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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
" Autumn Streaked " and
" Golden White. -

Those who have formed their opinion
merely on the Duchess of Oldenburgh,
Alexander and Red Astrachan, are
much disposed to disparage the dessert
qualities of Russian apples. But grow
ers of wider experience have learned
that there are quite as many apples of
fine dessert quality among them as
among the better-known sorts. AS a
rule Russian apples are very beautiful,
of large size and extremely productive,
as well as early bearers. These quail
ties, added to their hardness and slow
growth, (the common result of heavy
bearing), make the Russian apple very
desirable as garden trees, and the only
drawback has been lack of fine dessert
quality in those best known.
Two very fine Russian apples fol
October and November eating are the
Autumn Streaked, "and the " Golden
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
Farm and Garden Notes.

THE total packing of hogs in the
West since March is 4 ,445,0 900 hogs,
against $500, 600 year ago, making an
increase of 625, 900 hogs.
THE experience of the current year
must have convinced the farmers that
they need not continue to take back
seats in the affairs of government.
SOME hotels complain that potatoes
of the Beauty of Hebron variety, in
boiling, crack open badly, before being
half-cooked, rendering it almost impos-
sible to serve them to their guests.
DIR. HEXAMER, editor of the Amer
lean Garden, sailed three rows across
his asparagus patch six years in success
sion, leaving the rest unsalted. He
did not detect any difference in favor
of the sailed rows.
A RoCKLAND, Maine, man killed a
COW recently, and found a darning-
needle imbedded in the flesh near the
heart The COW had evidently accom-
plishei the hitherto impossible feat of
finding needle in a haystack.
PUCK, the comic weekly, lately
printed cartoon with full field of
corn in which the ears were borne upon
the top of the stalks, like wheat. We
have seen the like blunder in an illus
tration in foreign encyclopedia
WE find the Triumph Sugar Corn a
most excellent sort. 1t is rather late,
yet bears ears of very large size and SUI
perior quality, almost as sweet and rich
as Black Mexican, the ears of which
are much smaller, and no earlier.
IT is stated that " those who have
sown gypsum on strawberry plants, to
promote their vigor have met some dis
appointing results. The gypsum pro-
duced so large growth of clover that
it became almost impossible to keep the
rows clean, and in some instances the
bed had to be abandoned" We have
great faith in gypsum, but hardly to the
extent of believing that it will make
clover grow where there is no clover
seed. Where the land is dressed with
dung, there is much more danger of be-
ing overrun with clover and other
weeds than when any mineral fertilizer
is used. What is the use of printing
such stuff? Editors ought to know
something about what to leave out.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
Kitchen Talks.

l like kitchen calls-such as my
neighbor makes when she throws an
apron over her head and comes across
the garden and in at the back-door.
She sits down on chair or the wood
box, or anywhere, and talks, while /
keep on cooking, ironing or whatever
is on hand, and l return the calls in
the same way.
She told me to rinse my dishes in
cold water after washing in hot, soapy
water, when she saw drained them
without wiping. l believe / like it bet
ter. And she told me never to dip
lamp-chimney into cold water, because
it would contract the glass and the heat
would break it.
If any of the sisters are so unfor-
tunate as to have got into the house
bedbugs, q forget the scientific name,
but there is one cimex lectula-
rius.-ED. l can tell them a remedy.
Get quantity of Persian insect pow
der and a bellows, and blow it into
every crack and crevice, and where
there is no crevice, too. Do it thor
oughly this fall and you will not be
again troubled unless you live in an old
woodward. The insect breeds in old
logs, and if you don't believe it go to a
lumber yard and examine old dry logs.
Pry up the bark on maple or pine and
your nose will convince you. This is
true. We were once hunting in the
West, and sitting down on half rotten
log miles from any house, found it was
alive with the little beauties.-ED.
Ask any lumberman who has ever slept
in saw-mill if he has not seen them
and felt them, too, and wondered where
they came from.
/ wish some one would tell me how
to use barberries. | have great many
getting ripe.
If one has unripe muskmelons on
hand they can be used for sweet pickle,
the same as ripe cucumbers, and are
much nicer. 1t pays to raise them just
for this use. Dot.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
A Dream that Was Not All a Dream.

Somehow / wanted to tell the sisters
how an old lady caught an insight into
one of her besetting sins. She had led
an entirely selfish and sensual life,
clutching every penny with a miser's
grasp. Slowly she laid dollar upon dol
lar, until several thousands were accu-
INFLATED, never letting go her hold upon
any save for barest necessities. She
reared large family and early taught
them to become self-supporting. In
fact, she reared them in her own image,
so that in their several homes the same
sphere is manifest that | so painfully
perceived in their childhood home in
my youth. This sin was no grudge,
however, that old Aunt Mandy had
nursed so long, but its deadly sister,
greed, and it had grown so steadily she
was not even aware that all her soul was
becoming lost in its mirage. But as
she neared the strand that separates
time from eternity-the period when
even the most unrenective are almost
compelled to reflect--her strong ma
ture succumbing to the infrmities of
age, she became PROSTATE from paraly-
sis. AS soon as she could speak, her
first inquiry was for her money. She
seemed to lose no hold upon life, save
the power to move her limbs But one
night, as her daughter watched her, she
dreamed that upon one of her meadows
there was film or layer of gold, and
that she Immediately set herself the
task of gathering it up. She toiled all
day through the hot sun, and as it was
setting she looked, and saw she had ac-
cumulated quite heap. As she was
congratulating herself upon the success
of her labors, 10! it vanished away into
the earth, and she felt that her labor
had indeed been all in vain. On
awakening she told her daughter the
dream, and it had performed its mis-
sion, for she said it exactly correspond
ed to the labor of her whole life. She
realized at last that her efforts had been
wholly devoted to the heaping up of
earthly riches, and as it had vanished
in her dream, even so it was fading from
her grasp forever, for she had lived out
her life devoid of rest or peace-the
golden days of her youth, her home
delights, her children, her ripening
years, all sacrificed, for phantom that
vanished into nothingness as her life
ebbed away. Now shall we learn from
this sad life the lesson it so plainly
teaches, or must we, too, await the APP
proach of that grim messenger before
we lose our grip upon the world?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
agricultural.
T. H. HOSklNS, M. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.
Saving Manure In Canada.

Our friend E. A. Barnard of the
Quebec Department of Agriculture,
and editor of the Montreal Journal Of
Agriculture, writes us as follows: "My
cows stand on beaten clay alone. No
litter is ever used. Cows perfectly
clean and healthy. The manure, solid
and liquid, falls in trough and goes
into the cellar. This is dug under the
barn:-the stables are in a ean-to.
Cellar bottom, six inches of beaten
clay on coarse sand. Not a drop of
liquid manure is wasted. The whole
mass, in The spring, forms thick
putty, which is forked into Kemp's dis
tributor and carried to the field. Not
a drop of liquid oozing out, provided
the mass attains six or more feet high
in the cellar. The first three feet are
very wet, until the mass forms a
sponge which attracts the moisture
right through. This is my second
years experience on my cellar. You
are the first to have the written results
and you are welcome TO them. This
plan l have worked out after thirty
years of close attention and visits to
the best managed farms / knew of in
Canada, the United States and in
Europe. l know of no such arrange
ments as mine for the full saving of
manure. l find that the large quantity
of liquid in the manure checks fer
mentation very greatly, the more so
that l use no litter. Straw is too val
liable food on my poor sandy soil to
be wasted as manure. All straws are
cut, wetted, mixed with richer materi-
ais and butter produced"
We consider this experiment of Mr..
Barnard, and its complete success as
reported, to be worthy of wide publ
cation. We confess to a considerable
surprise that cows manure and urine
should, without absorbents, possess the
consistency which Mr.. Barnard reports,
and almost fear that there must be
some leakage, if not of the cellar bot
tom, at least at the sides. Mr.. Barnard
has promised us more information on
this and other important matters, which
have been the subject of careful expert
ment at his farm near Three Rivers,
Quebec. He is making success of
sweet ensilage, and claims to be able to
produce it without failure every time.
In our next issue we shall give de-
scription of his method of building a
silo, and of making and feeding ensi-
lage to his herd of butter cows. These
are subjects that greatly interest Yer
mont dairymen, and the reading of Mr..
Barnard's notes will, we hope, lead to
contributions from others who are in
terested in the matter discussed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
Grapes as a Winter Fruit.

There are winter grapes, as well as
winter apples and pears. One of the
best of these is the Vergennes, a Yer
mont grape of great excellence, but too
late in ripening for most parts of the
state. Another excellent keeping grape
is the Salem, large and of fine quality,
and early enough in most seasons for
Northern Vermont. We think there
are also several other early sorts that
will keep well. Perhaps some reader
who has experimental can give us
their names. The thin-skinned sorts,
like Brighton, Concord, and possibly
Moore's Early, 10 not keep very long.
Orchard and Garden gives the follow
ing directions for keeping grapes:
Grapes, if in the least bruised, will
not keep, hence it is important to have
them not only fully ripe but perfectly
sound. The fruit is gathered in the
common, shallow, open picking-crate
or tray, and should be left in the open
air for a few days, covering them at
night. The cellar should be left open
at the same time, to have grapes and
cellar of the same temperature. The
trays, each covered with papers, are
then taken to the cellar and there
placed in tiers. The cellar must be
kept closed in daytime and the light
excluded, but opened at night to admit
the cool air.
1t is said that the best keepers, such
as Vergennes, may be kept all winter.
A cool closet in place that never
freezes is perhaps better than most
cellars for keeping grapes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
A0berti senlents.
A Great Victory
A Terrible Case Of Scrofula
Cured by
Hoods SarSapariIIa

In the winter of 1879 was attacked with
Scrofula in one of the most aggravating forms.
AT one time had no less than thirteen large
assesses over and around my neck and throat,
continually exuding an offensive mass of
bloody matter disgusting to behold, and
almost intoerable to endure. 1t is impossible
to fully describe my sufferings, as the case
was complicated with Chronic Catarrh. After
three years of misery, having been treated by
three physicians, / was worse than ever.
Finally, on the recommendation of w. j.
Huntley, druggist, of Lockport, was induced
to try Hoods Sarsaparilla. And now, after
having taken twelve bottles, within the last
twelve months, the scrofulous eruptions have
entirely ceased, and the assesses have all
disappeared, except the unsightly scars, which
are daily becoming smaller by degrees, and
beautifully less l do not know what it NAV
have done for others, but | do know that in
my case, Hoods Sarsaparilla has proved an
effective specific indeed. AS an evidence of
my gratitude L send these facts unsolicited
and am ready to verify the authenticity of
this cure by personal correspondence with
any one who doubts it, CHARLES A. ROB
ERTs, East Wilson, N. Y.
This statement Is confirmed by w. j, Hunt
ley, druggist, of Lockport, n. Y, who calls the
cure great victory for Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Send for book giving statements ofmany cures.
Hoods SarsapariIla
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for So. Made
only by G. /. HOOD 81 CO., Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
SaWduSt Bedding.

Mr.. Editor:-I am using sawdust be-
hind my cows in the barn to absorb the
liquid manure. Some of my neighbors
say it is injurious to the soil. They
claim that sawdust is a poison to plants
Can you give me light on this subject?
| wish to discontinue its use if this
theory is correct.
d. H. E., South Ryegate, Vt.
REPLYING refer our correspondent
to some remarks on the subject of his
inquiry in our issue of September Goth,
We took our farm in 1867 in a very
much rundown condition, yielding less
than one-fourth ton of hay to the acre.
1t is the universal custom in the village
of Newport, where we buy much of
our manure, to use sawdust for bedding,
and we have used at least five hundred
bushels year in our own stable. The
present condition of our land gives us
three tons of hay, seventy to ninety
bushels of shelled corn and three hun
dred to four hundred bushels of pota-
toes to the acre. All vegetable matter
in state of decay is attractive to that
class of insects which, in the larvae
state, live upon decaying vegetable
matter, such as cut-worms, wire-worms,
earth-worms, white grrbs and the like.
Most of these worms will also eat grow
ing vegetation, and therefore they prey
somewhat upon crops. Decaying vege-
tation also supports various low orders
of plant-life, such as fungi and moulds,
and these, too, will attack living plants
and damage them. But we have never
been able to discover that sawdust gives
any more encouragement to either ami
NAL or vegetable soil-pests than any
other bedding of vegetable origin, or
their uncomposted or green manure
alone. That there is nothing poisonous
or hurtful to the land in it our own and
many others experience has abundantly
proved.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20

nothing for either purpose. Drenching
the compost heap with brine will kill
many grubs, yet does not hurt the eggs,
but heat of two hundred degrees will
clean out eggs, grubs and foul seeds
thoroughly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
Farm for Sale.

One hundred acres. mfortable house, barn fifty
two by twentysix feet, cut twenty-five tons of hay
this year about forty acres woodland,
water, good sugar and apple orchards, With with,
out stock, tools and crops as desired Terms easy,
as farm Is free from incumbrance Five miles west
OF Depot Village, ON easy road III, ii. CLOUGH.
NOrhfed VT, Sept 20, 1856. lift
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-20
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-14
Hard Times i'm Persia.

1t came to pass when King Ahasuerus
returned from the skating rink that
his royal bones ached and his temper
was cross. Then cometh to him his
chamberlain and saith:
90 King, great trouble is come upon
u.s."
Speak" commanded the King.
what is it? Have the Judeans again
revolted?"
Worse, o Light of the World"
Tell me instantly what it is"
"The water-pipes in the kitchen have
burst, 0 King! Shall / send for the
plumber? p
ALAS This news is terriblel" quote
Ahasuerus. Bring me a second hand
suit of sackcloth and ashes. What
shall we do for funds? The last levy
of 10000, 900 talents on the people of
Persia | had hoped would pay the sum-
mer's ice bill, and leave something over
for cigarettes, but if the plumber is so
early getting in his work, another TO-
900, 900 must be raised instanter."
And he clothed himself in sackcloth
and ashes. Pitts burg Chronicle Teie-
QTdph.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-14
Marriage i'm BOkhara

Usually the parents have the chief
voice in making the contract, and 1T
sometimes happens that the girl refuses
and runs away, but she is commonly
compelled in such case TO assent. Ac-
cording to custom bridegroom is not
supposed to see the bride before the
marriage; but the natives often pay one
of the female acquaintance who, hav-
ing concealed the bridegroom, invites
the intended bride TO her house, and so
arranges for the betrothed to meet
When the kahn has been paid, and the
wedding day fixed, n money security is
set aside by the bridegroom, in case of
his wishing hereafter to divorce his
wife. After this point is settled the
mollah, or priest, reads a prayer and
asks the bride through closed door
whether she consents to marry such a
one, and on her asserting, the mollah
offers the bridegroom cup of water,
from which he drinks, and returns it to
be sent to the bride. The remaining
water is then drunk by those present.
At the close of the ceremony the women
conduct the bridegroom to the sleeping
apartment, and also the bride, in whose
society the man spends his first three
days of married life in the home of
her parents. The bride is then brought
to her husbands house and begins her
everyday and confined existence. DIR.
Lansdeil says that in all Bokhara he
only saw one or two female faces, and
then simply because the women wanted
his medical advice.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-14
How To Crystalline Grasses.

Take one pound of alum, pulverize
and dissolve in one quart Of hot water,
but do not boil it; pour the solution
into deep earthen jar and let IL stand
on the back of the stove till it is about
lukewarm. Fasten the grasses with
strings to stick and lay it across the
top of the jar, having the grasses en-
tirely submerged in the liquid. Put
the jar in q cool place and do not per-
NIT the grasses to be moved for twelve
hours, and then take them out and let
them drain. When the water OF the
solution has quite evaporated the
blades of grass will be quite covered
with the crystals of alum. For blue
crystals add half pound of indigo;
for yellow boil few saffron leaves In
little water and mix it with the alum
solution; for pink or red add some red
dye. Prussian red is the best. BE sure
that the grasses are quite dry before
putting them into the crystallizing So
luton. If the first immersion does not
crystalline sufficiently heat the solution
and dip second time, and so on until
the result is quite satisfactory.-Inter
Ocean.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-14

Great possibilities have been attributed
by men of science to the process of selec-
ton and survival of the fittest; but in rail-
way travelling there is one other thing 20 be
observed, of equal, if not greater. import
ance. That is, selection of the quickest
There is no more marked example of this
truth than that afforded by the Danville
Route, to Florida and New Orleans. The
Danyille crosses the Ohio River on the new
bridge, near Evansville, and is thus able TO
carry its passengers from Chicago to Nash
Vile in sixteen hours one third less than
ANY competing line. With this advantage
at the start, IL is, of course, an easy matter
to maintain the lead 10 the Gulf. and the
Danville does IT, Here, you see. is an OPP
portunity offered Southern travellers of Sc
lection Of the fttest and quickest. Palace
Buffet Cars and the highest rate of speed
have contributed their share TO the popu-
larity Of this line. No change of cars to
Nashville, and but one change to New
Orleans and all points in Florida. Send a
two-cent stamp to William Hill, General
Passenger Agent, Chicago & Eastern Ill-
nois Railroad, Chicago, and get copy of
the new illustrated work, FLORIDA - A
St.,rv"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-14
TAYLOR and Scott.

Gen. Taylor, wrote Gen. Grant in
the first volume of his book, never
wore uniform, but dressed himself
entirely for comfort He moved about
the field in which he was operating to
see through his own eyes the situation.
Often he would be without staff
officers, and when he was accompanied
by them there was no prescribed order
in which they followed. He was very
much given to ting on his horse
sideways, with both feet on one side,
particularly on the battlefield.
Gen. Scott, says Gen. Grant, was the
reverse of Taylor in all particulars.
He always wore all the uniform pre-
scribed or allowed by law. When he
inspected his lines word would be sent
to all division and brigade commanders
in advance, notifying them of the hour
when the commanding General might
be expected. On those occasions he
wore his dress uniform, cooked hat,
aiguillettes, saber, and spurs. His staff
proper, besides all officers construct
lively on his staff, followed also in uni
form and in prescribed order.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-14

Il have known many singers in my
day and heard many stories about them
and their voices, but / have never
heard of but one case where man will
ed his voice to another" said Mr.. L.. Il.
Cannon, the barytone, in talking with
your correspondent recently. "'Sher'
Campbell. the barytone, who with
William Il. Castle did SO much in max
ing English opera success in this
country" said MIR. Cannon, "was raised
in Salem, Mass, the place where l hail
from. Before Campbell and Castle be-
gan singing in opera they were ballad
singers in q minstrel troupe, and ex-
cellent ones, too. On their first trip
to the Pacific coast they were in party
which included John Hecker, who had
a magnificent barytone voice. AT that
time both Campbell and Castle were
tenor singers. Campbells voice was
even higher than that of Castle. Hecker
got sick and had to be left on the way.
He died soon afterward. He felt that
he was going to die, and told all the
members of the troupe that they would
never see him again alive. AS Camp
bell was leaving him he said: Johnny,
you can leave me in your will that pin
Ga small diamond he wore), but what l
would prize more, if you could will it
to me, would be your voice. lam tired
of singing tenor Well, the minstrel
party went to San Francisco. While
there word came that Johnny Hecker
had died. Some weeks afterward Camp
bell received the diamond pin, which
johnny directed should be sent him.
With it was note stating that as he
(CampbelD had asked for the pin it
would be sent him after his (Hecker's)
death. The note ended: Il also will
you my voice, which you also asked
for Campbell was very much affected
by the message. He talked of nothing
else ali that day and far into the night.
When he woke the following morning
he had barytone voice. His voice had
changed from tenor to barytone. =
NeiC York Herald.