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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
A BIG "SPUD."

Here is story from the Albina. Oregon,
Courier, beside which all accounts of big steers,
pumpkins, etc, at county fairs pale into insgni-
canoe. The story appears under the head "a Big
Spud," and reads us follows: There is big potato
exhibition down at the Continental lotel bar
that is probably the most immense vegetable ever
grown IN this country or any other. 1t was raised
by a. apollo ten miles north of this city, and meas.
II feet in length. az feet in diameter and %
feet i'll circumference and when weighed on pair
of hay scales found to tip the beam az S3S
pounds. When Mr.. Lapelle digging his pota-
toes last fHland came this monster he thought
at first he had struck root OF the giaut yamahetus
tree OF the eucalyptus order now extinct. Fur
Their investigation however, proved it to he pota
to, 1t took three men and a span of horses day
and half to dig this potato out of the ground. It
was then swung upon big logging-truck and
brought TO own. Though il may seem curious, this
potato is fine grained as its smaller BRETHREN and
when sliced up and fried cannot be distinguished
from ordinary potato of good quality. The above
figures may not be exact, the editor has lost his
notes on the subject, and is compelled to rely on
memory, but they are enough for all practical
purposes, and offer weighty argument in favor OF
the productivcness of our Pacific soil"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
A Stupid Earl.

EDITORS CONSTITUTION: Who was the
author of tie line Gle that is down need fear no
fall?i S. c.
This line was written by the earl of Leicester,
courtier and alleged lover Of Queen Elizabeth of
England, and drew from the queen this retort-
"if thou COST fear, then never climb at ALL"
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06

Tho prohibition question has assumed
very novel shape in Massachusetts, which
has brought about considerable bad feeling
between the republican ANA prohibition
members Of thc legislature Of that state.
4 biii was introduced some time ago in
this legislature giving the right 70 women
% vote on ,hc question If license or no
license for ihe sale Of liquors. The repub-
leans are decidedly in a majority, aud only
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
The Battle of the Wilderness.

LOUISVILLE. Ga. March Editors Consti-
tutiou For several years ! have been your agent
and subscriber to your paper, and ofrecent dates
! have been reading accounts given 10y your cores
poudents OF the battle OF tie Wudeln ss--a battle
which I was engaged IN. ! was Z member OF
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
Total agents prizes for January, $40
Onr gents Prizes.

The following is list of our agents who
have taken our prizes for February. 1t will
be seen that the So prizes went to men who
got only about twenty subscribers. Remember
that as agent you get your cash commission,
besides the prizes, and besides your chance in
our present box. Here are those who took the
priZcs for February:
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06

Three men, over six hundred miles apart,
invented an egg-l eater the same day, and their
applications for Il patent arrived in Washington
within two hours OF each other. How many other
men; hundreds of miles apart, invented eeg-nogg
the same day l..are are no means of knowing, but
the number was Doubtless many thousands.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
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Tho Kind of Wives Wanted.

Lexington, KY, has a theological school.
ONE of the students of which have provoked d
great deal of criticism by attending the theaer and
by publishing in their college paper the following
racy description of the kind of girls they waut for
wives: "The buxom, bright eyed, rosy checked full
breasted, bouncing lass, who can darn stocking
mend trousers, make her own irocks, command o
regiment of pots and kettles, feed the pigs, chop
wood, milk cows wrestle with the boys and be a
lady witha IN company is just the sort of girl for
me. and for any worthy man to marry. But you, We
pinng, mopiDg, lolling, screwed up, Nasp-wasted
putty taced, consumptive, mortgaged, musicmur-
dering, novel-devourng daughters of fashion and
ideness, you are no more fit for matrmony than "a
pulet is to look after family of fourteen chickens
The truth is. my dear girls you want more liberty
aud less fashionable restraints, more kitchen and
less parlor, more leg exercise and less sofa, moro
pudding and lie S piano, more frankneSs and less
mock modesty, more breakfast and less hustle
Loose yourselves little. enjoy more liberty and
less restraint by fashion, breathe the pure atmos.
phere of freedom, and become something as lovely
and beautiful as the God of nature designed"
Don't fail to get the March number of "The
Southern Farm" Mr.. Grady's Farmers
magazine edited by DIR. w. L. Jones. $I.G5
gets the Farm THE Constitution" and your
name i'll the Constitution present box. Rest
offer ever made.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
BIG PAY FOR EASY WORK.
We want 10000 AGENTS.

We want lO,OOO agents.
We pay the best cash commissions Of any
paper. The CONSTITUTION is the easiest paper
to canvass for. Two good points.
But see the prizes we ofTer:
To the agent sending in the big
gest list between and
March 1st.....-..................$ $50 in Gold
The next best list................ 10 in Gold
To the five next best agents $40
each Observation-Disclosures. 90 in Gold
To the ten next best agents
SO each ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90 i'll Gold
Total agents prizes for January, $40
Here are a lot of agents who will get prize
of 50 in gold up to S25. The big agents have
exhausted their territory for the big Christmas
prizes 1t is the small agents who will take
the March prizes.
Here what you get: First-Your cash COM
mission. Second-Your name goes in our"
March Box" once for every name you send.
Third-A little effort will get you one Of cur
agents prizes of &25 or less.
Send Immediately and get our Handbook
and outfit. We send you samples, posters,
blanks, stationary, free. We want 25,0o0 new
subscribers in March. Come in and help
us, and help yourself.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06

b. Gets THE CONSTITUTION one
ET x rru year, The Southern Farm one
TAI I'M year, and yourname in THE Con-
sTTUrioN present box. The
w 4 Farm" is directed by Mr.. H. w,
81 Grady, and edited by DIR. Jones,
and is acknowledged the best farm r. ma az he
printed. SubscriI Q Immediately as the offer may be
dro1y
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06

company A, 2Sth Georgia regiment, Colqutt's brig.
ede IIoke's division, Jackson's corps. After the
battle was passing from my detail to my command.
ern army, who was wounded, think in the thigh,
and was unable to get away The fire was burning
rapidly toward him, in thirty or ferry feet OF him.
Off as he was not able to get away, which saved his
life. saw him as returned back from my com.
mand He insisted on my taking ten collars for
saving his life, which declined, as he was a
wounded prisoner. If this gentleman is alive, T
would like for him to answer this inquiry through
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION. My address is Nadley
Jefferson county, Ca Respectfully,
JOHN L. LAYTON
II Gets THE CONSTITUTION ono
IT q - year, The Southern Farm one
T NJ year, and your name in THE COZ,
STITUTIoN' present box. The
j Farm is directed by Mr. H. w.
- Grady, and edited by Dr. Jones'
and is acknowledged The best farmers magazine
printed. Subscribe Immediately as the offer may be-
withdrawn.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-03-06
The Constitution.
WE WANT YOU.
D,s,,,hu,,nu Gold TO Our Readers.

On the second or January WeTecei'eu OIi0
dollar from Mr.. George Martin, OF Mountain
Home. Ark. This was his subscription to
THE CONSTITUTION. Yesterday we sent
him one hundred and fifty dollars in gold.
On the sth OF February we received one dol
lar from Mrs. Lizzie Dobbs, Longview Tex.
On Yesterday we sent her seventy-fve dollars
In gold. On the 14th Of February we re-
ceived one dollar from Mr.. j. Is. Parks, oil
Gainesville, Ca, and on yesterday sent MN
fifty dollars in gold. There were fifteen
other subscribers who sent in one dollar
each during the month, and who VIII receive
Immediately ten dollar gold piece each,
and twenty subscribers who sent in one dol
lar each and will get back five dollars in
gold.
These are the subscribers who received
presents out of our February box. IL has
been our custom to give away every month
these presents, simply dividing with our
subscribers part of the profits they help us
20 make. We make no extra charge. 1t Is
simply n purely voluntary gift, and MI
Martin, when he gets his SljO, will simply
apply It to his own use, and go on about his
business, having paid just one dollar Tor
THE CONSTITUTION, which Is the cheapest
price for the best newspaper in America.
We offer TO our March subscribers exactly
the same chance. We will distribute on
March lst $3.50 in gold to those who sub
scribe in March. We want every name on
our lists to have a chance in the March box.
Those whose time expire, get their name in
by renewing Those whose time does not
expire in March can get their names in by
sending us new subscriber For every
subscriber sent your name will go in once,
and the name of the subscriber will also go
In. BY getting us club of ten subscribers,
your name will 60 in the box ten times, and
each Of your subscribers will go in once.
Now let everybody go to work with will
and make March the biggest month of our
history. The CONSTITUTION is the easiest
paper to canvass for. 1t pays big cash
commission TO It's agents. 1t offers agents
prizes besides the presents in our box You
can constitute yourself an agent by simply
getting us club of two or three subscribers
and sending them in. II you want to know
our cash commissions send for our agents
hand book, which we will send You with
pleasure with number Of sample copies.
But whether you become an agent or not,
you owe it to yourself to get at least one
new subscriber and send in his name and
thus get your own name in our March box
Ten minutes work, the saying OF kind
word, may get you $3.50 on the first of next
month, or S75, or 500, or even one of the
oil those who got presents from oIu February
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
The Mission of the Sugar
Exchange.

The Brattleboro Phonir says the at
tention of maple sugar makers is es-
pecially called to what Mr.. Messer says
about the adulteration of sugar. cone
of the main objects of the exchange is
to protect and guarantee the purity of
the product which it handles, and in
doing this it will of necessity do every
thing in its power to enforce the strin-
gent provisions of our Vermont law of
1884 against the adulteration of maple
sugar" Whatever may be the sphere
of usefulness of the Vermont sugar ex-
change, we do not think the spreading
of an insinuation (to call it by its mild
est name) that the maple sugar of YER
mont is adulterated by its makers will
be considered to be properly within it,
and if it has no more important object
than this we predict that its sphere will
grow smaller by degrees and beautifully
less. We know nothing of its aims
and methods except what we see in
print, but to suggest that there is an
extensive adulteration of maple sugar
by Vermont makers, which renders any
such action necessary or desirable, is a
libel on them. We never knew of an
instance of adulteration by Vermont
makers or dealers, and the casting of
suspicion on such an important industry
as sugar-making by stating that it is
thought necessary to organize an ex-
change, of which zone of the main
objects " is to protect the buyer from
adulteration, is an insult to the sugar
makers of Vermont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
White Specks in Butter.

Mr.. L. b. Andrews of Richmond,
VT, writes as follows in the Mirror and
Farmer "Not long since COM
munication appeared in your valuable
paper relative to white specks in butter,
The lady was right. Two years ago a
centrifugal separator and creamery was
started here by II. C. Gleason. After
being separated the cream was kept in
tin cans until il had ripened enough to
churn. Great difficulty was experienced
with white specks in the butter, He
would wash out several quarts every
time he churned To test the white
specks one of his patrons took home
several quarts of the specks and put
them into small churn and churned
them, and brought back nearly as many
pounds of butter as he carried away
quarts of cream. Not long after Mr..
Gleason procured tank, in which all
of his cream is put before churning,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11

Mr.. Douglas told us had been about the
point at which the mercury had stood
during the time, as proved by repeated
inspection. Mr.. w. S. Trussell, the
discoverer of the chemical combination,
assured us that if any one of the ingre-
dients were omitted there would be no
effect, but when the last one was added
the refrigeration began; that the chemi-
Gals were odorless and harmless and
not at all dangerous to handle. Mr.
Trussell expects this discovery will
largely supplant the use of ice in re-
frigeration and will be so cheap that it
will come within the reach of all
much cheaper, in fact, than ice where
it costs nothing except the labor of cut
ting and storing. Another test made
by Mr.. Douglas was that of placing a
roast of beef in the refrigerator, where
it was kept five weeks, and on its being
taken out it was found to be perfectly
sweet and made an excellent tender
cut. If proving an actual practical sue
cess, its application to the dairy will be
a wonderful improvement, doing away
with the sloppy condition of the dairy
room, where ice is now used in cold
setting of milk, and for cooling the
storage-room for butter. We trust the
inventor will make trial of it in this
direction as soon as be gets his discovery
safe and can secure the opportunity of
doing so. This discovery seems almost
too wonderful to be true, but so did the
telephone and the telegraph. We shall
wait with much curiosity and some i'm
patience for further developments.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
BE Reasonable in the Hen
Business.


Don't expect to go into the poultry
business on a large scale and reap
profits in proportion to those gained by
keeping fowls in a small way. The
scraps and findings that half-dozen
hens may pick up about any house
yard will in many cases be sufficient to
make them thrive with no other feed
and with but little care, but double the
number of hens, and if you do not
double the scraps you will likely get not
more than half as many eggs. Now
put one hundred hens on the same
territory. The pickup" ration is no
larger than at first; in other words,
each hen can gather but one-siXteenth
of her living, and though you may
supply plenty of grain, each hen is
more liable to disease, vermin, lack of
variety and many other incidents which
fail to make the enterprise success.
To make the hundred as profitable as
the six each half dozen must have the
circumstances and surroundings of
those first mentioned. Go into the
business, then, with your eyes wide
open to the fact that success is to be
obtained only where the most favorable
circumstances conduce to bringing each
hen up to the point of her highest pos
sible production.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
Denmark's Farm Training.

Young men, apprenticed to the best
farmers all over the kingdom, work for
two or three years under the oversight
of the Royal Agricultural Society
They work good farmers for one year
as learners, receiving a small sum be-
sides their board and lodging. At the
end of year the apprentice is removed
to farm in another part of the king
dom, and his third year is spent on a
still different farm in a district where a
different kind of agriculture is prac-
ticed. The society gives each appren-
tice "A number of agricultural books at
the outset, which become his property
upon the completion of the three years.
The apprentices report to the society at
stated intervals, and from these reports,
and other records where they have
worked, the society judges of their
progress and grants diplomas accord
ingly. The young men thus get a thor
ough knowledge of all practical farm
ing, but they have to work for it, as
they are at hard labor from four A. NJ.
until seven p. NJ, except the meal
hours. The society has started the
system of apprenticing young men in
the best diaries for three months in
stead of three years. Nearly thou
sand youths have thus been educated
and received diplomas. The system
has far outgrown the society's control,
and now nearly every large farm and
dairy has several apprentices who are
accepted and trained by private agree
ment.-F'drm and Home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
A Chicks Percentage.

The New York Sun, in answer to
question as to which hen is the mother
of chicken, the hen that lays the egg
or the hen that matches it, replies
truly: "You must not approach this
question in the same state of mind
as that in which you approach SINH
lar questions of humanity. A woman
adopts founding of a day, but she
is not the mother. Hens, in the minds
of men, must be judged by different
standards. The first hen merely lays
the egg So far as she is concerned,
the egg would remain always an egg.
1t might be boiled and eaten; perhaps
it might take up evil courses and 90 to
the bad. But the second hen comes
and sits on the egg, as loving parent
sits on an obstreperous child. In due
course of time the egg becomes a
chicken, full of aspirations and of life
far greater and nobler than those of the
raw, uncultivated egg. To the second
hen is this change due. The second
hen is the mother of the chicken,
though the first hen was the mother of
the egg.0
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
Farm Notes.

SEE that all the farm tools and ma
chinery are in good repair and ready
for use.
THERE is fortune waiting for the
man who will invent humane method
of starting balky horse-Philadelphia
Inquirer.
A FARMER with quantities of expe-
rience says ''Of all the kinds of cattle
food | ever grew, sweet fodder-corn is
the best"
HARD plank floors are not fit for
young horses to stand upon-nor for
old ones, either Injuries to the feet
are often received in this way which
may last as long as the animal lives.
IDLE horses in winter, as too often
fed in farm practice, eat great deal
and grow constantly poorer. A horse
with a rack full of hay will pick at it all
the time, and this has bad effect on
his digestion.
IT is generally admitted by the trade
that the restrictions on oleomargarine
have increased the consumption of
genuine butter in all sections, and
considerably larger quantity than usual
is needed to meet the wants of the con-
sumers.
IT is said that dry rot, the enemy of
builders, is a sort of contagious disease.
Good authorities state that it can be
carried by saws and other tools which
have been in contact with affected
wood, and that such contact and i'm
pregnation is often the cause of the
mysteriously rapid decay of originally
sound timbers.
WE recently heard farmer say: 81
was past sixty years old before | ever
wrote letter for publication. When |
read my first effort in print | was as
tonished to see how well could write
and how much knew" There is an
enormous amount of agricultural light
timidity. Let your light shine" g. 1t
is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive. "-Fdrm, Stock and Home.
ONE reason why cooked feed for
stock of all kinds is not as nutritious as
uncooked is because it is not subjected
to the process of thorough mastication.
This is essential to digestion and assim-
ilation both in man and beast, nature
having provided that the food eaten
must be incorporated with the saliva in
order to insure the full action of the
gastric juice. With cooked food much
of it is swallowed without mastication.
In Minnesota a state law compels all
agents for trees and nursery stock to
have in their possession a certificate
setting forth the name, occupation and
residence of their principals, and a
statement as TO where the stock is
grown, together with bond in the
sum of $4,000 to save harmless any
citizen of the state who shall be de-
frauded by any false or fraudulent rep
reservations in any manner. Any
agent refusing to comply as above is
liable to fine and imprisonment.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
Reading Farmers.

a correspondent of the Indiana
Farmer says that in all his observation
for fifty years on the farm he can not
call to mind the name of any one who
has been successful in his farm calling
that is not a reader of farm literature
and periodicals. He asks if there is
such thing as a successful merchant,
or men in other callings, that do not
read in the line of their own blu mess.
We do not know of any. Men in these
days of close competition, low prices
and small margins have to keep well
posted in their callings, or they are left
behind in the race. The money in
vested for reading and getting thu
experience and thoughts of others in
the same calling is the best invest
ment men of all classes make. In re-
gard to the farm class, a well-to-do
farmer writes as follows: Think Of a
man blindly plunging along in the old
ruts of farm practice for years and
never caring to read what other men
are doing who are successful"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11

(and Mr.. Hersey seems quite confident
of it that the crop is largely dependent
on the condition of the potato at time
of planting, this becomes more inn
portant matter than has heretofore
been supposed. Mr.. Hersey further
says that if potato have only small,
weak eyes the plant starts feebly and
never RECEIVERS sufficiently to produce a
large crop, unless the land is in the
best possible condition. A small
whole potato that is sound and healthy
will produce larger crop than piece
of the same size cut from large potato
This is fact of Importance in this
year of small potatoes and but few of
them,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-04-11
A Wonderful Discovery.

While in Boston, recently, we had
the privilege Qhe first granted.to the
representative of any newspapeO of
inspecting the operation of a new dis
covery which seemed to US wonderful
in its results; and if, on further prac-
tcal tests, it fulfills what it now seems
to promise, it will prove to be of great
public benefit. What we saw was tin
box four inches thick, eight inches
wide and twelve inches long. Into this
certain chemicals are placed, the box is
then Theoretically sealed, and the result
of this combination is the production of
a great degree of cold from the box.
We saw a common Eddy (No. 3) ice
chest in which a box such as we have
described was placed, in the apart
ment intended to hold ice, thirty days
before, and the door securely sealed by
two gentlemen Gone of whom was Grin
Douglas, Esq, the judge at the butter
exhibit of the dairymen's meeting and
to whom we were indebted for the OPP
portunity of inspecting the apparatus)
and had so remained ever since, the re-
frigerator standing during this time in
a room in which fire was kept night
and day and temperature of seventy
degrees maintained. On opening the
storage part of the chest thermometer
was taken out which showed temper
ature of twenty-four degrees, which