The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-09-13

1919 q parliamentary COmullsslou III
England, of which the Duke of Rich
mond was chairman, comforted the
farmers by assuring them of a good
time to come. Wheat could never be
grown in the United States, the COM
mission declared, and delivered on the
quay at Liverpool under forty shillings
per quarter. The competition of the
United States, therefore, could never
bring the price which the British
farmer would receive for his wheat be
low S1.25 per bushel. No. 2 American
wheat is now selling in London at
seventy-nine cents a bushel, and the
sale at that price is enormous. The
prophecy of the Duke of Richmond's
commission has failed. The commits
sion could not foresee that American
farmers would be compelled to sell their
wheat at less than cost. That the
American farmer would never be able
to produce wheat and deliver it in Liv-
erpool for less than the price named
without sustaining a loss is probably
entirely correct. The Mark Lane Er.
press, the organ of the agricultural in
terests in England, is now demanding
another commission to inquire into the
cause of agricultural depression, and
the government has promised to issue
the commission. In the mean time"
says the Mark Lane ETpreSS, the
government ought to hurry up. The
statistics of bankruptcy show that in
the first six months of this year the
bankruptcies of farmers are forty per
cent greater than in 1891"
HAIR balls in the stomachs of cattle
are sometimes found of considerable
size, and it has been noticed that such
cattle are always unthrifty. This has
been urged, and we think fairly, as a
reason for carding cattle. Perhaps the
following notice of the effect of swal-
lowing such indigestible matter upon
the human subject may contain some
instruction to owners of horned stock.
DR.. Galen Wilson is quoted as saying
of a patient: "The subject was a
maiden lady of thirty years. For the
fifteen previous years she had been
sickly, and at times in great distress.
She consulted various physicians, but
received no help. She spent some
months at the Evansville On. " water
cure. subsequently she passed sew
eral months at the establishment of DR..
Dio Lewis in Boston; but received no
relief anywhere. Practicing medicine
then (1S6S) 1 was called to attend her.
1 diagnosed the case as cancer of the
stomach. The ensemble of the symp-
toms surely indicated it. But she grad
ually sank and finally died. The i'm
mediate cause of death l certified as
nervous exhaustion The distress
ing pains that woman endured were
awful. The post norton revealed the
presence of a ball weighing about three
fourths of a pound. 1t could not be
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to sever it. 1t was found to consist of
pieces of slate pencil and clay, inter-
twined with hair, and all firmly &C.
mented together with dried mucous"
THESE morbid tastes, both in human
beings and animals, are in most cases
unq~uestionably due, primarily, to IN
wholesome conditions; though in hui
man beings they are often charged to
" eccentricity." But eccentricity must
have a cause, and that cause may well
be chargeable to unhealthy diet and
unsanitary surroundings. 1t is best in
all cases to provide an abundance of
wholesome food, pure air, and both
outdoor and indoor exercise and rec
reation. This last word recreation
has more meaning than is commonly
attached to it. All parts of the body
muscles, bones, brain and nervous sys-
tem-are being constantly worn out
and renewed; and unless care is taken
that the proper materials for this tree
reation " are provided, health cannot
long be retained.
OUR longtime and highly
friend, E. S. Carman, editor of the
Rural New Yorker, has for many years
given great attention to the culture of
the potato, and has himself originated
many excellent varietles-perhaps the
best known of which, the Rural New
Yorker No. 2, is now being very ex-
tensively planted in our neighborhood,
as well as elsewhere in Vermont. 1t is
the only variety we know of which
yields practically no understandable
tubers. In two barrels we did not find
a double handful too small for ship
ping. Recent experiments of Mr..
Carman seem to indicate, very clearly,
that in order to increase our yield of
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