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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
n. fl. College, Oct. 30.

THE Washington Farmer says a
farmer hauled a load of wheat into
Corvallis, Oregon, the other day, which
weighed just a ton and sold it for forty
five cents a bushel, realizing SO for his
ton of wheat. He bought a ton of bran
for COW feed from the miller to whom
he sold his wheat, and it cost him SIS
per ton, so it cost him So in money to
trade his ton of bran. Was he a fool?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
The Amateur Gardener.

The man who, in the early spring,
Laid out a garden plot
May not have raised a paying crop,
But, o, he knows a lott
Next year when spring comes, you will SEQ
Him sitting on the fence,
And telling others doleful tales,
OF his experience.
Until a man has tried It once,
lie never gets to know
How hard It is TO hoe and spade.
And how fast weeds can grow.
How hot the summer sun can shine,
How dry some weeks can be,
And how the Lord has made a bug
For every plant and tree.
But he who in the early spring
Laid out a garden plot
Has learned all this, and more by now,
And next year he will not
Go into gardening very deep
Not II he knows himself
And all his tools, all summer long,
viii lie upon the shelf.-Somerrite Journal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
Fruit Notes.
profit.

THESE are what we are called upon
for; and northern New England is
about the poorest field in the world to
gather them from, this year. One
marked result of the development of
various new fungous diseases, and the
increased spread of old ones, to-
gether with an almost equal increase of
insect pests, is to make what used to be
called d" the off year" IN almost bar
rem year. This is a very great damage
to the fruit industry, and especially to
orcharding. The chief consequence,
especially as regards the apple crop, is
to give the growers no crop one year,
and no price for it the other year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
Some Practical Notes.

Agricultural Editorials many Of
our farmers are giving their individual
experiences IL farmi 9 or the benefit
of your readers, we thought that per-
haps ours mi4ht be of some interest to
our neighbours. This year we looked
the matter over pretty thoroughly in
regard to fertilizers, and finally con
Guided that for once we would return
to first principles. Last fall we had
broken up sufficient ground Tor our
potatoes, spreading on, before blowing,
thirty oX.losds to The acre. This spring
we narrowed in eight OK loads TO the
acre, marked out the rows with a
horseshoe, three feet apart; cutthe pota-
toes two eyes to the piece as far as
possible; dropped them II piece every
eight inches; covered with horse-hoe;
cultivated three times ard used horse
hoe twice; used NO hand.hoe; pulled
the weeds by hand twice; used paris
green twice; bordeaux mixture twice.
The 18Th Ct September Il potato tops
were AS green "a in the middle of June.
The yield was at the rate OF 800 bushels
to the acre-no enough small ones to
pay to sort, and very seldom a rotten
phCs 40 az NAHSiiINbbi W. hiNN ="
new kind of oats, called the White
Bonanza" They were harvested rather
green, and lhreshed at once. Quite a
large per cent of the GA , were left on
the straw, yet they yielded us thirty
eight bushels from two bushels sowing,
and weighed nearly forty-fve pounds
to the bushel. Our corn, india wheat,
and roots, were never better, and not a
pound of fertilizer was brought TO the
farm. We do not object 10 the pur-
chase and use OF these patent manures
ia The abstract, but we cannot, or rather
do not, give a man credit for sound
judgment when, in trying to pay for
his farm, he runs in debt from $50 to
5000 for fertilizers. If the season is
favorable aud prices good, he is all
right. IF both conditions are unfavor-
able. he can do as a friend of ours did
a few years sgo-sell off part of his
dairy TO pay his fertilizer bills. We
may be wrong. Perhaps some of your
more experienced readers or CORE
s%pondents can tell us how this can be
done. Our horses, hogs and neat stock
are making us a fine grade of fertilizer
that fills the bill pretty well.
G.. W. FOSTER & Son..
Woodbury., Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

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 e%ruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed TO give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents box. For sale by c. Blakely,
Mon, elier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

AT the Centennial the Jersey herd in
the third test was composed of twelve
cows that had been in the stable since
the beginning of January, and had
each. with two exceptions, gone through
herd tests Nos. | and 2, and each ofthe
twelve had participated in the ninety
day test. The TACT that these cows
could remain on dry feed, without eX-
ercise, pass through the heat of sum
mer, fight such flies as only sand heaps
(on which the barns are built) a pro-
duce, and yet in the last test prove vic
%tolious, is a strong commentary on and
gives an unqualified disapproval TO
those who have contended that the Jer-
seys are "delicate," a lawn pet" or
the rich mans cow" That, after
these unfavorable and disadvantageous
surroundings, the cows from the stable
were able to go into the show ring and
practically sweep everything before
them, attests to their condition after so
long a strain. The Jersey COW a no
longer be called the 60 rich mans pet";
she has proved herself the friend of the
poor man and the mortgage-lifter. She
is truly the dairy COW of dairy cows for
profit.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, q
LUCAS County. %


FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F. j.
CHENEY & Co, doing business in the
city of Toledo, county and state afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of CATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9th day of
L. s.. DecsmS be "A A. Ar D., 1885,
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY 81 CO., Toledo, o.
CO Sold by druggists CAT seventy
five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

this, that a very large number of our
or~chardists have successfully contended
against all their foes, and are reaping
the returns due to arduous and timely
efforts to protect their crops.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

THE times have come when /" eter-
nal vigilance " is not only the price of
liberty, but OF some kinds of food also.
There is hardly a crop grown On u
farms which is free from danger, on
one side or another; and in the matter
of fruits, especially of tree fruits, we
have thrust upon US, within the few
past years, necessities never before
known, or imagined, in the extent to
which they have spread themselves.
To our sheds, full of all sorts of costly
farm machinery, we are now compelled
to add, and apply to use, a whole bat
terry of poisoning apparatus against in
sects of many sorts; and, as if this were
not enough, and too much, also against
insidious parasitic fungi, which attack
us upon every side, and are reinforced
yearly with still more, and worse, of the
same sort. -
THIS is the second year in the last
three in which the apple crop, with
rare exceptions, has been a total failure,
But the former one came on a CLEARING
year." while this n has fallen upon
an loft year." Yet there is a fail
show of apples in the great markets
and prices are not yet so high as the
average appearance of our orchards
would seem to indicate. / judge, from
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

ORDEE your envelopes, note heads, bill
heads, statements, etc, Of the WATCHMAN
job Office. Stock and workmanship always
the best, prices the lowest.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

"
HERE is something from the Home
stead which will interest every dairy
man and woman who has the ambition
to excel: GA yield Of 1862 pounds of
butter per COW in a herd of twenty is
the yearly product obtained by N. d
Potter, a progressive dairyman of South
Coventry, Conn. Here is his system and
its results: IF results are a criterion, the
system appears to be a good one. The
cows are nearly all grade Jerseys, sew
enteen of the twenty being dehorned.
They are kept in milk from l09 TO II
months, being bred as soon as possible
after calving. The plan is TO feed the
cows all they will eat and to feed fire.
q%uently in order that they will clean up
each ration. The grain used is a mix
ture made up of 100 pounds gluten
meal. 200 pounds fine feed or middlincs
and 200 pounds provender. The cows
are fed at four A NJ, with 81 to a
pounds grain, this being the time of the
morning milking, and at six A. NJ. with
twenty-five to twenty-five pounds corn
silage. The stables are cleaned at $50
and the cows let out into a yard aud
watered with warm water. As oon as
this is done, they are fed from three to
five pounds of good hay. At twelve
NJ, the remnants and enough poor hay
10 make about p pounds per COY are
cut up, a tablespoonful of salt and from
3 to 81 pounds grain added for each
COW, which is mixed up with warm
water. AT three P. NJ. another ration
of three to five pounds of good hay is
given and at four O'Clock the cows are
again watered and put up for milking,
when each one is fed 81 TO a pounds of
grain. Six o'clock completes the feed
ing, when thew are given from twenty
two TO twenty-eight pounds of silage."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

Is not the following from the Con-
necticut Farmer, a matter worth the
consideration of all farmers? Do we
pay enough attention to these matters?
Is there not great danger in delaying to
do so? Think it over. st seems to us
that there should be an unwritten law,
as rigid as any edict of the Modes and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

Persians, that no corporation lawyer
should be eligible 10 a seat upon the
bench, or to any legislative or execu-
tive position; that the man in the pay
of the Consolidated road, or any similar
organization, should be thereby de-
barred from any form of political pre-
ferment, and that, above all, with re-
gard to judicial positions, universal
agreement should place them as far be-
yond his reach as heaven is beyond that
of a fallen angel"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

UNDER the title, " Beware the Uog!"
Rural Life prints the following, which
is both important and true as regards
bears, for they are at times quite as
dangerous as bulls: Theodore Louis,
the noted pork raiser, swine editor and
institute lecturer, is entirely disabled,
and from our knowledge Of hog bites in
general, W. fear fatally injured. One
of his large brood sows became enraged
and attacked him. He saved his life
only by thrusting his hands into her
mouth and they were fearfully LAGER.
ated. His pains are eXcruciating. E.
G. Bennett says, the bite of an en-
ragged hog is poisonous, and this should
be known. Our boy has a pet Jersey
calf which was very slightly bitten last
spring and the poison still fingers in
the system and makes life a burden.
A few years ago a neighbor had some
cows bitten by an ugly boar. They
never recovered, but some of them lin
gered along as physical wrecks. An
other neighbor was bitten in one hand
by an angry hog and had a long and
terrible wrestle with death, but finally
recovered. Hog bites are poisonous.
We should not like to choose between
a hog bite and a rattlesnake bite, but,
honestly, the snake has least terrors for
us. 1t is quicker in its work, if fatal,
but lingering torture is avoided aud we
think a cure fully as probable. We
speak advisedly, two members of our
family having been bitten by a rattle
snake, aud the writer was one of the
two.'n -
A WRITER in the Stockman gives its
readers some sarcastic "Don'ts for
Men," which are worth rejecting upon
by all of us: "Don't try to please your
wife. Don't appreciate n thing she
does. Don't ever plan your work so as
to be able to take her to any entertain
ment. Don't help care for the child
rem, that is what you got her for.
Don't fail TO invite company to dinner
on Sunday without letting her know, SO
she can have "A day for rest. Don't get
the bucket of water from the ~cistern
when asked, any one can pump that
half tries. Don't fail to ask your wife
if she wants you to do all the house
work when she asks you to put somt
wood in the stove. Don't neglect ask
ing what she has done with all the egs
and butter money; for it will more thar
supply the table, help pay the hiret
man, get the children's books anC
clothes, etc. Don't wonder that you
food has a peculiar flavor; for it is sea
soDed with blasted hopes, signs of dis
appointment, etc. Don't be surprises
to read that the majority of insan'
women are farmers wives"
Is not the following from the Con
n~ecticut Farmer, a matter worth tn
consideration of all farmers? Do W
pay enough attention to these matters
Is there not great danger in delaying t
do so? Think it over. sit seems to u
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

real power for good in other states. In
Massachusetts, it has certainly great
influence, which politicians respect,
and which tells in a good many ways.
In Connecticut, it is no less active and
influential. In Maine, it i not perhaps
quite so aggressive, and there are some
intimations that it is slightly declining
in its influence, for ibis cause. 1t is a
fact that every organized body Of men
must satisfy the public that it is earn
ing the right to live, or il will be ''struck
with the Spanish mildew," aud Ian
guish more or less slowly until it is
stricken with death. We believe that
if the grange had taken mole of our sug-
gestion, made last year, and established
an agricultural " Bradstre cts IA reg
lister of the character and standing of
dealers in agricultural produce, which
could be done at a very moderate eX-
pense-the grange in Vermont would
to-day be recognized and talked about,
all over the country, and would have
set an example of useful work that
would have notably elevated the state
before the nation as being a commit
nifty of live men. 1t is not yet too late.
A CIVIL engineer, writing in that ex-
cellent paper, the Kennebec Reporter
(printed in our native city of Gardiner,
Me- has the following to say on what
is as widespread a belief as perhaps
any on the subject: " 1t is a common
saying that a gently undulating road is
less fatiguing to horses than one which
is perfectly level, claiming that the al
formations of ascent, descent and levels
will bring into play a different set Of
muscles, allowing some to rest while
others are called into action. This
question was submitted by Mr.. Steven
son, who built the first locomotive, TO
DR.. John Barclay of Edinburgh, and he
reports as follows: My acquaintance
with the muscles by no means enables
me to explain how a horse should be
nor fatigued by travelling on a road
uniformly level than by travelling over
a like space upon n that crosses
heights and hollows; but it is demon
strably a false idea, that muscles can
alternately rest and come into motion
of this kind Since this doctrine is
seen to be a popular error, it should be
rejected, not only because false in it.
self, but still more because it encour-
ages the making of undulating roads,
aud this increases the labor Of horses
and cost of carriage upon them"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22
A YOUNG GIRLS FORTUNE.
AN INTERESTING SKETCH.

Nothing appeals so strongly to a mothers
affection as her daughter just budding into
womanhood. Following is an instance "Our
daughter, Blanche, now IL years of age, had
been terribly afflicted with nervousness, and
had lost the entire use of her right arm. She
was in such n condition that we had to keep
her from school and abandon her music les
sons. lin fact, we feared st. vitus dance, and
are positive but for an invaluable remedy she
would have had that terrible allliction. We
had employed physicians, but she received no
benefit from them. The first of last August she
weighed but as pounds, and although she has
taken only three bottles of Nervine she now
weighs 106 pounds her nervousness and symp-
toms of st. Nitus dance are entirely gone, she
attends school regularly, and studies with com.
fort and ease. She has recovered complete use
of her arm, her appetite is splendid, and no
money could procure for our daughter the health
DR.. Miles Nervine has brought her.
When my brother the remedy
] had no faith in patent medicines, and would
not listen TO him, but as a last resort he sent us
u bottle, we began giving it TO Blanche, and the
effect was almost immediate. Mrs. X. X.
Bullock, Brighton. n. V.
DIR. Miles Restorative Nervine is sold by all
druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct
by The DR.. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind, on
receipt of price, 81 per bottle, six bottles for IS,
express prepaid. 1t is positively free from
opiates or dangerous drugs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22

IT is a pleasant fact to note that the
grange is doing good work, and has
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-11-22


WE %ventured, last year, to point out
a way in which the grange might easily
benefit every member, and attract the
attention of outsiders to its ability to
do good and patriotic work, such as
would convince the public that they
are a business organization, mean bus
mess, and do business. But the gen.
eral outside talk about the grange, when
it is spoken of at all, is, well,
what are those fellows doing, or what
are they trying to do?" The grange
has been in existence in Vermont long
enough so that there should not be a
person in Vermont out of swaddling
clothes who could not give a satisfac-
tory reply to that question.
1T is a pleasant fact to note that the
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-02
Uncle Jacks View of Geography.

When the war ended and the negroes
Cere free there was a great enthusiasm
Tor educating them. One of the first
schools started was built on the edge of
his place by Colonel Trigg, who got little
'schoolmarm," as they were termed, to
come down and teach it. 1t was soon
filled by the colored population, the pupils
ranging from five to seventy-five years, all
studying lab alb, e-b eb." Even Uncle
Jack Scott, the colonel's head man, one
of the old timers, went in, and was trans
ferred from the stable to the schoolroom
but soon dropped out.
1t was several years after this that Uncle
Jack was working one day at water gate,
when the children came down the road
from school. They stopped and peeped
stOlidly through the fence Among them
was Jawnie, Mrs. Scott's hopeful, who
had proved an apter scholar than his
father. His bag was on his arm He
climbed over the fence, and from the bank
gazed down alphabetically at his father in
the water below. Presently he said:
'Oh, poppa, de teacher say you mus git
me geography"
Uncle Jacks jaw set. He dug on as if
he had not heard. Then he repeated to
himself ''Geog' aphy-geog'a Apply. Marse
Conn, whut is dat? Whut is Ceog' Apply"
he asked looking up.
"A geography" said his master. "Why,
a geography is ais book-a book that
tells about places and where they are, and
so on" He gave a comprehensive sweep
around the horizon.
"Yas, sub. Now l understands" said
Jack, going back to digging.
Presently he stopped and looked up at
Jawnie. Il say, boy, you tell de teacher
say you better stick to yo' alb abs and
yo' e-b ebs, an let geography alone. You
knows de way now to de spring; an de wood
pile, an de mill, an when you gifts little
bigger TIE gwine to show you de way to de
hoe handle an de Gavin furrer, an OATS all
de geog' Apply nigger's got to know"
He dug on.-Thomas Nelson Page in
HarDer'S
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-02
Rock Island Brewing Co.

George Wagner. of the Atlantic brewery.
and l. Huber, of the Cisy brewery, ana
Ratble & Stengei of tie Rock Island
brewery. al of Rock Island req ectfulIy
announce to their customers, and the
trade generally. that they have CONSOLE
dated their interests ana have organized
as corporstion undor the laws Of the
state of Illinois. They have adopted The
name of the Rock Island Brewing
Comp any Robert Wagner will be presi-
den. of the new company, Gust v
Stengel will be the vice president. OLo
Huber will Re the secretary snd 'roasur
er, and Gerhard Raihle will be 'he supe,-
intendent. and will especially have c1erge
of the manufacture of beer We think
the forming of this corporation will not
only be for Our best interests, but i, will
also be for the best interests of cur GUS
toners. The united energy and experi-
ence of the new combination will re Civ
en- to producing u brand of beer equal 10
any made in this country. Wherever it is
practicable the olt men who have heen
with US many years and who have been
faithful to their trust will be retained
The new company will not only be pre-
pared to supply beer in large quantities
hut it will be ready at all times on shor,
notice 10 fill orders in quantities to suit
purchasers for tOttled beer. The Old
PROJECTORS who have stood At their post
for MANY long gears mos, cordially thank
thsir friends for the generous patronage
tiey hsve received in the past They teel
assured that this same liocrel patronage
viii be given the new company. The
new incoming PROJECTORS JON them in
wishing all 4 happy New 0=ar. This
c mFaoy will commence business the Il st
Of the new ,ear.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-01-02
Trade Routes to Roman Britain.

The usual sea passages from the CONT
Eent to Britain, Strabo tells US, were those
from the mouths of the Rhine, Seine, Loire
and Garonne, besides that from Wissant,
which Julius Caesar had used. The eX-
ports were corn, cattle, gold, silver, iron,
skins, slaves and trained hounds (Which
the GaGIs used for purposes of wary, while
the imports were ivory bracelets and neck
laces, amber, glass vessels and small
wares. Diodorus, the Sicilian, a contem-
porary of the last writer, informs us that
great quantities of tin were exported from
Britain (Which, by the way, he carefully
distinguishes from the Cassiterides) and
that the people of Cornwall made the tin
into pigs of a knucklebone shape and car
ried them on wagons to an island called
Ictis, which Mr.. Tylor identifies with Benz
bridge in the Isle of Wight, and Mr. Elton
with Thanet. At let's merchants bought
the tin and carried it to the opposite coast
of Gaul, whence it was transported over
land on pack horses a thirty days journey
to Marseilles, Narbonne and the mouth of
the Rhone
The museum in Jermyn street contains
a model of an ancient block of tin, meas
uring feet IL inches long and IL inches
broad. 1t roughly answers the description
of a hnucklebone, although it bears a
much stronger resemblance to one of those
common objects of the seashore called
sailors purses" the four projecting arms
serving as a means of carrying it or lash
ing it to pack saddle. The overland
route through Gaul, which is believed to
have been established three centuries pre-
viously by the enterprise of Pytheas,
Greek of Marseilles, had, so far as Rome
was concerned, superseded the more an
or nj. 1+,N,,s
ern parts of Britain to the mouths of the
Elbe and the Vistula and the caravan
journey across Germany.-Gentleman
Magazine