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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

WE have had six Jersey heifers come
in since July, and no trouble with any
until the last one--and we think, prob
ably, the best one-which had caked
bag and cracked teat. These are
now well, after about six weeks
" fussing"; and we have just come
across summary, by j. N. Muncey, in
Rural Life, of facts which agree with
what we have learned by our expe-
riences with this heifer. The thing
that surprises us at the end of it all is
that heifer can go through such a
"course of sprouts " and not become a
lifelong, confirmed kicker. But she is
now as gentle as any in the herd. Mr..
Muncey says: 1.-THE pressure on the
sore teats, and, in fact, all the teats of
nervous and sensitive cows, should be
easy, slow, gentle, and with the full
hand at the outset. A sore teat always
pains COW the most at the beginning
of milking before the scab is broken.
Any experienced mixer knows that it
requires few trials in the adjustment
of the hand to a sore or sensitive teat,
before determining just exactly the best
way to squeeze for that particular cow
No detailed rule can be given. The
general fault with employees, inexpe.
rienced in this direction, is in press in 9
the ends of the fingers into the teat &c
that when they squeeze portion of the
flesh of the teat it is pressed outward
from the ends of the fingers. This
draws the skin more tightly than would
be done by enclosing the whole teat il
the hand. Briefly, then, milk slowly a
the start, squeeze carefully and easily
not throwing full stream. If the Gov
steps, kicks, or is uneasy, wait secon'
until she is at rest, and try again. B.
carefully watching her legs as you milk
you can increase or decrease the rate o
milking and relieve her from any pain
as occasion demands"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

IT is lucky for our modern prophets
that few remember their predictions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

DON'T cross the stream until you get
to it, But you may pick up bridge
materials as you go along.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

A GOOD many people are in favor of
a little sinfulness-just enough to make
things pleasant and easy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13
farm ano 6aroen.

Address all inquiries or communications in relation
- agriculture to pa. I. II. HosKINs, Newport, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

WHATEVER you may think of the
Bible, where do you find so many stark
naked truths about yourself?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

WE raised last summer lot of corn
which we expected to put into a silo,
but on reflection concluded that we had
no good place for one in our barn as it
now is, and so we cut and cured it in
the field, and have been feeding it to
cows in milk with Unexpectedly good
results. If it were not for its becoming
a refuge for rats and mice, we should
prefer this corn, cut into three-inch
lengths, to silage. 1t was planted so as
TO ear well, but was green when cut.
The COWS ate it clean, except few
butts, and these the pigs in the manure
cellar seemed very fond of. We don't
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

IT is only the man of sense that the
fool will not believe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13
Cline Gables.
Montpelier E. Wells River
and Barre Branch Il. II.

Taking Effect Nov. 9, 1891.
Leave Montpelier At At S ~ A rs NJ T. i NJ 10
Arrive at Wells River at $3.50 A. M, $3.50 p. NJ.
6; 50 PM.
Leave Wells River 81 15.g s;S Ss A. a M,
T. NJ Arrive at Montpelier at 80 A. M. II 80 A. M
$50
Trains leaving Montpelier at s:l5A A. NJ. and l:le
p. NJ. make close connections at Wells River for all
points in the White Mountains, and for points north
and south on the Passumpsie railroad; also for
Boston and all intermediate points.
Train leaves Montpelier for Barre at II :25 A. NJ.
Train leaves Barre for Montpelier at 2; IS P. M.
Suburban Train Service.
Leave Montpelier at 6:35 A. NJ, 80 A. M l0:l0 A.
M II is A. M 80 p NJ, $40 =. NJ, 500 p. M, 100 p
M. $500 p. M Leave Barre at 7:i5 A M, 400 A. M,
1870 AN 40 M, go p. NJ AIS p. M $3.50 p. M,
1880 p. M, $3.50 p. M
Train leaving Montpelier at IL 55 A. M connects
through to the quarres, making trip round the
mountsin returning leaves Barre at 1905, arriving
at Montpelier at 1880 p. NJ.
Train leaving Barre at 7;45 A. NJ. connects at
Montpelier with the train for Wells River
W. A. STOWELL, Superintendent.
F.w. MORSE General Passenger Agent.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13
Editorial NOtings.

WELL sHELLED truths go down hard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

To young men who desire to go at
farming, but have only moderate sum
of money, it ought to be better under
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

like the wretcbed rodents who nest in
this fodder, but perhaps when we get
at that "new barn." some of our read
ers will tell us how to make it rat-proof.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

THE stanchion question is living
one among all keepers of cows, espe-
cially those who are engaged in winter
dairying. A writer in Rural Life re-
marks, in this connection, that ga man
ifest objection to the stanchion is the
short platform on which the COW stands.
Any animal, man included, can habit
uate itself to rest in awkward and I'M
comfortable positions. Some cows dis
like to lie down on the short platform,
because they often find it difficult to
get up on account of its slippery condi-
ton; fear of which prevents them from
getting needed rest. An improved form
of floor for cows to stand on, invented
by us, and used for nearly fifteen years,
has proved very satisfactory because
the floor can be much longer than COM
mon, since the rear one-third of it is
made of hard-pine Stats two inches
wide laid one inch apart, and permits
the liquid to escape, while the solid
portions of the excrement is worked
through by the cattle's feet. AT our
suggestion this idea was adopted in the
Wisconsin experiment station stables
and has been figured and described in
its bulletins. We think it solves, in a
great measure, the objection to stanch-
ions, which, all things considered, have
no equal as means of securing cows
while in the stable"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

A MAN needs to live alone to be a
philosopher.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

WE could not live without our
mouths-and yet they shorten the lives
of many of us, and make them hard.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

THERE is nothing truer, or of more
immediate importance, than the remark
of the Maine Farmer that men who
farm for profit should concern them
selves far more with getting profit by
reducing cost than by trying to raise
the market price. There is only one
way in all the world whereby man can
raise for himself, with certainty and
equity, the market price of anything he
sells, and that is by improving its quail
ity. The quality governs to every man
the price he may obtain.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13
A RUBBER STAMP

Ia what every farmer needs to mark his Butter or
Maple Sugar packages
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13
Annual Meeting.

The stockholders of the Capital Savings Bank and
Trust Company are notified to meet in the rooms of
said Bank, in Montpelier Vermont, on the lith day
of January 1892 at two o'clock i'm the afternoon, to
elect seven trustees for the year ensuing, and to
transact any other proper business:
T.. f. BLAKELY, Treasurer.
Montpelier. Vt. December u. 1891.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13


NOTHING more pithy, and more de-
servedly severe, has come under our
eye of late than the following, which we
cut from the Maine Farmer: "' What
a fall we are havingl y said farmer
the other day. MY cows are just
about getting their living in the fields
now After little pause, he added:
l tell you, it's no use, if we make good
butter, we can't sell it for enough to pay
for carrying to market. The whole
trouble is with over-production.' Nat
urally, we thought of the frozen grasses
being converted into something called
butter, and the 'no profit idea was
made plain"
THAT most excellent farm paper, the
StOckmdn and Farmer, Cf Pittsburgh,
Pa, contains the most impartial and in
telligent discussions of public matters
and political measures relating to farm
interests that we have lately seen. All
sides are ably championed, and the dis
cussion cannot fail to greatly al intel
ligent readers in reaching sound con-
illusions, such as they could never at
tain by the study of partisan journals.
Sharp points are very frequent in this
discussion, but we have not seen bet
ter than the following: A great many
reasons have been given by writers and
politicians for the depressed condition
of the agricultural classes. The favor
lie one with politicians during all last
year was the over-production theory,
but this past fall they have embraced
every possible opportunity to congratu-
late the farmer on the abundance of
the harvest, very kindly informing him
that few more such bountiful crops
will relieve all stringency. Most logi-
clans would conclude that if over.produc-
ton was the cause of depression an
abundant crop would increase the
trouble. The fact is these clever men
do not know any more about it than the
farmer himself"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

"RURAL LIFE" says, with the point
and brevity of automatic truth, that, as
ordinary fences are good for nothing
against dogs-as they can't be captured
alive and shut up, and as judgments
against the owners are usually worth
less, and as one dog sometimes does
more damage in fifteen minutes than
hundred head of the neighbors' cattle
would do in two days-other remedies
to restrain them and to recover damages
must be provided.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

SKIM MILK, to which is added little
fax seed Cruel, is "mighty good
for calves at this time of the year, and
makes them grow as well as new milk,
at half the cost.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

If you want good prices, you must
offer good goods. If you want the
best prices, you must have the best
and know how to market it,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

ONE of the most farcical pieces of
foolishness that has found currency,
and apparent credit, was the statement
of an Aroostook (Maine) editor that
can Aroostook county farmer raised
field of popcorn this year and stored
the product in his barn. The barn took
fire and the corn began to pop and
filled ten-acre field. An old mare in
a neighboring pasture had defective
eyesight, saw the corn, thought it was
snow, and laid down and froze to
death"
THE Dairy World says: "The New
York state dairy factories have refused
to take milk from farmers using silage,
not, it is understood, because good
milk cannot be made from cows eating
reasonable amount of silage, but be-
cause if its use were allowed some
would feed too much, and thus endan-
ger the entire product of the factory"
Are there no other mistakes in feeding,
common among farmers, that would
impair their milk as much as giving too
much silage?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

YOUNG farmers, learn to see for
yourselves, think for yourselves, and
work for yourselves but not in such
ways as to be of use only to yourselves.
Interchange of thought and interchange
of service,-without these, human So
ciety and civilizing progress are not
long possible.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

THE great and solemn business of
extracting food and raiment out of the
earth for the use of man is not appreci-
ated at it's real worth, because those
who are engaged in it do not know its
grandeur, or appreciate the nobility
of the position in which God has placed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-01-13

INDIRECT efforts to do good are more
apt to effect their purpose than such
direct ones as are likely to be looked
upon as intrusive. The man who is try
ing in an honest way to do himself good
will be very likely to be help to his
,,o;Dbborc
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
A Chance TO Garry Mails.

Sealed proposals for carrying the United
States mails from College to Savannah, five
miles and back, seven times week by a
schedule Of III hours running time
each way, from Jan. IS, 1898, to June
30. 1896, will be received by Postmaster
Doyle until Dec. l.
In all cases the rate per annum should be
stated in proposal, regardless OF the period
OF service.
contract with sureties, certified by
postmaster to be good and sufficient. Is re-
CURED to be executed by the accepted
bidder, and persons bidding must be honest
and capable, and not less than 81 years old.
BIDS from postmasters or persons employed
In postotiices cannot be accepted. The fol
lowing Is the schedule to be maintainei:
Leave College daily at $50 o'clock a. M.
q. IN.
Leave Savannah daily at 1890 o'clock
O. IN.
arrive at College daily by 10 O'Clock m.
fostmaster Doyle will furnish any fur
tner information desired by applicants.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
LOCAL PERSONAL

| G. B. Parker Of McRae is In the city.
Il. J. Mc5ee OF RsidsviIle is in the city.
J. W. Eggs of Perry was in the city yes.
terday.
F. c. Bonham Of Columbia was In the
city yesterday.
Q. S. Brooks of St Augustine is on short
visit 20 Savannah.
Col John Screven arrived home last nigh,
on the Nacoochee from New York.
Col w. W. Gordon returned last night
from New York on the Nacoochee.
Hon. F. @. duBignon leaves this morning
for Liberty county TO attend court.
Col. John r. Fellows left for New York
yesterday afternoon on the Kansas City.
Mrs. Ira r. Fox, nee Hazard. left on the
Kansas City last night for New York TO
join her husband.
Gle Is visiting Mrs. J. +. Sullivan, at No.
liz Habersham street.
Henry D. Purroy, the Tammany chief,
left yesterday morning for Florida, where
ne expects to spend some time.
Judge Speer was accompanied to New
DIRK yesterday by Mrs. Speer, Miss Speer
Miss Nora Spesr and Mrs. Morgan.
Judge FAlhgant and Solicitor General
Fraser have gone to Liberty county to at
tend the November term of court.
Carl Eglinger arrived last night from
New York on the Nacoochee, and will be
greeted on change to-day by his numerous
acquaintance and friends.
Mrs. G. A. McCleskey and Misses Mamie
and Florence McClesSey returned yesterday
from the north, and leave this morning for
their winter home in Bulloch county.
g. II. Rossiter Of Baltimore, accompanied
by his wife, have arrived in Savannah.
Mr.. Rossiter was recently elected secretary
OF the Young Mems Christian Association.
and has come to assume the duties of the
position.
James D. Lee and Walter Clifford of
Pains spectacular production arrived in
the city last night from Columbia over the
South Bound railroad. These gentlemen
are we'll remembered in Savannah in con-
neotion with the Last Days of Pompeiin
and the May week festival of 1891. Both
made many friends in the city, who will be
glad to welcome them here again. hIr.
Lee, as advertising agent for the May week
Festival, earned a reputation as the ouly
genuine hustler ever known in this section.
Messrs. Lee and Clifford will spend about ten
days in Savannah and will look up their old
acquaintance. Their rememhrances of
Savannah were so pleasant that they con-
cluded TO take the first opportunity Of re-
visiting the city.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
PRIZE STORIES

By Boys and Girls Of the Public
Schools.
The MORNING NEWS offers a prize of
$40 for the best and IS for the second best
story written by boy or girl pupil of the
public schools Of Savannah.
II is proposed to publish one story in the
MORNING NEWS on Christmas day aud the
other on New Years day.
The stories must not make less than a
column, nor more than three columns, of the
MORNING News "a column is about 800
words.
Stories for composition must be sent in on
or before Dec. 5, enveloped and sealed, and
addressed to ''SToRY COMMITTEE, MORNING
NEWS, SAVANNAH, GA" The name of the
writer OF each story must be placed in a
separate sealed envelope and forwarded
with the story. Unaocepted manuscript
will be returned. The award will be made
by committee Of citizens appointed for
that purpose.
picture and q sketch OF the successful
competitors will appear with their respective
productions
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
LOOKS LIKE INoENDIARIsM.

Five More Houses Destroyed on Es-
till Avenue.
Five frame dwellings belonging to col
ored people were burned yesterday morning
between and o'clock on Estin avenue
near Bull street. Owing to the lack of
water the city fire department. was not
called upon for aid and the fra was finally
extinguished by the inhabitants of the
neighborhood. They do not know the
origin of the fire and some are inclined to
believe that It was incendiary, but there is
no clew to the perpetrator. There was a
fire in the same vicinity Saturday night at
which four houses burned, and its origin Is
also enveloped In mystery.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22

Five new members were elected at the
last meeting and the committee on member
ship report new names. The club has nearly
fifty members and as soon as IL succeeds in
getting this complement some restrictions
will probably be adopted, as the clubs pres
ent quarters over the postoffice would prove
too small for much larger membership.
Several visitors were registered at the rooms
during the week. The club is alWAys
pleased TO receive them and gives cordial
greeting TO all out of town chess PLAYERS.
Considerable interest is taken in the
games played by Lasker in New York. The
records o the games are frequently posted
on the bulletin board.
The following problem by Goard one OF
the members, will prove interesting TO
problem solvers:
White. seven pieoes-KiuR on kings
rock, third; rook on kings, knight, So. ::
bishop on kings. fifth; knight on kings
bishop, second; pawn on kings, bishop
sixth; pawn on kings, rocks, fifth; pawns
on queens, third.
Black, eleven pieces-King on kings.
rock, second; rock on queens rock, nfth
rock on queens, rock, seventh; bishop on
queens, knight, sixth; bishop on queens.
rock, second; knight on queens. bishop, 90. I:
pawn on king, rock, third; pawn on queens,
king, 9th; pawn on queens, bishop, fourth /;
pawn on queens, fourth; pawn on queens,
seventh.
White TO play and mate in two moves.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
SUDDEN DEATH OF A NEGRO.
he Breathes His Last While Being
Taken to the Hospital.

he Breaches His Last While Being
Taken to the Hospital.
William Preston, q negro who lived in
Perry street lane, died yesterday afternoon
while being taken in the police ambulance
to the hospital. He had been sick Off and
on for more than year. having suffered
Internal injuries by being crushed by a bale
OF cotton. He never fully recovered, and
had from time TO time been laid up in bed
and seemingly at the point of death.
Preston had similar attack Yesterday
and the barracks was telephoned for an
ambulance Officer FARRELL was sent with
the wagon, and as soon as he saw the negro
he did not believe he would live until he
could be taken to the hospital He started
with him. however, but when the wagon
reached CASTOR and Drayton streets the
officer noticed that the patient had ceased
to breathe. Coroner Dixon was notified, but
as certificate Of death from natural causes
had been given by Dr. Comm, an inquest
was unnecessary and the body was taken
back to Prsston's late home and prepared
for burial
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
CITY BRE7ITIB5.

Louis P. Hart, B. H. Levy and George J .
Mills were elected members Of the board Of
trade yesterday.
A w. Modica, colored bnrkeeper, was
arrested yesterday charged with selling
liquor on Sunday.
Judge Speer convened the United States
court yesterday bat soon afterward ad-
journed as no business appeared. Court
will be opened again Nov. 80.
The Citizens Sanitary Association held a
regular quarterly meeting last night.
Several questions were discussed, but no
definite action was taken on anything.
There will be a general meeting Of the
cotton exchange to-day at IL O'Clock TO con-
slider communication from the New York
Cotton Exchange in regard to the anti
options bill
Among the labor unions which Joined
with the others IL forming trades council
last Sunday was the blacksmiths' union
Is was unintentionally emitted from the
list published yesterday.
The following important changes In the
mails over the South Bound railroad went
into effect Sunday: Mails arrive II AS a.
IN. and 5;l5 y. m. Depart 1920 a. m. and
4 p. m. Mails will close one hour before
departure Of trains.
The city court met again yesterday, but
owing to the absence Of lawyers no cases
were heard. At the sitting of the court TO-
day it is expected that the case of Ella
Murray against the Savannah street rail
way will be heard. She is suing the road
for $4,000 damages for killing her son last
August in an accident on the bridge.
DR.. Weichselbaum stopped at the Man
haitian Insurance Companys office on Bull
street last night and when he came out his
laprobe was gone. He went around to a
pewnshop on Jefferson strees to notify the
proprietor to look out for the stolen article.
and met negro at the door with the robe.
The thief dropped it as soon as he saw DR..
Weichselbaum and made his escape.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
Bridpat,s COMPLAINT.

Bridget, viii you 60 down and shake the fur
naceH Mr. Smith hadn't time to attend to it
this morning" said Mrs Smith to her new girl
before she went out for an hour the other
morning.
On her return Bridget met her with some
thingup expression, says the Brooklyn Ltfe.
"Plaze'ln, I'm going 10 lave. It's no such
horses work as that hired wild ye to do! Shake
the furnace, indade--a big. heavy thing like that
l couldn't do it. I've hit it wild the poker, and
tryed to pry it up wild the axe, the doors come
off, and the pipes Is twisted-but devil a bit can
l move it'll It isn't out to this countree | came
TO be axei to do such work as that, and you're
no lady to expect it av me. Next thing yen be
after telling me TO take the PLAINLY up stairs or
carry out the kitchen stove. Not another min
ute will shtay wild We. So good-by "
And 1t took nearly as much time and trouble
TO soothe Budgets feelings as 1t did to mend
the furnace,
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-22
Two Very Prominent Merchants Pub.


licly Dispute an Election Wager.
Two very prominent merchants came very
near coming to blows yesterday over the
coming election. By the request Of the
parties interested we will suppress narnes
1t was brought about in the following man
ner:
1t appears as IL Bay street had wagered
WITH broughton street $500 one hundred
dollars that Ruth's papa would occupy the
white house for the coming four wears
from March 8, 1898, which Broughton street
disputed. One word led to another, until
finally friends interfered to prevent what no
qouot Dotn gentlemen would have regretted.
1t was finally decided to deposit with Drv.
fus q Rich, the liquor and cigar merchants,
lol Congress street, the $500, and the sue
cessful man would give the above-men.
toned firm carte blanche to stock his wine
cellar with the winnings from their large
stock OF imported and domestic wines and
liquors. I'D.