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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
CLEAN INGS.

The Importance of the Grand Army
of the Republic as a benevolent or
gan1zation is shown by the fact that
during the past year 100000 has
been expended for the relief of dis
tressed comrades by posts and in
dividual members.
1t is well known historical fact
that King Eric of Sweden wanted to
marry Queen Elizabeth. 1t is not so
well known that he made similar
proposal to Mary, Queen of Scots.
Mary's letter, politely rejecting his
offer, was sold in London the other
day for about S11O.
Bismark, since he retired from his
official duties in Berlin, has devoted
himself largely to developing his
business enterprises. In Frederichs-
ruhe, especially during the last year,
his factories have been enlarged and
run to their full capacity. His pot
teries have had more orders than
they could fill
One of the longest and most cost
ly steel railroad bridges in the coun-
try is now being erected by the
Union Pacific across the Columbia
river at Vancouver, Wash. The
length from the Washington to the
Oregon shore will be 5000 feet, and
the draw-pier will be over 400 feet
long. The cost of the structure will
be over 100000.
An application for an annual pass
was once made to Commodore Van
derbilt by the president Of a road
about % miles long. Your road
doesn't seem to cover great a m cunt
of territory" suggested the commo-
dore to the applicant. 1T ism t
quite so long as the New York Central,
but by gracious, Mr.. Vanderbilt, it
just as wide." The pass was issued.
The republic Of Switzerland, the
oldest in the world, is now engaged
in the celebration of its six hundredth
anniversary. 1t was early in Au
gust in the year 1891, that the in
habitants of what are now the can
tons of Schytz, Uri, and Unterwalden
bound themselves together by a
written agreement to stand by each
other against all the world, and to
refer their disputes to arbitration for
settlement. During the next sixty
or seventy years they were joined by
five other cantons, and so the Swiss
republic was formed. The cantons
composing the snug and stanch little
nation are % in number and their
population is about 100000 souls.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
VERMONT NEWS.

S. A. Gage, for more than 80 years
a conductor on the Passumpsic and
Central Vermont roads died of can
Ger of the stomach at White River
Junction August 9th.
Scion Lawrence, wife and child of
Montpelier were run into by another
team, while out driving last Friday
evening. All were thrown out and
Mr.. Lawrence is thought to be ia
tally injured.
The mill at East Haven, owned by
Hall & Chase of Lyndon, was burned
last Friday. The fire was discovered
at 4 O'Clock, when the roof was fall
ing in. Half million feet of lumber
and 200 cords of wood were burned.
A dwelling house was badly damaged.
The loss will exceed $4,000; lnsur-
ance, 81 800. The origin Of the fire
is unknown. The mill will be re-
built.
Charles Charter of New Bedford,
Mass, has been sent to the state
prison for eight months from
Rutland for grand larceny, in having
stolen ten dollars from E. Mericher
of Middletown Springs. When his
term expires he will be taken by
Massachusetts officials to answer to
the charge Of stealing team he had
IN his possession when arrested.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
REMEDY FOR CUCUMBER ENEMIES.

The worst enemy the gardener has
to contend with in growing cucum-
bers is the striped bug. of which we
have two kinds: yellow spotted
bug with greenish tin2e, larger than
his cousin just mentioned; a beetle
smaller than either of the others,
with coppery green wing covers, dull
red across the back, and jumper
equal to flea, always alighting on
his back, when he plays possum"
as long as he hears any disturbance !;
and last but not least the detesta BILE
squash bug. The successful gardener
must be man of close observation.
He must carefully study the habits
Of all insect pests, and this know1-
edge will often enable him to defeat
them. The Dalmatian insect pow
der, or the California Buhach, if
thoroughly applied, will scatter all
of the enemies of the cucumber plant
and nearly all other garden pests;
and they have the marked advan-
tage Of not being poisonous in any
degree to human beings. But they
must be used after every rain and af-
ter every heavy dew, as moisture
destroys their insect-poisoning prop
critics entirely.
There is little difference between
these two kinds of insect powder,
provided they have not been kept in
stock too long. The Dalmatian is
the cheaper, but the Buhach is more
apt to be fresh American Agricul-
turist.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
Of Interest to Dairymen.
To those who think of buying a creamery
would be pleased to have them investi-
gate the merits of the
Barden
Automatic Creamery,

before buying any other. Thousands of Sep
arators in use All Creameries are warranted
to be just as represented or no sale.
To the Barden Creamery Co.
Having been using one of your creamerieS
1 say it does all that is claimed for it
could not be induced to get along without
it. AS long as l keep a dairy 1 can make
more butter with less work in caring for the
milk. L churn in from 90 to so minutes.
LYMAN STEVENS, Danville VT.
To the Barden Automatic Creamery Co.
can say that it works much better than
I expected. 1t makes more butter With less
taken out for 81 90 if could not get another.
1t churns in 80 minutes or less.
HID. PIERCE.
c. E. Kirk, Agent:
When you and Mr.. Barden came here
last fall to sell creamery told you l
had been thinking for some time about
changing from the large pans to creamery
but had not seen one that suited me. 1 then
looked over the Barden and told you I
after over two months trial know it is. The
workm anship and action perfect and it
does its skimning. There is lifting
of cans nor gearing fuss with. 1 think the
difference in the quantity and quality of my
butter will more than pay for it this year to
say nothing about the saving of labor which
my wife begins to think is no small item.
IRA G. SMITH.
East St. Johnsbury, Jan. s.
ton address,
Middle Granville, N. W,
Or CHARLES E. KIRK, Agent,
ST. Johnsbury, VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
A Healthy Moral Effect.

We are assured by those who
should know, that the supreme
court judges have a mutual agree
ment to make liquor selling serious
offence by imposing fines very nearly
up to the 500 limit of the law, be-
sides imprisonment in every case
that comes before them. This will
have a healthy moral effect, and
largely tend to discourage appeals
from justice to county Court
1Hardwick Gazette
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
A prize pronunciation match r

A prize pronunciation match re-
Gently took place at Chautauqua,
at which the 40 contestants fell
away one by one before such words
as gladiolus, grimace, grimy, eyre,
halibut, haunt, homage, laundry,
leisure, naively, swarthy, slough.
spinach, coincidence, cashmere, cog
nomen, prediction, slough, senile,
rapine, construe, contumely, clique,
maritime, recess, sacrifice, vizor,
brooch, exile, irrefragable, and gar
rulity. Try them yourself.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
DEHORNING.

The unchallenged existence of oxen
and other gelded anirnals-made
such for mans COMMUNICATIONS
that there are acknowledged proper
reasons why we may inf1ict pain up
on our domestic animals. But when
some propose extending the applica-
ton of this admittedly proper surgery
to the removal of horns from cattle,
there arises an outcry which is
worth some impartial consideration
before it is allowed to prevail. The
question cannot be solely, Does
this operation cause pain ?" We
must consider whether on the whole
it may not save more pain, loss and
injury than it causes.
In the future there is no reason to
doubt that horns will usually be re-
moved from calves before they be-
come attached to the skull-an opera
ton hardly more painful to the calf
than vaccination to the child. But,
meantime, shall we remove the
horns from older amino ais by surgical
operation which, when skilfully done,
is probably good deal less painful
than that of filling a sensitive tooth
is to the human subject? 1t is the
universal experience that cattle skill
fully dehorned resume eating as soon
as the operation is over, and that
COWS so treated show little, if any,
change in their yield of 1nilk-con-
elusive evidence that there is no APP
preciable shock to the SYSTEM
Montpelier Watchman.
III
this beautiful and humane operation
comes this evidence
Q.-Doesn't the horning of COWS
interfere with the flow of milk ?
Mr.. Gilbert-All dairyman whom
l have talked with who know about
it from experience, say no. have
had no experience in that line.
would not dehorn a breeding COW
but would not hesitate to operate
on a working dairy.
Well, what if it doesn't? What is
the earthly sense or use of this
brutalizing and inhuman surgery !?
It is true, that there is a small loss,
each year, in cattle, by goring or
otherwise owing to horns, but the
expense incurred, and risk run, by
dehorning equals, if not exceeds that
loss.
The horns are beautifying to the
animal besides being necessary as a
means of protection.
Science has got matters down
pretty fine, when it compares the
amount of pain beast would suffer,
in surgical operation, to the agonies
a human being endures, on account
of his teeth.
Imagine some old farmer arising to
ask, Who told ye?" Is dehorning
the proper remedy for vicious cattle?
The slaughter, is the only safe treat
ment, for that class Of animals.
Does the farm afford you a good
living? This is more than many
business in town does.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
WILL TELL. y
HENRY S.,

May be found during the season of 1891 at
the farm of his owner near East St. Johns
bury, Vt Look up the great number oftrot-
tiers and valuable gentlemens drivers pro-
duced in his blood lines, and then and
see him and his stock.
He is exceedingly we'll bred horse.
He shows his breeding in his fine form and
action and in his stock.
He is inbred to RySdyks Hambletonian, his
sire and dam both being by sons of that
great progenitor of trotters.
He is inbred to American Star, the great
brood mare sire
He is inbred to Imported Domed, besides the
Star crosses in five strains III aking eight
in all to Diomed.
Hei is inbred to Abdallah besides the Handle
tOnian crosses.
He is inbred to Imported Messenger, besides
the Hambletonian crosses, including the
Abdallah crosses, in eight strains.
He has strain to Imported Bellfounder be-
sides the Hambletonian crosses.
He has thus in his pedigree, outside the
Hambletonian crosses, enough Bell
founder blood to make another Handle
tonian, and enough Messenger to blood
two.
He is a quarter thoroughbred through
thoroughbred Hibernia, the dam of his sire.
He has two strains to the Morgan family,
one coming through that greatest of Nor
gan Sires, Daniel Lambert.
He is himself the producer of speed.
He is the sire of Lucy P, 2.2712, Ethan S,
2.351a, Baby NJ, 40 Opal, trial, .. Sc.
Send for circular giving extended pedi-
gree and the great number of trotters, includ-
ing the very fastest, which carry the same
blOOdS.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
BIRD CAGES AND BAGS.

Bird Cages all prices from 90 cents up to
$500. A good Cage rs cents and a large
onefor 81 90. All styles in brass and painted
and Seed Cups. so kinds Of Valises and Bags
and all prices from so cents up to 81 100. 4
good Valise for rs cents. large one S1.OO.
Canvas extension Cases from II inch up to
"a inch and from rs cents up. All prices a
large one $50. All kinds and prices of
Ladies Hand Bags. GEO. E. GROW.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
FOR THE FARM.
CULTIVA TIE.

TAn communications for this department
should be addressed to the Agricultural
Editor, Californian, St. Johnsbury, VT.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
CASTORIA?
FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN

"Castoria is we'll adapted to children
that recommend 1t as superior to any pre-
scription known to me-
H. A. ARCHER, NJ. D.
III So. Oxford ST., Brooklyn, n. Y.
THE of Castoria' is so universal and
its merits SO we'll known that it seems work
of SupererOgatiOn to endorse it. Few are the
intelligent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach"
CARLOS MARTYR, D. D..
New York City.
Late Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
FOR AND TO RENT.

a beautiful Village Cart and Russet Leather
Harness, at one-third Cost Price-Very nice
for a Lady or Children. A small and ex-
tremely pleasant Office, directly over Post
Office, to rent. CHAS. S. HASTINGS.
INSURANCE.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27

Castoria cures Colo, Constipation, Sour
Stomach, Diarrhoea, Erucation, kills Worms,
gives sleep, and promotes digestion, without
injurious medication.
For several years 1 have recommended
Your 'Castoria,' and shall always continue
to do it has invariably produced bene-
fetal results"
EDWIN F. PARDEE, NJ. D.,
The Winthrop, 12oth ST. and 18th Ave,
New York.
u Murray Street, New York
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27

Does the farm afford you a good
living? This is more than many
business in town does.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1891-08-27
ORGANS,
DENTAL OFFICE FOR SALE.

n. B.-Drop me postal card if you wan
to buy piano or organ. 1 will send vol
catalogues and tell you how to save dollars
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09

Nearly every farmer and breeder has
more young stock than will be kept over,
and while the focks are full is the best
time for selecting those intended for next
season. The pullets that will be the best
layers are those that have been Matched
early. They should be well feathered in
appearance, bright, active and full of life.
Such pullets should be kept growing
from now to the approach of frost. in or
der to advance them on the path to ma
turity as rapidly as possible. They should
receive no check, and should be well
housed and fed. The reason why it is so
important to push them is because if
they begin to lay during the latter part
of the fall, before the winter sets in, they
will keep on laying and begin to set early
in the spring, in time for Matching out
the early broods. Should they not begin
to lay, however, before the winter begins,
they will not lay at all until spring, but
will begin early. The cold weather seems
to have a curious effect in that respect,
for young chicks stop growing, hens
will not begin to lay, and even the
cocks are indolent and selfish.
the cockerel. If the eggs are intended
for Matching, a forward, well-matured
cockerel will be much more valuable and
serviceable than one that has been slow
in growth and not fully developed.
When the small breeds have been used,
they will be found approaching maturity
much sooner than the large breeds, but
do not make as good winter layers as do
those breeds that possess heavy, fluff
feathers, nor is the tall comb of any ad-
vantage to them when the frost is keen
and the winds sharp. Liberal feeding,
however, VIII assist maturity to bridge
over some of the difficulties, and it pays
at that, as the eggs collected in winter
are always worth much more than those
of later period. Thin out all the in
ferior stock, select the strongest, earli-
est and most active pullets, and pick out
a cockerel full of yigor and siren 9Th
Farm and F:2eside.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09

For. l. alyears q well known Boston bust
ness house has made persons keeping poultry,
fear or many renaarka 1l- offers OF premiums
pa yable in gold, some as high as fifty dollars
TO the first and not less than five dollars to
any winner of q premium. The best thing
about those offers was that the premiums
have always been promptly paid agreed in
gold coin. Fifty dollar premiums do not
grow on every oush" as the old saying i, an
We have no doubt to many who c. mpeted fof
them, the amount received came in handy &c
help pay the necessary bills of a hard winter.
or if not, buy some luxury that tn family ah-
solutely needed. but other = ise could not at
ford The same firm, /. =. johnson & Co. =!
Gust III House It, Boston. Mass, authorize Us
n state that thew have prepared an offer OF
similar ~ emiums this year. with one very i'm
portant Improvement and that is. 30 that the
frst winner stand, fair chance with Others
of getting one hundred and fifty dollars in
gold premiums. Why! that IS as good as fifty
dollars per month for the three winter
months. It's worth trying for anyway. John.
son IL Co., will send full particulars free tc
any pers II sending them their address on g
pc tai card. These premium Offers are made
in connection with the use or Sher dan Con
dition Powder to make her, lay.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
IMPROVED BREEDS

Improvement in agriculture is always
marked by the introduction of better
breeds of live stock. The same spirit of
progress which prompts the farmer to
make better crops, teaches him that the
hog which makes the most pork, the
cow which produces the most milk and
butter and the sheep which will yield
the heaviest fleece. is the cheapest and
best, at the same outlay for feed and at
tention. Ther if you find farmer who
is improving his farm and home, using
better implements, you are very apt to
find his pasture supplied with improved
stock.-Neao Orleans Times Democrat.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09
PRESERVING CELERY.

Celery should now be banked up with
earth to the top leaves; this blanches the
stalks and makes them tender, and pre-
serves them from injurious frost.
Moderate freezing will not injure the
celery. When the weather is getting too
cold the plants may be be taken up and
set upright in trench as deep as the
plants are long and as close together as
may be. The earth is left on che roots.
The trench is covered crosswise with
short boards, and these are covered with
straw and earth to exclude frost.
In warmer localities light covering only
will be needed. A supply can be taken
out of such pit at any time, but where
the cold is severe the opening should be
closed up at once.-Neu York Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09
BUILD A GRANARY.

It is unfortunate that farmers should
allow so much waste in their grain pro-
ducts after they have taken SO much
pains and labored so hard to harvest
them. And yet there is a great loss
every winter in the granary. Indeed,
some farmers have no granary, but put
their threshed grain in bags and boxes,
in which things mice delight. Others
do not thresh out the main crops until
they wish to market them, possibly not
until spring; but there is always waste
in the NOW, as we'll as in the granary.
Every farmer should have a good mice
proof granary, and there is no sufficient
reason for not having one. AS rule it
will pay to market most field crops in
fall or early winter, before they have
wasted much; and the saving thereby,
we believe, will exceed the possible in
crease of price which may be received if
held until Springfield York hdepend-
ent.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09
STANDARD FOR OVER HALF a CENTURY
PURELY VEGETABLE,
STRICTLY RELIABLE,
AND ALSO lTELY SAFE

For Sale by all -uggists. Price Is cts
per box; boxes for IS cts; or sent by
mail, postage free, on receipt of price
DR.. J. H Schenck d Son. Philadelphia, Pa
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09
COMPARATIVE VALUE OF MILK.

! Professor Ladd, the expert dairyman
and chemist, formerly of the New York
Experiment Station, found in some cases
that thirty-two pounds of milk were re-
quired to produce one pound of butter;
again, only thirteen pounds. He de-
velops these figures as follows: "Sup-
pose these farmers were taking milk to
the same butter factory, each cow averag-
ing 5000 pounds per season, or 10000
pounds of milk for ten cows By the
present method of paying for milk at
factories, each man receives an equal
amount. BY paying for milk according
to the fat, AS milk would produce 1858
pounds of butter, which at twenty cents
per pound would amount to $4,000,
and BIS milk 931 pounds of butter, at
twenty cents per pound, $185.2O. But
instead of this each receives 1925. 40, or
A gives B $142.20. These are the ex-
tremes, but such cases are found at every
creamery.-BostOn Cuztjvator.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09
Sold By all druggists

Guaranteed five year eight per cent. First
payable every six months: principal and inter-
est collects when due and RENTED without
expense to eRder. For sale by J. II. Bauerlein
& Co, Kansas City, Mo- Write for particular
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09

sown over the young wheat it kills the
young hessian fly, or at least drives it
from the wheat, and of course causes it
to starve. Anyhow it saves the wheat.
1t preserves young turnips and cabbage
from the flea beetle, and as it is very adj
hesive, it may no doubt be used to pre-
serve the potato crop from its worst pest,
this same hateful little creature which
slyly hides under the leaves.-NeD York
Times.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-01-09

Money invested in choice one hundred dol
lar building lots in suburb of Kansas City will
pay from five hundred to one thousand per
cent. the next few years under plan. So
cash and S. per month without interest con-
trolsa desirable lot. Particulars on application.
J. II. Bauerlein 4 Co. Kansas CIV. No