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Smyrna times., 1891-09-02
AppOrtiOnment of the School Fund.

State Treasurer Wilbur H. Burnite
has completed the apportionment of
the School Fund for the present year
and figures make a gratifying show
ing as the following summary will
show:
S'1l1IP % 10000
Ganorai E eIue 5unu........"........ 1S,705O0
NuHu anu OIher sources......... s4,793.96
Paid fo GIGi 1913 1886
Charles of the State in
Guiding the blind, deaf
and dumb and feeble
S,465S7
Amount to be distributed 195 200 20
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Delaware Farmers Picnic.
REUNION AT SPRING BRANCH.

win their wives, mothers, daugh.
tiers aud sweethearts, the Kent county
peach growers, to the number of 300
hooked to Spring Branch camp ground
near FELTON,, and had an old.fasbioned
reunion, at which everybody was gra.
tuitously and bOunteously fed. While
addresses were made by such
husbandmen as ex.Congressman E. l..
Martin, of Seaford; Alexander ]. Full
ton. of Dover, and Rev. Jonathan S.
Willis, nothing was said or done to.
ward organizing Farmers Alliance
party for Delaware. though such a
movement had been fully expected.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the Farmers Alliance, Far
mers' Institute and Grange of Kent
county, and the president was hale
and S5-year-old Thomas B. Coursey.
the head of the Alliance in this county.
Ex-Congressman Martin, farmer of
S6-years experience, began the initial
discourse from the camp meeting pull
pit. His hearers encircled the speak.
er, for many sat in their conveyances,
and he had to revOlve as he spoke. He
advised the listeners who shipped
peaches to accept moderate price.
"All varieties of fruit in this section"
are overburdened with luscious prod
ucts, and this talk of yellows is, in a
great measure, all bosh."
The most important outcome of the
meeting was the appointment of COM
mittee to request superintendent Hol.
liday, Of the Delaware Railroad, to run
a market train on Tuesdays and Fri.
days to the Thirteenth and Market
street market house, Philadelphia.
The correspondent of the EUery Ev-
en- 2 thus refers to IL;
Smyrna times., 1891-09-02
Amount to be distributed

AIHOunI 70 be distributed ...... l25O33 So
Divided among the counties as fol-
lows
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A MILE IN 80 2-5 SEcoNDs.-A mile
in 80 % seconds, or at the rate of over
80 miles an hour, is the unparalleled
feat that was accomplished Thursday
on the Bound Brook railroad, between
Neshaminy Falls and Langhorn by en-
CINE 206, drawing two ordinary coaches
and President McIseod's private car,
Reading.
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highest of all in Leavening Power-Laest u Cow p..
Re-! B Bs%5ssz
ABSOLUTELY PURE

Workers have been wont to Joke their
Jersey neighbors on the size of the
"skeeters" that invested its swamne
but they have taste for themselves
which they do notrelish.-Ne,O Orleans
Times Democrat.
Smyrna times., 1891-09-02
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or longer i"' year
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BARGAINS
SEASONABLE GOODS

Several remnants White Goods at cost and below
several remnants Check Summer worth zoe will sell Of 5o
sell at 1Oc W W '''' u@iha9euO worth 4Oc, will
One white satin Parasol worth $780, sell $3.50
0ne IDIue satin ParasOL worth 25 sell 200
T6rP Da t san mi P4 4 worth 800 sell $50
one cream silk ParasOl worth 200 sell 100
Two white lace ParasOls, worth 200 sell 100
-FOUR Plack silk ParasOls worth 800 sell $50
1--we rive PACK SILK Parasos, worth 200 sell LOO
AZ 4 P ~ yards Blue Cehck Mating cents sell at
cents One remnant Ingram Carpet 81 Yards worth 40 S
p Gt borders and ID inches wide will below cost
a lew lew ladies' and chidrens Vests below cost VS.
81 sell at oen gents fancy percae shirts aundried worth
and below To- % % o. yards gents Coating Linen,
zen dozen Table Napkins bodered cts to us cts
G pneourth OFT Lot of Ladies Collars and Cs at COST
ana below Lot OF Ladies' and white and bodered linen
several pieces check wOsed Dress Goods worth Csc sell 15
Several remnants batlste, worth II cts sell at cts
ei" '.or' pieces hight weight Cashmere, very down
Il" ne "DGpe g0oaS are gOOa 6u1;guinS ami z,,e
any 0TeTe0 al lie IOID prices mz2azed foa. Inc 80
S~Ee OF closing Them out ax1.Iz0 me
H0INV WeULheT.
E my stock OF Glassware Crockery Lamps Lamp Goods
ali :a &C. WIZ De found low in price, cleaning out
:, Ny stock Of both STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES i
know well what that Canned meats and RuDc
specially cannot enumerate the grocery items but the nanny
ROPES and TWINES of all kinds are ' Kent IN fu r, -
WI" V lound all right IN kind and quality and price w
~ MY store has always been depot for suc tbins 30
Combs Brushes Pocket Knives Razors Razor STRAINS P9S
drIee and all these goods still in line ~ anu Seera sun
The Legislature has wise or unvvise tbn Of
& o BOOK trade and have nothing left me to do bf
ev n9 usual full stock of all kinds School and gem
ROOFS ar plank BOOKS Account Books Memorandum
Books of kinds ' ioelhS ana miscellaneous
tim agent for We6sers International Dictionary and PeaIe e
Tor all kinds of Blank Books and the hest of
the go0ds are retaied lower than the cities ~ " "'
nave many lines of goods named above but this will do
CASH or PRODUCE taken in EXCHANGE " U Un0 VIII no.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

CoNNECTICUT's Agricultural Report
for 1890 comes to us again from our
long-honored and much-loved friend,
Secretary Gold-to whom we thus now
owe twenty-four of the best books in
our pretty extensive agricultural Ii
brary These volumes have grown
thicker year by year, until now they are
about double the size of the early issues;
but they are noteworthy as having no
sign about them of "padding" with
windy papers and peeches-inserted
out of compliment to men of local i'm
portance, but of little significance as in
structors. In fact Mr.. Gold has never
sought to waste paper and ink at his
states expense; and while the work
has grown, it has grown by enrichment,
and not by irrigation. Ifany state ever
had more faithful officer, or its farm
ers better or ADLER friend than Con-
necticut has found in Mr.. Gold, we are
certainly ignorant of the fact. For that
reason we shall not soon get over our
indignation at the attempt of the Ne,o
England Homestead to carricature, in a
recently-printed cartoon, so venerable
and distinguished citizen, simply be-
cause of difference of opinion as to
the application of public funds in the
interest of the farmers of his state.
We certainly disagree with our Senator
Morrill, as strongly as the Homestead
can disagree with Secretary Gold as to
the wisest use of agricultural college
funds; but no citizen of Vermont would
be more outraged than ourself at a SIM
liar lampoon aimed at Mr.. Morrill,. Yet,
when we come to comparisons in this
matter, the Sheffield Scientific School
of Connecticut has done more for the
farmers than any five agricultural col.
leges, and agriculture will suffer moth.
ing in that state, however the funds
may be divided between Sheffield and
Storrs; for both are admirable in theil
special and distinct works for the adj
vancement of farm interests. OF thi:
volume 340 pages are devoted to the
Report proper, and 200 pages to the
Experiment Station-furnishing sub
stance for whole years study to any
intelligent, improving farmer. 1t il
much to be regretted that, as yet, there
seems to be no means provided by any
of our New England States for mor'
general distribution of such importan
publications. In years to come perfec
: sets of the agricultural reports of New
, England will be invaluable to earnes
J students of our art.
A WRITER in the Maine Farmer SAYS
truly, that the soil is much looser an,
more friable where the manure i
spread on to the burrows in the fall.
, is finer, mellower, and in better condi
r ton to take the seed, and the crop vii
} do better. We have been forcibly re
minded of this by recent work in tn
6ald This nuluarulant nronartu n
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

EDITOR FUsT of the Montreal Jour
nal of agriculture quotes the eccentric
Joaquin Miller as saying that "no
Englishman knows how to ride, and
that there never will be one who can
ride" and adds quotation from Sairey
Camp to the effect that this is laying
down the law pretty positive" So it is,
Mr.. Fust,, and you are quite right in
stating it as "the common opinion in
Europe that we Englishmen are the
best riders across country in the world"
Mr.. Miller, Notwithstanding his adopted
prenomen, is probably of English de-
scent, and therefore the only real ques-
ton at issue between the American
bred and the English-bred John Bull is
whether the horseman of the Plains, or
the horseman of the hunting-ield, pos
sesses the exclusive and only genuine
art of Workmanship. Perhaps it may
be as well for both to remember that
there are usually good many ways of
doing the same thing. Who, for in
stance, can decide dogmatically whether
the French or the Spanish are the best
dancers? Each is probably best in his
own way-and when they are entirely
civilized they will both recognize the
fact. We suspect that neither Brother
Fust on bucking broncho, nor Mr..
Miller in an English fox-hunt, over
stiff country, would feel himself quite
at home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

NoTE.-Be suspicious of persons who
recommend any other article as "just
as good" and take nothing else but DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup.
A PARTY paid ten dollars for horse
at an auction sale. The horse was lame
and bruised all over. A bottle of Sal
walton Oil, costing twenty-five cents,
was used. He is now valued at two
hundred dollars.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
,farm ano GaroeiL

Address all inquiries communications in relation
TO agriculture to DIR. T. II. HosKINs Newport, VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro-
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro.
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. DO not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, xK NEW YORK. nv
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

pounds of butter per cow, of what in
terest can it be to the many hundreds
who cannot attain that point to hear of
yields like this given by Mr.. Ullery
of COW which has boom record of
1853 pounds and 152 ounces of butter
in a year-or similar great yields of
cows of other breeds2 These are quite
like the publication of large prizes
drawn by some who speculate in lot
terry tickets, and they are put in print
for exactly the same purpose-only the
lottery-men pay big prices for their ad-
vertisements, while the cow-men try to
work them into the papers gratis.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

IT is truly astonishing how little in
terest many farmers manifest in their
own prosperity. Good farms well
fenced and out of debt are left to many,
but daily loafing at the village store,
while the busy merchant thrives, soon
finds the farm run down, fence rows
brushy, and owners hopelessly swamped
with debts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

A WRITER in the Maine Farmer says,
truly, that "the soil is much looser and
more friable where the manure is
spread on to the burrows in the fall. 1t
is finer, mellower, and in better condi-
ton to take the seed, and the crop will
do better. We have been forcibly re-
minded of this by recent work in the
field. This pulverulent property of
manure is something wonderful. 1t is
a property adding great value to the
manure, yet the chemist cannot meas
ure it in his laboratory, cannot find it,
and doesn't even know what it is. 1t
is only when the manure is put in con-
tact with the soil that this element be-
comes active. This is what gives barn
manure value to the farmer above
what the chemist takes as its measure"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Administrators Sale /!

mansard roof two-tenement housei one plteh
roof two-tenement house, built six years, IN Soou
repair; one new two-story house with twenty-elght
rooms, suitable for two families, with running wafer
and closets. The above property Is situated on
Barre street, Also twenty building lots, small
pasture near Plaihheld village, Wheeler farm IN
AIarshfled lot of land in Peacham small farm In
Orange, lease land, six hundred feet inch steam
pipe, two building screws. The above properly
must be sold to close estate,
MOntpelier. VT. December D, lb9O.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24
Editorial NOtings.

AND now it is Names turn. A few
weeks ago we quoted, with some criti-
cism, the report of travelling cores
pondent of the Maine Farmer speak
ing in very unkind and unjust terms of
Southern agriculture. Our remarks on
the subject have been quoted with APP
proval by city and country newspapers
all over the Union. And now comes
the Maine correspondent of the Man
chester, N. H., Mirror and Farmer;
and this is what he says about Maine.
Speaking of the added appropriation,
and better quarters, in the state-house,
for the State Board of Agriculture, this
correspondent adds: "Of course it will
not have the Importance that it would
were the agriculture of the state of
more Importance, but it will be likely to
serve good purpose and answer sort
of demand among farmers. That is to
say, the products of Maine agriculture
have no influence upon the crop pro-
duction of the nation, only in a mega
tive way. We have no output of corn,
or wheat, or cattle influencing the gen.
eral market We do not produce tenth
part enough of each for our own con-
sumption. So it is question not of
how much we can supply to the markets
of the country, but of how much we
shall actually need from other states to
keep US from furnishing. In this view
of it, these monthly crop reports of the
secretary will possess no special value
or Importance"
WE leave the editor of the Maine
Farmer (who is also Secretary of the
Board of Agriculture) to reply to this
contemptuous indictment as it de-
serves-only declaring our conviction
that it is fully as unjust, and as far
from accuracy, as the article above re-
ferred to. Maine exports very large
amount of agricultural products. OF APP
pies, potatoes and sweet-corn (canned)
she is much the largest producer of the
New England States. Her exports of
hay are too large for the states best
good. Eggs and poultry, calves and
lambs, horses and cattle, are also promi-
nent exports; while in butter she is,
we believe, second only to Vermont.
She has a number of cheese factories,
but probably makes much less than she
consumes. Many market gardens and
farms find a good cash trade in her
numerous commercial and manufacture
ing villages and cities, and small fruits
are produced abundantly. We want to
hear what the Farmer and other Maine
papers will have TO say on this matter.
We are very sure, however, that Maine
produces much more than "a tenth
part" of the farm products needed for
her home consumption. AT a rough
guess we should say that, allowing for
what is exported, Maine is very
nearly self-supporting as regards her
agriculture. And she is great manu-
featuring, numbering, shipping, fishing
and commercial state besides.
Mr.. J. G. ULLERY, assistant editor
of the HolStein-F rieSian Register, thinks
we did that breed of cattle injustice in
reproducing from the Springfield Re
publican, in an abbreviated form, the
report of the sale of the herd of Judge
Bond at Florence, Mass, and refer
ence to the sale of the Cheney herd il
New Hampshire. We have neither
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

Sarsaparilla

soldby all druggists. 81; six for 49, Prepared only
by G. 1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-06-24

puUttCut, III all dUDIeNldIeu lOIIl, Iue
report of the sale of the herd of Judge
Bond at Florence, Mass, and refer
ence to the sale of the Cheney herd in
New Hampshire. We have neither
interest nor prejudice to lead us into
an unfair depreciation of any breed, or
kind of farm stock. Our only interest
is to give our readers the truth as we
see it. Mr.. Ullery's letter is rather too
long for our space, and rather too
So far as we can see, his only valid
complaint is that while we spoke of the
very low prices received for the bulk of
the herd, we failed to mention that
some individuals brought fair prices.
Mr.. Ullery says that the average price
received was $54 per head; that one of
the COWS went as high as S1G0, another
at S135, six others at 1925 to 500,
while others went at from $50 to 500.
He adds "These ought not to be
called low prices, and are not, when
compared with prices which other
breeds are bringing" But may we ask
how they compare with the prices
which their owner paid for his stock in
the start?
Mr.. ULLERY refers to the phenome-
nal yields of milk and butter recorded
of some COWS of the breed he repre-
sents, and compares them with the
yields of brag Jersey cows. AS for
ourself, and so far as the real interests
of the ordinary dairyman are con-
cerned, we care nothing, and less than
nothing, for these laboriously worked
up yields of special COWS of any breed.
They are utterly delusive, and of no
value except for advertising purposes
for which alone they are got up and pub
lished. BY their effect upon unin-
structed farmers and beginners they
temporarily boom prices, and are often
the prime cause of slaughter-sales, like
those of Judge Bond and Mr.. Cheney
Experienced dairymen, who are moi
also breeders and boomers, take nc
stock and very little interest in them
When only one dairyman in many hun
dreds can get herd of even the best
cows up to an annual average of 25(
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-10-18
-
WONDERFUL
German : InvigoratOr.

Everyone knows that BownSequards Veabe Elixir of life
and Dr. and only
Vital Elixir.
THE REASON THOUSANDS CANNOT GET CURED OF Chronic,
Private Special Complaints Nervous Debility Natural Waste. Loss Of
Memory and Manhood Liver Lung Bladder Kidney and st mach
troubles Blood Pmpe Diseases
Posaorrhua
wi requires ltreatm
LIEBI(iS INVIGORATOR No is the only for
Paohea No cures Prostator
of bottles $40;
ties, half Boo free
DIR LIFBlG a have made
of
a
rea ed:c largeS ierae
Call address, 400 GEARY Francisco,
405 Mason
CAIITIDN Avoid packages If isonous makers
N1 ~ Mare
for
DIR. IIEBlGS INNIGORArOR myl5 1y
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-10-18

TO prove its won-.
.tierful Pow. r ~ d:
Supeiio rity, a 81. !.
sSoetle will be
81 ven or /:
SEN EKE &.
on pplication, per-,
soma ly or by letter.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-10-18
SIS. % $3.50. Can : he We n:S VII.

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a horse AID Civ their VIII ole tine to the
mes pare r''ments M be profit thy
10y ed a f-w "tr-l cies ia town aud cit
Richmond, Va.
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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-03
INDUSTRIES AND TAXES.

Mr.. John D. Spreckels has suggested that
law eXempting capital engaged in manu-
features from taxation would be the wlSest
measure the Legislature about to meet
could enact The fact that such law
would necessarily be preceded by consu-
tutional amendment does not affect the
character of the policy suggested. 1t will be
admitted that more than anything else, the
State needs manufactures. The condition
which would bring more people 10 the State
than any other would be a reasonable GER
tainty of finding employment. Parents in
moderate circumstances with growing fami-
lies to provide for want to live where work
can be had They want to be sure that
there will be an opening for their boys ana
girls as they approach maturity TO earn their
own living. No amount of climate Will
compensate for a lack of diversified indus
tries. Carloads of fruit sent through the
States as an example of what the State can
produce are we'll enough in their way, but
the question that will be most frequently
asked is as to the chances of earning llV
ing. Are there industries in California
that will furnish constant employment at
fairly good wages? Ii there are, people will
come and enjoy our climate. Ii there are
not they will, as rule, forego the luxury Of
strawberries the year round. Admitting the
great importance of system of manufac
lures the next question to consider is if the
release of capital invested in industries OF
this character for term of years would
overcome The disadvantages of dear coal and
a narrow labor market. a California manu-
facturer cannot compete with Eastern manu-
lacturers unless he can employ labor at
about the rates paid East The higher price
tages of an even climate, but labor is so
large an element Of cost in all manufactured
products that about equal conditions in this
respect are Indispensable. As proposition
Of this nature would have To % before the
people it is hardly worth while to discuss
its chance of meeting their approval Many
would object TO n change in the Constitution
which permits discrimination between in-
dustries in respect to taxation. Others
would object to any measure which would
increase their own taxes by eXempting any
kind Of property from citizens obligation
to contribute to the support of government.
1t may be urged also that under any law
that can be framed branches OF industry not
intended to be exempt will claim exemption.
Very likely majority of the voters would
come TO the conclusion that a lower rate of
taxation resulting from a more thorough
assessment of property and more economical
government would be a more enduring en-
couragement TO manufacturers than tempo
rary exemption from taxation.