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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

ticular period. If too soon, they will
sell for but very little, and, If too late,
the same difficulty occurs. Just what
that time may be cannot be stated, as
something depends upon the severity of
the winter. For instance, about the
LIST of February, there is demand for
small chicks of less than three-quarters
of a pound each. Should they reach
the market too soon, they will get there
ahead of the demand, and, as each sue
ceeding week a heavier chick is pre-
ferred, if the three-quarter-pound
chicks arrive in market when the de-
mand is for those weighing pound
each, the heavier ones may sell for
seventy fve-cents each, and the lighter
ones ,at only twenty-five cents; but
should the pound chicks arrive when
the demand is for smaller weights, the
spectacle will be presented of a half
pound chick selling for double as much
as those that are heavier. The greatest
demand is usually when asparagus is in
the market, but those who make a spe-
cialty of raising young chicks should
keep themselves well informed regard
ing not only the prices, but also the
weights in demand. Should the chicks
be Matched olate as to be behind the
size wanted, they cannot recover such
disadvantage. Hence the value of in
cubators, which afford the poultryman
opportunities of Matching at any time
desired. Rural Ne,o Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Statistical.

AS might be supposed, those who
pursue agriculture as an occupation are
largely in excess of those in any other
line of business, amounting to forty-four
per cent of the entire working pUpula-
ton, and we note with pleasure, by
reference to other figures taken from
our census report, that farmers and
planters persons owning their own
farms) have increased in numbers far
more rapidly than the agricultural la
borers. In 1870 the latter numbered
2,SS5,996 and the former 2,977 GIL,
whereas in 1880 agricultural laborers
had increased to only 1898 $40, and
farmers and planters to 1925 ,945, a
gain in the former case of about four
teen per cent and in the latter of con-
siderably over forty per cent. Among
those who distinguish themselves es-
pecially as dairymen and dairywomen,
stock-raisers and stock-herders, and
which, after all, represent but a small
proportion of our agricultural workers,
the increase has been marked. Thus,
in 1870, dairymen and dairywomen are
given as 1850; stock-herders, $500;
stock-raisers, 6,5SS, and stock-drovers,
3,1S1. In 1880 the figures for the same
classes are, respectively: Dairymen
and dairywomen, S,94S; Stockholders,
"a ,09S; stock-raisers, 16,52S, and stock
drovers, 3, 449. There is no doubt that,
taking the whole population of the
country, considerably more than half
are actively engaged in, or directly de-
pendent upon those who are actively
engaged in, agriculture National LiUt
Stock Journal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
The Care Of Sheep.

Sheep get colds easily, and do not
get over them. A very little irregular
ity will throw them off their feed, and
little excess will cause stomach
troubles. They are so constituted that
they get feverish from simple causes.
and it has a most damaging effect on
them. Losing wool is caused by fever,
and too much corn will make this con-
dition. 1t is difficult to feed a flock of
sheep right, as they eat all together,
and very likely the ones with naturally
weak stomachs will eat more than they
ought to. A careful fock-master must
watch for evidences of indigestion and
fever, and remove such ones from the
rest and feed them accordingly. There
is more trouble with lambs the first
winter than with older sheep. All of
my breeding sheep and lambs were
studiously kept out of the storms last
autumn; in fact, they have not been
wet for more than three months; and
as a result of this care not one of them
has cough, nor is there single one
which has been ailing in the least.-F.
ID. Curtis.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
A Word to Mothers.

Dear HouSehold:-I is wise for
mothers to take time to dress and be
fair in the eyes of their children, to read
to them, to play innocent games with
them, to learn to talk well for their
sakes, to cultivate in them love for
the beauties in nature, to " look from
nature up to natures God" Children
never forget the teaching of their
mother, or the pretty things she used
to wear-the dainty laces, the rosebud
in her hair, the sprig of heliotrope and
forget-me-not tucked under the lace on
her breast-or the flowers she arranged
for her children. They seem half di-
vine when they become but memories
to us. G. l.. +.
East Bethel, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Articles which / Found in a
Kitchen Drawer.


A small box of matches, packet of mint
An inch Of wax taper, small piece Of lint;
An empty thread paper, and blue in a bag,
Some cloves and nutmeg tied up In rag;
The core of an apple, a cap and frill,
A needle, two buttons, mouse-trap and quill;
A card to tell fortunes, sponge and n can,
A pen without handle, a small patty-pan;
An old rusty penknife, milestone and string
The rind Of n lemon, new curtan.ring;
An apron, two busters, a large piece of mace,
A dirty jack.towel, an old clgar-case;
A comb and n thlmble, the key of the jack,
number of pieces of ribbon quite black;
A crater, skewer, and two ounces or more
OF mixed spice in paper the lock of a door;
An onion, a ladle a brush for the paste,
An old pair of slippers, belt for the waist;
Four teaspoons of metal, large piece of resin,
A ball of white cotton, and corks by the dozen;
An old pair Of scissors, pl-box crust
saveall pepper-box eaten with rust
A fork, and a teacup without any handle,
A print for the butter, the wick of a candle;
A rolling-pin pasted; besides many more
Things of infinite value were found in the drawer
Notes and queries.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
A Big Swindle.

About 16,000,00 pounds of wool are
annually imported from the Black Sea
district of Russia. All is entered as
unsecured. The duty on unsecured
wool is two and one-half cents pound;
that on secured, seven and one-half
cents. The government agents here
claim to have proof that the whole i'm
portation was secured wool, so that the
treasury has lost five cents pound, or
100000. Then in the matter of exchang-
ing roubles for dollars 100000 more
were lost; and the wool, though entered
as unsecured, was undervalued enough
to make the total loss to the treasury
81 100000. Then look at the effect of
this swindling upon the wool-growers
of the United States! The government
is to prosecute the impostors.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

WE have never regarded hen-manure
as being worthy of special and separate
use as fertilizer, and have always
thrown the cleanings of our poultry
house upon the manure-pile. Orchard
and Garden takes about the same view
of the matter. 1t says: " We have
seen paragraph in several papers, in
forming their readers that fifty hens
would furnish enough manure in one
season to manure five or six acres of
corn. Writers who indulge in the pro-
duction of such utter nonsense should
fertilize their brains with little practi-
cal experience. We value hen-drop-
pings very highly, but we have never
been able to get as much of it from fifty
fowls as we wished to put on a single
acre. Sensible farmers in these days
do not think much Of the practice of
putting tea-spoonful of fertilizer in a
hill. The manure question is too
serious to be trifed with by recon-
mending such homeopathic doses. Put
more common-sense in your advice,
brethren of the press, and more ma
nure on your land"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

WHETHER large or small, the grasses
agree in having hollow, jointed stems,
with the long leaves borne alternately
in two rows or ranks. The leaf of
grass, when pulled down, leaves the
stem without being torn, because there
is sheath inclosing the stem upon the
side opposite the blade. Sedges have
solid stems that are frequently three
cornered; the leaves are in three rows,
and without the open sheath. The
sedges inhabit the low grounds most
abundantly, and, in the economy of ma
ture, serve to build up the low places
and prepare them for the sweeter and
more nutritious grasses.
GRAPE sugar is the glucose of COM
merce, and constitutes the cubic crys-
tails which form in honey, in raisins, or
any old dried fruit, and is not half as
sweet as cane and frut-sugar, When
the process of mailing grain is being
performed, a portion of the starch is
converted into glucose. In its compost
ton it contains less carbon and more
oxygen than cane-sugar the hydrogen
remaining about the same. Fruit-sugar
is identical with grape-sugar in its COM
position, is found in honey, and in COM
bination with other sugars in molasses
and most aciduous fruits. 1t does not
crystalline, and is sweeter than grape
sugar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Aaritultmral.
T. H. HoskINs, M. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.

A WASHINGTON letter-writer tells us
that " the most successful woman here
is Mrs. Helyar, whose husband is a
member of the British legation. Mrs.
Helyar, who is a buxom, bouncing,
massive woman, after the Attorney
COW style of beauty made fashionable
by Mrs. Langtry, now reigns as star
of the first magnitude" Agricultural
comparisons are not very safe for
penny-a-liners to NEEDLE with. The
" Attorney" cow is the most graceful,
delicate and deer-like of all dairy beasts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

THE agricultural editor of the Spring
field Republican says: {" If more practi-
cal, hard-handed farmers would write
for our agricultural papers, we should
have less science, but vast deal more
common-sense in the articles pub
lished." There is no doubt that the
practical farmers are better able to give
us practical facts than any mere the
orist can be. But that any amount of
"science which really Is science, /. G. q,
knowledge systematized, can hurt a
practical farmer, or do him anything but
good, we have yet to learn. An agri-
cultural editor who despises agricultural
science discredits not science but his
own intelligence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

THE only question in regard to grow
ing big crops of potatoes is: Will it
pay to supply the conditions?" The
same is true with regard to everything
the farmer produces. But behind this
question are the four elements of faith,
capital, energy and skill. The grass
crop, all grain crops, the meat, cheese
and butter production-none of these
have yet been pushed farther than to
tell us what is profitable with those four
factors Just as they are noU. But one
thing is very certain, so long as the av-
erage results continue low there will
always be room enough and profit
enough cup high " in farming.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Industrial Education in the South.

We need everything possible to stir
up the people, and especially the farm
ers, to realizing sense of the impor-
lance of schools for the education of
youth in the branches of knowledge
most useful to the men and women
who must make their own living by
their own exertions in the various
branches of productive industry. 1t
has been now for so many years that
the people of the North have been led
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

APPLES to be baked should not be
put into the oven until the heat is sufli-
cient to bake Immediately. Both the
appearance and flavor are much i'm
proved by quick baking. But care must
be taken that the fire is not hot enough
to burn the skin. A good apple, well
baked, is most appetizing delicacy for
any one with poor appetite.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Gbe Sousebulo.

tR- Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor, DR.. Hosltins, at
Newport, VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
Marketing Chickens.

The great obstacle to obtaining the
highest prices is that chicks of certain
weights must reach the market at par
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03
ADVERTISEMENTS.
HOODS
SARSAPARILLA

Has decided" claims upon the public. This
Is positively proven by the immense good II
has done to those who have been cured Of
diseases from which they have suffered in-
tensely for years, as verified by the publish
ed testimonials, every one OF which is q pos
itive fact. u
CHELSEA, VI, Feb. "a, 1879.
MEssRs. G. |. HoOD & Co., Lowell, Mass. Il
The 9Th day of last June was taken sick
with swelling on my right foot, and with an
awful pain. The swelling went all over me.
My face was sweled so that could with diff
fculty see out OF my eyes, and ] broke out
over the whole surface OF my body; my right
loot up to my Knee was one raw, itching|
mass, and my ankle and foot so lame and
sore could not step on It, and II would run
so as TO wet bandage through in an hour.
In this condition Mr.. w. f. Hood (of the firm
OF A; II; Hood & Son, druggists, of this town,
handed me bottle of HOODS SARsAPARIL-
LA, and told me to take 1t. ! did So and by
the time had taken one bottle found that
i was doing me good. l have since taken
five bottles more. After ] had taken three
bottles my soreness began to leave me. and
have been growing better every day, so
that to-day can walk without going lame.
nave no soreness in my ankle and 1t has
nealeu all up, and does not run at all. owe
my recovery to your Sarsaparilla. write
this to let you know that think it deserves
the confidence of the public, especially those
who are troubled, with humors.
Yours most truly.
JOSIAH PITKIN.
p. s. Every person that saw me said that
never would get over my lameness without
having a running sore on my ankle; but
thank God have. j.
Mother Sarsaparilla has such sharpening
effect upon the appetite. No other prepa-
ration tones and strengthens the digestive
organs like HOOPS SARsAPARILLA.
Price one dollar, or six bottles for five dol
lars Prepared only by G. ]. HOOD g. CO..
Apothecaries, Lowell. Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-03

BY" Agents Wanted in Towns not
represented.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24

Stand back, gentlemen Clear
the track ~ shouted the police and
asthequickly gathering crowd s,irped
back, Steamer No. 4 came up fhe
street, the magnificent black horses
striking fire from the pavement.
But hold A wheel comes off !
the steamer is overturned, and the
brave tireIaen are picked up bleeding
and senseiess
An investigation revealed the fact
that IN oiliDg the steamer that morn
ing the steward had neglected to put
in the linch-pin. little neglect on
his part had caused q loss Of a half
million dollars. The busy marts of
trade are full of men who are MAX.
ing the same fatal mistake. They
neglect their kidneys, thinking they
need no attention, whereas if they
madeoccasional use Of Warmers Safe
Cure they would neuer say that they
don't feel quite well; that a tired
feeling bothers them; that they are
plagued with Indigestion; that their
brain refuses to- respond at call; that
their nerves are all unstrung Il Fire
JOURNAL 81 (tEE Ets
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24
he Victims.

WHEELING, Va.,, January 24.-The
bodies of the three victims OF the ex-
plosion in 0riel shaft at Newburn, W.
Va, which were found yesterday, were
brought to the surface to-day, and after
being viewed by the coroner's jury
were taken charge of by Undertaken
Berbs. to be prepared for burial. The
funeral will take place tomorrow after
= ION. Their names are Daniel Sfilfer,
eager, whose station was at the bottom.
OF the shaft; lsiah Unions. file boss,
and his son William trapper. The
bodies were terribly mangled, and were.
crushed beyond recognition. The o
covery or the bodier proceeds very slowly
on account of the many difficulties that
are encountered. so far the exploring
party has. been able to enter the main
heading only three or 4 four hun
dred feet. Work is being pushed as
rapidly as possible, aud they expect
to reach point in the mine where men
are supposed to have been working at
the time of the explosion and recover
more bodies by morning. -..rlo
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24
Bits From Berlin.

BERLIN, January 23.-In the lower
House of the Landtag to-day, the
National Liberals, Conservatives and
free Conservatives, introduced resolu-
ton expressing satisfaction at the pas
sage in the speech from the Throne,
promising measures for the protection
t9of the German interest in. East Prussia.
I TIE resolution also affirms that the
Landtag is ready to vote the necessary
funds TO improve the State schools and
promote colonial settlements. The gov
eminent has proposed bill, asking for
the appropriation of several millions of
marks for the purpose of buying Polish
estates. The board of agrlcul-
ture has sent to Prince Bismarck, a
resolution advising that if the
world is suffering from the
depreciation of silver, extraordinary
means should be restored to with the
object of raising the price of that metal,
do her utmost to support all Efforts
that may be made to that end Govern
ment, it is suggested, should negotiate
with England with view of inducing
that country to join with Germany in
the coinage of silver of full value and
thus enable other countries to resume
the unlimited coinage oil. silver. The
resolution, of course, is warmly COM
mended- by the bi-metallism organs.
During the discussion in the Reichstag
on the Cameron credits, Herr Wind
thorst, Richter and Stocker. charged
Herr Woermann, deputyTor Hamburg,
and the chief of a large exporting
house, with sending poisonous brandy
the negroes in Africa. Herr Woer-
mann acknowledged that the charge
was partly true. He said, however,
that he had never sent bad brandy to
any of the German colonies, but to the
French colonies, aud to them only he
had shipped rum of the worst quality
It is rumored that Germany is max
ing oyertures for partition of the Sa-
moan Islands. The proposals. it is
said, include allotment to England of
SaWai, the largest island of the group,
Germany taking Upolu with a port of
Apia. and the United States getting
the eastern islands, including Tutmila,
with the harbor OF Pagofago. Prince
Bismarck is-giving his support to the
proposal made by Russ nat the powers
send second and st:rner summons,
in order to compel Greece and Seryla to
disarm. The Chancellor advises a re-
sort TO a naval demonstration in the
case of Greece, and the sending OF warn
ing to Seryia that the Austrian troops
viii enter her territory in the event of
her refusing to disarm her forces. As
regards Bulgaria, no hostile steps are
recommended, Prince Bismarck oppos-
ing the Russian occupation of that
country on the ground that Prince
Alexander submits to the advice OF the
pywers as far as his position win allow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24
Studded with Detectives

LONDON. January 2S.-News from
hester to night is that extraordinary
precautions are being taken against
any possible attempt on the life of the
Prince during his stay there. The
police Gordon around Eaton Hall has
been doubled and a large force of police
Is held in readiness in case OF an
emergency. The grounds around the
Duke OF Westminister's dwelling is fairly
studded with detectives. The utmost
vigilance is exercised and all visitors
are compelled to show passes before
being admitted to the grounds.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24
A Serious Cave-In.

'HENAEDOAH, January pa serious
eaFe-ln occurred under the bed of the
oaenandoah branch Of the Philadelphia
6eadlng Railroad, Just south of this
lace thls morning. About sixty feet
% the road bed sank fully two feet.
s ny the coai train was passing over it,
5lo a short time afterwards the surface
@opped into the workings below, leav-
mole upEards of seventy five feet
- uo..ameter. The passenger train, con-
ping nearly hundred passengers.
~ ~ passed over the place q few minutes
,s,o5e- Traffic on the road is sus-
!leo IN consequence, and the col
y. sS'es IN tins section are thrown idle. Ii
axe several days 10 ell the breach
~'ani the road in repair.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24
Hard Nut TO Crack.
To,the Editor Of THE HERALD ET

Toithe Editor of THE HERALD tfts
The Commission now seem to have
received a different idea of the con-
struction of the old Edmunds law to
thatentertainsd by His Hxcellency, the
Governor, and also somewhat from the
one previously promulgated by them
selves when drawing up the test oath
for citizens when desiring to be
registered as voters. We all remember
that we had to swear that we we're not
guilty Of bigamy or poiygamy in the
married relation, but now officers
willing to,serve under the Commission
are requiredto swear that 81 am not q
b.gamist norapolygamist and lido moi
cohabit with more than one woman. D."
Seeing that some of the Judges
appointed for the coming elections
in the Territory belong to the class who
believe that prostitution is one OF the
Common Vices" and act out their be-
lief, will not some OF the polling places
be minus their judges, or some persons
be liable to action for perjury? The
old fashioned saving clause lin the
marriage relation" being stricken out
we have heard of some appointees being
somewhat dubious about taking the
new oath, because there is noWno reser
walton on which they can run if They
Eare prirsuedby grandjury. !
II , = AWRoNe FoKT. q
SALT IALE, Jan. %, 1856.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-24
Tho HAVOC ON the Coast

CHICAGO, January 23.-An Associated
Press dispatch from Los Angeles, re-
ceived late tonight, says thereisno con.
nection yet with San Francisco, where
heavy storm is raging. 1t Is ex-
pected to reach here tonight, and if so
will do great damage on unfinished re-
pairs. All lines between Frisco and
San Jose are down. The demoraliza-
ton of wires is far worse than in the
food of 1884. Trains all began running
on yesterday, except to the north.
A large force is working on the South
ern Pacific Railroad from here north.
and from Mojave south The $15, 600
bridge in Solidad Canyon is totally
wrecked. One pier of the long bridge
at Kent's is destroyed. and fourteen
bents of the Tejunga bridge Bridges
| between Wilmington and Long Beach.
south, have gone, also the bridge over
the new River Santa Ana branch. The
city bridges have been restored so as to
be passable. 1t will be seven days, at
least, before trains 90 north. The per-
| Whitney aged 5 Mrs. Kate Lyttle aged
IS; and a Mexican named Refugis.
Mrs. Lyttle had left her house and
went back for jewelry.a A floating
house struck her and she was lost. An
| old rag-picker named John, living near
the river. died of fright and exposure
when the food came down. Several
hundred families had to leave their
homes, but have mostly moved
back. The mails for San Fran
cisco are sent here vie Deming
Albuquerque and Mojaye. There
is much damage in the surround
ing country, especially about Cotton,
San Bernardino, and Rivsrside. The
California Southern Railwat between
Cotton and San Diego, is washed out
worse than two wears ago. and is badly
cut up in Cajon Pass. Through trains
are expected to run by Tuesday. Six
bridges have gone in the vicinity of San
Befhardino. 1t may be weeks before
there are trains to Riverside.
SAN Francisco, January 23.-Tele-
l'graph communication was resumed
with Los Angeles tonight. All other
important points were brought into
telegraphie communication with San
Francisco this morning. The lines, are
expected to be in their almost normal
condiuon tomorrow. -