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Telegram-herald., 1891-12-28
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T.vssSe, Mich. Dec. 81 Neither
Governor winans nsr any other state
official competent TO speak y IN the
city tonight. 40 that il 10 absosutei y ian
possible 10 ascertain what action will
be taken. There ~ M contingent fund
from which money sufficient 10 reDu Ia
the destroyed structure can be drawn,
and either ths governor must call an
extra seseion o. She legislature or the
board OF ssylum trustees must raise on
their own credit . sufRelent sum for
sae rebuilding.
No instance can be recalled oil an
eneFg~ncy similar ~ TIE present one.
hence there 10 no preeedent nv which TO
act In several instances the boards II
control OF varjons stats institutions
have expended more than their sppro-
prist.ols hv . small sum. The follow
iax leg asare has sissys Teiin bar ed
such setsn And once or t~ics . snort
age ia the Soldiers Hense srprap~is
hnn has been made up oniy altar
strsnnsss opposstaoa.
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-28

chief murray Decisres Krsesesss Don
&c sn y~w ynFH

xrw yoss. Dec. ls~~supeTlnteBden'
OF Police Murray announced toiay thsl
A An effort rad been unsse 10 revivs
.skrorkouss." Re would not allow tn
cert~ ~ss- " sscheii match. snnoanees 70
February IN Madison square Gsrsea,
Telegram-herald., 1891-12-28
TO BE RESULT AT ONCE.
The Pontiac Asylum Managers Hold .
Business Meeting

business meeting.
PONTIAC, Mich, Dec. 27.-When the
FIRE broke out yesterday morning the
asylumn contained 945 patients. A
portion OF them were in the cottages
and hospital, but by far the greater
part were IN the main buildings. Those
who were burned out number about
200, and they must he provided for
elsewhere.
RIt was found that about one hundred
could be accommodated IN the mort.
wing. The matron found WAYS and
means for accommodating an unusual
number IN the female cottage, while
the supervisors devised similar plans
for the male cottage. Fifty-nine con-
valescent male patients were CON-
fortably housed in the high school
building and their quarters were filled
with the burned out female inmates.
The second floor of the bakery build
ing was turned into dormitory and
some unused spaces In the hospitals
were utilized. Many persons from De-
troit, Pontiac and surrounding towns.
who had relatives or near friends
among the unfortunates, applied to
DR.. Barr for PERMISSION to take them
home for 3 few days. His assent Was
readily given IN al cases where ne
deemed such proceeding in any way
safe, and thus a score or more cases
were disposed of without difficulty.
Tomorrow q considerable number
will probably be removed to the Wayne
County asylum, which promptly Of
fered assistance. THIS institution will
be ready to receive 100 people in the
morning. The management of the
Kalamazoo asylum has also volunteered
70 make room for as many as possible.
A quorum of the board
of managers held meeting
in the Hodges house after the FIRE
Was subdued. Those present were w.
q. vinton and j. A. Remick of Detroit
Judge A. G. BALDWIN and J. 4. sawyer
of this city, the other riembors. w. w.
Stickney and Fred ericb Schmidt, being
ont of town. The board passed = reso
lusion instructiug the building commit.
zee, consisting Of Messrs- vinton. Saw
yer and BALDWIN, To take the necessary
steps TO repair the building At once.
The board then adjourned until uest
TUESDAY when il will meet here with .
full attendance.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
BOSTON, HALIFAX and P. {. |
STEAMSHIP LINE.

South side Lewis wharf Boston, Mass. The only
American line running from Boston to the MARI
time provinces. This old established line desires
TO call the attention OF its patrons and public gen
orally to the fact that on tie Goth Of June they
will put the route from Boston TO Halifax,
Port Hawkesburv, Pctou and Charlottetown the
steamship STATE OF INDIANA" This is an
steamship, 300 feet long with arst class
accommodations for $50 passengers, and is sure
To be the most favorite boat on any eastern route
Her size makes her the safest boat in the bust
ness and her accommodations are unsurpassed.
The well-knoYn steamer CARROLL" will run
in connection with the state OF Indiana" Com
mencing Saturday, June 10. one of the above
steamers will leave Boston every Saturday
at ~ o'clock. To those who have taken the rX-
cursinn over this route nothing need be added to
the above. Those seeking new routes for sum
mer excursions should apply for folders giving
full information as 70 one of the most desirable
summer excursions conceivable at prices within
the reach Of all. X. b GARDNER. Manager, "a
Atlantic Avenue, Boston, l. VI. PALMER. Agent,
Old State HOUSE. BOSTON. Mass. 2G-l3
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
FARM NOTES.

n single drain will sometimes convert a
wet held into fertile one As long as the
water remains near the surface the land will
be cold.
Speculation is as dangerous to the farm
er as it is to the city man. Getting into
debt to buy more land or more implements
is generally speculation.
c. II. Bullock of Mortified. Mimi. last
week obtained 1120 bushels of potatoes
from one acre of land. This is said to be
by far the largest yield ever known
l.. A. Goodman, secretary of the state
horticultural society, reports 5000 fruit
farms in Missouri, employing %, 900 per-
SollS' ana estimates the crop at S5,OO0,000.
A horses nostrls are his fingers, and
with them he feels articles to find whether
they Will hurt him. He smells every new
OBJECT very thoroughly to decide whether
it is good or bad
In Europe wherever the sugar beet is
grown the value of the land has increased.
Beets are grown for two or three successive
years on the same land, which will then
produce better cereals and other farm prod
ucts.
D. NJ. Smith tells the Rural New Yorker
that he uses silo for preserving the waste
leaves trimmed from cabbage plants and
other garden wastes. For the last two
years he has put his small carrots into the
silo without topping, and finds that they
keep well.
Cold water will absorb, according to the
American DispensatOry, about 36 per cent
OF its own weight in salt, and boiling about
4Oper cent. This makes what is known as
saturated brine, which always means all
the salt that the water will dissolve. In
sailing butter the brine seldom is made
stronger than 30 to "a per cent of salt.
Wherever potato blight or rot has pre-
vailed, the vines of these diseased potatoes
should be gathered into piles, dried and
burned. On no account should such vines
be used as covering for heaps of potatoes.
The fungus that causes blight remains
over winter in the vines, and thus furnishes
the seed for starting the disease the follow
ing season.
As rule, too little buckwheat is sown
on the farm. There is no crop like il for
new land, and it should be sown whenever
the land is not being utilized for other
crops. 1t improves the soil, and comes in
valuable as a grain for all kinds of cattle.
Our early New England farmers sowed it
broadcast over their FARMS and it became
i'll the course of time to be styled 1.-THE lazy
farmers CROP But this is no reason for
not sowing it when needed.
The percentage of fat in the same cows
milk has been found to range from 53S to
4.45. Professor Cooke says; "If the man
in taking his sample of a single milking
happened to get the 5.3S per cent, he would
think he had an excellent COW that took
only ia pounds of milk to make a pound
of butter, while if the 4.45 per cent was
the one taken he would probably be disap-
pointed to find that it would require 2l5
pounds of milk to make a pound of but
ter This shows how unreliable is sing
le test
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
THE HOUSEHOLD.



When the housekeeper has bought, built
or hired her house, her earliest attention
should be directed to the cellar, as that
part of the home which is most often neg
lected, and where order and convenience
combined add no small amount to the com
fort and healthfulness of all parts of the
house.
The arrangement of the cellar takes time
and attention rather than any great outlay
of money. The windows should first be
seen to. a stuffy, unventlated cellar full
of dead air, is an abomination. The win
dows should be so hung that they can be
removed from the inside, and during all
but the extreme winter months SHOULD be
taken out, and even then in mild days they
should be opened i'm the middle of the day.
The outside of the windows should be pro
tected by galvanized wire window netting.
The cellar ceiling and walls should be
thoroughly whitewashed, two heavy coats
being enough.
All city cellars, and many in the country
towns and villages, are cemented, which
under most conditions, is the safest and
cleanest flooring. But in the country,
where the ground is not poisoned from
leakages of sewers or the foul gases of
cesspools, and where yet farther, the
ground is dry and sandy, cellar bottom
of well-beaten earth is not unwholesome,
and has mysterious capacity for keeping
fruits and vegetables beyond that of &C.
mented cellars. Such a cellar should have
boards for walks to bins, barrels and cup
board, to keep the house mother from
fretting over the dirt Cracked up" If
these boards are occasionally turned over
when swept, there will be no trouble from
dampness or saw bugs" Raising them
up slightly from the ground by inch cleats
nailed to the under side of the boards is
another and better method.
In a cellar where there is furnace it is
great help to household management to
have portion of the cellar divided from
the furnace portion by a tight board
partition, with a padlocked door opening
into it. The boards used may be rough
and cheap, but the partition must be tight,
SO as not to admit the warm air from the
furnace. In this cold cellar the vegetables
and apples, butter and preserves may be
kept, and even in the city the uncomforta-
BILE habit of living from hand to mouth
might be changed to a great degree. Here
the time-honored vinegar barrel or keg may
have its place, giving out its supply of
''pure cider vinegar whenever needed, and
near by should be the swinging shelf and
cupbOard.-HWper'S Bdzdr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
Sowing Wheat.

Wheat sowing should progress rapidly
this month. Get the ground well fitted,
and use some super-phosphate or fertilizer
as a supplement to whatever manure, eth
er stable manure or green crop, that may
have been plowed under. If there has
been fair manuring, be sure that the fertil-
izer contains liberal supply of phosphoric
acid and potash. If no manure or clover
was plowed under, then it is necessary to
have nitrogen also, but where clover grows
well a good clover sod furnishes nitrogen
more cheaply than the fertilizer manufact-
urers can buy it, The effect of the nitro
gen is to give an early and vigorous start,
if it is in form quickly available, and to
make a rank growth of straw; the potash
stiffens the straw so as to prevent lodging,
and the phOsphoric acid makes plump,
solid grain. These are the principal effects
of each element, but each helps the other
to do its work.
Where the land is made rich, less seed
can be used, as the land will stool out much
more. If 400 pounds of a good fertilizer
is used per acre on strong land, three pecks
of good seed should be enough when sOwn
broadcast, and a half-bushel if drilled in.
This saving of seed is of considerable i'm
portance this year, when there is likely TO
be a European demand for all and more
than all we can spare, even from the boun-
tiful crops grown here.
In limiting the seed to this extent, how
ever, it must be good, well-ripened seed,
and must be evenly spread. To illustrate
the possibility of good results from thin
seeding we have record of Connecticut
small-fruit grower who sowed 10 drills a
little less than 20 rods long upon one-third
IS l., 10 str l,at
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
AGRICULTURAL.
Increasing Next Years Fodder Cron

Rye may be sown this month. to be mown
early next spring as green fodder for the
cows. 1t is one of the earliest soilinp
crops, and if sown early grass seed may be
sown with it, When sown for that pur-
pose there should not be more than one
bushel of seed used to the acre. as there
will be ample time for it to stool out. and If
will naturally stand twice or three times AS
thickly as that where the same amount of
seed is used at the usual time of sowing for
grain The stronger the land and the better
it is prepared, the better the crop is likely to
be, but rye will make a very good growth
on land where wheat would be failure
As the object is to get fodder crop. the
fertilizer should be rich in nitrogen and
potash, and perhaps there is nothing better
than good mixture of fish scrap and pot
ash, the fish scrap furnishing the nitrogen
and some phOsphoric acid.
Another method of increasing the next
years supply of fodder is to give the now
ing lands dressing of such BARNARD ma
nure as can be spared for that purpose.
While the well-rotted manure is the best.
green manure can be used but after few
weeks exposure it should be gone over with
a brush or finetoothed harrow soon after a
shower, which will soften up the humps
and scatter it well over the soil When
the top-dressing is put on, it will pay to
scatter little grass seed over any places
that may have seemed thin at moving
time, particularly upon new meadows,
where the seed did not catch well or where
it er-killed.-AmericdR CUltirdt0r.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18

. wish knew some way to avoid this
hand-to-mOuth business said a prudent
housekeeper, as she empted three-and-a-
half pound package of sugar into a stone
pot. 81 am desperately tired of buying in
little dabs, but haven't place in my cup
board or pantries | where can safely keep
any amount of sugar and similar articles.
The ants seem to have preGmpted this es-
adjustment, and ever since | have been
here they have been one of the plaques of
my life. | have tried everything | ever
heard of to get rid of them SO | simply
buy sugar and things of this sort as want
them from day to day, and it is serious
Inconvenience
Well said her friend, II think | can
give you single suggestion that will settle
this perpleXing question. If you will get
some rather fine strong cotton-mbleache
will answer-and make three or four bags
about the size and shape of small pillow
cases, put your sugar in them and hang
them up in any available place in the up
per part of your house, you will not have
the least trouble in keeping your sugar
safely. For years | was greatly annoyed
by ants, and unspeakably astonished on
one occasion to find the mice had carried
off two or three pounds of cut sugar.
charged its loss to the servants, and made
quite an ado until | discovered that the
mice had carried the sugar away, as
found pieces of it half-devoured in their
runways.
"Now- when want sugar, fold up my
bags and send them to my grocer. He
puts 25 pounds of sugar in each bag, wraps
them up and sends them home. | hang
them in an Out-Of-the-way place upstairs,
and there they are ready for any emergen-
cy. Indeed, l may say that follow this
practice with a great many articles. HON.
my, granulated corn meal, fruits and many
other things l buy in quantity, thus saving
not only the difference in price, but the in
convenience of getting or sending every
time | need an article, and it is sure to be
wanted at the most inconvenient season.
"There is another item that many peo-
pie never think about. l know of families
who use seven or eight pounds of sugar a
week, sometimes 10 to Is. This sugar is
usually ordered in three-and-a-half pound
packages. If one could find it convenient
to weigh the paper in which this sugar is
wrapped it would be discovered. that at the
end of year the loss or waste occasioned
by this fashion of purchase was quite Sc
rous matter. SO get your muslin and
make your bags. Make a dozen or two,
and you will find them one of the most
convenient as well as economical items in
your household management"
NeG York Ledgcr.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
VERMONT VALLEY RAILROAD.

on and after June 2s, 1891, trains on this road
will leave Brattleboro for all points North at
10:35 A. N $40, 6:25 and 1918 p. N.
The l0;35 A. NJ, train is mail train for Montpelier
st. Adams, Rutland, Burlington, Montreal and
the Passumpsic road.
The $40 p. NJ, is the White Mountain express
and Montreal ana Quebec day express.
The 6:25 p. NJ, train is mail train for White
River Junction and Rutland.
The 1918 P. NJ, train is an express TO Montreal,
Sherbrook and Quebec, with sleeping cars at
tached, This train runs daily Sundays TO Mon
treal only)
Trains leave Bellows Falls for the South CON
Meeting with the Connecticut River line at Brat
tleboro as follows: Montreal and Quebec express
train for Springfield and New York at $40 A. NJ;
mail and accommodation, $500 A. NJ. White
Mountain express 1905 p. NJ mail and accommo-
datiOn, 2;OOP NJ; New York day express, 400 r. NJ.
All these trains make close connections with
Boston & Albany r. r., both east and west OF
Springfield. j. MULI1GAN, Supt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
In liz Pench REGION.

No one who has not visited farming re-
gion where one great staple is the main de-
pendence of the farmers, can have any no
ton of the importance attaching to the
peach crop on the peninsula of Delaware
and Maryland. In the three or four coun-
ties where peaches are the staple the sub
ject is under discussion from years end to
years end. Early in the spring men go
about carrying small blooming branches
from the peach trees, in order to get the
opinion of experts as to the promise OF
fruit. Then come the frost scares, all gem
uine enough at the time, in spite of the rid
icule of the newspapers, and finally comes
the June drop, when damaged peaches the
size of small hickory nuts fall off by the
million. When the shipping time arrives
all the country ways are filled with the
light peach wagons, and after sunset the
whole land is melodious with the music Of
negroes as they return from the steamboat
landing or railway station.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
Poultry for PrOnt.

Are you keeping poultry for profit. either in
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18

Il troubled with heart disease Some
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
One Reason why Farming Does Not

\ Rutland county farmer asks why the
farmers do not SOW more barley, adding
that not an acre was devoted to this grain
in his town the present season. The in.
quirer ought to be able to answer this
question so far as his own case is concern
ed, but in general farmers seem to prefer
to secure their barley outside of the state
rather than grow it themselves, as is the
case with various other crops, simply be-
cause some one else can raise it at less eX-
pense than they can. Many farmers buy
their flour, much of the grain which they
feed to their cattle and horses, and large
part of their fertilizers, and wonder why
farming does not pay, when they are un-
doubtedly depending upon some single
grain or the grass crop alone to supplement
the dairy. More thorough cultivation will
make it possible to largely increase the pro-
ductiveness of given number of acres,
and render the purchase of farm products
unnecessary. When the farmers of Yer
mont learn the fact that it pays to raise all
grain and other products for their own con-
sumption, instead of paying out for their
supplies, there will be less complaint about
hard times than is heard at present.
burlington Free Press.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18
HEART FAILURE.
The Warnings arc Plain--Bcware

No hour passes that some one does not dr. I
dead of Heart Failure The first symptoms OF
this fatal disease may he slight. bit do not Jdi
to heed them il you rdlue your iJe.
nervous wclE. weary Feeling. giddness.
swimming of head. strange faint feelings trem.
bling, sinking sensation. O. ldness e ieet and
legs. hntt"ring or palptaton Of heart, feel ng OF
apprehension, anxiety, druw siness day times,
sleeplessness nights
Nrele' It uf these symptoms will result in Heart
Fdiiu,", Spds0ls or Neuralgia Of the Heart oy
DEATH
II gu use the great nerve and heart remedy.
Dr. Greene's NervurR, when the INIT synp.
toms appear. II Nill prevent all danger Of heart
failure II is purely vegetable aud harmless, and
its use offers the only sure hope Of curing this
terrible disease and dtertihg the RATA result
Druggists s,ll ii f,rSl.