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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01
An Ayrshire Record.

In 1865 Mr.. L. S. Drew of Burling-
ton, VT, selected few Ayrshires of
the choicest breeding in Can ada, and
from that foundation, with the intro
duction of bulls from the choicest fam
lilies, he has steadily bred with a view
OF establishing herd that shall retain
the characteristic type of the Ayrshire,
and has likewise steadily selected as
breeders such as showed large per
centage of cream. In addition to the
periodical cream tests, he has adopted
the daily weighing of each cows milk.
The herd as they stand to-day are, ex-
cept the bulls, all of his own breeding.
Until last year the cows were fed on
hay and light feed of grain in winter,
and in summer on pasture only, with
no grain. Last winter they were fed
one half bushel ensilage once each day,
with eight quarts of bran to cows in
milk, and hay twice.
In 1891 the cows were fed four quarts
bran daily from August 10Th, as the
pasture failed from drouth. The win
ter feed is four quarts bran, one feed of
corn ensilage of one-half bushel, one of
clover ensilage, and one of dry hay,
daily. The ensilage is made from field
corn, nearly matured, with ears of corn
left on. The cows are MIXED in the
stable, the milk carefully weighed at
each milking, and record kept of each
cows milk separately,
Dolly Athol, one of his herd, made a
record of 81 pounds of milk from which
was made two pounds lilo ounces of
butter fat, as tested bV chemical analv-
sis, or one pound of butter to less than
l5t pounds of milk. Her feed was dry
hay and eight quarts of wheat bran.
In the year 1887 the herd of eight
cows averaged 6 lS2 pounds of milk; in
the year 1888, 10 cows averaged 1920
pounds of milk; in the year 1889, Is
COWS averaged $40 pounds; in the
year 1890, II cows averaged COLO
pounds; in the year 1891, II cows aver
aged 6,003 pounds.
The following table gives the record
of the herd for 1892:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

GOOD LooKs.-Good looks are more
than skin deep, depending upon
healthy condition of all vital organs.
If the liver is inactive you may have
bilious look, il your stomach be dis,
ordered you have dvspeptic look, and
if your kidneys be afflicted you have
pinched look. Secure good health and
you will have good looks Electric Bit
ters is the great Alternative and tonic,
acts directly on these vital orgaus.
Cures pimples, blotches, boils and
gives a good complexion. Sold at @.
Blakely's drug store at fifty cents per
bottle,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

RAIN or storm, hail or snow, the let.
ter-carrier must be out toiling along the
slushy streets. His duty compels him
to face the pitiless storm, and rheuma-
tism is frequently the result of such ex-
posture. This, however, may be read
lily cured by Salvation Oil, the best OF
liuiments.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

A watch must keep time
whatever else it does. And
ought to look well, too. Yet
it must fit a moderate purse;
for everybody needs a watch.
The new qntck-wlmasng
waterbury, in coin-silver.
and gold filed cases is as
handsome as a picture.
1t was always an honest
time-keeper. 1t winds in
about five seconds, and has
;eweled movement. Your jew
eler keeps it in several styles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

ture. A man may have mortgaged bis
farm to start boy in business, push.
ing young man may have mortgaged bis
farm to get more working capital, and
scores of instances might be mentioned
in which the mortgage has nothing
whatever to do with the condition OF
agriculture.
HERE is something from the pen of
our good brother Curtis, of the Mirror
and Farmer, which will go to the right
spot in the heart of many readers:
Looking back over our intercourse
with q dead friend or fellow-worker,
we may, indeed, regret that we were
ever betrayed into harsh, or hasty, or
unloving word of censure or criticism
in that intercourse; and we may wish
vainly that we now had the privilege
of saying all the loving words that we
might honestly have spoken while he
was yet with us. But there will never
come into our hearts at such time a
single pang of regret over any word of
impulse or deliberate affection which
passed our lips at any time. We have
reason TO be on our guard in our speech
in most directions; but we can be fear.
lessly free in our loving utterances.
Apart from any question of the good
we do to others by our words of love,
we are personally the gamer, for now
or for hereafter, by every such word
which we speak out explicitly; and we
are sure to be the loser, now and by
and by, from every such word which
we ought to have spoken and failed to
speak"
1T is said that in many respects the
students of agricultural colleges emu
late not only the sports but the rowdy.
ish and ruflianly conduct of the stu.
dents of our literary colleges. This is
one of the evils arising from calling
these farm schools by a misleading
name, and patLerning their courses OF
study and organization after the liter
airy institutions. But we hope it will
be long before we shall hear so vile q
report of the Massachusetts, college at
Amherst as this of the literary students
in the same town. The Springfield Re
publican says: " 1t will cost the Am
herst College freshmen a nice little sum
to settle for the damages they did Fri
day night while having their class sup.
per at Greenfield. They pulled down
several signs, destroyed or carried away
picture cases belonging to Photogra-
pliers Dunklee and Popkins, and ran
away with any quantity of thermome.
tiers, while some of the hotel furnish.
ings were missing from the Mansion
House. Night Policeman Sears has
be n looking up the damages, and yes
terday he sent a bill of about 800,
which Mr.. Staples, president of the
class, said would be paid. There is
also talk of bringing court proceedings
against some of the boys. Some of the
fellows were caught in the act of car
rying off property and there would be
no difficulty in getting plenty of evi,
deuce."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01
Editorial N0tings.

The agricultural editor has returned
from his resting trip, somewhat i'm
proved 10 health, and hopes that the
approaching spring will completely re-
store him to his accustomed vigor. For
more than sixty years he has hardly
known by experience what it was to be
sick; but since the grip took him in
hand, three years ago, and has made
him au annual call since, he has to al.
low that he is not quite 30 rugged as he
was. Meantime, he wishes to express
his hearty thanks to the considerable
number of his readers who have kindly
written to express their sympathy and
good wishes, He would like to re-.
spond TO each one personally, but thinks
that perhaps it will be as agreeable to
all if he puts what strength he has into
his editorial work,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

THE Pewaukee apple, a Russian
seeding, is also becoming quite popu
lar in Maine as productive and sala
bic late fall fruit. 1t is not quite iron.
clad, but will succeed where Red AS.
trachan or the Tolman Sweet does well
and is a very free bearer of large
smooth and handsome fruit. 1t is also
rapid grower and bears young; and
for all but the hardest places it will be
profitable, For those who want an ap.
pie later than the Duchess of Olden.
burgh this will be liked. We think il
would do well about Montpelier. 1t is
just little tender at Newport.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01
FARM And GARDEN.

Address ali inquiries or communications In relation
70 agriculture TO DIR. I. II. HosKIss, Newport, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

UNDER the title " Sunlight for Ap.
ples," Tribune correspondent says:
have in mind an orchard where the
trees, act twenty to twenty-five feet
apart, interloCked their branches within
twenty years, the branches dying year
after year, the trees continuously grow
ing higher, to get to the light, and bear.
ing their fruit only at the top instead oil
all over the tree, as they should, thus
giving little fruit and much trouble in
harvesting it, Another orchard, set the
same way at the same time, passed to
the possession of different owner,
who removed every alternate tree in
the rows each way after they were from
nine inches to one foot in diameter,
leaving only one.fourth the original
number. This orchard is now healthy,
round-headed and fruitful, while the
trees of the other are uncouth, dead.
wooded, without foliage excepting at
The very top, and yield less than quar-
ter as much fruit per acre as the neigh
boring orchard, the number of whose
trees have been reduced three-fourths. :"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

THE Ne,O England Farmer very truly
observes that mortgage statistics do
not necessarily prove anything of the
prosperity or the depression of agricul-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

seem TO know that these will decay,
and they seek more permanent har'
Dor, with the result above mentioned,
when book comes In their way.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

is supposition too absurd to merit con.
sideration. Yet this measure seems Ia
proceed upon that assumption. And in
its sweep it not only makes the federal
government flagrant trespasser on
the rights reserved to the states, but il
strikes at what have always been con.
sidered the most common and inalien-
able rights of citizens Of the states"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

Dor, with the result above mentioned,
when book comes 10 their way.
THERE are quite number of
apples, and probably a larger mum.
Der of pears, which are not re-
liable self.fertilizers, as regards the
pollen Of their flowers. 1t has been
discovered by costly experience that
very little fruit can be got from large
orchards set to such varieties alone.
Only one.third of the varieties of pears
under cultivation (says the Trtbune)
are capable of fertilizing themselves.
1t is far better, therefore, to plant a
mixture of varieties, either alternately
or promiscuously, in order that all will
receive sufficient pollen to cause the
fruit to "set." We have known large
orchards, carefully set out and cared
for, that proved costly failures from a
lack of attention to this fact. Aud
even where Standardization is possible,
or even apparently quite efficient, it
will be better not to plant large num-
bers of single variety of any sort of
fruit together. Nature seems to be
averse to close breeding in trees and
plants, as we'll as in animals.
THE Stark apple is attracting a good
deal of attention as a market fruit in
those northern localities not favorable
10 the Baldwin and Greenipg, yet
where the winters are not so severe as
to require the planting of extra-hardy
or iron-clad sorts. 1t is a tree that
forms nice head requiring little prun,
ing, bears young and freely, and the
apples keep better than the Baldwin
and sell equally well, being about of
same color. Mr.. L. Milliken, in the
Maine Farmer, says of the Stark; I" In
your number of January 5, l notice an
article upon the Stark apple by w. H.
Vinton of Gray. can endorse all that
he says on this apple. 1 find it with
me one of the most hardy trees that
have act in my orchard. My trees have
been set twelve years. They were
small, three-year-old trees when SET;
to-day they are ten to twelve incht g
through. They are free from all scab
and black heart; the wood is as solid
as our forest beech. 1t forms a beauti-
full top itself, aud requires but little
pruning, My trees commenced bear
ing when seven years old, and have
borne heavily every year since. con-
slider it more valuable than the Bald
win. 1t is better keeper. Last year
| sold them in May for dollar and a
half per bushel; they were crisp and
juicy at that time. They color about
the same as the Baldwin"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

THE Horseman, journal devoted to
horse breeding, ostensibly, and to horse
gambling, absolutely, says: J." Wise men
live on fools, just like big & sh live on
little fish. Brethren, let us be wise"
Show this item to your boys who are
getting too horsy. If they are bright,
they will see the point aud avoid the
race.track, II they are foolish, well,
"the fool goeth on, and is punished"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

WE do not think the Ayrshire breed
ers in Vermont are doing all they
should to spread a knowledge of their
stock here at home. Their smallish
teats seem to be the greatest objection
made to them, but these are not so APP
parent in the grades, which often have
merits otherwise equal to the full bloods.
In another column we print, from the
Nep England Farmer, notice of the
long established Ayrshire herd of Mr..
L. S. Drew, of Burlington. There are
a good many nice Ayrshires in Franklin
and Lamoille counties, and we should
be very glad to hear from readers in
terested in this old and we'll estabished
Scottish breed.
THE anti.option bill, which at this
writing February 2O) seems likely to
be passed by congress, is exciting a
good deal Of interest among farmers,
especially in the West. The Spring
field Republican, which opposes it, says
"This bill in effect outlaws the selling of
grain, cotton and pork products for fu.
ture delivery when the seller has not
the property at the time in his posses.
sion. 1t aims to suppress only such
sales as are made with no intention of
effecting an actual transfer of the prop
erty. But to get at these the bill has
had to bring under its ban all future
selling, whether delivery be intended
or not, where the seller does not pos
sess the property at the time. 1t thus
strikes at the great bulk of dealings on
the cotton and produce exchanges Of
the country, and would, if enforced,
wipe these bodies out of existence. 50
extraordinary an interference with trade
within the country has never before
been even limited at in congress. That
these exchanges have grown up in re.
spouse to a legitimate demand can
hardly be denied. That they fill use
ful and Indispensable place in the dis
tribution of farm products would like
wise seem to be evident. That they
are employed in a great measure for
affecting transactions of purely
gambling character is to be admitted.
But that they exist merely to give room
or the exercise OF the gambling instinct
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

Average, s,Ols pounds of the frat fifteen cows
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01
Hoods s s::is. Cures

HOODS PILLS euro liver ills, constipation,
1aundlce, sck headache. Indigestion
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

THE Connecticut Farmer says that
"Chicken-raising has been reduced to
a fine art In Stratford, and several
farmers wives are realizing satisfactory
annual profits from the business. One
farmers wife cleared over 500 last
year in this way in addition to her du-
ties as thorough housekeeper. Others
are making from S25 to $50 year in
the same way" 1t is strange that such
a notice should be given to particular
town, as though chicken-raising and
reproduction were not common avo.
cation on New England farms. But it
is fact that New England imports
about as many eggs as she produces.
1t ought not to be so. Still, it is not
every Yankee farmers wife who re-
duces chicken-raising to profitable and
successful business. Why is it SOP Is
the business less profitable than the
poultry journals tell us?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-01

ture. A man may have mortgsged his
farm to start a boy in business, q push.
ing young man may have mortgaged his
farm to get more working capital, and
scores of instances might be mentioned
in which the mortgage has nothing
whatever to do with the condition of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-14
ON THE PACIFIC.
Loneliness of the Great Expanse Stretch
ing Out from the Golden Gate.

Loneliness of the Great Expanse Stretch.
ing Out from the Golden Gate.
notice an item in the press stating
that the City of Peking in her recent
trip sailed twelve hundred and forty
miles without meeting a single sail,
writes correspondent of the Wash
ington Star. and this fact is cited as
showing the loneliness of the Pacific
ocean. In the summer of 1850 / left
San Francisco on sail vessel former
ly from Baltimore) for Panama, dis
tance four thousand miles, and on the
entire route, which lasted forty-three
days, we never saw sail. Loneliness
is no word for it, especially when we
lay becalmed in the tropics, with our
vessel floating as helplessly about as a
chip on a mill pond, the ground swell
keeping up the monotonous roll of the
vessel from side to side all day and
night, and day after day, each roll be-
ing accompanied by flap of the sails
and a creaking of the rigging that
might have passed for the, flap of the
wings and the wall Of los. spirits,
When we read about Noah and his
ark we are apt to think that he must
have had rather lonely time. but then
he was out only forty days, and be-
sides. with all the animals, etc, en-
board, he had plenty to occupy his
time and attention, and if he wanted
amusement to while away the time tie
had only to start sparring match be-
tween his monkeys and parrots.
True, there is no report of any such
proceedings on his part, but that is
doubtless because there was no mod
ern newspaper reporter on board.
tell you a man cannot realize what
loneliness or comfort IS until he has
made some such trip, and If he wants
TO complete his education in that line
he should preface It with tramp Of
two thousand miles over the mountains
AID across the deserts amid wolves and
wild Indians, as thousands of forty
miners did
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-14
A LUCKY SHOT.
Battle with a Ferocious Panther in tho
Wilds of India.

Battle with a Ferocious Panther in tho
Wilds of India.
A remarkable exhibition Of nerve.
in shooting was given by Col. Night
ingale, famous sportsman of India.
He had got running shot at tiger
from the back of his elephant, hitting
him in the shoulder. The beast rushed
away and made for some bushes one
hundred and fifty yards off, whence
man emerged. The tiger rushed at
him and struck him down. Tiger and
man were in a confused heap on the
ground. At the risk of hitting the
man, the colonel fred, and heard the
ball strike bone.
The tiger, with a roar, rolled off the
man, and plunged into ravine. The
colonel's conical bullet had carried off
the lower jaw and fangs of the brute.
No other shot would have saved the
man, but without jaw the tiger could
not seize him. The man, who was deaf
and moving about the jungle, had only
been scratched by the tigers claws.
The tiger was sought. He was watt
ing to be found, for as soon as he saw
the elephant on the edge Of the ravine
he charged furiously. A ball through
his neck rolled him over and down the
ravine. The elephant was pushed for
ward, and up the slope the furious
tiger rushed. A bali in the chest killed
him.
Hewas an enormous animal, measur-
ing four feet three inches at the shoul-
der, and the length of the skin was
twelve feet eight inches.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-14
THE JAes OF KING uMTAssA.
A South African Chief Who Is Always
Either Drinking or Drunk.

EilleE oT OTuuA.
I have just profted by a holiday.
says a writer in South Africa, to pay
visit to Chief Umtassa, or rather
King Umtassa, as the official dispatches
call him The country belongs to him,
and the chartered company gives him
a yearly present of one hundred dol
lars, and this one hundred-dollar pres
ent was just due. 1t is almost impos-
sible to get a glimpse of Umtassa,
partly because he is such very i'm
portant person-in his own eyes-but
chiefly because his life has only three
phases-going to drink. drinking, and
being very drunk indeed.
We were shown into reception
hut. into which we crawled almost
upen our hands and knees, and we
seated ourselves on mats. prepared to
wal. an indefinite time-for the ''chic"
OF native chief, like that of smart
dentist, is to keep one waiting as long
as possible. After about half an hour
we began to clamor, and then we left
the hut and began to wander about the
kraal-a proceeding which the natives
greatly objected to-and before we
hsd gone far an induna came to say
that Untassa was coming and had sent
present of kaffir beer. So we
scrambled back and sat outside the
stuffy hut,and waited.
At last sort of procession came
winding down among the rocks, some
Of the natives wearing a snuff box and
a catskip, others draped in a blanket
a la Julius Caesar, but none of them
carrying any sort of weapon, with the
exception of a big native who carried
Umtassa's knobkerrie and his battle
AK After this usher of the Black Rod
came Umtassa draped in blue and
white toga, with blue and white cap
on his head.
Much to our surprise he turned out
to be very irnposing-looking person
age. In spite of his excessive dirt he
decidedly possessed what is called lie
grand air, which / take to be produced
by complete satisfaction of ones
surroundings and not little con-
tempt for the rest of the world. Well,
our friend Umtassa gave each of US
very grimy hand to shake, and really
one might have planted a mealie field
under each Of his nails. He then sat
down on his mat, with all his people
grouped around him, and his induna
told our interpreter that he might
speak. Thereupon good deal of busi-
ness was transacted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-14
Queer Dueiing Weapons.

In 1887 curious duel was fought in
Paris, when two rivals met at the house
OF their divinity. After a few high
words an immediate encounter was de-
cided> upon. and neither swords nor
pistols being at hand two ornamental
Of the drawing-room. An adjourn
ment into the garden was made. and
in few minutes one of the lovers
was pierced in the arm by his op-
ponent's shaft. In 1891 a still more
singular duel was fought, the weapons
in this case being umbrellas After a
furious struggle, one of the combatants
fell, run through the eye, and soon
afterwari died