The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-01-04

cupy the coming year the house on Mrs.
Aaron G.. Martins farm, opposite the one in
which she herself lives. =-= GurdOn Mar
tin will move on to the John Sprague farm
in Brookfield, opposite the Ordway farm,
which he has occupied the past year. -
One of our thriftiest farmers, who finds
Barre a profitable market for farm and
garden products, says he should have
called man crazy or ignorant of what he
was talking about If he had told him what
could be raised on haf-acre of ground be-
fore he tried it last year" He sold over
$500 worth from it, Doubtless many another
Vermont farmer knows not yet with what
an abundant harvest his land can be made
to laugh If only he will tickle it enough
with hoe and fertilizers. 60 Rodney
Seaver is a believer in phosphate for the
farm. He has satisfied himself that one
season comes far short of realizing all the
good that single application of it may
yield. Some five or six years ago he tried
the experiment of top-dressing with Brad
ley's phosphate small piece of grass land
that had had no fertilizer upon it for several
years. Immediately there was great in
crease of grass. Though for the first two or
three years this increase was the most
marked, 1t was apparent for succeeding
years. He also experimental with a single
application of the phosphate to a piece
of pasture land with a result that helps
to confirm this opinion. =- Fred Jack
son has just lost valuable horse 1t is
said that some eight or nine horses be-
longing to our farmers and within some
what limited circle have died the past year
- II. w. pemeritt, living on the Ed
son Martin farm bequeathed to the Meth
odist church, has given Messrs. Carnes 81
Kane of East Barre the privilege of work
ing the granite powders on the farm at a
stipulated price per foot for all the market
able stock. (And, by the way, there is hope
that this granite firm can be induced to To-
cate in orr village next season.) - Sons
have recently been born to u. X. Prize and
Bert Demeritt. - Charles NJ. Err
skine is to allow firm from Massachusetts
to work up what granite powders they
choose on his farm for one year at a price
per foot agreed upon. This firm thinks Mr..
Erskine has fine show for quarry on his
place He has in the past jokingly claimed
that his farm was good for at least two
kinds of crops-grass and rocks With
the former crop he is wintering seventy-fve
head of stock. OF these there are twenty two
of the OK kind, and among them are seven
or eight matched pairs of steers On recent
call at his home we were particularly in
terested in Mr. Erskine's method of warm
ing water for his stock in the winter. In
his barn-yard is a water-tub four to five feet
| in diameter and some twenty-six inches in
depth. In this tub is galvanized iron heater
made in Barre at a cost of 81. 1t is really a
| big bucket, some ten inches in diameter at the
|
securely fastened to the bottom of the water
tub by wires attached to the sides (of heater).
| 1t extends out of the water only little
The top of this bucket is covered partly
by piece of galvanized iron that is fixed
and partly by movable semi-circular piece
of the same material that serves as a door
in which to drop the fuel. From the fixed
portion of the top rises pipe for the smoke
some three or more inches in diameter and
that should be ten or twelve feet in height.
Beside it is a smaller pipe that descends
into the bucket, nearly to the bottom, to
furnish the air needed for combustion.
With this simple apparatus in half or three
quarters of an hour tub of water is heated
sufficiently. Mr.. Erskine waters his stock
but once day, this requiring the tub to be
filed three times. He says less than cord
of wood is burned in the winter season and
he is sure that the benefit to his stock land
so the profit therefrom) amply pays for all
this trouble and expense incurred. -
" Bert " Davenport, in the employ of j. B.
Brockway at his saw-mill, was caught be-
tween two logs on Thursday in such way
that four of his ribs were broken and one
or two more cracked The breast-bone was
also cracked. Dr. E. B. Watson attends
him. - Mrs. Charles Davenport is under
DIR. Watson's care. "a son was born
to Mr. and Mrs "Gus Cleveland the Goth
ult. - Messrs. Fred and George Flint
are to sell their steam saw-mill machinery
| horses, etc, at auction on Saturday of next
week. - Some twenty-five of our people
went to Brookfeld last Friday evening tC
surprise the family of Clarence Clark. With
the mercury making for the bulb it must
have been a surprise indeed. - Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles r. Benedict spent New Years
day with friends in Burlington. - While
chopping in the woods recently Nelson
Carleton was struck by falling limb of q
tree but escaped what might have proved a
serious injury. - As usual the Week Of
Prayer is being observed by the churches il
union services The meetings are held
in the Methodist church and every one is
cordially invited to attend them. - Or
Saturday morning last the mercury wen
down to 2So or 30 below zero in our village
In the next thirty-siX hours there was {
welcome change of some 70o in the tempera
ture. - A New Years dinner on Satur
day last brought home the sons and daugh
tiers of Mr. John Lynde living hereabouts
- The celebration of the tiftieth ami
versary of marriage has been rare even
in our place. For some time past the chill
dren and friends of Mr.. and Mrs. DaviC
Gale have been planning for just such {
celebration. January l. 1888, having beef
their wedding day, Saturday last was chosen
for the golden wedding. There was larg
gathering of friends on the occasion. Amonl
them were Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Odds of Erie
Penn, and Mrs. Sophronia b. Tucker o
Colorado and Mrs. Ellen B. Shurtleff of st
Adams, sisters of Mrs. Gale. Mr. Odds o
Erie presented Mr.. and Mrs. Gale the gift
of love and friendship called out by thi
anniversary To many of their friends Mr.
Gale and wife hardly seem old folks " yet
, and while congratulating them on thi
! fiftieth anniversary they will confidently
, hope for quite number of reminders O
the day which seems to have been the be
ginning of very happy and prosperou
, married life Miss Annie NJ. BenediC
! has found pleasant employment for tn
! present in East Pasadena Cal. She write
; of having been greeted with cold weathe
on her arrival in California. A small vi
! lage near there has recently been destroye
by sand-storm. Will not Miss BenediC
crafty her friends here by letter to tn
WATCHMAN telling us all about souther
California as she finds it? - Ed.
y Smith has opened meat7market in tn
,, paint-shop connected with Horace White
shop.
3 Windsor COuuty.