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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06
A New Farm Help.

Almost every good farmer in Yer
mont knows, and many of them own,
the Cutaway Harrow" and they all
know what good implement it has
proved. We gave it our good word
when it was first introduced, and we
still think as much of it as ever. Now
the Getaway Harrow Company of Hig-
ganum, Conn, has introduced an emery
grinder that can be screwed on to the
wheel of your mower, and in a few
minutes il will sharpen the knives per-
fectly, just while the horses are resting.
We have tried it, and consider it the
greatest little thing we have got hold
of, and it is not only effective, but also
strong and durable. You don't have
to spend your incoming grinding Sec
tons on the old-fashioned grindstone
when you have the Getaway grinders.
They are all right, and you can stretch
yourself in the shade, after dinner, and
talk politics till the team is ready.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06
A Remarkable Willow.

AGRICULTURAL EDITOR: Il feel
much interest in your woodcraft COL
umn, hoping to get great deal of in
formation out of it. In my work sur
veying during thirty-five years, have
had my attention called to many novel;
ties and speculations in this line. A
few days since l noticed willow tree
standing near the road in the east part
of this town, at the base of Mount
Hunger, near an old cellar, indicating
that it was planted there for shade-tree
many years ago. 1t has the appear
ance of having been cut off near the
ground, and the branches are conse-
quently low, though it has a well-de-
veloped trunk, which measures two feet
above the ground twenty-four and one
half feet in circumference, and the top
covers one-eighth of an acre of ground,
being symmetrical, and having an aver
age diameter of eighty-three feet. A
photograph of this monster shade-tree
would be fine for any purpose.
H. F. SMITH.
Waterbury Center, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

than it ever was here; but relatively to
other kinds of business it may be poorer.
Even this is open to question. Farm
ers certainly live more extensively
than they did when we were young,
fifty years ago; and there were quite as
many farmers that were poor and in
debt then as now. AS to blaming the
government, that is the same as blam-
ing ourselves, for we are the govern
ment. If we negligently let our public
servants sell out our rights nobody is to
blame but ourselves.
AS to the volume of currency, we
must have enough for the easy trans
action of business. But a per capita
ratio is no guide, as some sections re-
quire much more coin, or its paper rep
resentative, than others, according to
the kind or amount of business carried
on. In a poor farming community,
consuming nearly all their own products,
there is very little use for money. In
an active, stirring locality, with many
kinds of productive industry and large
trade, much more currency is needed.
1t is big question. No doubt the PEG.
pie are often robbed or gouged, !"
but the idle and ignorant are always
victims,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06
An Inverted Apple-Tree.

AGRICULTURAL EDITOR: 1 trust and
hope that your inquiries in relation to
forestry matters, such as age, size,
height, abnormal growths, diseases, etc.,
may receive attention as requested. All
such matters are very interesting to me,
together with the flow of sap, its origin,
direction of flow, the philosophy of its
flow, the zero, pressure and suction,
conditions of the maple, etc. l know
of an apple-tree, now in full bearing,
the owner of which told me that when
the tree was young he took it up and
inverted it, setting the top in the ground
with the roots in the air. 1t is now
beautiful tree, of fine proportions, bear
ing apples on limbs that were once
roots. This circumstance would seem
to confirm an idea that have long en-
tertained that any given cell on the
stem or body of tree may become
stem or root as the conditions may
be. l have an alder as large as my
arm, some ten feet high when erect,
but now it lays on the ground, and the
dormant cells on the under side have
developed roots, and the cells on the
upper or opposite side have developed
stems. If this tree had been laid over
on the ground on the opposite side then
the cells that have now become roots
would have been stems, and vice versa
Draw fresh dirt up around stalk of
corn, and those cells otherwise DOR
mant will develop into roots, throwing
out another circle of them to strengthen
the stalk. If all farmers, especially
those who make maple syrup and sugar,
UntlH hnnnnnn intQrnatnh N hot nj
botany that relates to plant and tree
growth, they would be more interested
and delighted in their avocation, es-
pecially the sugar-maker, who would be
practically benefited.
TIMOTHY WHEELER.
Waterbury Center, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

VERMONT has a noble record in this
matter of getting the best and holding
on to it, so far as its part and portion of
the national organization is concerned.
But in state matters there is languor,
Indifference and lack of sound sense
among our people which is not credit
able to us. True, this evil is not con-
fined to Vermont. 1t is often worse
elsewhere. But here it is more of an
anomaly than elsewhere because it is so
markedly inconsistent with the course
of our people in national matters. 1t is
true that mere good-natured indiffer-
ence should cease, and that the most
honest, clear-headed and capable men
should be invariably selected. Let this
be done once only, throughout the state,
and our state legislature would be noted,
the nation over, for its phenomenal diff
ference from the legislatures of other
states.
BEFORE body so selected, lobbyists
or "men with a pull" could find moth
ing upon which they could work to any
harmful end, either through self-inter-
est, or simplicity. And if the people
of each town, when the legislature
rises, should give the member Creep
tion," at which he should be invited to
give an account of what he saw, heard,
did and didn't do, and his reasons there
for, the people would have in every
town chance to study and learn their
duties as citizens that would soon be
felt for good.
Now the members of the oranges
without regard to mere partisan poll
tics, might, we think, take hold strongly
and effectively in thus giving force
character and reality to popular govern
ment, and in that way set up schools Of
good citizenship that would more fully
entitle Vermont to be called, as Bis
marck is said to have called her, " the
most perfect democracy in the world
They could do this individually, anG
not merely as members of secret or
ganization. The right spirit and pur
pose, stimulated by discussion in the
grange, would go forth to do its worl
on the basis of pure citizenship, no
for the benefit of their society merely
but for the public good, for an homes
government of the people, by the PEG
pie, for the people," Such govern
ment we have never had in its purity
A great part of the time it has beef
more like a government of the peopl
by professional politicians for the best
paying and best-organized corporations
1t is to weed out this class of politician
at the very spring head and starting
place that such an organization of tn
people is much to be desired.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06
Editorial NOtings.

IN the Household department of this
issue we print pleasing and forceful
poem from the pen of Mrs. H. B.
Phipps, which appeared in the Grange
Advocate. If our people owed nothing
else to the grange, the debt to it is a
large one for the firm and decided stand
for sex equality which it took in its
very inception. We learn from the
Advocate that for this the order is in
debted to Miss Carrie A. Hall (niece of
o. II. Kelly, the principal founder of
the grange), for she it was who first
proposed the admission of women, and
that they be entitled to the same rights
and privileges as the men. The grange
alone, among all the societies, accords
to woman her true position of useful
ness and affords her an opportunity to
better her condition in life. She takes
her position beside her husband and
brother, not as a silent listener, but as
an active participant ia all that tran
spires. AS this is the only organiza-
ton that grants to woman her rights
and recognized her sphere of duty, it
cannot perish, unless the years roll
backward and shroud the world in ig-
norance and superstition.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06
Fifty Prizes.

At meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the American Jersey Cattle
Club, held May 4, 1892, it was directed
that fifty prizes of S25 each should be
offered for acceptable essays on Jersey
cattle. This competition is to be gov
erned by the following rules:
% Subject, Jersey Cattle.-Anything
pertaining to their history, value, use
tulness, care. treatment, peculiarities
of product, etc. 1t is desired that these
essays shall cover as far as possible all
points on which present owners, in
tending buyers, persons who do not but
who could profitably keep Jerseys, con-
sumers of milk, butter, etc., would nat
urally desire information.
(2) Size.-No essay shall contain less
that 600 nor more than 900 words.
(3) Iime.-All essays must be SUBJ
mitted on or before September l, 1892.
They may be sent earlier, and the COM
mittee request as prompt attention as
is practicable.
(4) ConditiOns.-Al essays submitted
are to be the property of the Ameri-
can Jersey Cattle Club, regardless of
prizes. No essay will be awarded a
prize unless it is considered by the COM
mittee to merit publication.
(5) Competitors ,-Forty of the prizes
are open to competition by men. Ten
of the prizes are open to competition
by women, and, in view of the great
interest taken in Jersey cattle by women,
it is confidently expected that many will
submit valuable essays.
(6) AWdrds. will be awarded
and paid within sixty days after the
contest closes.
CD Comnittee.-Well-known gentle
men will act as judges in this compe-
tition.
(s) Suggestions to Ne,o Writer'S
Write plainly and only on one side of
the paper. Write simply, just as you
would talk. Don't criticise or attack
other breeds. There is more of value
to be said about the Jersey than can be
put in any one essay. Don't try to
cover too many points, take one part of
the subject and make it complete. If
you wish to write more, put it in another
essay Competitors may submit as
many essays as they choose.
Should you desire circulars for your
friends, they will be sent on application.
Address all communications on this
subject to the American Jersey Cattle
Club, No. Broadway, New York, NY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06
Our Correspondence.

We fear that it will be sometime yet
before we can get our readers wakened
up to the need of state horticultural
society. We don't despair-there will
be such society in this state yet; and
when its usefulness is seen men will
wonder that they were so slow to see it.
But in the matter of forestry, there
seems to be real and present interest,
as our correspondence this week shows.
Our veteran friend, Mr.. Wheeler,
who is recognized authority on the
circulation of sap and on many other
points of tree physiology, writes very
Interestingly on devious matters about
trees. He is entirely right as to the in
Interchangeable functions of roots and
branches. 1t is more easily demon
strated with some species than with
others--with willows than with oaks,
for instance-but it is true with all, un-
der right conditions.
Mr.. Smith describes very interest
ing tree of the willow tribe, we'll worth
picturing, and we hope our obliging
correspondent will have it photo
graphed. We should be glad to pay for
half-a dozen copies. A photogr aph
which we had taken of the Great d erby
Elm, monarch of the original forest,
has recently appeared in that excellent
weekly, Garden and Forest, edited by
Professor Sargent of Cambridge, Mass,
and printed in the Tribune Building,
New York.
Mr.. Kneeland's letter is full of useful
information, and is worthy of careful
reading. In reply to his first question,
as to burning stumps, we have no ex-
perience; but some of our readers must
be better informed, and we hope they
can give Mr.. Kneeland the benefit OF
their knowledge in this department Of
the paper.
To the second question we can say
that cions will adhere and grow when
set at any time during or not long be-
fore the growing season. AS to bud
ding, buds will take" and grow, un.
der proper conditions, whenever the
bark will peal; yet we judge from its
universal practice that summer budding
gives the best results. But don't put
them on the sunny side of the tree OF
branch, unless we'll shaded.
We don't know of "a perfect cattle tie
but like swinging stanchion as wei
as anything we know, taking all points
into consideration. On the lice ques
tons, any oily matter is death to lice
but we are not sure which is best. Fol
the MARBLE grub, sulphur may be better
but why not conjoin the two by using {
sulphur ointment?
We believe the Equal Rights" etc.
maxim first appeared in the early day.
of our republic, in political tract, o
platform. We think Thomas Paine wa
its author. The cement question W,
leave to our readers.
On the land depreciation question
there are various opinions. In Yer
mont we think it chiefly due to emf
grafton to the cities and the West
When the farming population begins t.
increase again in New England tn
prices of farms will go up. We do no
think farming is any poorer bushes
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

ASIDE from the public affairs in the
line of politics, state and national, the
subject of most immediate interest to
farmers seems now to be the improve
ment of country highways, so as greatly
to reduce the cost of local transporta-
ton from the farms to the railway sta
TONS AS the weakest link is the meas
ure of chains strength, so the hardest
spots in any road are practically the
measure of usefulness for the whole
road to those who must do business
upon it. That bad roads are heavy
tax on the farmer is self-evident; but 1t
is not so evident how to remedy the ac-
knowledged evil.
IN our judgment the rural districts
are not now aud are not likely ever to
be able wholly to remedy the evil; and
more than that, they should not be ex-
pected to do so. AS rule, those hard
spots, here and there, which limit the
usefulness of the entire line of high
way, are hard spots simply because of
the expense necessary to make them
easy-an expense that the towns can
not meet. Added to this it must be
said that it takes trained men to make
good roads over hard places. Here we
have, then, as the problem before us,
how to raise the money, and how to
have it wisely expended, in order to
have good roads the year around.
Plainly this can only be effected by the
state taking leading and controlling
hand in the matter. Under state super
vision and at the states expense, let
the hard spots be made easy; and at
the same time let the state engineer
and his assistants teach the town officers
how to make and maintain the easier
portions in the cheapest and most eff
fective manner. If some such plan as
this should be begun, and properly car
ried out, we believe that the entire ex-
pense of keeping our roads in good con-
dition throughout their whole extent
would be less than under the absurd,
unsystematic, unscientific and irrespon-
sible ways of the past. We feel that
we are quite unselfsh in advocating
this view of the matter, for all we have
to do is to use the brakes on our farm
wagons in drawing loads of eighty
bushels of potatoes to the railroad sta
ton. 1t is all down grade.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

A CHICAGO butcher says ten sheep
are now killed in that city to one ten
years ago. The number of sheep con-
sumed by our cities is annually in
creasing. There are more well-fed
mutton sheep in the market than for
merly, and people are beginning to APP
preciate the wholesome qualities of
mutton.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06
.farm ano Garberr.

Address all inquiries communications in relation
TO agriculture to DIR. T. II. HosKINs, Newport, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

GEORGIA spent SS,OOO,OOO the past
year for fertilizers and 100000 for
mules and horses, to say nothing of cat
tie and hogs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-07-06

FROM our remarks in our last issue,
it will be well understood that after
long study of the matter we can not
see our way to the advocacy of a
farmers party" in politics. But we
see no difficulty in the way of all far
mers-organized or acting as individ-
uals-working with all their might for
clean and honest politics. To do this,
we must not only refuse to vote for I'M
fit candidates, but we must work earn
estly and increasingly in our party to
prevent unfit men from receiving the
party nomination. This is a sort of po-
litical work in which any citizen can
take part, and on his doing so gen.
orally, the greatest results depend. Yet
it is the one thing generally neglected by
what is perhaps rightly called the "aver-
age" citizen. We all know that there
are good men-good as citizens, good
as church members and neighbors-
who would not be worth straw in pub
lie life, where they must be able and fit to
contend successfully for popular rights
and wise legislation against the self
seeking and all-grasping corporate in
terests and other liberticidal forces.
We want clear-headed, well-trained rep
resentatives, as we'll as honest and we'll
meaning ones. We want men as sharp,
as well as true as steel. We can get
them when we all unite in seeking and
supporting them.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-08-19
SAID, THE POODLE.

centuries, and his name is Said. He is
shaved clean from the middle backward
and down to the ankles, where frills are
left Of his natural hair, which is black as
the crows wing and as fine as silk. Around
the head and shoulders he is named like a
little lion, and ages of cleaning and comb
ing have done their perfect work on his
race in the way of making fine hair.
On the ocean steamer the stewards were
well paid to care for him. On the railroad
across the continent he had a lower berth
to sleep in and the best place that money
could procure in the palace car; he break
tasted on warm milk and dined on chicken
breasts and other delicacies and now rooms
with his owner and lives like a lord. He
is as dainty as a Lucullus and as frivolous
as a Dundreary, but can play all the little
tricks a smart poodle is capable of. He is
therefore the pride of young Sharon's eye
and the joy of his heart. His meals are
served from the on his own
little waiter and he is taken out to eXer
else like the son of a king. And thus dc
some men spend their money.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-08-19

ing Georgetown Mr.. Lawler took the law
course at Yale. In 1888 he won the Belts
prize for scholarship, and received the
degree of Ii. B. The following year he
captured the Townsend prize for the mas
ter's grafton, and was additionally honored
by having conferred upon him the degree
of NJ. l..
Mr.. Lawler then located in St. Paul,
where in 1856 he formed a copartnership
with f. S. Durment. The firm is still in
existence under the title of Lawler, Dur
ment * Bigelow. He was married in 1856
to Miss Elizabeth O'Leary, of St. Paul.
The union has been blessed by two chill
dren.
During the second year of Mr.. Cleve-
lands administration Mr.. Lawler was APP
pointed assistant United States district
attorney for his district. He held this
place for two years, when he resigned in
order to give his undivided attention to his
law practice. His services, however, have
been regularly brought into requisition by
the Democratic party of his state in all the
recent campaigns. He can make a stump
speech equally well in German or in Eng
fish. He enjoys a large, lucrative law
practice, and last year was elected corpo
ration counsel of St. Paul by the unanimous
vote of both Democratic and Republican
members of the common council.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-08-19
farm Copies.
FEEDING COLTS,

Charles Marvin says colts cannot be fed
too literally during their first two years
of life, especially if they are being trained.
Ground oats and steamed ground oats
and barley are good, but with both horses
and colts good hay and grass are essen
tial to perfect health. Give colts all they
a eat up clean, but it is not so easy
to fix the quantity with horses. Horses
differ in the amount of food they do best
on, just as they differ in the amount of
work they require. a limited proportion
of cracked or ground food is beneficial in
all cases, and essential in some. Horses
who are inclined to bolt their oats, in
whose solid excrement are observed
whole grains, will get more nourishment
from broken than from whole grain.
Good, clean bran, well scalded, may be
used iudiciously to good advantage when
the horses bowels need a little loosening.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-08-19
BORROWER FIFTY a

MRS. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used by millions OF mothers tor their children
while teething. II disturbed at night and
broken OF your rest by a sick child suffering
and crying with pain of Cutting Teeth send
at once and get a bottle of Mrs. Winslow's
will relieve the poorl little sutfererimmediate.
ly. Depend upon it, mothers, there is no
mistake about it. II cures Diarrhna, regu.
iates the stomach and bowels, cures wind col
tion, and gives tone and energy to the whole
system. "Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup
Tor children teething is pleasant to the taste
and hes, female physicians and nurses in the
United States. Price twenty-five cents a bot
lie. sold by all druggists throughout I've
world. BE sure and ask Tor "MRs. WINsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP" 40
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-08-19
Estate of Charles Washburn.
Prnnf of WILL.

STATE OF VERMONT, Be it remember
2DIsTRICT OF ADDISON. ed, that at "A ses.
sion OF the Probate Court holden at Mid
dlebury, within and tor said district, on the
18th day OF August, y. D., 1892.
Present: Hon. James NJ. Slade, Judge.
Whereas, a certain instrument in writing
under seal, purporting to be the last will and
testament OF Charles WashDurn, late of Go
shen, in said District, deceased, having beer
this day presented to said Court for Probate
and duly fled in the Registers Ofllce There
fore, ii is ordered, that all persons interested
In the estate OF said deceased, be notified &c
appear before said Court, at the Probate
Office in Middlebury, in said District, on the
9Th day OF September, \. d. 1892, at 10 O'Clock
Il. M, by publication oithis order, three weeks
successfully previous thereto in the Middle.
bury Register, Il newspaper printed at Mid
dlebury, to show cause, if any they may have
why said instrument i'm writing should not be
proved and allowed rs the last will and tesla
amentof the said deceased.
By order OF Court.
"a Attest, JAMES NJ. SLADE, Judge