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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11
FOR SALE.

One Of the finest farms I'm Washington county is
on the market. 1t being the one in Berlin near
Montpelier Junction, known as the " George Shep-
ard farm" II con aims as acres, suitably divided
into pasture, tillhge and wood land. There are Two
sets OF bui dings ON the place, with, never tallng
water at each, Can be easily divided mo TWO
farms, and II so desired will he sold sepa rately or AS
n whole to suit purchasers. On the main. tarm IS .
for 81 head II cattl- and n team. SAID farm Is III a
high state of cultivation and all the buildings are
in the heat of repair. The stock nov ON the farm,
including two pair OF heavy work horses, 81 sheep
and several COWS. together with the hay. grain aud
farming implemt nts, will also be solo with the farm
II desired. For full particulars call on or apply TO
ALBERT 4. Montpelier, VI.
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ALL FREE.-1hose who have used
DR.. Kings New Discovery know its
value, and those who have not have
now the opportunity to try it free. Call
on the advertised druggist and get a
trial bottle free. Send your name and
address to H. f. Bucklen & Co, Chi
cago, and get a sample box OF DIR.
Kings New Life Pills free, as well as
a copy IF Guide to Health ard House
hold Instructor free. All of which is
guaranteed to do you good and cost you
nothing. Go to G. Blakely's drug
store.
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"DoN'T you hear dem bells?" No,
but we did, and it will be some time be-
fore We forget the time aud place. AS
a rule the tinklipg of bells is music in
the shepherds ear. 1t used to be in
ours, says the sheep editor of Dakota
Farmer. We we're told that IL enough
of them we're put on to sheep they
would scare off dogs. We believed this
because 1t looked reasonable, for one
thing, and again because we very much
wished something would scare them
away. So we put on bells-tied little
ones on the lambs and big ones on
their mothers, and on to the largest
wether in the flock we fastened a cow
bell, one of those old-fashioned, deep
toned, far-sounding bells of boy
hood. Here was q " ll-wether " it
would seem one could bet on, and what
ever became of the rest of our fl)ck this
particular sheep we hoped TO have left
to start up with again. But there came
a dark night when there was a fog all
over the land, our pastures included,
and with the fog came a wolf, and
shortly thereafter there was a sound of
revelry by night, insomuch that our
bells did jingle with a great jingle.
And like Horatius at the bridge, we
grabbed a board and a pi,chfork and
got down and out and charged over q
great breadth of Dakota real estate.
We presume that the soil was a Z" dark
friable loam," and that it had a " rich
clay subsoil," but we didn't examine
it; we hadn't time to. We were look
ing for an object lesson in natural his
tory, hoping at the same time to save
the few defenseless sheep without bells.
All this time the deafening clang Of the
wether's bell had supplied fully half the
music for the occasion. But suddenly
it stopped, and 10 a few moments later
we went heels over head across the
PROSTATE form of a sheep and stopped.
AS soou as we could get our bearings
ouce more we looked, and there lay our
wether, with nostrils all wide, but
through them there rolled not the
breath of his pride. Like a St. Louis
wool report, mutton was lower and in
active. In fact there was no life i'll it,
and but little left in us for that matter;
but we struggled 10 u feet, and some
how got the impression that the adj
v~antages of bells on sheep had been
slightly exaggerated.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

ity Of the Indian
proves the poten.
cy of the Indians
medicine.
Indian sagwa
keeps him we'll.
II you feel run
down" or lack
appetite. don't
sleep well. have
q bad taste I'm
the mouth, pains
in any part of the
body, respond to
the cry of nature,
and with Kickn-
DOC Indian Sagwa
clnnnap and for.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

To protect fruit trees from mice is
quite an art. A great many ways are
recommended; but after years of ex-
p%erience nothing has proved 10 US so
cheap and good as the strips of lath or,
for large trees, old slaves tied around
the trees each fall. The strips and
slaves last a number of years, and cost
but a tr.fle. If put on early, a great
many insects take refuge between them
and the trees. As soon as the snow is
nearly gone, we go around and cut the
strings, (only n turn of cotton Irvine
is used) and if the tying on is done
early in the fall a great many insects
injurious TO trees and other vege
tation will be found to have taken
refuge under them; and the strings be-
ing cut, these insects, still torpid, are
easily destroyed by rubbing two strips
together. Each female insect would
have bred dozens to damage the foliage
and fruit; so il is easy to see that this
simple method, besides making every
tree safe from vermin, pays for itself
as an insect trap. We cut the barrel
slaves in the middle, and use them on
the larger trees. Laths are cut in the
middle for parts of the orchard where
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

tify your system and cast off sickness.
Don't delay!
Take the remedy In season. II may save
you a months sickness, n months loss OF
time and a months expenses for a doctor.
Remember, too, that in taking Kickapoo
Indian Sagwa You are not filing your system
with mineral poison that braces you up"
for q while, only to leave you worse off than
before. .
Beware of mineral medicinesi They are
dangerousi They often kill.
Remember, RickdpoO Indian SdgtCG contains
no mineral or other harmful Ingredients" says
the highest and appropriated authority.
Sagwa is Il remedy for all time and for all
seasons. 1t restores tho stomach, liver and
Kidneys to a state of perfect health; and IL
these organs are in good condition you need
not fear disease. Rheumatism, Dyspepsia,
Liver complaint, Disease of the Kidneys,
Nervous troubles, Scrofula, Erysipelas and
all blood disorders are cured and prevented
by the harmless and valuable compound of
roots, barks and herbs.
kickapoo Indian Sagwa.
CIednses, Purifes, Renordtes and InvigorGte
every part Of The human system.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Rl.OO per Bottle; 8 Bottles for $500.
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Naples and Meat.

Agricultural Editor:-Your Randolph cor
respondent criticised my remarks concern
ing maple trees, as / rave the names of
only three kinds on the authority Of Thomp-
son Vermont. Il vas speaking Of trees,
not shrubs, but perhaps a tree is a tree
without regard to size. If so, I was wrong,
as =" Uncle Zadock y gives the names of two
more, viz: striped maple deer PennsylUd-
ntcum) and mountain maple deer M0ntd-
NUM-, but as these were classed with the
choke-cherry, June berry, etc, 1 thought
them not worthy to be rated as trees.
Your correspondent also says only three
are common in Vermont, and names them
as rock, red and striped; in this part OF
Vermont the white is full as plenty as the
red. He also speaks of the striped maple
as being of some note as a sugar tree, but
(as he admits) they attain a height of only
fifteen or twenty feet, and rarely a diane
ter of over four inches. 1t hardly seems as
though they would make a very profitable
sugar tree, even II the sap is sweeter than
that of the rock maple.
Concerning the black maple, | am also in
the dark. Probably most s~ugar-makers
have noticed that there Is once in a while a
maple that has a darker bark than the
average, sometimes nearly black on part or
whole of trunk. Such trees are invariably
thrifty, and extra sugar trees, bnt this is no
distinct species, it being the rock maple;
and / would join with MIR. Bates in asking
IL any one can Tell uS dDOuI u ulsblnCJ spt-
cies of black maple.
/ think now l will change the subject and
write on something that / do know, and
hat is a way to keep through the winter
fresh meat clean and sweet as when first
killed. The first and most important part
is to procure the meat, place it in an ex-
posed place through one night at least, with
the mercury at zero (the colder the better).
In the morning fill a clean washtub, or
some similar receptacle, two-thirds full of
cold water, put in as much meat as the
water will cover. Let 1t remain from three
to five minutes. Take out with a pair of
tongs and place on a board to harden. In
going over the whole in like manner three
times there will be a coating of ice about
half an inch in thickness. When fully
hardened, pack in a large box of straw,
fine hay or sawdust; it will stand a two
weeks thaw and come out all right.
have kept meat in this way till the middle
of April. Dressed poultry can be preserved
in this way, as that will take the ice both
| outside and in. One advantage of icing the
meat is hat it keeps the air from it and
never turns dark on the outside. If a few
straws OF the packing stick to it, a lit
tie warm water cleans it nicely, as they
will only be in the ice. l.. V. Brown.
Eden, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

DR. E. c. VESTS Err n BRAIN TREAT
MENT,a specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Fits, Neu-
ralgia, Hea ache. Nervous PrOstration caused by
alcohol or tobacco: Wakefulness, Mental Depres.
sion, Softening of Brain, causing insanity, misery,
decay, death, Premature Old Age, Barrenness. Loss
of Power In either sex, lmpotency, Leucorrhea
aud all Female Weaknesses, Involuntary Losses,
Spermatorrhma caused by over-exertiOn of brain.
Self abuse, Overindulgence. A months treatment,
81; q for IS, by mail. We Guarantee six boxes 10
cure. Each order for E boxes, with IS. will send
written guarantee to refund II not O. red. Guar
antees issued only by LESTER II, GREENE drug
gist aud sole ageut. ?5 State Street, Montpelier. Vt.
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We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that IA not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and
believe Elm perfectly honorable in all
business ira asactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by the firm.
WEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, Ohio.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system.
Price seventy-ive cents per bottle.
Sold by all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

AT the date of that letter we were
planning and making arrangements for
the establishment of an agricultural
paper in Vermont. We were in the
way of meeting Mr.. Lawrence quite
often, and had ~bespoken his assistance
as a correspondent to the proposed new
paper, the Vermont Farmer-the first
number of which was issued December
8, 1870. AS preliminary to the intro
duction of the grange, the Passumpsic
Farmers Club was proposed, and it
held its first meeting, for organization,
December 80, 1870. The Caledonia
Farmers Club-referred to in Mr.. Law
rence's letter to Mr.. Kelley-was
scarcely more than a name, as it held
no regular meetings for discussion, and
ceased all active existence, we think,
after the organization of the Passumpsic
Farmers Club, whose weekly meetings
were regularly held and well attended,
and the proceedings and discussions as
regularly reported in the new Vermont
Farmer. 1t is noteworthy that in the
same year the Vermont State Board of
Agriculture, and in the preceding year
the Vermont Dairymen's Association,
came into existence. The formal in
stitution of the Board of Agriculture
was chronicled in the same issue of the
Vermont Farmer which noted the or
ganization of the Passumpsic Farmers
Club. Thus the Vermont Farmer was
practically coeval with nearly all the
leading agricultural organizations; and,
in fact, without its aid in giving full,
regular and prompt reports of all their
meetings, their success would have
been much less surely secured. Each
helped the others, and at the end of its
second year the Vermont Farmer had
reached a circulation of over 3,500-al-
most entirely within the state.
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The reports of the weekly meetings
of the Passumpsic Farmers Club regu-
larly appeared in the Vermont Farmer
up TO March "a, 1871, when it was ad-
journed {" until next fall or winter, the
time to be designated by the officers of
the club" On the 18th of April follow
ing, a statement of the principles, and
a copy of the constitution of the Order
of Patrons of H%usbandry, appeared in
the Vermont Farmer-their first publ
cation in any agricultural paper, and,
SO far as we know, in any paper in
New England. The copy fbr this pub
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

IT gets there " every time.-Mr. An
ton Marx, PALS DeKalb street, St. Louis,
Mo-, says: 81 have suffered with rheu-
mstism for the last two years, and have
doctored considerably, but Salvation Oil
is the only remedy that has effected a
cure"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

THE fact is not generally recognized
that succulence plays a very important
part in the cows ration. Those who
feed ensilage are apt to credit the silo
with some power to add to the feeding
value of what is put in it, whereas it
merely preserves its succulent character.
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the snow drifts, and into three equal
pieces to use where it lies evenly.
Push the lower ends Of the strips a lit
tie into the ground, and tie once near
the top. The job is not a big one. Two
smart boys can apply the strips to three
or four hundred trees in a day.
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MANY thanks, friend Brown. In re-
gard to the black maple, w happen TO
be very familiar with it, having had to
depend on it for II maple sugar for
the dozen years we lived in "Old
Kaintuck." 1t is a tree that in every
way resembles our Vermont sugar
naples, except that its bark aud leaves
are of a darker color. But intermediate
forms are abundant. We have sugar
naples here much darker than the ma
jority, while lighter colored trees are
frequent in the South. Gray, our
great American botanist, classes the
black maple as a variety of the sugar
m~aple-there being no differences suf-
fcient to form a separate speeches.
AGRICULTURAL EDITOR.
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BEGINNING so well, it has been
widely queried why the grange in Ver-
mont has, at least to some extent, lost
it's grip. Certainly those who have
been faithful are not blamable for that.
The failure of so many oranges seems
to have dampened the ardor of those
which remain; yet we understand that
most of them are prospecting in a
quiet way and doing much good for
themselves and others. What they
want, and all they want, is some
thing to stimulate interest among the
good farmers generally. Now what
would do this more effectively than the
protective work to which we have called
their atte ntion?
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THE most important business of
American colleges and universities at
present seems to be the cultivation of
aquatics Except as a beverage), base
ball, football, and the suppression of
agricultural education by embezzlement
and misdirection. This work seems to
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-11

SPEAKING of rats and mice, we last
winter dropped the remark here that
we would hardly think of putting in a
silo if it were not for the nuisance of
these vermin, working in and defling
the fodder corn. This winter that
trouble has entirely disappeared. Only
two small mouse nests have been found
in the fodder, so far. And what is
quite as important, there are no mice
about the orchard-all due to one good
Mrs. Cat and her two kittens, now as
large as their mother. We have had
cats before, but never such cats. We
are sure that there is as much differ.
nee in cats as in cows. We grew our
fodder both seasons in our young
orchard of six acres. While getting it
in, in the fall of 1891, we started out
mice by the dozen from every stack,
and rats not a few; and most of them
followed the corn into the barn. The
past fall all that appeared in the whole
of the corn were two mice. These three
cats pay a big interest o. 800 apiece.
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lication was obtained from o. II. KEEL
ley of Washington, ID. c., through
Mr.. Lawrence; and a large number OF
extra copies containing these docu-
ments we're circulated gratuitously by
us. -
THE subject was then left to coax,
until May 20 of the same year, when
an unsigned article (by Mr. Lawrence)
appeared, showing forth the advan-
tages likely to accrue to the farming in
terest from a strong organization, ex-
tending into every state. One of the
strongest points made in this commu
nication was the following: Arrange
ments for detecting and exposing those
[dealers1 that are unworthy; and for
protecting, BY all available means, the
farming interests from fraud and deep
ton" This is ~strikingly in accordance
with our recent proposal that the state
grange should take means for the pro-
lection of its members and other farm
ers from the frauds and tricks of dis
honest dealers and commission men.
Addressing us directly, in this article,
Mr.. Lawrence said: "You speak truly
when you say that the agricultural
papers of the country are remiss in
duty in this matter" If it was true
then, it was still more true for several
years after; for scarcely an sgricul-
tural paper in New England-certainly
meme in Massachusetts or Maine-could
be got to take hold of the movement in
earnest. The grange grew to large
proportions in Vermont, before it got
any strong foothold elsewhere in New
England, and all agreed that this rapid
growth was due to the efficient aid
given it by the Farmer.
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FARM AND GARDEN.

Address al. inquiries or communications In relation
70 agriculture 70 DIR. T. II. HosKINe. Newport, VT.
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HERE is a good way to make a YER
min-proof corn crib, which we credit
to the Stockman and Farmer:
A suitable place to keep corn is a thing
very much needed by a good many farmers.
Annually on some farms enough corn is
destroyed by rats and mice to pay the extra
cost of building mice-proof cribs. Some
build them high off the ground and cover
the posts with zinc or tin, but such a one is
unhandy and unless very high sometimes
doesn't answer the purpose. A good plan
is to build as low as you wish, FIVE feet
wide and cell the bottom, end and top
with any good hardwood lumber and make
good. fitting doors. Now lath the sides and
leave cracks one inch, or a little more if
you wish. Then cover this with good wire
screen of about one-fourth inch mesh. This
can be fastened on by laying it on and nail
ing strips around the edges and across
where it is needed to make it lie down well.
Then paint we'll and you have a crib that is
handy and will save corn as long as you
care to keep it.
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prosper, and will prosper so long as
farmers prefer darkness rather than

prosper, and will prosper 80 long az
farmers prefer darkness rather than
light. -
THE principal difficulty about this
road improvement business now under
discussion is that frst-class roads cost
almost as much as RAILROAD grading;
and IL the ~bicyclists and other tourists
from the villages and cities want such
roads they must not expect the farmers
to foot all the bills. If some method
can be devised equitably to divide the
cost between the villages and cities and
the farming districts, it is certainly
very desirable to have the work under
taken. On the whole, the fairest way
would be to have 1t done under state
control and limited to the main high
ways and mail routes, leaving the by
roads to the towns, as at present. We
think it would pay the state OF Vermont
TO put half a million yearly into such
work. But if undertaken, its distribu-
ton among the counties and towns
should be absolutely impartial. The
fear that this will not be the case Is a
great obstacle in the way of popular IA
vor. The small taxpayers always suf-
fer the most in proportion to their
means from unfair assessments. They
know it; and they know, too, that their
votes will count as much as the rich
mans. 1t is a great misfortune in the
administration of popular government
to have suspicious of unfairness in this
respect so prevalent as they certainly
are. AS remarked above, these roads
are necessarily expensive, both in con-
struction and maintenance. We be-
lieve, however, that if the people could
feel assured that everybody would be
treated alike, and the work not be
pushed too rapidly or eXtravagantly,
they could be got to favor them-on a
moderate scale at irst-and, as cor as
their value is made manifest, would be
glad to see them pushed to completion,
and kept up. But the general feeling
is unquestionably represented by a re-
mark made in our hearing, that "they
may be a good thing, but we can't af-
ford it." Yet these DIRECTORS must
know that they are sustaining their
railroads. The point is to convince
them that smooth and solid highways
will be as great a public benefit as rail-
roads. Where are the orators who can
produce this conviction?