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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-11-04
WANTED

A NEW OR SECONDHAND
N Portable, about 10 Horse Power
Steam Engine and Boiler; mounted on
wheels or skids, must be in good order.
Send letter with description and price to
z. 0. Box As, Waimea, Kauai.
32l63t
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
Decay of Forest Trees.
SCOTS, n. H.

AGRICULTURAL EDITORIALS to the
decay of forest trees, my experience
has been mostly with the sugar maple.
In my boyhood, the tapping-iron was in
vogue. This was an injury to the trees.
Later, nails came into use, also metal
spouts driven below the auger hole.
The trees were rossed, an inch-auger
hole was the common size; when that
got broken, a larger one was used.
Every one of these practices was
wrong. Maple trees properly tapped
will heal over sound in few years.
Professor w. W. Cooke can show sam
Piles of from one to three or four inches
of clean, new growth over a one-half
inch hole where there was no other
wound. A sugar orchard with ordinary
care will improve from year to year,
and pay good interest in the growth
of wood-barring cyclones. Lately l
think / have discovered a cause of de-
cay that l had not suspected. One lot
of 500 trees is pastured; the trees de-
cay at the roots and fall over. Exam
ination shows that the cattle start the
bark on the roots in travelling over
them in spring. The remedy would be
to keep out stock and let the under
growth come up. This would prevent
leaves blowing off, and give the roots
their natural protection.
A. M. FOSTER.
Cabot, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
Early-Cut Hay.

Our longtime and valued correspond
ent, Mr.. S. T. Floyd, in his article last
week referred to the feeding value of
early.cut hay. We call it up again for
the reason that it is matter to which
the editor of the Farmer has recently
had his attention called in his own prac-
tice. We have for some time past been
feeding extra early-cut hay to cows CIV
ing milk, and also to fattening oxen.
While experience with such hay has be-
fore led us to dislike it, we must say
that this latest trial has more than con-
firmed our former estimate of it. We
do not like early-cut hay as a stock-fod'
der. The reason we do not, is because
the stock does not eat it as we'll as later
cut, it does not contain the substance,
nor will it produce the results, either in
fattening oxen or making butter. Judg'
ing from experience in feeding, we gel
the best results from grass that stands
till it has arrived to its full maturity
Maine Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

A strange story of superstition is re-
ported from Homoliez;'in Hungary. Sew
eral bodies of men had been found there
with their heads cut off. An investiga-
ton was made by the police, and it
turned out that these mutilations had in
every instance been committed by young
men who were betrothed to the widows
of the decapitated persons. The hus-
bands had died natural death, and
their widows believed that in case they
married a second time their first .hus-
bands would reappear and destroy their
welded happiness. Hence they had per-
suaded their new bridegrooms to decap-
itate their deceased partners.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
Editorial NOtings.

THERE is a great deal written and
said about the farmer in politics with
which we find it hard to sympathize.
One reason for this, perhaps, has been
the fact that whenever the farmers
have been reused up on public ques-
tons a lot of run-to-seed politicians
have rushed in and been accepted as
candidates, only to disgrace the cause
and make the farmers ridiculous before
the nation. And yet there is no class
of our people who stand more in need
of wise legislative and executive rep
resentation at this time than do the
farmers of America. They could get
the right men, too, if they sought for
them in a proper manner. They may
be sure they never can succeed in OBJ
tanning any honest and capable repre-
sentatives in legislatures, or in con-
gress, unless they pick them out from
among those already well-known and
tried in legislation, adopt them openly
and fully as their representative men,
and stand by them through thick and
thin, as the Irish stood by O'Connell
and Parnell in the contest for their
rights in the British Parliament.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price TWENTY-FIVE
cents per box. For sale by G. Blakely,
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

GERMAN sugar manufacturers say
they are to combine and to establish a
sugar refinery in San Francisco for the
purpose Of fighting the trust.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
farm ano Garoen.

Address all inquiries communications in relation
to agriculture to DIR. 7. II. HosKINs, Newport, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

IN growing healthful pork, cleanli-
ness is the first law, the last law, and
the law all the way between.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

A WRITER in the same paper says:
think some one estimated that it took
four square miles of territory to support
one Indian, his squaw was such poor
farmer, and it took so much land to
support his stock of bears, wolves,
coons, ETC., yet the difference between
our best farmers and market gardeners
and the squaws as agriculturists is, in
general terms, simply intelligence as to
the business. A missionary informed
me that the people where he was in
Africa got only pint of milk from
their cows at a milking. What but in
telligence enables us to get more? l
mean intelligence as applied to the pro-
duction of milk. How has England been
enabled to produce forty bushels of
wheat per acre on an average, instead
of eleven, which was her average yield
in old times? Nothing but increased
knowledge as to agriculture. Does any
person know any reason why the three
millions acres of forest in our state
may not be made to grow twelve hun
dred million feet of timber a year in
stead of its present yield, which is
thought to be less than three hundred
million feet? Let me state single
fact Some time since one of the gen.
tlemen who furnishes milk to Exeter
people told me that one of the bulletins
sent out by our agricultural college en-
abled him to feed his cows one cent a
day cheaper than he had before, and at
the same time increased the yield of
milk one pint per cow. There are in
the state about 10000 cows. A saw
ing of one cent day in the cost of
keeping each would be 81 100 day.
This for $50 days would be $19S, 900.
The increase of milk for the same time
would be worth more than two hun
dred thousand dollars. Now let us all
consider how gains, savings aud inn
provements can be made in all direc.
tons, in all things relating to farming
and / think all will conclude that q
good agricultural college must be of in
estimable value.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

the crank for each three hundred
pounds of milk. Also, another half
hour at least for the cleaning and
scalding of the parts of the machine.
The most scrupulous care must be exer-
cised in this regard. The butter from
the,gravity cream will be equal in quality
with that from the separator. The sepa-
rator the year through will get slightly
more butter from the milk, varying
from nothing when the cows are fresh
up to ten per cent in their late periods
of lactation. Whether, in carrying on
the work with limited number of
cows, this increase of product will more
than balance the added cost, we will
leave the inquirer to figure out. No
one questions but the separator does
good work"
MAINE has Forestry Commissioner.
The law says he shall make an inquiry
into the forest areas of the state, to
what extent they are being diminished
Dy WasteIul cutting, hres, ETC., and
what effect such diminution has upon
the water sources of lakes, rivers, and
water powers of the state, if any, or on
the natural conditions of the climate.
Selectmen of towns and county COM
missioners are appointed fire wardens.
Stringent laws regarding fires used by
sportsmen and campers in the forests
are made, and fines imposed for losses
resulting from carelessness; and also
regarding railroad companies whose
tracks pass through waste or forest land,
holding such companies responsible for
damage resulting from fires resulting
from their locomotives. Is not this
good idea for other states?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

The question whether COW secretes
any considerable quantity of milk while
she is being MIXED is very difficult
one to settle, and we know of no con-
elusive experiments on the subject. As
for ourself, the fact that the quickest
mixer gets the most milk is rather
against the belief, but may not be con-
elusive. The Mirror and Farmer says
on this subject: "The elaboration of
milk in the udder still remains a mys-
terry. The influence produced in the
quality of the milk by different modes
of milking, seems to show that the milk
is not already perfected in the udder
when milking begins. 1t does not
seem that it is possible for the quality
of the milk to be so changed, or to be
increased or diminished in amount, by
different mixers and different modes
of manipulation, after it is salready
secreted. 1t would seem that con-
siderable portion if not all of the milk
must be secreted during the3milking
and that, to some extent at least, the
nature of this secretion is depend ent
upon the amount or kind of nervous
stimulant received from the mixer.
In support of this view is mentioned
the fact that many wild animals will
give no milk at all when MIXED lby
hand, even with the most persistent eff
forts to obtain it, but give milk freely if
the young are allowed to suckle at the
same time that the milking proceeds.
In some sections of the country;where
the cows are not MIXED regularly, the
calves being allowed to run with the
mothers most of the time, no milk of
consequence canl.be obtained except
when the cows are MIXED in the pres
ence of the calves"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

TAKE these matters of trusts, rail-
roads, and other capitalstic oppressors
of the farming interest. Many of our
very foremost public men, who under
stand these matters from top to bottom,
are ready and would be glad to give all
their energies to championing our
rights as citizens and producers. But
when these skilled, honest and infuen-
tial statesmen find themselves ignored
by the farmers, and see them running
after a lot of self-seeking, ignorant
charatans, who leave us the laughing
stock of intelligent people, what cour-
age can they have to come toward and
espouse the cause of class or interest
that understands its own need so little.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

A GOOD many farmers are being i'm
portuned to buy "pony" separators;
and good many buy them. In large
dairy they are perhaps economical, but
we fear many buy them who will be
sorry afterwards. Read what an old
and experienced dairyman, Mr.. Gill
bert of the Maine Farmer, says on the
subject: milk set away in cool
tank creams itself. About that part of
the operation there is no cost. The
maintenance of low temperature DUR
ing the time the milk is at rest is all
the cost involved, and is slight indeed.
In the other case, it costs something to
run separator. Even if run by hand
(and Yankees don't fancy the work a
great whitley, there is the cost of time
required. Each morning the demand
is absolute for an hour and half at
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

THE truth is that we do not and can
not have farmers party, but we can
pick out our men from either party,
men who have shown honesty and in
telligence and legislative ability, come
to an understanding with them, recog-
nize them fully as our champions, sus-
tain them with our votes and bind them
to us under all circumstances so that
they shall not be paralyzed by public
ingratitude or neglect. There are men
now in congress, and IN every state
legislature, elected by one party or the
other, who would on all questions af-
fecting the agricultural interests act
together in our behalf. In agricultural
matters and on all those great questions
affecting industrial interests we should
select our men not on party grounds,
but on agricultural grounds. AS in
Pennsylvania, for many years, Randall,
the democrat, was kept in congress by
republican votes because he was pro-
tectionist, so should the farmers care
fully select their men, and without re-
gard to party make them safe in their
places because they regard the farming
interest as of supreme Importance. 10 If
the manufacturing interest understands
this, as they did in Randall's case, why
cannot the farmers adopt the same
policy? If the agricultural press would
adopt and pursue this plan we could
bring the trusts and corporations up
to the ring-bolt in short order. In adj
dition to this support of our special
champions, we could make every pub
lie man feel that antagonism, yelled or
open, direct or indirect, to the agrcul-
tural interest would lose him votes on
all hands. -
But, alas, the farmers are blinded by
their unthinking partisanship, and re-
main but as wax in the hands of party
leaders who care nothing for the farm
ers, because there is nothing to be got
from the farmers in comparison to what
can be got from the corporations.
From the men in Office who are after
money, we can expect nothing; but
considerable proportion of our public
men prefer honor and reputation to
mere cash; and it is among these hon
orably ambitious statesmen that the
farmers should seek their champions.
Under their lead campaign against
abuses can be made successful, if we
wisely and steadily stand by them I'M
til the work is done. Stand by your
party in all party questions, but in great
questions concerning agriculture stand
by the men who stand by us.
A GOOD many farmers are being inn
portuned to buy "pony" separators;
and a good many buy them. In large
dairy they are perhaps economical, but
we fear many buy them who will be
aorry afterwards Road mbat IN old
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29

Is the wife of Mr.. w. S. Huntley of
Cortland, N. Y, a well known car
penter and builder. Her frank state
ment below gives only the absolute
truth concerning her illness and mar
Vicious recovery by the aid of Hoods
Sarsaparilla. She says:
&c. I. Hood g. Co., Lowell Mass;
" Dear Sir: Twelve years ago began to
have hemorrhages and four years ago became
so low that the physicians told me
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
A Waste Of Money

but finding 1t would comfort her, began TAX
ing It, In few days the bloating began to
subside, 1 seemed to feel a little stronger, but
thought it only fancy. / was so weak could
only take ten drops of Sarsaparila at first.
In two weeks l was able to sit up few min
across the room. One day l asked what
they were to have for dinner, and said l
wanted something hearty. My mother was
so happy she cried. 1t was the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-29
There Was No Hope

and should soon die. l could not be moved
from my bed. Under my face were napkins
continually redeemed with blood from my
mouth. u could ent nothing and had no
action of the bowels for a week. The doctors
this time my mother said she wanted to make
one more trial, and asked If l would take
HOODS Sarsaparilla. l told her il would be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-29
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

With the close OF the most extraordinary period
Of produce exports ever known there comes n
large outward movement Of gold The net eN-
norts of gold at New.Yorl1 in February have been
S3255.OO0. while net exports OF silver IN the
first twenty DAYS of the month were 81 $40 537.
Thus over 81, 900, 900 in specie has gone abroad
although merchandise exports greatly exceed i'm
ports even for this month, and behind IT. lies n
half year in which the Of exports was alto
pether unprecedented. In four weeks OF February
the imports at New-York have been but trilie
less than last year. indicating that the volume at
all ports for the month will be about 81, 100000.
But in three weeks of February, the exports from
New-York have been S5,344, 4Os, or 8l.2 per cent
moe than last year, indicating that the total ex-
ports for the country for the full month must
have been more than $50 ZOO, 900. In spite Of
an excess Of 40 least 81 900 900 exports i'm.
ports Of merchandise, than IS 900, 900 specie
has gone abroad. Moreover the excess Of mer-
chandise exports in January not only $780,
600 900 as was estimated fortnight ago, but
$37 Al s,296, besides net exports Of ABB
specie This makes the excess Of oil exports over
imports, merchandise and specie, less than
Sl659l0O24 in six months ending with January,
and nevertheless, gold is going abroad
There is no possible explanation of this
phenomenon, OF course, except the return OF Sc
curitles from Europe, and the withdrawal in other
forms of European capital, loaned or invested here
This puts the inquiry but step further back be.
cause the causes OF that withdrawal are exceed.
ingy complex The financial pressure abroad,
which has followed the failure Of the Barings has
forced many persons TO realize investments
The failure OF crops and the great industrial de-
preston in Great Britain, Germany and other
countries, have had the same influence Then, rX-
a.. Of nd tuet r;, l,,xra
intensified the need OF gold. On the other hand
the high prices here caused by combinations ana
by speculation tempt foreign holders to sell, and
dstrtst of the monetary future in this country
especially with regard 10 silver coinage, leads
many TO realize on their securities These and
other influences conspire TO send capital out Of
this country and the outgo appears to have
averaged nearly Sls,00O,0O0 per month for more
than half year.
The outgo of gold tends TO depfess prices that
have been sustained by speculation. Wheat has
fallen 3 cents the past week, and exports have
been little less than in previous weeks of the
month, so that Atlantic shipments have fallen
below 1000, 900 bushels per week. and includ-
ing -four have been but 0,579,446 bushels for three
weeks of February, while from both coasts the
exports have probably been not more that
5000, 900 bushels for the month. Corn has been
steady. and tia expoSn are enormous, exoeeding
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-29
A LOBHY TO BE W1TCHED,

A comprehensive and enlightened measure for
the enlargement and maintenance Of the Yellow
stone National Park has been passed by the
Senate during five successive sessions Of Con
eress Each time it has been blocked in the
House by an INSCRIPTIONS and jealous lobby
acting in the interest Of railway company
After protracted delay the measure has been
reported to the House from the Committee on
Public Lands with an amendment granting right
of way to the Montana Mineral Railway Com
pany 10 cross the Park and lay sixty miles Of
track to a mining camp in Montana. As this
amendment would have been the entering wedge
for corporation jobberies of all kinds, by which
tho National Reservation would have been
ruined, the friends of the measure have refused
year after year to allow it TO be enacted in this
modified form. The lobby being unable to
| force it's own railway scheme through Congress
| has succeeded in obstructing legislation for tho
| enlargement and improvement OF tho Yellow
stone Park.
The necessity for this legislation has become
more urgent in consequence Of the Presidents
action in setting apart as a public reservation
large forest tracts adjoining the Park on the
east and south. This was done under the au-
thority Of an act passed by Congress at the last
session, the boundaries, being taken from tho
measure which the lobby has pcrsistently blocked
While settlement and the cutting of timber have
been prohibited in these forest tracts, the Pres
dent has no power TO incorporate the new rescr-
walton with the Park and to take measures FOR
protecting it against depredations. Senator Vest
has accordingly introduced once more the ex-
cellent measure which has been hung up in the
House for five years Though the intervention OF
the railway lobby. 1t will bring the districts
proclaimed by the President under the control
of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone Park
and secure the preservation Of one OF the largest
| forest tracts in the Rocky Mountains. The new
Reservation while useless for agriculture con-
tans the sources of the upper Yellowstone has
ecenery OF unrvalled grandeur. and is one OF
the best breeding grounds for elk and deer 10
be found on the continent.
The railway lobby instead of again fastening
their old-time rider upon Senator Vests bill, is
now fighting in the open field Mr. Stockdale, OF
Mississippi, has been prevailed upon to Introduce
bill granting to the Montana Mineral hallway
| COMPANY an exclusive right Of way through the