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The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

SILENCE may be golden, but a dentist
has never yet been able to fill teeth with
it-N Y Journal
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27
Splendid Chances for Investment

A SOFT job-Shaving a young man for the
first time. -FdN Rjoer 1dvdace
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

EVERY bonnet has a "b'' in it.-LoweR
Citizen.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

GIN well backed with silver" as the
looking glass Satisfaction Ndyerick.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

WHY is a dirty man like flannel! Be-
cause he shrinks from washing Chicago
IfdOer
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

WE may be sure that our consciences are
rebelious when they are mute in us
(mutinousl.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

~, If afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Ihompson'sEye Water Druggists sell it. 25c.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

A GROWING evil-Your next door neigh
boris squalling baby.--SomergiAe journal.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

THE American joke has been formally
introduced into Japan.-ArkdnsaC 1raceter.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

in Northeast Nebraska. For illustrated
pamphlet describing the country and its
Pass. Agent, St Paul, MINI.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

TnE traitor who is expected to be loyal
to both sides-The arbitrator.-N Y. Led
ger.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

CONGRESSMAN BAGLEY, of Michigan, says
Red Star Cough Cure is simple and eftica
cious.
Ex-Mayor Baxter, of Louisville, KY,
says st, Jacobs Oil is specific for every
pain.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-03-27

THE lawyers advertisement-Give me a
trial.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

that none of the bushes have had a
chance to show what they can do in
the way of crop. All appearances in
dictate that it is very strong-growing
and productive variety. The fruit is
fully twice as large as the Red Dutch,
with quite as many currants in clus-
ter. Producing so heavily, the plants
manifestly should have a good chance,
and be we'll fed. 1t is reasonable to
suppose that in poor soil, and badly
cared for, these strong-growing and
productive varieties will cause disap-
pointment. But when the Fay is
treated according to its merits we think
no one will be disappointed. The
color is little lighter than Red Dutch
and we do not distinguish much if any
difference in the quality, though it is
claimed to be not so sour. Our taste is
not sufficiently trained to verify this,
and we do not think we should regard
it as merit, for we want currants to
be sour. We don't believe sweet
currant could be sold at all.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Ensilage and Butter.

1t by no means follows, as Secretary
Tinkham seems to think, that because
the butter of some dairymen who feed
ensilage is not of the highest quality
therefore the ensilage is the cause of the
defect. There are at least one or two
causes of poor butter besides the feed,
and inferior butter was not unknown
before the advent of the silo. Nor
would it follow that because some en-
silage may give faint to butter, there
fore all ensilage must be discarded.
Cows must be fed upon something, and
there is unfit pasturage and unfit hay,
and even unfit water, as well as unfit
ensilage. The report of the dairymen's
meeting says that Mr.. Tinkham told of
butter-dealers in Boston who COM
planned of the quality of ensilage butter,
though they didn't know ensilage was
fed" This may be quite true, but did
Mr.. Tinkham never hear of complaints
made of hay butter, or fodder butter,
by people who didn't know which of
these feeds were given, or what the
cows were fed on? Undeniably, good
deal of first-class butter, so pronounced
by the best skilled judges, has been
made from ensilage-fed cows. Any
man capable of adding two and two
together, and being sure that they make
four, ought to sense the logic of these
facts
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

ested in agriculture as an art and as
science, and usefully engaged in
proving it to be an available business
for men of culture. But they are not
of the farmers who load their own carts
and hold their own plows, who milk
their own cows and butcher their own
hogs. Mr.. Russell is horse man Out,
to his honor be it said, not horse
gambler), while Mr.. Burnett is dairy
man and pig-breeder; and the latter, at
least, has shown a practical business
ability in making farming pay"
which does immense credit TO a Har-
ward graduate. That the Massachu-
sets rank and file in agriculture rally
around him in this new enterprise of a
state agricultural society which they
hope will free them from the incubus
of the Loring-Needham combination
is greatly to their credit, for Mr.. Bur-
nett is not base and venal self-seeker,
but an honorable, energetic, broad
minded young man, who will put in his
work with true heart and strong will
to rescue the great autumn exposition
of our agricultural industry in the Bay
State from the base uses to which it has
fallen, and make of it powerful motor
of progress for that great class of work
ing people who are teaching the world
how to nobly combine the capitalist
and the laborer in one, and thus solve,
for half our population at least, the
great problem of the time. The agri-
cultural interest wants whole-hearted
recruits like Russell and Burnett to re-
deem the name of "fancy farmer"
from contempt-men who can so ennoble
farming that their own associates shall
not regard their chosen avocation as a
fancy" or fad," but as truly an
avocation worthy of their best abilities
and of lifelong service.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

idea how it will grow. 1t is not prop
erly hay grass, yet in some rich damp
(not weD spots on our own land it
makes a heavy swath early in June.
AS a pasture grass, on land properly
fitted and suited for it, it will carry four
heavy steers to every ten acres; but it
is never best to feed it very close. In
Kentucky, although they can do this,
the stockmen prefer to feed corn liber-
ally, as it keeps up the pastures better.
Now, we believe, they are also feeding
much cotton-seed. This extra feed adds
to the weight of the cattle, and the rich
manure made from it keeps the land
up to the best condition all the time.
When cows begin to gnaw bonesitis ev-
idence that their feed is lacking in bone
making material This can be supplied
by a good dressing of fine bone or South
Carolina phosphate applied to the land,
or, on pastures that cannot be plowed.
by good dressing of unleached hard
wood ashes sown on in the fall. A more
direct and quick remedy, so far as the
cattle are concerned, is to feed some
thing containing large amount of bone
material, such as wheat bran, shorts or
middlings.
Analysis seems to show that there is
not so much difference in the compost
ton of wood ashes as has been gen.
orally supposed, and experiment has
also proved that perfectly dry wood,
weight for weight, will yield about the
same weight of ashes, without refer
ence to the kind of tree it comes from.
The process of rotting the wood is only
a sort of slow burning, and if it were
rotted under cover the rotten wood
would yield as much and as good ashes
when burned as the same log would
have yielded before rotting. But when
the rotting goes on exposed to the
weather, the rains will doubtless wash
out more or less of the soluble salts
(potash, phosphate of lime, etc. and
to that extent reduce the value of the
ashes. Nevertheless, rotten wood is
worth gathering and burning, along
with brush and scrub-wood, to make
ashes to put on the land. And we
know of no farming neighborhood, nor
any village in Northern Vermont, where
ashes cannot be bought by the load for
half what it is worth as fertilizer.
We have bought ashes, time and again,
from farmers whose sandy fields, thinly
covered with little grass, sorrel and
five-fnger, were crying aloud for that
very fertilizer. They sold it to us fo1
less than half what it was worth to
them, and laughed at us as fancy
farmer, while we, with that very ashes
and nothing else, brought up our po-
tato crop from eighty to four hundred
sixty bushels of potatoes to the acre on
land like theirs. And they are still
selling their ashes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

REPLY BY AGRICULTURAL EDIToR.-
l. Cut off about half the branches to
graft the first season, taking those hav-
ing the most erect growth, and leaving
the others till the next spring. 2. Yes,
if they carefully and safely wintered.
Our winters weaken the vitality of all
but the very hardest sorts, and though
such cions may grow, it will be with
much less vigor than those cut in the
fall and kept in sawdust. Tie them in
close bunch, carefully labeled, and
pack them snugly in box with fine
sawdust just as it comes from the green
log. Cover the box and keep in a cool
cellar. A little frost will not hurt them.
3. An excellent grafting-wax is made
of three parts of rosin, three of bees
wax and two of tallow. When all
melted, stir until well mixed; then pour
out into a pail of water and work like
candy with wet hands. When used
have a pail of warm water along to
soften it before application.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Farm and Garden Notes.

Cows should be fed on nothing that
is hurt or decayed, as in that case you
are sure to have it back in the milk.
In this country we have from two to
three times the number of cattle, in
proportion to population, as compared
with the principal countries of Europe.
A FARM will pay according to its fer
tility, location and management. A
farmer will succeed according to his
judgment, experience, ambition, means,
age and family, and the physical condi-
ton of his wife.
WE all know what we are, but we do
not know what we may be. If some
dainty ladies and gentlemen, who re-
gard the touch of the poor as contain
nation, were suddenly deprived of their
wealth, what could they do to earn an
honest living?
OF what use is a two-minute horse?
How many fine roadsters are made by
the would-be breeders of trotters? 1t is
stated by careful observers that the
trotting-horse mania in Maine has made
more worthless nags and bankrupt
farmers than all other causes combined,
and mighty few valuable horses for
either track or road
OVER 200,000,000 acres, an area
equal to the thirteen original states,
have been given to the railroads since
congress originated the land-grant sys-
tenn. Fifty-eight millions alone were
given to the Northern Pacific. There
is no knowing, without very careful
investigation, how many more millions
this railroad has seized upon outside of
its grant.
THE object in pruning is to lessen
the amount of fruit, thus securing larger
clusters, larger berries, better quality,
and enabling the vine to mature its
fruit earlier. A grapevine overloaded
will not mature fruit at all. If it bears
more than it ought, it will ripen its
fruit late, or if it bears a very small
crop, it will mature its crop early and
yield better in quality.
A WISE policy in utilizing the re-
sources at hand will enable each farmer
not only to maintain the original fertil-
ity of his land, but greatly increase it,
The saving of liquid manure is destined
to attract much attention from the
thoughtful, and means of absorbing
and saving that part for use will be
more and more sought after. The diff
Guilty of saving and handling this valu-
able material has stood in the way of
utilizing it in the past, even where
every particle of manure is valued for
what it will actually do. But liquid
manure tank and sprinkler are much
cheaper and more profitable than silo.
REFERRING to the recent national
agricultural and dairy convention"
which the city papers seem to have
taken seriously and given more space
than they give to real farmers meet
ings, the Homestead says: Fifty dele
gates attended Joseph II. REALS ma
tional agricultural and dairy conven-
ton at New York on Tuesday. Mr..
Real got himself reelected president,
after heated discussion, in which he
was accused of doings similar to those
by which the late New England Agri-
cultural Society ring unsuccesstully at
tempted to capture the new Massachu-
sets state society. Mr.. Real seems TO
be little George b. Loring."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
DOLLY GOULD'S ESTATE.

L STATE OF VERMONT, washington District,
In Probate Court. held at Montpelier. in sa
District, ON the 18th day of February, A. D. 1855;
William i: circuit, Administrator of the estate
deceased, presents his administration account for
animation and allowance, and makes application
decree of distribution and partition of the esta
said Court, that said account and said Applicant
be referred to session thereof, to be held
the Probate ONCE in said Montpelier, on t
23d day of March. A. D. 1855, for hearing a
decision thereon: And it is further ordered, that
tce hereof be given to all persons interested
publication of the same three weeks successfully
the Vermont Waterman d State Journal, a newspaI
published at Montpelier, previous to said time
pointed for hearing, that they may appear at 81
time and place, and show cause If any they m
have, why said account should not be allowed, a
such decree made. BY the Court.-Attest,
4-i3 A. G. ANERILL, Register
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

w. c., CoLEBRooK, N. H., inquiries
about hand corn-planters. We have
tried number of sorts, and regard the
kind made by S. M. Macomber & Co.,
Grand Isle, VT, as by far the best
in every respect. In its construction
it is strong and simple, with nothing to
get out of order. 1t is easily and
quickly adjusted to plant any desired
number of seeds at a stroke, and is
equally good for corn, beans or beet
seed. 1t costs $3.50, and will pay for
itself in planting five acres.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

A WASHINGTON county correspond
ent writes If you have never heard
of but one person who thought you took
up too much of the agricultural part of
the WATCHMAN with horticultural SUBJ
iects, / would never mind. His family
probably never have an apple, straw
berry, or any other small fruit to even
smell or taste of, and are a jaundiced and
dyspeptic race. The children, if any,
have emigrated and have a chronic dis
like to everything that pertains to agri-
culture. Most of your readers want a
little of all kinds-and are satisfied as
things are" We hope it is not quite as
bad as that. But too many farmers lead
a fruitless life-in more senses than one.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
7 YDIA BLISS, ESTATE.

In Probate Court, held at Montpelier, in said III
trict, on the 18th day of February, A. ID. 1856;
Thomas Is, Stevens, Executor of the last WI
and Testament of Lydia Bliss, late of CabJ
in said District, deceased, presents his admina
tration account for examination and allowand
and makes application for a decree of dstrib
ton and partition of the estate of said a
ceased. Whereupon, II is ordered by said CouT
that said account and said application be referr(
to session thereof to be held at the Probal
Office, in said Montpelier, on the 23d day of Marc
A. ID. 1885, for hearing and decision thereon: An
1t is further ordered, that notice hereof be givd
to all persons interested by publication of the sam
three weeks successively in the Vermont Watc
man a. State Journal, a newspaper published
Montpelier previous to said time appointed for hea
ing that they may appear at said time and plac
and show cause, il any they may have, why sal
account should not be allowed and such deere
made BY the Court.-Attest
Il43 A. q. AVERILL, Register.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Good Men.

We have occasionally alluded to the
contempt with which the Springfield
Republican so often speaks of the COM
mon farmers and their doings. That
sprightly journal tips first one way and
then the other to maintain what it
probably thinks is a judicious balance,
and ON the farmer question rights itself
thus:
There are no better citizens of the
state than the farmers of Massachu-
sets, and evidences of push and life
among this substantial class are to be
welcomed. They have stirring leader
in John e. Russell, secretary of the
Board of Agriculture, and appreciate
him. The selection of Edward Bur-
nett to be president of the new state
agricultural society was fortunate one.
The members of the new society would
not take no for an answer, but insisted
on commanding the services of per-
haps the most enterprising young
farmer in the state. In the special
lines which he has adopted Mr.. Bur-
nett leads the way in producing 4" the
best" That is what pays in farming,
as in every other line of business. The
superior grades command their special
market.
This is all very well, and none too
much is said in this praise of two gem
tlemen whom all farmers are glad to
welcome, if not as leaders, at least as
sincere and able co-workers. Yet the
fact remains that both of them belong
to the class known to the "horny-
handed as fancy farmers, and to their
personal surrounding as gentlemen
farmers-men of means, deeply inter
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10

PROBABLY one of the oldest of SUI
perstitions in regard to articles of food
is the belief that an imitation of milk
can be made with chalk and water, or
that such mixture can be successfully
used to adulterate milk. 1t would
seem that almost any one would know
that chalk mixed with water would
settle to the bottom very quickly. But
somehow the notion got borned," and ,
like the wandering Jew, cannot die.
The Ne,c England Farmer says: "A
paragraph floating around the papers
declares that certain samples of milk
analysed in the city of Washington
were found to be composed of sleeps
brains, chalk and water They get up
some queer mixtures, political and
otherwise, at the headquarters of the
national government, but we can't take
much stock in this one. The fellow
who first told that yarn must have been
a twin brother to the brilliant artificial
egg liar, whose highly imaginative coun-
terfeit-egg story has imposed upon so
many of our agricultural contempt
raries''
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
CHESTER CLARK's ESTATE.

The undersigned having been appointed by
Honorable Probate Court for the District of WA
ington Commissioners, to receive, examine and
just all claims and demands of all persons agai
the estate of Chester Clark late of Montpell
in said District, deceased, and all claims exhibi
in offset thereto, hereby give notice that we
meet for the purposes aforesaid, at the Ami
can House, Montpelier, W.T. on the sth day of Al
and 18th day of August next, from ten o'cl]
A. NJ. until three o'clock p NJ, each of said da
and that six months from the 23d day of I'D
A. D. 1886 is the time limited by said Court for s.
creditors to present their claims to us for exami
ton and allowance.
Dated at Montpelier, Vt, this LIST day of March,
ID. 1886. +. w. MORSE, lCoumissiorar
i2-i4 H. L. FIFIELD, ''
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
JOSIAH WOODS ESTATE,

y STATE OF VERMONT, Washington District,
In Probate Court, held at Montpelier in said l
trict, on the I'd day of March, A. ID. 1856:
Hiram o. Worthen, Administrator with the '
annexed, of the estate of Josiah Wood, late
Barre, in said District, deceased, presents his
ministratiOn account for examination and ALI
ance and makes application for decree of distri
ton and partition of the estate of said deceas
Whereupon, It Is ordered by said Court, that s
account and said application be referred to sess
thereof to be held at the Probate Office i'm said Mo
pelier, the 27th day of March, A. D. 1886 for he
Ing and decision thereon: And 1t is further order
that notice hereof be given to all persons interest
by publication of the same three weeks successiv
in the Vermont Watehman & state Journal a. ne
paper published at Montpelier previous to said ii
appointed for hearing, that they may appear at 5
time and place, and show cause, If any they n
have, why said account should not be allowed,
such decree made. BY the Court.-Attest,
42-44 A. G. ANERILL. Registe
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Bones to Feed.

Mr.. EditOr:-I wish to make few
inquiries in regard to the value of
ground bone for feeding to livestock
and poultry. Considerable of it is used
in this vicinity, as no doubt there is in
many other places. l understand it can
be procured by the barrel direct from
st. Johnsbury at about $3.50 per hun
dred pounds, but it is retailed at three
cents and more. One leading merchant
in this place, have been told, sells it at
four cents, and the coarse for poultry
sells one-half cent higher. Now what
l want to know is, will cattle digest
enough of it to make it profitable to use
at these prices, taking its value in the
manure and all things into consider
alton, or are other articles of feed more
profitable for the same purposes?
would like to know, also, how much less
pulverized burnt bone is worth for feed
ing purposes than raw bone. / feed
burnt bone and oyster-shells to poultry
but have fed very little bone to cattle
/ was troubled some with bone-ail in
my cows years ago, but never have had
case of it since have made a prac-
tice of feeding shorts, cotton-seed,
India wheat meal, ETC., to my cows.
FARMER JOE.
REPLY BY AGRICULTURAL EDITOR
Bone for feeding to cattle should be
very clean and very fine, but four cents
a pound $3.50 per tom is too much fol-
even the best. 1t ought to be retailed
at not over $50. But we think it is fan
better to feed some substance to the
cattle which contains phosphoric acid
in more digestible form than bone
meal. The most available is shorts oil
bran, the analysis of which shows that
they usually contain from three to -four
per cent of phosphoric acid, which
must be in state to be very much more
available than it can be in ground bone
We never knew a COW that was fec
bran to have any disposition to gnaw
bones.
Underground or pulverized bone
which had previously been burned
white would probably be quite as di
gestible to cattle as raw ground bone.
Bones for fowls, however, are more ac'
ceptable when coarsely ground in raw
state, and as the digestive organs Of
fowls are more powerful in their sol
vent powers than those of qua6ruped'
there is probably no difficulty in theil
getting all the lime and the phosphorit
acid they need from bones.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-10
Aaritultural.
T. H. HOSKlNS, M. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.

ANY reader who would like to have
the Price List of the Agricultural Ed
itor's Seed Farm and Nursery" will
receive it free by mail on sending his
address by postal card to 7. II. Hos
kins, Newport, VT