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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Notes BY the Way.

To maintain his relative position and
succeed, a man in these days must
know. The farmer must know. 1t
has been said that now even" bayonets
think" The hoe and spade must think,
too. Labor must know.
IT is stated that reports from farm
ers who put frosted corn in silos last
fall are generally favorable to that
method of preserving such fodder.
Many farmers say that their cows never
did better than they did last winter,
eating largely of frosted ensilage.
"JUsT preceding calving, cows
should be treated kindly, judiciously
and humanely," says an exchange. II
is coming to be believed that cows
should be treated kindly, judiciously
and humanely" at all times, and that
any one who will not So treat them is
unfit to have cows. There is profit in
extending the same principle to the
treatment of all domestic animals. A
farmer who is feared and hated by his
stock is not good farmer.
BY degrees young horses should be
accustomed to wearing a surcingle in
the stable, then an old saddle, we say
old, in case the colt should attempt to
roll and spoil good one. A bride
and snatlle may then be placed on him,
passing the reins through the stirrup-
straps and tying them loosely over the
saddle. After he is quite accustomed
to this, he should be taken out and a
light rider should mount him, remain a
few minutes on him, and dismount, not
attempting to ride him until he is quite
accustomed to feel the weight on his
back.
FARMERS, cherish a good opinion OF
your employment. If others speak
slightingly of it, no matter. But when
farmers themselves have their misgiv-
ings about its reputabiliiy the effect is
bad, for no man living can do thing
that he is half ashamed of as well as
one that he is frankly proud of. Plant
yourselves on good opinion of your
calling. Such an opinion is no fiction
it is a verify; it will stand as long as
God gives us land, and hands to work
it. Farming well followed gives q
position good enough for any man
Washington was farmer, and, aside
from land surveying, he had no other
business-save when his country called
him TO save her and serve her.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Editor Fust on Sheep.

DR.. Hoskins is right, as usual, when
he says: ave have never been able
to believe all that has been said of the
golden hoofs of the sheep, when by
that is meant to convey the idea that
sheep necessarily improve a pasture"
E. X. Seabury of Walpole, n. H., says,
in this connection 81 know one pas
ture that years ago would keep four
hundred sheep as well as it does now
one hundred, and there has never been
anything but sheep on it since it was
once good hill farm; there is hardly
bush on it, and it brings up mighty
question: How can we renovate the
pastures without its costing more than
they are worth? Most of the farmers
here buy sheep because they can win
ter more than they can summer. Here
is subject for some of our sheep men
to write about, and we should welcome
statement of any well-considered
views on the subject" The truth is,
sheep do not benefit pastures; on the
contrary, they injure them by keeping
the more delicate heritage nippcd off
continually and thereby dwarfing its
growth. The sleeps feet are golden,
in England, in this way; they feed all
day on the downs, and at night they
are brought to fold on the green crops
of tares, rape, etc., where they leave the
manure from the food they have found
during the day. The heritage of the
downs is very short and close-I never
saw enough to hide ones shoe. Even
during my time, on the chalk-hills,
sheep were really considered as dung
carriers. have seen, over and over
again, acknowledgements old-Down
wethers going to fold, night after night,
on the bare fallows, as a preparation
for wheat, having had nothing all day
but what they could pick up on the hills.
They passed the whole night in the
fold, and were let out in the morning
when the dew paS of. AS six-tooths
they were sold to the wealthy landlords,
who used to boast that they always had
four-year-old Down wether mutton on
their table. And it was mutton, too
Montreal Journal Of Horticulture.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Important Experimen ts.

AS our older readers are well aware,
we have been for many years expert
menting to find out the degree of avail
ability, as plant food, ofi:bones and the
mineral phosphates. We have, done
this because it is self-evdent that if
the acid treatment of bones, phosphate
guanos and soft mineral phosphates is
needless, in order to make them avail
able as plant food, then an immense
amount of money can be saved to the
farr ers and gardeners who are using
manufactured fertilizers. AS we have
repeatedly shown, the acid treatment
more than doubles the cost of our phos-
phatic fertilizers.
OF course we have had to stand con-
siderable unpleasantness from the at
tacks of the fertilizer-makers, an from
the " farmers newspapers which look
out more carefully for their advertising
interests than for those of their readers.
But we have disregarded all that, have
kept on with our experiments, and
found much profit in them for ourself,
at least on our own land. And now
at last, we find ourself indicated in
the results of the first careful series of
experiments, under scientific control
at the Oldest and best of our expert.
ment stations-that of Connecticut.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

All of the phosphoric acid applied to plot
A has been removed in the two crops, and
more beside. There now remains on the
plots b, ID and E, not removed by the
crops, the following quantities of phosphoric
acid which were applied two years ago:
Plot B, S67 pounds; plot d, 1913 pounds;
plot K, 81 s pounds.
Next we may consider Mr.. Bartholomew
potato experiment. First on the rye land.
Here the yield of potatoes, both large and
small, was about the same on the separate
plots which received equal money values
of dissolved bone-black, Grand Cayman
phosphate and Thomas-slag though the
last-named produced larger proportion of
small potatoes than the others. Each of
these phosphates increased the yield about
one-quarter over that of the no-phosphate
plots. Bolivian guano increased the yield
half as much, and South Carolina rock did
not increase it at all. Each plot contained
one-sixteenth Of an acre If we figure the
crops of large potatoes to the acre and call
sixty pounds of potatoes bushel, the yields
are as follows:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

utilized. A repetition of Mr.. Yeomans' ex-
pertinent, such as Mr.. Bartholomew made
in 1888, on the land used in 1887, is ex-
tremely desirable.
In Mr.. Platts experiment only the sound
ears were weighed, but Thomas-slag, South
Carolina rock and Bolivian guano gave
practically as large crop as dissolved bone
black.
In general it has been shown that in some
cases the raw phosphates may be more
profitable to use than dissolved phosphate
that their effects are more lasting and that
the immediate effect in some cases may be
as great as that Of the same money value OF
dissolved phosphate.
This experiment shows Gas did our
OWN that in dry season the acid fer
tilizers. being so readily soluble in but
little water, give the best results, but not
enough so to pay for their greater cost.
1t is little singular that in the case
of the South Carolina rock the grade of
fneness was not mentioned, and we are
left in the dark as to whether the or
binary mill-ground rock, of about the
fineness of land plaster, was used, or
the flour-fne floats" If the latter,
then it seems that the Thomas-slag is
probably considerably the most soluble,
and consequently the most Immediately
available. 1t is, we understand, quite
soft and easily ground to an extreme
fineness. This matter of fineness will
become of paramount importance when
these unacidiied phosphates come into
general use, and there is no doubt that
all the soft phosphates, including bones,
may be made almost impalpably fine at
a moderate cost. We regard these ex-
periments as being the most important
to the farmers of any yet made in
America. They ought, however, to be
continued for several years longer, and
so varied as to enlarge the bounds of our
knowledge as far as possible in this
direction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Questions Answered.

w. A. F., BARRE.-Drafted men.and
their substitutes entering the service
between March l, 1868, and September
5, 1864, (but no others), are entitled to
500 bounty if they have never received
it. This is not new law.
l.. M. g., PLYMOUTH, n. H.-The
stock of the Fort Payne Coal & Iron
Company of Alabama is selling from $50
to $50 share. You could probably in
vest in it at those figures. 1t is thought
that the stock will advance from those
figures.
M. NJ, LAWRENCE, MAss.-You can
not draw pension on account of disabil-
ity contracted in the rebellion without
giving up the pension you are now re-
ceiving for service in the Mexican
war. If the disability from rheumatism
and the other diseases contracted in the
war of 1861 is so serious as to give you
a higher rate of pension than s.
month, which you are now receiving,
it would be to your advantage to take a
pension on account of the disability;
otherwise not
NJ. P, WEST RANDoLPH.-The new
secretary of the interior has reversed
some of the former adverse decisions
of the late secretary in pension cases
where the question of whether the SOL
der was in the line of duty or not when
contracting the disability for which he
claimed pension or lost his life. One
of them was where the soldier was
drowned while bathing in stream
near the army camp and the widow re-
fused pension because the soldier was
not in the line of duty. 1t has now
been decided that he was in the line of
duty when he lost his life, and the
widow is entitled to pension. Another
case was where nurse in hospital
drank poison from bottle, supposing
he was drinking brandy, and thereby
lost his life and this widow refused
pension, the decision was reversed and
the widow granted pension by Assist
ant Secretary Bessey.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Pensions Granted.

To Luther Burnham, Washington,
an increase from 81 to Sc month and
SOS arrears; Stephen H. Covell, Berlin,
as guardian of the Baker children, 800
a month; William f. Lawson, Mont
pelier, Sc a month and 500 arrears;
Amasa Lackey, Braintree, increase
from 50 to S16 month and $500 ar
rears; p. p. Ripley, West Randolph, an
increase from SIG to S24 month; A.
B. Davis, Fairlee, Sc month; A. P.
Loveland, Eden; Allen G. Truax,
Stephens Mills; Royal Smith, Bristol
Calvin L. Norton, Hinesburgh; Syl-
vester Hawkins, Castleton; Albert M.
Story, Fairfax; Freeman Titus, B ran
don
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

'Reckoning the potatoes at 50 cents a bushel.
The experiment on meadow land gave
very different results. Here dissolved bone
black produced twenty-five per cent of in
crease in total crop, while neither of the
other phosphates produced half as much,
and the plot to which Bolivian guano was
applied for some reason produced less than
the no-phosphate plots.
Mr.. Yeomans' land, like Mr. Bartholo-
news, is strikingly benefited by phosphates.
Any phosphate, raw or dissolved, put on in
moderate quantity will pay we'll 1t is
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

There was profit in dollars and cents in
the use of either dissolved bone-black or the
raw phosphates, Grand Cayman and
Thomas-slag. But on this land, in these
two years, raw pbosphates paid better than
superphosphates. There was no loss, per-
haps, in the use of South Carolina rock.
These conclusions are confirmed by the
following statement of yield per acre for the
two wears:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

A SOUND LEGAL OPINIoN.-E.
cambridge Munday, Esq, county at
torney, Clay county, Texas, says.
Have used Electric Bitters with most
happy results. NY brother also was
very low with malarial fever and jaun-
dice, but was cured by timely use of
this medicine. Am satisfied Electric
Bitters saved his life" Mr.. ID. l.
Wilcoxson of Horse Cave, KY, adds a
like testimony, saying he positively be-
ieves he would have died had it not
been for Electric Bitters. This great
remedy will ward off as well as cure all
malarial diseases, and for all kidney,
liver and stomach disorders stands un-
equaled, Price fifty cents and 81 at
any drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

ONE of the laws passed by the state
of Iowa for the benefit of the soldiers
residing in the state is one of eXemp-
ton of all money received by any such
person as a pension from the United
States government, whether the same
shall be in the actual possession of such
pensione", or deposited, loaned, or in
vested by him, or homestead purchased,
shall be exempt from execution or at
tachment, or seized by or under any
legal process whatever, whether such
pensioner shall be the head of family
or not.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24
Soldiers 8noqet.
The Common Soldier.


Nobody cared when he went to war
But the woman who cried on his shoulders
Nobody decked him with immortelles-
lie only a common soldier
Nobody packed in a common trunk
Folded rament and officers fare
knapsack held all the new recruit
Might own, or love, or eat, or wear.
Nobody gave him goodbye fete,
with sparkling Jest and howercrowned winel
Two or three friends on the sidewalk stood,
Watching for Jones, the fourth in line.
Nobody cared how the battle went
with the man who fought till the bullet sped
Through the coat unlocked with leaf or star
Only common soldier left for dead.
The cool rain bathed the fevered wound,
And the clouds wept the livelong night;
A plying lotion Nature gave
Till help might come with morning light
Such help as the knife Of the surgeon gives,
Cleaving the gallant arm from the shoulder;
And another name swells the pension list
For the meagre pay of a common soldier.
See, over yonder, all day he stands;
An empty sleeve in the soft wind sways,
As he holds the lonely left hand out
For charity, at the crossing ways.
And this Is how, with bitter shame
He begs his bread and hardly lives;
so YEARLY ekes out the sum
proud and grateful co nation gives.
What matter how he served the guns
When plume aud sash were over yonder?
What matter though he bore the flag
Through binding smoke and battle thunder?
What matter though wife and child
Cry softly for the good arm rent,
And wonder why that random shot
To him, their own beloved, was sent'
o, patriot hearts wipe out this stain;
Give jeweled cup and sword no more;
But let no common soldier blush
To own the Loyal Blue he wore.
Shout Icing and loud for victory won,
BY chief and leader staunch and true;
But don't forget the boys that fought
Shout for the common soldier too.
The Comrdde.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

ECZEMA, ITCHY, ScALy SKIN ToRrUREs.-
The simple application OF SwAYNR's ONT
MINT, without any internal medicine, will
cure any case Of letter, salt rheum, ring
worm, piles, itch, sores, pimples, eczema,
all scaly, itchy skin eruptions, no matter
how obstinate or long standing. 1t is po-
tent, effective and costs but tribe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-04-24

SWEEP the snow from thine own door
spy not at the frost on another's tiles
Chinese
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Alexander Selkirk is now the leading auo- tioneer of St. Louis. The Chicago papers have a chance to say that he dwelIs in soli- &1lo
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-25
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

Within the last two years nine States have voted against prohibition, and the majorities have in some of these States been very large.
 When Connecticut votes on this question an- other State will be added to the nine, and
 we expect that the majority will be 8 large
 one.
 The prohibitionists have certainly been
 persistent, but whether or not they have
 learned anything remains to be seen. Some
 of them show signs of clearer vision. The
 Boston Traveller was the only daily paper ot
 any prominence in Massachusetts which
 strongly supported the prohibitory amend
 ment recently passed upon in that State. It now says: The question of constitutional prohibition may as well be dropped, at least for the next four years, and the efforts of the friends of temperance reform be united in securing the enactment and the vigorous en- foroemsnt of rigorous local option and high license laws. The friends of constitutional prohibition can consistently pursue no other course. They have, many of them, believed that the time was ripe for the adoption o1 their favorite measure. The vote in the nine States mentioned shows that 1t was not, tha, is all. There has been no victory for the liquor interest, there has only been tempora' ry defeat for constitutional prohibition. The whole matter has been and still is in the hands of temperance men. Let constitu tional prohibition as an issue be dropped and let temperance men everywhere unite iI favor of too most restrictive high license leg. islation.
 This is good sense and good advice. And we imagine that it will be approved by many of the prohibitionists who are not debarred from seeing anything.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-25
Y MORNING, JUNE 25. 1889.

black walnut, 65; black birch, e2; yellow and black oak. 60; hard maple, 5e; white elm, 5S; red cedar, 56; cherry, 55, yellow pine, 5s; chestnut, 52; yellow poplar, 51; butternut and white birch, 43, and white pine, 85. According to this formula, woods possessing degree of hardness equal to only about 40 per cent. or less than that of hieko- " should not be classed es hard woods. Such woods are, however, limited in quanti- ty and are not of sufficient importance to justify @ classification, and the trade will continue to construs hard wood to mean everything except white pine.
 One of the most notable buildings in Bir- mingham, England, is the Municipal School of Art, and one of the most notable men is the head of the modelling department in that school, Mir. Benjamin Creswick, who is one of Ar. Ruskin's discoveries" It was in this wise. Benjamin Creswick was 6 Sheffield workman, earning his living by the sweat of his brow, and with apparently no prospect before him but life of manual la- bor. But he had the good fortune to live on the Walkley hillside, and one Saturday after AoSAs WhCA kAO HChbAOX Was JUL 1OG g walk, he strolled into the museum which Mir. Ruskin and the brethren of the St.. Georges Guild had established at Walkley
 It was the s-=,ino-point of his life, for 1t
 opened up to him new wof1u Aa-~@f-ture
 full of endless possibilities. He borrowed (
 the curator-ths late Mir. Swan-two photo
 graphs of Mir. Ruskin, and set to work
 model bust of the author of ''Moder
 Painters." Of course he had no technics
 knowledge, and it was but a poor attemp
 but there was the hall-mark of genius on
 all the same, and MT. Ruskin, who ws
 shown the work, was so struck with 1t ths
 he invited MT. Creswick to Brentwood, an
 afterward arranged for him to study soulE ture at Oxford, with the result that he ! now at Birmingham.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-25
REFREsRMENTs.

When a railway train stops for refresh. ments 1t never gets anything but coal and water and few sticks of wood.-New Or l leans Picsyune. First Citizen-Cashier Outskip seems to have made bigger haul than the average. Second Citizen-Yes, but there's some com fort in knowing that he won't get much good of it. I'm told he's gone to the Paris exposi- tion.-Time. The only way of solving the problem, Is marriage failuref is to try it. It reminds ! us of the story anent the toadstool and the mushroom. How can you tell mushroom from toadstool9 By eating it. If it is a toadstool, you die; if 1t fs a mushroom, you don't Boston Courier. Museum.
 Second Workingman-Clossd on Sundays, you know.
 Third Workingman-Well, let's take ride | in the stage, up Fifth avenue. 1 Second Workingman-Olosed on Sundays. ! in Van Bier's back door and fill up.- Judge.
 sAnd so you were not soldier in the | war of the great Rebellionae 'tNo; but cross the common every day very close to where they play ball"
 "My dear sir, let me bow before you. | was in the war and took in fifty pitched | such risks as you do Is brave even to rash ness. ."-Boston Transcript.
 The papers are speaking of the castor oil trust as thoug it were something new, but it isn't. The original castor oil trust datei from way back. It was the trust which ths boy put in his mamma when she told hin that he wouldn't taste the castor oil whic1 lay like sick jelly fish on the surface o the cup of coffee which she proffered hin so generously. It was, however, a short lived trust. It burst immediately the bo.. swallowed sip of that coffee.-Boston Tran
 script.
 Two teamsters came in collision in tn
 street with their vehicles.
 First Teamstsr-My dear sir, I'm yer.
 sorry for this accident. Will you kindly e1
 cuse met
 Second Teamster-Pray do not mention 1t
 my dear sir. The fault was as much mine a
 yours. \ After getting their wagons clear of eacl
 other they bow politely, and with pleasan
 "good day" proceed about their business ! Boston Courier.
 Since bathings tabooed
 By societys whim, Don't go in the surf If you'd be in the swim. -Munseys Weekly.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-25
FANS.

We have just purchased an importers stock of sample Fans no two alike. They are all new, perfect goods, and the styles are the latest. You can buy them one-third under the regular prices, viz: $1.5o Fans for $1.oo, $1.oo Fans for 67c, 75c Fans for soc, etc., etc. As there are only about 15o in the lot we would advise you to make selections at once.
 BIG CUT.
 All our best Printed China Silks are marked down to 75c, former price $1.oo. We have a large assortment of styles that cannot be found elsewhere.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-25
THE GRADUATRS.

At this time, all over the land, universities and colleges are turning out into the world their products. The graduates are given many tons of weighty and good advice, little of which, we suppose, will really be appreci- ated. The fact is, they will have to learn for themselves how to live in this world, as their fathers did before them. Experience teaches, and, unfortunately, that is about all that does really teach. The young men can't be told how to be good and wise and great in any way that will make them so. Many will fail to become so even through experience. But it is happy thought that not few will /, after much biundering and trouble, really amount to something and efficiently help in carrying on the work of the world. One of the first things they will learn, and the quicker they learn it the better, is that they don't seem to know as much as they perhaps were encouraged to think they did. But they can, with pluck and application, soon learn enough to do something pretty well, and they can then go on, slowly or rapidly, up the painful road to Success" Those who reach "the top" will not find it crowded any more than it has been, and those who do not will fare as most of the ambitious and aspiring have fared.