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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Did you ever know of buyer looking
for poor horse!
If you raise the right kind of horses,
buyers will find you.
Thousands of Texas cattle will be fed
on cotton seed this winter.
An easy, well-ftting harness will make
your horse more comfortable.
Lay in a supply of road dust, lime and
gravel, for winter use. Do it now.
The Cumberland Plateau is the best
section for sheep in the United States.
The all purpose sheep is not myth.
That feature is fast coming to the front.
The sheep is a docile, happy, con-
tented animal if it has half a chance to
be.
The difference in drivers is the differ
ence of several years in the life of a
horse.
An animal must show five distinct gaits,
viz: One, walk; two, trot; three, rack;
four, canter; five, running walk, fox trot,
or slow pace.
If your fowls are confined in small
yard give them fresh sod as often as your
circumstances will permit. If not sod
provide green stuff of some kind.
A herd of cattle at Dundee, Illinois,
grazed alternately in DARK grove and in
the sunshine. One day it was noticed
several had become blind Did this pas
ture ground have anything to do with
it2
Give the fowls that are confined a
chance to find all that they would were
they on the range. This will keep them
busy, healthy and bringing you in money.
What else 90 you keep them for? Fun.
Well, it is fun to see them enjoy them
selves.
1t is not always the best and most
elaborate poultry houses that shelter the
choicest stock. Success, however. de-
ponds on warm, dry coops, with proper
care and management and freedom from
overcrowding. This latter trouble Is
often the cause of i'll success. If you
wish healthy flock, keep few In a pen.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

Az oreT
your sufferings from Catarrh.
That is, if you go abou: it in the
right way.
There are plenty of wrong ways,
that perhaps you've found out.
They may relieve for . time, but
they don't cure.
Worse yet, they may drive the
disease to the lungs. You caa'.
afford to experiment.
But there is q right way, and r
sure way, that does cure. Thou
sands of otherwise hopeless cases
have proved it. It's with DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy. BY its mild,
soothing, cleansing and healing
properties, it permanently cures the
worst chronic cases. Catarrhal
Headache, "Cold in the Head -
everything catarrhal in its nature,
is cured as if by magic.
It's way so sure that the pro-
prietors of DR.. Sage's Remedy
offer, in good faith, $500 for
case of Catarrh which they can
not cure.
If it's sure enough for them to
make the offer, it's sure enough
for you to make the trial.
They risk $500. What do you
risk ?
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20
TERMINATING Nuts.


The only reason why many persons
fail to make such nuts as pecans, hick-
DRY, English walnuts and chestnuts germi-
nate when planted is that they allow
them to get thoroughly dried before
they are placed in the ground. For Pc
cans, shellbark-hickory nuts, flberts
and other hard-shelI kinds there is no
better place to store them during winter
than in heaps of sand piled up on some
shady spot in the open ground. First
place layer of the nuts, then a layer of
sand, then layer of nuts, and proceed
in this way until your stock of nuts is
exhausted, and cover the heap with six
inches of good soil or sods, and leave all
undisturbed until spring. then take out
the nuts and plant in drills. If there is
danger of mice and squirrels carrying
away the nuts, place them in we'll drained
boxes, covering with wire netting.
Chestnuts may be stored in the same
way, but the sand should be clean and
the boxes set where the water from melt
ing SHOWS will quickly drain off. Fresh
imported English walnuts buried in the
fall or any time in the early winter will
usually terminate quite freely. Imported
filberts are sometimes gathered before
quite mature, and for this reason fail to
grow, but if the kernels are plump when
obtained there is no danger of failure if
kept cool and moist during the winter.
american Agriculturast.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20
FEED AND BREED.

There is no disputing the fact that
everything is in the feed. The best lay
ers in the country are utterly worthless
if not properly fed. No one would ex-
pect the Brahma fowl to be classed
among the heavy layers, yet we know of
a contest in which flock of these big
bodied birds beat the record of flock of
Leghorns. 1t is not a common thing
fer them to do so, but as an experiment
they were feed for that purpose and
won. If we feed fat producing food to
our layers can we reasonably expect them
to lay many eggs? Would not common
sense teach US that such thing would be
next to impossible9 Likewise, how can
we fatten fowls for market with food
that has no fat forming qualities in it?
We feed broilers for quick growth; we
feed hens for eggs; we feed fowls for
the table. Our birds become just what
we make them. AS an experiment, we
penned twelve hens and cockerel in a
yard and fed them on oats, bran, and
ccrnmeal. They Weru regularly supplied
with green food and grit. From that
yard we are getting an average of five
and six eggs days. In another yard an
equal amount of hens are receiving corn,
cornmeal, and boiled potatoes, aud the
eggs are few and far between. Again,
we place two ducklings in a brooder
without heat) and feed them on corn
meal and bran, and we killed them at
two months of age perfect models of
what market ducklings should be.
While, on the other hand, neighbor
gave two ducklings the run of the farm
with plenty of feed, and they are not fit
to kill yet ours have been devoured over
a month ago. Verify, there is more in
the feed than III the breed. Herman
t0a01a IeleGraph.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20
THE FARM AND GARDEN.

SUPPLEMENTARY FERTILIZERS FOR WHEAT
1t is not possible, except while the
ground is frozen or covered with snow,
to draw loads of manure and spread
them on wheat fields after the plant is
up. But we have known farmers who
had drilled wheat without fertilizer, to
go over the field again, running the
drill tubes between the rows, and depos-
iting a dressing of $50 pounds of fertil-
izer per acre. This doubly pays. The
drill tubes will only go deep enough to
hoe the wheat without uprooting it, and
the fertilizer deposited in freshly stirred
soil is doubly effective.-Boston Guilt
C0t9r.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20
RUST IN WHEAT.

It is calculated that Australia loses
nearly $1O,0O0,OO0 annually through
the rusting of its wheat crop. To find a
remedy the Mark Lane Erpress says a
prize of $50, 600 has been offered, and
rust conferences have been held in Sgd
ney. The opinion prevailed generally
that "certain sorts of wheat are much
better able to resist rust than others, and
that by iudicious cultivation and hybr
ization still better varieties may be
grown. They seem to be almost unan-
imous that early maturing sorts can be
made to escape the dangerous season, and
that rust is due to climatic conditions
that can only be combatted, but never
entirely overcome"
Evidence has been gathered by direct
experiments, and by information received
from farmers IN response to questions
put to them, which confirms the sound
ness of previous recommendations in re-
gard to early sowing, and the less iabil-
ity to disease Of crops grown in rotation,
and it has also been shown that as a
rule thinly- growing crops suffer less from
rust than do thickly-growing crops. In
regard to curative measures it has been
found that solution composed of one
part of sulphate of copper and 400 parts
of water destroyed the vitality of the
rust spores, and that a solution of one
ounce of sulphate of iron to the gallon
of water, when sprayed over growing
crop at time when rust was about to
break out, prevented its appearance I'M
til a FORTNIGHT or three weeks later: and
even if applied when the rust had at
tackled the plant, destroyed all outward
appearance of the fungus and prevented
its temperance till fourteen days after
ward.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

Mr.. Smith Ellis, who has claimed the
S5o, 900 for his discoveries in the matter
OF rust prevention, says in recent paper
that ''the wheat growers themselves are
the sole propagators of rust BY the abuse
of their seed wheat. When they cease to
abuse their seed wheat and treat it in
rational manner like all other seed that Is
grown, saved and stored by practical
seed growers, they will no longer be
troubled with rust in their crops. The
cost of doing 30 is nothing; care is all
that Is required 70 secure that object"
-Aeao York World.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

E. A. Rood, Toledo, Ohio, says: Halls Ca
tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen
years ago and she has had no return of it. It's
sure cure" Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

The actual length of the new st. Clair
Tunnel is 6O26 feet. 1t cost 81, AGO.
900.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

FITS stopped free by DR.. KLINE's GREA-
NERVE REsToRER. No fits after first days use
Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial bottle
free. DR.. Kline. 931 Arch St. Phila., Pa.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20
Children Tease For Ii.

CHINESE will Tn a salmon cannery on tn
Frazer River, Oregon.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

Cuba has the largest sugar crop this
year ever known in its history.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

Dr. Hoxsies Certain Group Cure is a boon to
children who are attacked with Group or acute
congestive colds Sold by druggists mailed
RuffalO N V
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

1faffiicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp.
sons Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-11-20

NY N U-44
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06
Truant Laws and Truancy.

In recent circular to town superin-
tendents of schools Superintendent
Palmer forcibly calls attention to the
evil and waste of truancy, and appeals
to school officers, officers of the law
and all good citizens to unite for the re-
form of this evil. He says, and we ask
the careful reading of his words and
diligent heed for his exhortation:
There are two classes of truants. Those
of one class do not attend any school, while
those of the other do not attend school t,Centy
UeekS in a year, as required by Sec. 153 OF
the school law of 1888. Last year there
were 1900 children in the state between
8 and 14-the age of compulsory attend
ance-who did not attend any school.
There were 65,60S pupils enrolled in the
public schools, but the average daily attend
ance was only 1887. In other words, the
law provides, and the people pay for, 100
days of schooling, while the number of days
attendance for each scholar enrolled was
only 93.5 days. Here is an absolute loss OF
nearly one-third OF what is paid out for edu-
cation, or more than $4,000 annually.
The statistics show that this enormous
waste has been going on in the state more
than forty years. Superintendent j. S.
Adams, in his school report for 1868, on
page g. says: "Our schools, as the stats.
tics show, cost us nearly $500 900, and
thus it is apparent that the absence
of 43 per cent Of the children OF the state
from the schools, causing proportionate
waste, entails loss of money nearly suffi.
cient to defray the ordinary expense of the
civil government of the state in each year. "
Quotations similar to this could be taken
from many of our school reports Here
after about 100000 will be paid from the
state treasury to support the schools
Hence, every person, II possible, is more
deeply interested than ever before in hav
ing no loss, no waste, in the expenditure Of
this money. For many years superintend
cnts and teachers and ministers have ap
pealed in vain to these parents to keer
their children in school. Is it not plainly
evident that there must be in some measure
a change in our methods of dealing with
this long-standing evil? / think the i'm
preston is general that no one intends tC
enforce this law. The school reports Of
Massachusetts, and Connecticut show thai
offenders against the truant laws are there
prosecuted. The reports of some commu
mites show that threat of prosecution
made by the officers brings into the schools
60 per cent of the truants, and mere inter.
view, quite large per cent. 1t is clearly
che duty of the superintendent to strongly
urge all the school committees to enfore the
truant laws. and, as last resort, to prose
cute in the courts. 1t is also clearly the
duty of the teachers to cooperate with the
school officers in this respect, and from time
to time to carefully examine the registers
to ascertain If any pupil is liable to come
short OF the twenty weeks OF schooling pre-
scribed by law, and IL so, to notify both pa
rents and school officers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06
Protection for the Farmer.

There seems to be no limit to the eff
forts of free trade attorneys to preju-
dice farmer voters against the policy of
protection for home industries. A com
monty employed means to this end is
urging the farmer to believe that our
tariff legislation is framed with the
view to discriminate in favor of manu-
featured products and against the prod
ucls of agriculture. AS there is not a
single clause in the law susceptible of
such a construction, none but the I'M
wary will be misled by the charge of
discrimination against the farmers in.
terests. Some idea of the extent to
which farm products are directly pro-
tected can be gained by glance at sta
tistics within reach of all who care to
Inspect them. and the honest study of
these figures is likely to be quite forci-
bly, impressed by the necessity for main
tanning adequate barriers against for
eign competition 30 long as the home
market of our farmers is menaced by
products of foreign rivals.
During the last fiscal year foreigners
sold in the United States over $42 ,OO0,-
900 worth of farm products, without
taking into the account more than Sl6,-
GOO, 900 worth of wool imported. Here
are tho itama.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

in which case Italy has nothing to do
with the matter. If it is contended
that voting does not establish citizen
ship, it can at least be maintained that
in voting without having been natural
lied the Italians were guilty of crime
which would exclude them from the
operation of the treaty. As to the
question of state or federal jurisdiction,
the statement is expected to throw
some light on it. 1t is believed by
some good authorities that the federal
courts have complete jurisdiction in all
cases arising under treaties.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06
To Vermont.
(sUGGEsTED BY cAxRL's Huxp.)

Thou hast one mountain tall and straiebt.
Fashioned of old by PRESIDENT fate
To be a peoples sign,
The symbol Of a state.
Its rugged peaks at moments wear
The couchant lions shape and air.
Then seem the camel's hump,
Ready TO stoop and bear.
True types Of thee both forms afford.
o state toil-worn and battle-scarredl
Patient to toll and wait,
Fearless to dare and guard
When earth is safe and heaven serene,
And freedoms friends are round her seen,
BE the strong back to bear
AS thou hast ever been;
But when her foes around her crowd
To weave of battle smoke her shroud,
Be, as thou still hast been,
The lion in the cloud.
WENDELL p. STAFFORD.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

The last letter of the Marquis Rudini
to Secretary Blaine on the New Orleans
affair has just been made public. The
marquis accuses Secretary Blaine of a
breach of confidence in publishing a
portion of a telegram. Then he adj
mits that his expression, punishment
of the guilty." meant, in the brevity
of Geographic language" merely that
prosecutions ought to be begun. In
conclusion he remarks that it is time to
break off the bootless controversy;
public opinion, the sovereign Judge,
will solve the problem. But, b" let the
federal government reflect whether or
not it is expedient to leave to the
mercy of each state, irresponsible
to foreign countries, the efficacy of
treaties" So probably ends this "dip-
lomatic incident" which Rudini an
nounced several weeks ago could only
end in the punishment of the lynchers
and the payment of an indemnity. The
marquis has given us up as incorrigible.
But, if the present reports are correct in
regard TO the statement of District At
torney Grant to Secretary Blaine, the
episode would have been ended before
long by our government. The details
of the statement have not been made
public, but it is understood that it as
serts that the Italians who were killed
were either naturalized citizens or had
voted. The fact of voting will be taken
as prima facie evidence of citizenship,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

There is not single item here that
could not just as well have been grown
by our citizeus, and because of this fact
our tariff required foreign competitors
to pay for the privilege of selling here.
They were accordingly charged the
snug sum of fourteen and half million
dollars, and to that extent they were
forced to tighten the taxes that other
wise would have been paid by citizens
of the United States. And it is this ar
rangement that free-trade attorneys de-
nounce as an outrage, and join with
foreigners in demanding to have re-
pealed. The farmers gave their an
swer in 1888. Let that decision be af-
firmed as often as the question is pre-
scented.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

The impression is growing that Sec
rotary Blaine will not allow his name
to be used at the national republican
convention next year. Frank LeSlie's
Illustrated Newspaper, of which Rus
sell B. Harrison is the owner, states
positively that the secretary will not be
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06
GNattbnraa d Journal.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1891.

THE Vermont Ph@niT joined on May
day the ranks of the eight-page papers.
New type, new press, and folding
machine bring it abreast of the more
progressive papers which several years
ago discarded the blanket sheet and
put in machines for folding, FASTING and
trimming. We congratulate our con-
temporary on its change of base. The
wicked Rgormer must look to its lau-
rels. The Phenir is now its peer in
size, uses the best of paper and is well
printed. -
BISMARCK was reelected to the
reichstag on the second ballot, but the
socialist vote was increased by over
one thousand, and the prince polled
two thousand fewer votes than did his
predecessor. He announces that he
will do nothing in the reichstag from
personal motives, but that he will not
hesitate to point out what he considers
the great danger to the fatherland.
These utterances are supposed to indi-
cate that lively times are ahead for the
emperor and the reichstag.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

THE New York senate committee on
general laws made report on the
sugar trust investigation, just before
adjournment last week. 1t contained
the operations of this huge monopoly.
One was that the certificates issued by
the trust were especially designed to
facilitate speculation. The report says:
{" 1t appears uncontradicted that the
trust declared ten per cent annual divi-
dends at all times during its existence,
not only upon its original capital of all
constituent corporations, amounting to
less than S7,0OO,0O0, but also upon
fabulous valuations placed upon stock of
such constituent corporations amount
ing to about S50,0OO,0OO. The issue of
$50, 900 of certificates was amply suf-
ficient for speculation of many hun
dreds of millions of dollars" The re-
port recommends that legislative re-
strictions be placed on the formation of
trusts, or that they be formed under
state supervision. 1t is quite easy to
make such recommendation as these,
but it is another thing to embody them
in effective legislation. Trusts have it
pretty much their own way. While
legislatures are attempting to get
together some kind of law to meet a
particular case, the trust can in short
time put itself technically beyond the
reach of that law. Legislatures are
not in session all the time, but the di-
rectors of trusts never sleep. When
trust becomes thoroughly organized, as
is the Standard Oil trust, the people
are at its mercy. This is one of the
very evident facts of modern industrial
life. Competition in some of the most
important lines-in that of coal, for in
stance, lis but name and a memory.
1t is time that the question should be
seriously asked, whether these great
monopolies in the hands of small
number of private individuals are not
too great burdens to be borne.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

HON. VICTOR 1. SPEAR informs us
that some two hundred towns have re-
ported unoccupied farms for sale, and
the percentage indicated by the earlier
reports published in the WATCHMAN
is practically unchanged. About $50
such farms have thus far been reported,
or about one to each town in the state.
Reports of some 500 occupied farms
for sale have been made. In its forth
coming circular the board proposes to
advertise occupied real estate for sale,
whether farms, mills or houses, at the
rate of So for fifty words, and many are
accepting this proposal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-06

"THE Bennington Banner and Mont
pelier Waterman are respectfully re-
minded that the last session of the leg
islature fully sustained this papers
views on Commissioner Valentines
Swede hobby by dropping that gentle
man into the soup" Letting alone
any question as to who was " dropped in
the soup" by the action of the legisla-
ture in the matter of the industrial bu-
reau, the Burlington Clipper, from
which the above extract is taken, deals
itself an unkinder cut than either of its
contemporaries in showing up its un-
truthfulness in regard to the Swedish
colony at Norton Mills. To be "sus-
tained" by the "last session of the
legislature (sic) is rather worse than
being convicted of lying.