such plants IN the
artificial condition produced by cultI-
vation. The manner in which seeds
are kept during the winter has much to
do with their value at sowing time.
We should keep in mind the fact, that
seeds are not collection of fragments
of vegetable matter, like lot of shoe
pegs. They really contain living
plants-liying, but in a state OF sus-
pended animation-dormant.--Anseri.
can AQsJcultarist.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
No Wonder.

Merryboy is young gentleman who
holds down chair and draws salary in
one of the departments. He is given to
late hours and jovial times with the gang
the gang being a band of choice spirits,
with weakness for the same. The other
day Merryboy showed up with that indie
scribable look fellow has when he's had a
jolly time the night before. Settling down
to work, he presently exclaimed:
"By Jove, my legs asleep"
His fellow clerks looked up sympathizing-
ingly when one of them remarked, dryly:
mo wonder your legs asleep in the day
time-you keep it out SO late OF nights. ~
WASHINGTON Hatchet.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
Equestrian Note.

Colonel Witherspoon used to be very
rich, but OF late he has met with financial
reverses. He has even been compelled to
sell his riding horse. His old servant re-
mains faithful The Colonel uses bicycle.
When he returns home on his bicycle, the
faithful servant walks it up and down in
the ward for ten or fifteen minutes to cool
it off, before putting it in tie stable
Texas iSiftings.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
The wonderful Desigr.

Mrs. Quickenalth's husband had given
her fine dress of new material and new
design and she had it on at swell recep-
ton.
CHATS magnificent dress your wife
wears" remarked friend.
"Well yes, I thought So" he responded.
pridefully.
"New design, too"
eyes, the latest
"What is the figure on it?' continued the
friend, putting on his eyeglasses for better
examination.
"Twelve hundred dollars" replied the
pleased husband, and the conversation
stopped. Traveller.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22

Dumley had been out with party Of
friends, and they were assisting each other
in getting him home.
Aren't you afraid to meet your wife, old
mani" asked one.
"'Fraidp' said Dumley, valiantly, "whosh
'fraid? 'Fraid (hic) nuthin'. " jess wait
an (hic) see whosh boss, m wife r l."
They inclined him gently against the door
and rang the bell. Then they waited to see
who was boss.
Dumley suddenly disappeared, the door
slammed shut, and as they moved away
they said:
"She's boss IN Y. Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
Familiar with the subject.

First Passenger have been over the
country good deal in my time, and ]
think the Great Eastern and Western line
is the best ballasted OF them all. The track
is perfect, sir.
Second assenger-Commercial traveller?
First Passenger-No, sir, am an actor.
Second Passenger-Ah yes, see.-N r
Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22

The use of tobacco is absolutely to
be prohibited in all the Government
schools of France, ON the ground that
it affects injuriously the ability to
study. The regulation is based on the
recommendation of commission of
men of science, and meets with gen.
eral approval.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22

THE Chicago EUeni'1g Journal re-
marks correctly and wisely: 'Oppo-
nents of the Temperance cause cite oc-
casional examples of old men who have
taken their toddies regularly and still
live. Likewise the case of soldiers sur
viving a war may be cited, but that
does not prove that many soldiers are
not killed in war"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
AN INSUFFICIENT TEST.
Comparative Analysis of Milk from Diff


CUIipdTatIVg AndIyEI3
ferent Breeds.
Prof. Brown, of the Ontario Cana
da) Experimental Farm submits the
following interesting analysis Of milk
from several breeds of cattle, showing
the constituent character of the milk
of the individuals he had under inspec-
ton:
MILK FROM BEEFING BREEDS OF CATTLE IN
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
WINTER.
Solids

ILK FROM BEEFING BREEDS OF CATTLE IN
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03

SELLING EGGS ACCORDING TO VAL
UE.-Eggs are sold by the dozen, and
when the prices reach certain point
there is no difference between those
of large size and those from prema-
turely matured pullets. The MAORI
ty of poultry raisers usually keep the
early Matched pullets and sell off the
old hens, and some go as far as to
select the early maturing breeds, such
as the Leghorns, in order to have the
pullets begin lai',asg. at as early an
age as possibly the eggs from
very precociolss u ss are but little
larger than those nom pigeons, and
no advantage is gas4ed thereby. Eggs
should be sold according to quality.
A dozen of large, well-formed eggs
are really more valuable than mixed
lot of different ages. 1t has been
suggested that thS-base sold by weight,
but such a plan does not meet with
favor, owing to the difficulty of frac-
tional portions of the weight, but we
see no reason why eggs should be
uniform in price, though differing in
great many respects. Sirloin steak
commands a higher price than that
from the brisket, and yet the quality
of eggs differ as much as does a
carcass of beef. Fresh eggs, howev-
er, always command a better price
than those that are stale, but there is
a difficulty to be encountered In ar
irving at knowledge of the good and
inferior, but so far as size and weight
are concerned there is no necessity
for any one being deceived.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03

SHELTERING Cows IN SToRMs.-Cold
rains are very liable to occur during
the Spring and Summer when the
COWS are at pasture. For stock I'M
sheltered every storm is a cold one.
The hair which, when dry, obstructs
the passage of heat from the body,
becomes, as soon as wet, so many
points from which the heat radiates.
No matter how war IN the water, its
evaporation lowers Il he temperature of
the body. Cows at pasture, therefore,
literally when f0sofa maise the out
side temperature uncomfortable. This
is one of the advantages of the soil
ing system, which fnakes calculation
for furnishing green feed during
stormy weather. 1t is better, how
ever, to keep the cows up at such
times and feed them extra with grain
to keep up the supply of milk. There
will probable be temporary shrink
age under any management, but leav-
ing COWS unsheltered in storms is apt
to result in colds and lessoning of
milk product all the season. When
the milk product falls off, it is very
difficult to regain the maximum yield,
hence anything interfering with the
regular routine Of the COW is sure to
result in pecuniary damage to the
dairy farmer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
STATE ITEM s.

Bellows Falls is trying to organize
a driving park association.
There will be a total of CTS dele
gates at the Republican State conYen-
ton called to meet in Montpelier the
18th of June.
Clayton Field, young man Of
Fairfax, was drowned at st. Adams
Friday while fishing. A companion
who heard his cry for help and went
to the rescue, was himself thrown into
the water, and had to let go his hold
on Field.
Vermont stands eleventh among the
States of the Union for the amount OF
butter annually produced. The num-
Der Of mich COWS in the State ex-
ceeds 100000, and the annual butter
yield therefrom is some 100000
pounds. More than half of the male
population are engaged in agricultu-
raj pursuits, the greater portion being
occupied with dairying.
The Custom House barn at Under
hill, belonging to L. S. Whipple, was
burned on Tuesday afternoon of last
week. The horses, carriages, ETC.,
were saved. Some 200 men came to.
gether within fifteen minutes after
call of the fire bell, and by their live,
ly efforts saved the hotel and another
barn near.
+. An egg story comes from Soutt
Franklin. A farmers wife in that 10.
cality while searching for hen fruit
found queer combination. This con.
sisted of two eggs, one about the
usual size and the other much smaller
joined together endwise. The con.
Meeting link was apparently of thick
skin about third of an inch thick in
diameter and half an inch long; and
both of the ends were entirely desti
tute of shell-being covered, however
with a skin sufficiently thick anC
strong to hold them in shape. Sucf
a combination is very rare.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
COMMUNICATION
Hess7sS. Editors

Uu6SSTSs LLCJCGOISs
There is a curious item In YOUR last
weeks issue about the Selectmen and
Bailiffs of Montpelier. By what all
thority do they propose to close the
liquor saloons of Montpelier? Is there
any statute in Vermont by authority
of which liquor saloon can be closed
at 1870 p. M, and on Sunday? Yo1
say 'they evidently mean business. I"
Now it seems to me that if the Sc
lectmen and Bailiffs of Montpelier, or
any other town, really meant business
they would try to do something in &C.
cordance with the law. Certainly
they would not enter into league with
liquor dealers by telling them when
they must not keep open doors. What
we want in Vermont and all over the
State, is to have men elected to office
with the understanding that they will
enforce the laws and punish offenders.
This needs a political party who shall
have such an idea of the sanctity of
law that they will drop every candi-
date who in any way connives at law
breaking. The rum power is on the
increase in some parts of our land,
and its fiat is listened to by many who
ought to be ashamed to knuckle and
grovel before King Alcohol. But the
time is coming when there will bella
change, and the people will not long
submit to the dictation of the saloon
as they now do in many places, even
in Republican Vermont.
J. F. WHITNEY.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
Herr Most Found Guilty.

The trial of Herr Most and his as
sociates was finished in New York last
Thursday. Herr Most was permit
ted to speak in his own behalf, He
said: 81 cannot speak very we'll En-
glish. You have heard great deal
about me. l suppose you expected
great deal of witnesses for the prose-
cution and a lot of black devil lies
about me. But what has come off. l
have seen prosecuting officers in Aus
tria and Germany going against me
ard my associates. But they were
slaves of the kings and princes. l
don't expect that here. There was a
scheme gotten up and the police and
the press was against me. | knew
all shout the policemen who met in
the beer saloon next to Captain Nc
Collough's station house and said,
We'll get Most At last they arrest
ed me under bed. I stood up in my
room, the room I had lived in for two
months before. They showed you
books and other things they took from
my room, but they didn't produce the
pocket-book with $3.50 that they took
from me. I suppose they want that.
He then referred to the meeting at
which he said he spoke. "What did
I say?" he shouted. 81 said that the
Constitution Of the United States of
North America permitted its citizens
to carry arms. told about st. Lou
is, where the men who were paid S. a
day by J. Gould, shot down whoever
Gould said should be shot. A dozen
msn aad women have been killed by
them. / said the Williamsburg <rik-
ers were quiet, but the police dubbed
them and fired at them. The meeting
was orderly and not an unlawful as
sembly. You know what they were
doing. They are not only putting me
in prison, but they are doing away
with free speech. 1t is the first step
to bring the republic down to mon
archy; the next will be stopping the
freedom of the press. Then we will
only want an Emperor" After a
brief speech by Col. Fellows, coun-
sci for Most, the case went to the jury,
who, after celebrating short time,
returned verdict of guilty against
the three on the charge of misdemean-
or, and recommended Schenck to the
mercy of the court. The prisoners
are to be sentenced to-day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03

GREEN FooD FOR PoULTRY.-Green
food for fowls in confinement is east
ly procured at this season, ard should
be given liebrally. The hens can do
we'll on green food almost exclusively,
and they will lay as well, if not bet
ter, than when allowed surfeit of
grain, which should be at night. AL
though there will be no difficulty in
procuring green food now, yet sug-
gestion for next winters supply is not
out of place. The best articles to
grow for that purpose are cabbages
and onions. Turnips and potatoes
are excellent when cooked and fed in
winter, but a meal of chopped cab
bage and onion will be highly relished.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
News Items.

Temperance people in Iowa have
asked the President why so many vio-
lators of the liquor law of the State
have been made Postmasters. They
have received no answer.
A large number of petitions have
been received by the United States
Senate relating to oleomargarine and
other limitations of butter. The ma
jority are from agricultural and dairy
associations, and favor the bill pro-
posing an internal revenue tax of ten
cents pound on the production and
regulating it's manufacture and sale,
while the opposing petitions are from
produce exchanges and similar COM
mercial bodies protesting against such
tax.
Turn about is fair play. A Cana
dian schooner, the Sisters, has been
seized at Portland for violation of
customs regulations in not having a
manifest. The Maine people are de-
lighted, but the unfortunate captain,
who is the owner is in despair.
Although the Senate has passed
bill to organize the Territory of Wash
ington into a State, the chances are
that it will be some years before it is
admitted to the Union. The Demo-
cratic House has a notion that the
new State would send two Republican
Senators to Washington besides sew
eral Republican Representatives, con-
sequently they will oppose its admis-
sion.
The House Judiciary Committee has
brought in long and able report on
the question of polygamy. 1t recites
some of the evils of the system, and
alleges that they cannot be cured by
ordinary legislation. 1t recommends
that law be enacted that no Terri
tory may be admitted as State
wherein polygamY is practis ed.
The election in Richmond, Va,
Thursday resulted in the overwhelm-
ing defeat of the regular Democratic
nominee. Lee (Dem.) for City Ser
geant was defeated by Smith indie
pendent) by majority of over 2600.
The board of Aldermen stands 9
Democrats and Independents, Com
mon Council 9 Democrats and q In
dependents, making an Independent
majority of II on joint ballot.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03


The following business was trans
acted at the Probate Office in Hyde
Park, during the week ending May
20, 1885,
May 24.-Adeline Hubbell's estate.
Stowe Guardian settles his account,
and Administrator receipts property to
Guardian; Appraisers return inventory.
Geo. L. Waterman, Hyde Park hear
ing held and Court adjudged guardian
necessary.
May 26.-Geo. L. Waterman, Hyde
Park; Geo. M. Powers appointed Guar
dian; Guardian asks for license to sell
real estate; hearing set for June 10th,
1885, P. r. Gales estate, Stowe; set
Element continued to June End at 10
O'Clock A. NJ. Ada Whitney, Guardian
ship Worcester Mass; Guardian returns
inventory.
May I'll. w. Holmes estate, Wat
ervllle. Administrator returns inven-
tory.
May 2S.-Rebecca 7. Wilson's estate,
Morristown settlement continued by re-
quest of heirs to Nov. Is, 1886. VIM.
Morrill's estate Stowe. Administrator
presents his account for settlement hear.
ing set for June 10, 1885.
May 29.-Samuel Barnes estate Stowe.
Appraisers return inventory. Dan
Cady's estate, Stowe License granted
administrators to sell real estate.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03

PROMISE OF GOOD GRAIN CRoPs.-The
Nav report of the Department of Agri-
culture on the condition of Winter-grain
states that there was nowhere any CON
siderable acreage of Winter-killed grain
to be ploughed up" This is very en-
couraging and indicates that the Win
ter-grain crops are likely to be good.
The same is probably true of the Spring
wheat, as reports from the West do not
represent the damage done to the crops
by the recent storms as very great, while
the march of the season has been excep-
tionally rapid. The fall of temperature
in the wheat belt during the last fort
vegetation. But the periodical "cool
spell of May" this year has not been
more severe than it usually is. There
seems now to be no reason why the
farmers should not make full grain
crops this year.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-06-03

LAW AND LABoR.-We have lately
been having what are known as labor
troubles. l do not say we have never
had them before, but we never have had
the anarchy, confusion and despera-
ton that have been shown recently since
this administration came into office. If
had power, l should say, and the Re
publican party would say, if capital be-
came tyrant, it should be checked in
its tyranny, and the republican party
would be willing to do it. But, if, by
violation of law, men do not observe the
right of life, liberty or property in vim
dication of some real or fancied wrong.
and shall, by destruction of property OF
life, injure the interests of the country
let the letter of the law be enforced
against rioters or murderers. Capital
and labor cannot be enemies. Men who
do such deeds are the enemies. not
friends of labor.-Gen. John Il. Logan.