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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
Clipped and Condensed.

If you have an enterprise before you,
Try it in your old clothes.
No sow, however well bred, is apt to
ever get over the i'll effects of too young
breeding.
IF ever any one helped to make the
living and get the home, it is the farm
er's wife.
Docs as draught animals are utilized
extensively in Germany and other parts
of Europe.
The same food given to good cows
will produce about half as much butter
as it will of beef if fed to steers.
MILK powder, or solidifed milk,
promises to become a standard dairy
product, as condensed milk now is.
ANY sudden decrease in the flow of
milk can generally be regarded as a
symptom of disease or trouble of some
kind.
THE cow is more sensitive to slow
milking and dallying than many sup
pose. Be regular and thorough, but
be quick.
THE body of the fowl must be prop
erly nourished before eggs can be pro-
duced, for eggs are the product of the
surplus food consumed.
THE dairy industry, like all others, is
not paying as well as it should, but this
is not time to give it up, for it will be
as profitable as ever.
IT is of special importance that good
butter shall be put on the market in
attractive form, and there is consider
able room for improvement.
A HoRsE-THIEF with two hours start
aud a swift mount was overhauled
and captured by two policemen on
bicycles in Pennsylvania the other
day.
Don't use the words spar encellence,"
unless you know just what they mean.
They are constantly misused, even by
writers and in papers that should know
better.
If your horses indicate tired feel
ing, unless they are naturally lazy, you
will probably find their digestive or
gans in bad shape. Give easily. digested
food and rest.
ALL animals purchased for breeding
should be as near as possible the stand
ard wished to be produced, and should
| be selected from the best producing
lines of blood,
LESSEN the cost of production by
having better cows, longer milking
season and cheaper ration; in real
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
Corn Ensilage versus Timothy Hay.

Agricultural Or:-Some farmers
depend too much on timothy hay, or
hay made of mixed grasses. There are
probably no farmers who depend too
much on clover hay. There is reason
for men who occupy grass farms and
who have no corn land to raise common
hay, but ! expect such farms are less
common than is geu orally supposed. |
could give an instance of man who
began thirteen years ago to raise corn
on grass farm. During the first ten
years he met with many failures and
losses; now he is having gCo1 success.
But there are great many farmers
having light soil, or land better fitted
for corn and grain than grass, who per
sist in gro~ing light crops of grass,
when they m ght be growing heavy
crops of corn. Many farmers are Civ
ing up growing small grain. They say
it costs too much to get it threshed, and
it hardly pays to grow wheat in Yer
mont. But corn is steadily growing 10
favor, and have heard more than one
man say, " | wish | had put in more
corn" New silos are being put in
every year, and winter dairying is stead
lily increasing. But where there is one
silo there ought to be twenty, and win
ter dairying ought to crowd out the
wasteful summer dairy. Why should not
corn on most farms come to be the main
crop, and grass, espe cially timothy, take
a back seat? Most farmers think fan
too much of grass, make it their main
fodder crop aud then if there is g
dry spell in June so that the grass
crop is light, they are short for hay, and
suffer loss. Study the modern dairy
rations and see how small place com
mon hay has. Forty or fifty pounds
of ensiage and four pounds of hay are
the usual proportion. AS rule, corr
is far surer crop than grass. The hot
dry weather which spoils the grass i;
just suited to corn. And now that fer.
tilizers are so commonly us in the
hill, a cool, backward season does no
have so bad an effect on corn. Enough
manure and thorough ti!lage make corr
as sure a crop as we have. l thinl
that there is no question but that the
best way to take care of crop of corr
is 10 put it into the silo. 1t is too late
in the day to seriously doubt this.
j. w. NEWTON.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
Mothers Hymns.

flushed those lips their earthly song is ended
The singer sleeps at last:
While sit gazing at her arm chair vacant.
And think of days long past.
The room still echoes with the old.time music,
AS, singing soft and low
Those grand, sweet hymns, the Christians conso.
lation,
She rocks her to and fro.
Some that can stir the heart like shouts of triumph
Or loud-toned trumpets call,
Bidding the people PROSTATE fall before him,
"And crown him Lord of ALL"
And tender notes, filed with melodious rapture,
That leaned upon his word
Rose in those strains of solemn. dcep affection,
Glove thy kingdom, Lord"
Safe hidden in the wondrous Rock of Ages
She bade farewell to fear
Sure that her Lord would always gently lead her.
She read her title clear.
Joyful she Z" from Greenland's icy mountains -
The gospel flag unfurled;
And knew by faith the morning light was break.
ing"
over sinful world.
"There is a fountain" how the tones triumphant
Rose in victorious strains,
Filled with that precious blood for all the ran
somed,
Drawn from Immanuel's veins"
Dear saint, in heavenly mansions long since folded
Safe in Gods fostering love,
She Joins with rapture in the bssful chorus
OF those bright choirs above.
There. where no tears known, no pain nor sor
row,
Safe beyond JOrdan's roll,
She lives forever with her blessed Jesus,
The lover of her soul
-EmUy greene Iretherbee in Boston .iournal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

On the other hand, the Iowa Crop
Bulletin, issued weekly, says, under
the last August date, that "corn is
making good progress, but rapid ma
turity is retarded by cool nights. Rain
fall amply sufficient to insure good
crop of this staple, except in few
counties in north, central and northeast
portion of the state"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

A RECENTLY-DISCOY method OF
combating insect pests is the introduce
ton of contagious diseases among
them. In this way the destructive
chinch bug is now being fought and
destroyed in Minnesota. Rural Life
says: "The disease seems to be a sort
of leprosy and more contagious than
any malady known to afflict the human
family. Directly a healthy bug comes
in contact with a diseased bug white
spores begin to form upon its body, aud
within forty eight hours it is an inani-
mate mass of white spores. The power
of ravaging corn fields has been de-
stroyed, and the body of the defunct
bug becomes new source of infection
to healthy survivors. The disease
spreads very rapidly in wet weather,
when the little creatures become pre-
disposed to the disease. Professor
Snow of the University of Kansas has
kept the disease in existence for some
years, as it is generally regarded as the
most eflicacious method of dealing with
the chinch bug known to science"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

the last of all flowers to mark the floral
year. 1t is not uncommon to find a
Golden Rod in bloom when some trees
have been wholly bereft of foliage
indeed sometimes the wind-1rifted
leaves will gather in small hillocks
about the Golden Rods, leaving the
spikes of the flowers like little flags fly
ing from the tops of the mounds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

Now that this idea has been shown
to be success, we trust that its appli-
cation will be rapidly extended. What
blessing to farmers and gardeners
would be this power of introducing
fatal diseases to the potato bug, the cur
rant worm, the cucumber bug, the
curculio, the bark louise, the apple.tree
borer, the two apple worms, and twenty
other insect pests that every year null
lily, to a great extent, the patient
labors of the farmer and gardener.
This is the most brilliant idea of mod
ern times, and ought to be worked for
all it is worth without moments
delay.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

DESERVING PRAIsE.-We desire to
say TO our citizens that for years we
have been selling DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, DR.. Kings
New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve
and Electric Bitters, and have never
handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal salts
faction. We do not hesitate to guaran-
tee them every time, and we stand
ready to refund the purchase price if
satisfactory results do not follow their
use. These remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their merits.
They are sold by G. Blakely, druggist,
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

MANY farmers are not quite satisfied
with their own way of curing meat. A
correspondent of the invaluable Stock
man and Farmer gives the following as
a tested method: "Some years ago
came across the following recipe for
curing ham and shoulders. We have
tried it often and can recommend it as
trustworthy. 1t is as follows: For
every one hundred pounds of pork take
eight pounds of good salt, two pounds
of brown sugar, two ounces of saltpeter,
one and one-half ounces of potash, four
gallons of soft water. The brine must
be boiled and cooled. The meat should
lie in cool place fer three or four days.
Rub each piece with good salt and pack
the whole down. Let it remain for two
or three days, according to the weather.
The brine should then be poured into
the cask at the sides. Leave the meats
six weeks in the brine. Take out and
rinse in cold water. Hang up to dry
four or five days, then smoke with cobs,
or maple chips"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

ARTEMIsIA SANTONICA, known COM
monty as "wormseed," from which
chemical preparation called santonin is
made, has long been known as good
vermifuge for humanity; and now it
is recommended as safe and sure one
for domestic animals. A correspondent
Of the kentucky Horse Farm, as quoted
in the StOckman, says: "Owning a
horse that at one time was continually
passing The variety known as the long
white worm, | used faithfully great
many remedies, all of which brought
many worms away; but after time
the worms would again appear. / re-
solved to try santonin (he active in
gredient in wormseed), as | knew it
was in good repute with the medical
profession as worm destroyer, and
had always served well. | gave the
horse a drachm of santonin with each
feed for one week, waited one week and
repeated it, and since that time the
horse has never shown the least sign of
them. / have used it in many cases
since and never knew it to fail.
have never followed it by physic, which
/ should deem very important, unless
the second course is given at the end
of week, when the eggs have hatched
that were deposited before the first
course of medicine was given. BY Civ
ing brisk cathartic after the first
course of medicine has been given, the
larve, possibly with the unmatched
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
FARM AND GARDEN,

Address all inquiries or communications i'm relation
to agriculture to DR. T. H. HosK1Ns, Newport Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

BUT "what would you do with them
in grass?" some one may ask. Well,
we would kill the grass first by blowing
and cultivating, and then kill the milk
weed as above. There is something
more worth knowing about both these
weeds, they will both run out" in
time, unless the place where they grow
is rich, and is kept so by wash from
higher ground. Both plants are gross
feeders, and soon exhaust the soil
where they grow, unless it gets added
fertility by wash. Some twenty years
ago, the high railroad dump between
our old farm and Newport village got
well seeded, from somewhere, with
Canada thistles; and no crop ever
flourished better than they did for fl we
or six years. Then they began to run
out, aud we have seen no thistles there
for number of years. We have seen
rank beds of milkweed meet with the
same fate. Like most plants which in
crease freely from the roots, both the
Canada thistle and milkweed seem not
to produce much good seed. Still, it is
best to NOW them until we get ready to
give more thorough treatment, which
must be the Bible rule for the treat
ment of witches.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
Projectors, Toledo, O

cured by taking HaII7S Calarrh cure.
f. j. CHENEY 81 CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known f.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions 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-6ve cents per bottle,
Sold by all druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

THE western corn crop is reported
to be unusually short, and the COM
mercial prints are being charged with
an attempt to suppress the fact. 1t is
said that "Mr. Prime has for many years
given the Chicago Tribune report of
the state of the crops, except on ex-
tremely rare occasions, and these when
a correct statement would be sure to
affect prices in one way or the other.
In Saturdays issue of the Tribune, a
large majority of intelligent readers
sought Mr.. Primes report, and it could
not be found, neither was there, as
usual, an editorial headline mention of
it, 1t is hard to believe otherwise than
that the report was suppressed, because
it would have produced a sensation in
commercial circles and business cen
tiers, since it would have made known
the fact of corn crop failure, of alarm
ing proportions"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

A RECENT writer, speaking of the
Arabian horse, good specimens of which
are rarely seen in America, says:
"There are no horses in the world, it is
believed, that have SO much poetry at
tached to their name, says a writer in
an exchange, and in most respects are
so worthy of that distinction, as the
horses of the Arabian desert. 1t is not
alone that they are graceful, beautiful
and fleet, but they possess another
quality which lifts them so far above
all others of their kind as to render
them well-nigh a race apart. 1t is
their wonderful instinct and intelli-
gence. This quality is undoubtedly
developed by their having been for
countless generations The intimate
friends and constant companions of
their owners. In fact, they are mem
beers of the family. The women feed
aud pet them; the children make them
their playfellows, and their masters
caress and talk with them until they
do everything but speak in human Ian
guage. No doubt these superior quail
ties soon disappear under the restraint
and training of civilized man, until the
animal has little affinity with his broth
ers of the desert. No one can have
read the story of the chariot race wor
by Ben Hur without being captivateC
by the picture of those wonderful ami
p,o1o
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria
CHILDREN Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

CHICKEN houses that are not rat
proof are of very little use. The New
York Eraniner gives the following di-
rections for making them safe: Coal
ashes and freshly slaked lime make a
floor that will defy the rats. Take
twenty or thirty bushels of ashes just as
they come from the heap, cinders and
all. Add to this one bushel of fresh
lime, in liquid form, just after shaking
Mix thoroughly with hoe. Make the
floor foot thick, or even thicker. The
stuff is cheap. Ram hard with heavy
hammer, at least three times, on differ
ent days. This same process carefully
performedIwill make a cellar floor that
can be scrubbed"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
Editorial NOtings.


Well, we can only say how we have
handled it,, which is about the way we
handle the Canada thistle, and all deep
roofing perennial weeds. The remedy
is perfect, if perfectly followed, for every
weed of this class; but if carelessly
done, or half done, is proportionally a
failure. To begin with, let us state a
principle of all plant growth, which is,
I" no life without leaves" The leaves
are the lungs of plant, and without
leaves any plant must " die for want of
breath" the same as cat held under
water, but not so quickly.
WE had large patch of milkweed
where we wished to plant an extension
of one of our orchards, dozen years
ago. The whole piece was plowed,
and planted the first year to potatoes,
and afterwards TO beans; and is still
growing beans, although the apple
trees have now come to bearing. Wher-
ever a milkweed stalk came up (having
first dug up all the roots that could
be reached by a long nursery spade)
the milkweeds, and all other weeds
were hoed thoroughly (not even the
least little one 10 spare) so often that
they never succeeded in spreading even
square inch of leaf to the sun. OF
course the potatoes and beans had to
be sacrificed also, when the milkweed
came up amongst them. The second
year, the crop of nilkweed looked
rather wee" but we didn't pity it one
little bit. The third year, only few
weak sprouts came in sight; but we
were watching for them, and they did
not draw more than two or three
breaths before they were severed from
their roots,-and we pretty nearly
smothered them out that year. Deep
digging showed that most of the roots
were dead and rotten, but not all. Here,
most men would have stopped and
in another year the milkweed would
have g 1lourished like green bay tree"
for hard discipline short of death seems
to agree with perennial weeds,-we sup
pose because when they are too thick
they act as weeds to each other. But
we went for them like Scotch Gov
enanter for papist,-we did not suffer
leaf to live; and in the fall the bed
of mikweed was about dead. Another
year finished them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

IT is of course best to market our
butter as soon as we can get salts
factory price for it. This is the general
view of the subject, but it is we'll to be
reminded of some points in this connec-
ton which many forget, and some do
not know. 1t is generally thought that
brine is necessary to keep butter, and
perhaps brine just strong enough not
to freshen the butter may be desirable.
But water alone is perfect preserva-
tive, if cold enough. That excellent
magazine, Meehan'S Monthly, brings to
mind the many cases where very old
butter has been fished out of wells in
perfect condition. "These Jumps of
butter, in many cases a century old,
were found just as fresh and good as
the day they were churned. Kept from
the atmosphere, no parasitic fungus
could attack it, Recently butter has
been found at the bottom of boys in
the Old World. 1t is believed in some
cases to be nearly thousand years old
and yet entirely fresh and good"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

Now the Golden Rod is in its prime.
The same magazine tells its readers
truly that the number of species of the
Golden Rod is very large, and some
one or another may be found in every
variety of soil and situation. 1t makes
no difference whether we are in the
swamp or on the rocky hill side, by the
stream or in dry places, in the woods or
out in the open meadow, it will be
strange if some species of Golden Rod
be not found among all the autumn
flowers. Some commence to bloom in
September, others continue until No
vember, and very often they are among
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20
HOw's This e?

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO.,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-20

eggs, may be entirely removed, and
in that case no second course of santo-
min would be required; but if all the
eggs and all the Larvae are not removed
no cure will be made, and on this &C
count the second course is quite essen
tial 10 effect permanent cure. Con
sidering one drachm (sixty grains)
dose for ten to twelve hundred pound
horse, colts should be dosed according
to their weight. l deem it essential to
give the food to the horse at three
stated periods, and the medicine given
at the same time, and not allow the
horse to have access to hay or grass be-
tween stated times of feeding. In this
way the worms must get their modi-
cine"
THE sheep farmers in Maryland seem
to be pretty well reused up on the
sheep question, and it is quite time
they were. 1t is the same in every
other state. Not one of them, so far as
we know, has really effective dog-!aw.
The Baltimore Sun says: "The eX-
pressions of opinion come from various
sections of the state, and are unanimous
in the view that Maryland is eXcellently
adapted to this industry, and that if
proper protection were afforded il could
be made an exceedingly profitable one.
The only obstacle in the way is the
dog, and up to this time he has proved
sufficient to check its development, and
in many sections to prohibit it almost
entirely. There is no phase of modern
civilization that is more extraordinary
than that which is presented by the
sheep-and-dog question, as illustrated
in practice and in contemporary legisla-
ton. There ia absolutely no question
that there is profit, and large profit, for
the farmers in sheep-raisipg, and that
protection against dogs is all that is
necessary to open the way to its sue
cessful prosecution, and yet they allow
themselves to be cut off from source
of sure and handsome revenue because
county politicians and their represent
atives in the legislature have not the
courage to adopt and enforce the proper
legislation"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-09-07
CAREER OF CRIME,
A Famous Horse Thiof Must Suffer tho
Penalty of Crime

BENNINGTON, Aug. 30--County Sheriff
H. l.. Wilson leaves tomorrow for Clinton
n. Y, for the purpose of receiving and re-
turning to this county Henry l.. Sargent,
against whom there are two indictments for
horse stealing, and who will have his trial
at the December term of the County Court.
Sargent will complete a four and one-haf
wears sentenao at tho Dauemora prison for
horse stealing September /.
Sargent was known few years ago as
the most adroit horse thief in New England,
and in addition to his present term in Dan
emora has served one term in the Massa-
chuserts prison.
His operat in this section began about
the year 1873, when he came to SALISBURY
and went TO work on coal job. During
the absence o: the family with which he
boarded, their house was broken open and
all of their furniture taken away. The
theft was traced 30 Sargent and he was
placed in the jail here from which he SO IN
| escaped.
Five years later well dresse d man ap-
peared in Ceutre SALISBURY with half a
dozen horses which he offered for sale cheap
Clark Stone had him arrested and brous bit
to the jail bore when he was identified as
| the Sargent who had escaped several
years before. Stone advertised the horses
and owners for every one came.
and identified their property.
Sargen tinext stole a horse in Massachusetts,
and served a torn in the Charleston prison.
In 1899 he stole a valuable tsam from
| Clark Stone and three weeks later team
from O. Huntington. Three days later
Detective Abbott of Boston arrested him
after desperate fight As soon as his ar
rest was known officers from several places
came with charges against him. He had
stolen pair OF horses in Cambridge, n. Y,
and was taken there, tried and sentenced as
mentioned above.
Sargent is desperate man, although
quite lame the result of the shooting by
the Boston detective. He will be carefully
watched while In the jail here, and no OPP
portunity given him to escape from it u
third time