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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

live. There are but few failuresAmopp
farmers, where there has beeny Woence
from early in spring time I'M the
crops are harvested. Stick to the farm,
boys, and make your way to success.
If ten cents worth of feed and labor
is only making eight cents worth of
butter, the remedy lies not in c~utiinp
the expense down to seven cents, but
increasing it to, possibly, fifteen cents,
and thereby increasing the value of the(
product in enough greater proportion
to leave a balance on the proper side.
THOUSANDS toll year after year and
do not seem to better their condition.
From hand to mouth AMI every day
take care of itself, is their rule Of life,
though they see thousands around
them with no better start, engaged in
some industrial pursuit that helps them
along aud places them above penury or
want.
AMONG farmers, the. banding of in
dividuals as a cooperative creamery is
a trust, or partial monopoly, as much
as the sugar trust, or Irvine combine,
aud is entered into with the same OBJ
jects in view-to che pen production
and to benefit its members, saws an ex-
change. But that is not the whole
story, nor half of it. As stated, it is
a lie.
A WESTERN farmer writes: Zone
OF my %neighbors drove seven cows
to the stock yards to sell them for
beef; they weighed 5000 pounds
which weight showed that they were
not poor-and he was offered one cent
and a half q pound for them, or an
average of twelve dollars and eighty
five cents per COW, and he wants to
know how that is for high.
"FRoM the country all are fed" we
say, and, standing, as We do, at the
door of natures storehouse we hand
out the wheat and corn, and beef a1d
pork, the onions, potatoes, and turkeys,
and think we are Chords of all" be-
cause all are fed at our hand: and vet
we may be no more han hotel walters,
who, having fed the guests with dam
ties, take their own coarse food in the
itchen
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A Cows Intelligence.

Colonel |. D. Mcdonald OF Columbia
City, tells the following story of animal
intelligence: He had bought a lot of
stock, including a GOV and calf. The
COW had been recommended as one of
the kindest animals. Its motherly af-
lection for its offspring had more than
once attracted attention. 1t never de-
serted its calf, and anybody that tried
to separate them was met with such
piteous appeals from the elder that no.
body but a hardened butcher could
carry out a design against the younger.
The COW and calf drove along very in
differently with the other cattle until
a deep stream vas reached. There was
no bridge, and the current was very
swift. When the cattle plunged in they
were swept off their feet into deep
water, and a good many of them disap-
peared tor a moment. When the COW
came up her first thought was for her
calf. She held her head up out of the
water and looked about in all direc-
tons. She did not at first see her
calf, because it had been swept several
rods down stream and was struggling in
the water. The mother at length oh.
served this with dismay. Instead of
making for the opposite shore, as all
the other animals had done, she
plunged into the stream and swan
down below her calf, The current drove
the young animal up against the pro-
tecling bulk of the mother. Then the
mother started for the shore, her calf
swimming along side of her in compar-
atively calm water. Some progress was
made in this way; but about the mid
die of the stream the current, striking
The calf in the forequarter, swept it be-
hind the cow and 1t floundered down
stream. The mother once more went
to the rescue. She had to swim clear
round to the other side of her calf, and
this done she had to steady herself in
the stream, treading water to hold her
position until the calf was once more
safely against her side, and the latter
then swan safely to the shore.-IR-
dtdnapOliS NeUS.
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make extra work. Always close the upper
end of tile, that no dirt will wash In.
HERE is the way an Iowa farmer
writes to Rural Life:

HERE is the way an Iowa farmer
writes to Rural Life:
When we got our and in its natural state,
we found It very rich and fertile for the pro-
duction OF all kinds OF grain, and 1t will yet
to a wonderful degree produce the different
kinds of grass, but much OF the land is very
badly exhausted and hardly pays the cost
of cultivation, to say nothing Of the interest
on the money invested in the land and i'm
provements together with the use Of ma
chinery necessary for proper cultivation.
Now, the question how to get a profit by
the cultivation of this WORKOUT land is in
deed a perplexing one, and we all know
that unless some method is adopted by
which better results can be obtained, that
sooner or later the farmer Of such land will
be obliged to sell his farm or let the sheriff
sell it for him. Here we come to an i'm
portant feature in the consideration of this
subject. We at first found our land won
derfully productive, and we did not use it,
but misused it; took off crop after crop, do
ing nothing to make up for the material
taken from the soil.
Now, has a man the right to call him
self a farmer who did not know in the
beginning that all this was bound to
happen? Is a man a farmer who can
not farm without such results, or who
did not know they were sure to follow
his way of 4" farming?
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The Old Horses Thanksgiving.
1 am thankful that l have a master

l am thankful that | have a master.
That he thinks of me once or twice
a day and gives me a drink of water.
That there are still a few boards left
on the side of the stable TO keep off the
wintry blasts.
That the stable roof does not leak all
over, and that can keep an occasional
spot on my body dry.
That l still have one eye left.
That the sores made by the rubbing
of the harness are beginning to heal up
and that they will probably be well by
blowing time ext spring.
That | can stand all the abuse in
tended for the valuable horses and still
live.
That nature provides a heavier coat
for me during the winter to save my
master buylrg blankets.
That my hide is not az sensitive to the
strokes of the whip as it used to be.
That the roaring in my throat pre-
ven's my hearing the curses of my
driver.
That we have flies only half the year.
That there is a solid bottom to the
barnyard, if it is eight or ten inches
under the mud.
That horses don't live to be a hun
dred years old.
That it is past my time for over
check reins.
That the stable has either to be
cleaned out occasionally or moved.
That dry corn stalks will appease the
appetite when I've nothing else to eat.
That humane societies are growing.
in popular favor.
That most good people believe there
is IA "horse heaven" -St0ckman and
Farmer.
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farming at once, and override it.
r. HAROLD, Marion county, Kan.
saws. in Rural Life;

r. HAROLD, Marion county, Kan,
says, in Rural Life;
l see that some of the readers of your
valuable paper are troubled with abortion
among their cows. About ten years ago l
had a herd of very fine grade Shorthorns
which commenced aborting and continued
doing so for about two years. l was com
pletely discouraged, and decided to let the
cows 90 to the butchers block, but as a
final resort commenced feeding bone-meal
in the salt proportions, one of the former
to three of the latter, after which the dis
ease abated and finally ceased. They had
free access to the mixture at all times. If !
ceased at any time to feed the bone-meal
for a few years afterwards the disease would
break out afresh, but as soon as the meal
was supplied there would be no more cases
of abortion, The preventive is very sim
pie but very effective with me and others
of my neighbors who tried it.
AS phosphate of lime has been found
by physicians to be a remedy for this
affection, it is quite likely that bone
meal may be quite as effective. Phos-
pilates are often lacking in the crops of
our older farms.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

Is there much thing done on Vermont
farms? Can any Of our readers give us
any practical information about the best,
easiest and cheapest way of putting in
tiles? A writer 10 the Stockman and
Farmer, under the heading of How to
Tile" says:
The first and most important OF all is a
good outlet. Many have condemned thing
as of no benefit, but when the truth is
learned they have but a poor outlet, caus-
ing tile to fill somewhere aud clog the whole
system. For tools get the best; they are
the cheapest and poor enough. A fifteen
inch spade is long enough, | prefer one
straight on the point for all but last spading,
Last spading should be no wider than to ad-
init the tile. For cleaning loose dirt and
grading bottom ! prefer a half-round scoop,
size to suit the tile to be laid. In laying /
tramp them to their places, lay with hands.
turn to fit, press them firmly with feet.
Tile that will bear a mans weight are all
right. In starting laterals from main drain
turn them down stream. III started at
right angles with main in emptying 1t would
check the rapid flow OF water. l prefer to
lay the tile zach day as dug. In the case
of storms or thaws the banks cave off and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

IT is rather curious that men should
keep on milking cows year after
veal and generation after genera
ton, without any curiosity to under
stand the mechanism of the cows
udder. The study of human physiol-
ogy had revealed the whole secret a
long time ago; but no one seemed to
think that a like organization, acting
under the same principles, exists in all
the mannmdlid-so named for that very
peculiar arrangement for the nourish.
ment of their young. The Farmers
Record of England gives the following
very plainly written and comprehensive
statement:
A COW carries her milk from one milking
to the next, held firmly in little reservoirs
distributed all through the udder. The
valves which open and close the passages
from these reservoirs to the teats are under
the control of the will, but like the muscles
which close the neck of the bladder, they
are naturally and constantly kept closed,
anu AT Ouiy ltldAtu ny a SItNldl tllOlb "
the will. At milking time these valves, by
a relaxation of the cords which control
them, are opened and the milk let down in
a flood into the teats. This relaxation does
not last long. After a little the special eff
fort to hold open the valves ceases, and
they instinctively close again, shutting off
the flow from the reservoirs, and retaining
in them any milk which may not nave
passed out. The habit of not "giving
down - consists in shortening the time Of
this relaxation, thus stopping the flow
from the reservoirs to the teats before the
milk is all drawn. The circumstances
which tend to make a COW shorten this
period of relaxation are rough treatment,
fear, grief, solicitude, loud noises-in short,
anything which attracts attention and
makes the COW uneasy. The things induc-
ing prolonged relaxation are comfort and
quietude, and freedom from disturbance
and excitement, together with the relief
which the flow of milk occasions. When
a cow has from any cause acquired a habit
of shortening the time of letting down"
it is very difficult, and sometimes impos-
sible, to overcome it. The best way is to
avoid all occasions of disturbance, and oh.
serve well those which promote pleasure
for the cow, and to milk as rapidly as pos
sible, consistent with comfort, with a view
TO getting the milk out before the letting
down" ceases. Milking rapidly does not
mean jerking down sharply, or moving
with hasty or irregular motions in the pres
ence of the COW. Such a course would
counterfeit the very thing aimed at. The
motions of the mixer should not be such as
to attract suspicion. They should be DELHI
crate and cool, but nothing should be al
lowed to interrupt or retard the work.
This will produce constant relief to the I'D
der. The mixer should bear constantly in
mind the fact that the Getting down " is
short, and that every moment should be
used to the best advantage. When the
milk ceases to flow the milking should stop
at once, whether it is all out or not. There
is no good in hanging on after the milk
stops coming, as it only cultivates the habit
of holding back"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

DoLEFUL tales are being exchanged
among the farmers attending the ma
tional conference of British agricultur-
ISIS in England. They allude cheer
@lessly to the farms that have been de-
serted, and of agriculture in England
being on the verge of ruin. The gen.
eral concensus of opinion among them
seems to be in favor of a protective
tariff for agricultural products. That
is what our Western states are afraid of.
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AUCTION.

] will sell at public auction on the premises, Tues.
day' January 10Th, 1898, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
the farm and interest In the buildings on said farm
belonging to the 6 tate Of Hannah Daniels, late of
waterbury, deceased, also about ten tons of hay.
Said farm Is situated about two miles easterly from
waterbury, Center Village. and contains ~forty-one
acres l snail also offer for sale at same time and
described farm and ~ undivided interest in the
hosSe ana shed on said farm which is now owned by
me- Terms made known a time of sale,
II. II. II q N AucfoHesr,
Waterbury, VT, Dec. 10, 1892.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

ONE besetting sin of farmers is to
undertake too much work. They will
plant so large a crop that they car only
cultivate it properly if the weather is
such that they can work six days in a
week and fourteen hours a day, and
when there comes a wet month, as is
often the case, so that they can work
the land only n day in three, they are
oon hopelessly swamped.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

Now TRY THIs,-It will cost you
nothing and will surely do you good, if
You have a cough, cold, or any trouble
with throat, chest or lungs. DR.. Kings
New Discovery for consumption,
coughs and colds is guaranteed to give
relief, or money will be paid back.
Sufferers from la grippe found it just
The thing and under its use had a
speedy and perfect recovery. Try
a sample bottle at our expense and
learn for yourself just how good a thing
it is. Trial bottles free at G. Blakely's
drugstore. Large size, fifty cents and
Sl.00,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

IT is wretched economy to plant
cheap trees or cheap shrubs; they need
not be large-generally the smaller
they are when planted the better-but
they should be provided with an abun-
dant supply of healthy roots.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

To all whom it may concern:-A
sprain of the wrist or ankle is not AID
uncommon occurrence. 1t is well to
know that a few applications of Saliva
ton Oil, well rubbed in, will invari-
ably produce the desired result-an en-.
tire cure. Twenty-Five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

SOME time since, the Rural NeU
Yorker had an illustrated description
of a " skunk farm" where the owner
found a good profit in raising this odor-
ferrous live stock on poor, rocky land,
otherwise of little value. The skunks
had to be fed and otherwise cared for;
and if not suddenly startled, or hurt,
were no more offensive than they nat
urally have to be. The idea seems to
have been taken up in the West.
Rural Lire, published at Waterloo,
Iowa, says:
j. /. Friel and brother, farmers living in
Woodbury. county, are preparing to start a
skunk farm in the spring and go into the
business of raising skunks for the profit on
their fur and oil. They have made a good
sum for several years catching the wild
skunks in winter, and as a good fat skunk
is worth from $3.50 to So they are going to
raise them. There is said to be a prosper
Gus skunk farm in Clinton county, Iowa.
Now, boys, don't all rush into skunk
farming at once, and over-do it.
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DIR .E.C c.. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN TREAT.
MENT, n specific for Hystefia, 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. Barr enntss, Loss
of Power In either sex, lmpotency, Leucorrhea
and all Female Weaknesses, Involuntary Loss, s,
SpermatOrrhma caused by over-eNertion of brain,
Self abuse. Overindulgence A months treatment,
81; u for IS, by mall. We Guarantee six boxes to
cure. Each order for 6 boxes, with a5, will send
written guarantee TO refund II not O. red. Guar,
gist and sole ageut. rs State Street, Montpelier. VI.
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GREED for big ~farms-vastly bigger
than they have capital to carry on to
advantage what is the matter with
our Western farmers generally. 1t is
too much the matter even with Eastern
farmers. The same manure will bring
bigger crops at less expense, or one
half the land, and with two thirds the
labor. We got a frst.class agricultural
lecture on that subject a year ago, when
Mr.. Sanford of our agricultural board
made us a friendly call. 1t was the l2th
of December, but the ground was not
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

THEY have an elevator at New
Orleans that has a capacity of loading
into the big ocean steamers II, 900
bushels in an hour.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

THERE are men living who remem-
Der the delight with which the early
settlers of NORTHWESTERN Vermont COM
pared The foS growth and native fer
tility of th/ rt of the state with the
fayIA alive Connecticut. Yet
toFasT H. growing better crops
in Connecticut than are grown, as a
rule. in the "Y"of the Green Noun.
tains; aud this mainly under the school
ing OF Connecticut's agricultural chem
lists, whose instructions, where well
followed, are found to put a new face
upon the farming of the Nutmeg
state" Tobacco farming, fruit farm
ing, onion farming, and other kinds of
high farming, are getting new life into
the old soil-not only in the Connect
cut valley, brt ali over southern New
England. 60
BUT let,us tell you, dear reader, that
the very best portions of New England
are not yet under the plow. All Of
northern and northeastern Maine
twice as large as all Vermont, and all
rich, level valley land-has not yet as
many people in it as one Vermont
county. There is only one mountain
in all that region, and no valleys deep
enough to put that mountain out of
sight. Northern Maine is as good
farming land as the Champlain or Con
necticut valley; or the eastern town
ships of Canada, and the valley of Lake
Memphremagog, Three-quarters of
New England is to-day as valuable and
productive farm land as the average of
the " Great West" But it needs knowl-
edge to farm it to the best profit. No
good tillage land is ever really run out.
Greece has been under cultivation for
thousands of years and her farming is
as poor as ours; but good crops are yet
grown, and farming is still profitable
in G eece. The same is true as to all
of Europe. If the powers Of that Chris
tian continent would disband their ar
mics aud put their soldiers to produc-
tive labor, they would all be as well off
as-well, as our grumbling farmers,
East and West.
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only bare of snow, but dry aud warm
enough to go v the fields in slippers.
Mr. Sanford said: "Why, doctor, you
have land enough to keep fifty cows"
We replied that our ambition at present
was to make it carry half that number.
But Mr.. Sanford's talk, and our own
reflection upon what he said, as well as
what we have heard of his dairying,
convinces us that we, like so many 9TH
ers, are in this respect " land poor"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04
Both Had Eczema
In Its Worst Form
After Physicians Failed, Hoods
SdrsdpdriILd Perfectly Cured.

Great mental agony is endured by
parents who see their children suffering
from diseases caused byimpure blood, and
for which there seems no cure. This is
turned to joy when Hoods %Sarsaparilla is
resorted to, for it expels the foul humors
from the blood, and restores the dis
eased skin to fresh, healthy brightness.
Read the following from grateful parents;
"To C. /. Hood g. Co, Lowell, Mass;
I'VE think Hoods Sarsaparilla is the most
valuable medicine on the market for blood and
skin diseases. Our two children suffered terri
bly, with the
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Worst Form of Eczema

HOOPS PILLS cure liver ills, constipation,
jaundice, sick headache, indigestion.
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GARDEN.
communications in relation
II. HosRiNs, Newport, Vt.
Notings.

liners should be having
lard times. Nor is it not sur
lhg that they should have such
cy5de ideas as many of them are pos
sessei with, as to how the evils that
surround them should be put aside.
We have lived in the Westlong enough,
and farmed there sufficiently to know
that the agricultural conditions of the
two sections are not one-half so differ
ent as they have been represented, and
are supposed to be. There is a very
large amount of as good land in the
East as there is in the West. Prairie
land has as many drawbacks as much
of u billy woodlands. Western lands
run out, and become unproductive I'M.
der reckless, uuintelligent handling,
Just as surely as Eastern farms.
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SOME who have not travelled will dis
pute what we say about the compare
tive goodness of Eastern farm lands.
But the past and present are full of
evidence of the productive value of the
soils of ever our oldest states of the At
lantic slope. There are no better soils
anywhere in the West than the rich
valleys of Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The anne is true of New Yors. As to
the South, there is 10 better land, rat
urally, than the valley and upland
farms of the tobacco any cotton states.
And in New England, though the i'm
mediate sea.coast is rather barren,
even there good farms are to be found;
and the sea supplies not only much
food to the Inhabitants, but much cheap
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BUT we don't want to 60 into the
business quite so big, until we have
had experience. We understand our
orchard work fairly well, having been
at it so long; but big dairying rather
scares us, and we think we had better
inure ourself to it by degrees-or we
may find ourself in trouble. The big
gest trouble is in getting farm help that
is steady, faithful and capable, Men
like that want a " better chance " than
they fAd on farms. But if we can
make our farms pay better, perhaps we
can afford to compete with the cities
for the best help. We don't care how
much We pay a man, if we a get the
money back aud a reasonable profit
from his labor. AS to "cheap help"
in the ordinary sense of the word, the
less we have around the better off we
find o%urself. But the trouble, so far,
has been to get the good man, at e.
so good a price. God does not seem to
make enough of such. The demand
greatly exceeds the supply.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-01-04

OUR experience for the year not yet
expired as we write, shows us that we
can CROWN corn fodder so good that
the cows eat up every scrap of it with
out even the trouble of cutting it for
them-more winter feed for our cows
on four acres han our whole thirty
acres of moving yielded the past season.
This fodder was grown in a young
orchard, leaving about ten feet bare
for each row of trees; and these trees
made an average new growth of nearly
two feet. That is easy farming, COM
pared with the old way. And the COWS
are doing better than on hay with
grain. We don't see, now, why we
couldn't go out and buy up enough
heifers to make up the fifty that Mr..
Sanford spoke of, if we only had the
barn room for them and storage for
their feed. -