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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29

Having had an aggravated case of eczema on
aukle and knee of two years standing, I was To-
dnoed to try your CUrIcURA REMEDIES, which nave
entirely CURED me-. / would with confidence recon
mend them TO others s.p iierly afhicted.
j. CARTER, l0l Z. l2sd street, New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29

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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29

tbree weeks use Of the CuTIcURA REMEDIES IL was
cured. / did not think CUTrcUHA, would amount 70
much. but the result has changed my mind. l VIII
never be without them.
W. 4. BANG, ia William st., Newark, n. j.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29
ATHLETIC ARENA.

A Lively Fight Expected AT The A.. "A. U
Meeting Today.
The legislators of the Amateur Athletic
Union will have a lively and protracted
session today. Charges have been for
INFLATED by President Curtis against the
Atlantic Association. and will submit
them with proofs. and expects to have
them suspended and debarred from q
voice In the Union, which will convene
after its legislature has adjourned. Tn
trouble between the national body
aud the Atlantic branch is due
70 the disregard of the
order of the latter, directing the reinstate-
ment of two Pitts ourg athletes, who had
been suspended by the Atlantic Assoc!a-
tion. The latter ignored the Union until
The term OF the suspension imposed by
them had expired. The Atlantic Associa-
ton to avoid trouble, held a meeting last
night, and declared the meeting held at
the Colonnade Hotel illegal, BIS a quorum
was not present.
This consequently utilities the charge
made by the Amateur Athletic MO
that the Atlantic Association had refused
and De Paul, the Two athletes OF the
Pittsburg Athletic Club. The commune
cation from the A. A. u. was received
and ordered to be filed.
The officials of the Atlantic Association
claim this clever move disposes of the
charges of the A. "A. u, as IL removes the
INSTRUMENTATION.
Treasurer Curtis will be inclined to re-
gard this as @ trick. 1t is a CO mplete
backdown. but they managed to shut
OUT the two athletes for six months.
'che Lorlllard A. g. is only sleeping, re-
marked one of its once active officials.
They will be heard from when they begin
to make arrangements for their field
meeting on July q.
The wife of Secretary Sullivan of the
Amateur Athletic Union is on a trip to
the west. She was recently extended the
privileges of the Denver Athletic Club
and visited that institution. In q letter
to her husband Mrs. Sullivan says that
the Denver athletes have q clubhouse Of
which they can justly feel proud. The
wife of the Secretary Isl great admirer of
athletics and has only missed on CHAM
pionship meeting in ten years.
The Athletic season will open at Bay
onne City, N. j., on Decoration Day. May
30. The New Jersey A. G.. will on this
day hold its annual carnival Of sports,
and from the arrangements that q
been completed oy the Athletic Com
mittee it will no doubt be superior to any
heretofore given by that prominent or
~ganization.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29
Cutioura ResoIvent

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CUTIcURA. the great skin Cure, and CCTIcURA SOAP,
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species of agonizing, itching, burning. scaly and
pimply diseases of the skin, scalp and blood,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29
Strikes, Spares and Breaks.

The Jersey City team will bowl two Y. M. c:
A. League games this evening on the alleys OF
the Eighty. sixth street branch. The Central
and Institute teams will meet on the former 8
alleys.
The second game in the series of three
bowling matches between the Arion and the
Berkeley bowling teams will be bowled on the
alleys of the latter, next Thursday evening.
The Berkeley Club having won the first, much
interest, is conferred on the coming game. as it
will be the last ii the Berkleys win.
The county. tourney will close next Thursday
at the Assembly Rooms alleys, Hoboken. The
Spartans have won the first honors. They have
a clean record of victories.
The McLaughlins closed their season on We'd
pesday evening, and had a merry time.
The game for the second place in the Wheel
mems League is of. The Jersey City A. G.
wheelmen and Brooklyn Bicycle Club tied for
the second honors.. A game was arranged. but,
at the request of the Brooklyn team, 1t was
postponed. The j. {. A. G. boys communicated
with them, asking them to fix the date, but they
have received no reply, and have concluded
that there will be nc game.
lzNo games were bowled last night In the in
diyiduaI tourney at the Peoples Palace alleys.
The alleys were almost deserted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
Putnamsville, VT.

NOTE BY AGRICULTURAL EDIToR.-
The Wordens, referred to by A. G. w.,
were, no doubt, true. Worden is fine
grape of the large class just littlo too
late for northeastern and central Yer
mont. Jessica we have not seen. The
Delaware ripens with us, not perfectly
but so as to be very eatable, in all but
the poorest years. We have some new
early sorts on trial which we expect to
get fruit from next summer. One OF
these, Diamond, produced little fruit
last season, and appears to be as early
Gf not more so) as Delaware. Early
Ohio is also a very early grape, but
rather too foxy, like all of the descend
ants of the native New England grape.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
Grapes In Vermont.

Agricultural Editor am glad that
the grape question is to be discussed,
and hope that some of us may learn
something about grapes. The Cham
pion is the only grape that has ever
ripened here, and from E. r. Towle's
description of his Worden l should
think it to be Champion. The grapes
that have eaten as Worden were very
large, and very sweet grapes-the
largest and the sweetest grapes ever
ate. l have vine that l bought two
years ago, and, although a few grapes
set on it this year, none came to ma
turity. Have also two Moore's Early
of the same age. l sent to G. A. Green,
Rochester, N. Y, for four grape vines,
saying they must be early grapes, and
hardy, to ever ripen here. He sent
two Moore's Early, Worden and a
Jessica. Jessica died, as did also a
Moyor from the same firm. A vine
that bought for Brighton bore but a
few imperfect punches, and none ever
ripened. How about the Delaware?
Can that be grown to ripen in this
cold north land? A. c. w.
Putnamsville, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
Odds and Ends.

Agricultural Editor You wish to
know what varieties of apples do well
in this town. All kinds of hardy ap.
pies do well here, generally. Even
Baldwins and Greetings do fairly well
for while in good locations; but of
course they will die out in time, though
Sweet Greetings live many years, and
there are Baldwin trees in some places
that have borne for many years. The
tree peddler has got in many Jobs more
profitable for himself than for the pur-
chaser; but in most cases the trees re
ceived no care after the first year or
two, if they did even then. Most
farmers here have too much land on
their hands to spend any time on fruit
trees.
Nothing can be more true than your
remark that sheep must have the best
care in order to produce the best re-
suits. | have had thirty-four years of
unbroken experience with sheep, be-
ginning at sixteen years of age, and
have had some gratifying success when
enough care was bestowed upon them
and when an excess of business has
caused them to be sighted, they have
shown the effect of the slight in their
returns.
In an article some time ago, you ex-
pressed surprise that farmers take no
better care of their forests, and that so
many cut their best timber for fuel.
This is subject that deserves much
consideration; but in view of the usual
low price of lumber, and the fact that
many dealers Systematically cheat the
seller out of from twenty-five to thirty
three per cent of the lumber in measur-
ing, if a mans timber is dozen miles
or more from a railroad, and he would
have to hire much of the work done, it
may be true economy to cut the best
timber he has to burn for fuel.
If | have ever seen a statement of
the feed of cows in the Worlds Fair
contest at Chicago, have forgotten it..
If you have it now or in the future, it
will crafty me, and perhaps others, if
you will give it to your readers.
CORINTHIAN.
COrinth VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

nize the need of spraying. 1t is quite
possible that different localities are diff
ferently affected, and that what is
needed in Burlington may not be
needed in Swanton. Every farmer must
be his own judge; but whether he de-
cides one way or the other, there can
be no question as to the value of such
work as the station is doing in this, as
we'll as in other directions. 1t stands
in the front line, and is credit to the
state,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh, being a
constitutional disease, requires a con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces OF
the system, thereby destroying the
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have SC
much faith in its curative powers, that
they have offered One Hundred Dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co. ,sToledo, o.
SSoldi by. Druggists, Il .seventy-five
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
Betsy and Joe.
BEING THE LAMENT OF FARMER roMPKrNs

BEING THE LAMENT OF FARMER roMPKIYs.
Pm sort of upset in my mind, sir; I'm kind OF
wrought up in my soul
I'm filled up with trouble, am, sir my heart is
the picture Of dole.
I've got weak boy for a son, sir. He's weak asa
Teller can be.
But then I've daughter who's stronger think
nor her mother nor me.
And that is the thing that upsets melt 6lls me with
direst of
My Joe he had oughter been Betsy, and Betsy she'd
oughter been Joe.
Why joe he amt good for his salt sir. He alters
gives up to his dreams.
lie thinks he's born Mr.. Shakespeare and spoils
good white paper by reams.
But Betsys as the keeper who looks arter
folks what is mad;
She's got solid sense has my Betsy the sodest ever
was had
haven't the slightest idee sir, Just how the thing
came to be So
But Joe he had oughter been Betsy, and Betsy she'd
oughter been Joe,
That gal she will go to the medder an toss up the
hay Ike man;
She'll work in the an the shadder as hard, sir
ever she cam
But Joe he'll go out there and dawdle At dawdlin'
he's really A onel
bdV that amt the thing for daughter nor that
ain'tthe thing for a SON
An that's why set here a.sghin' and that's ,vbv
my eyes overflow:
My Joe he had oughter been Betsy, and Betsy she'd
oughter been Joe.
don't mind a-havin' my home, sir. the home Of a
poet at all.
must say like for to listen to verses of spring and
of fall.
But what don't like for to see sir, an what sets
my bein awhrl,
Is the pottery writ by boy, sir an all the hay tossed
by girl
1t seems to me sort Of outrageous, a sort of ter.
rible blow,
That Joe he should oughter been Betsy and Betsy
should oughter been Joe;
Because have always told Mandy-my wife sir; a
splendid one, too
That work that fittin for women amt ittin
for men kind to do.
I've sort of atwitted the lady weakness O. woman
and that,
And havin' the thing turned round, sir, S the thing
that's a-knockin' me fiat.
An If there's away in creation for changn EN- I'd
like to know,
Sos Joe could be made into Betsy and Betsy be
made into Joe. Hdrper's Basar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

IN the breeding of 80 many colts the
thought being to get speed, all idea OF
size or conformation, save as relating
to this one end, has been overlooked,
and, as the colts multiplied, the per
cent of speed failures increased until
the bubble broke, and 10! the farms are
full of understood inferior animals not
wanted for any purpose, and men cry
ing out that the business is overdone.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE.-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cent? per box. For sale by c. Blakely,
Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
we lay it down we may well say that
" our occupations gone"


AND here again, as so many times
before, we want to press upon our
brother farmers the sacred duty of Civ
ing to the children of the farm solid
and practically useful training, at home,
and in the schools. This ought to be
the leading topic of consideration on
every American farm. Not only setter
nal vigilance" but eternal strife for
knowledge of the right sort, as well as
on every domestic, every social, and
every political duty, els the price of
liberty"
SEVERAL readers have called our at
tention to the fact that in noticing
Meehan'S Monthly, recently, we forgot
to name the place of its publication.
1t is issued by Thomas Meehan & Sons,
Germantown p. o., Philadelphia, Pa.
The subscription price is So year;
single copies, twenty cents.
rational CATTLE FEEDING :"
(Alimentation Rationale Du BetaiD
is a recent French work which seems
to have escaped notice in both England
and America at least we have never
happened to see any allusion to it, or
its teachings, in our agricultural read
ing. Through the kindness of our gen.
erous friend, Ed. A Barnard, ESQ.,,
Director of Agriculture of the Province
of Quebec, we have come into posses
sion of copy of Mons. Crevat's book;
and it is our intention to translate and
print the greater part of it, for the ben
eft of the farmers of New England.
The book is replete with elaborate ia
bles, which it would be practically i'm
possible to reproduce in the columns of
a newspaper; but the main facts,
clearly stated, and the conclusions ar
rived at, will in great measure be
given to our readers in a satisfactory
manner. We think that this labor
and it will be a good deal of labor-will
be well paid for by the facts and con-
illusions of these practical tests, prob
ably more elaborate and careful than
have ever been made, not excepting
those of Lawes and Gilbert, in England.
They throw fresh light upon the whole
subject, and come closer to the practi-
cal work of an American dairy farm
than anything of the sort with which
we are acquainted.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

IT will be interesting, perhaps, to
state that M. Crevat is young French
farmer, who, after taking course of
study in one of the excellent French
schools of agriculture, went at once
to work upon his own farms to test,
with the greatest care, and thoroughly
to verify or disprove the teachings
which he had received. That his work
has attracted marked attention in
France is shown by the fact that it was
crowned" by the French Society of
Agriculturists, in 1885. There is moth
ing hasty about it,-nothing of those
"snap Judgments" Of which we see
and hear 80 much in America. Gre
watts experiments, prior to this publica-
ton of their results, extended over
twenty years of careful work upon his
own farm, with his own beasts. Though
thoroughly scientific, it is also intensely
practical. Beginning with his cattle, af-
ter establishing his main facts, or princi-
pies, he extended and verified them as
equally applicable to his horses, sheep,
goats and swine. 1t is most remarkable
that his book, which was published in
Lyons in 1885, has attracted 80 little at
tention outside of France.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27
FARM AND GARDEN.

Address all inquiries communications in relation
to agriculture to DIR. I. II. HosK1Ns. Newport, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

WE will try to learn about the feed
of the cows at the fair. They were fed
all they would stand.-AG. ED.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

WE have missed that excellent
monthly, the Southern Cultivator, from
our table for some time, and missed it
greatly. too, for it is important that
every editor in the country should keep
himself posted in matters pertaining to
the New South, and especially to its
farm industries. We are proportionally
pleased to note its spontaneous re-
appearance. 1t would pay good many
northern men to know what is going on
upon progressive southern farms and
plantations. A dollar, sent to the pub
fishers, Atlanta, Ca, will keep you
posted for year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

AN exchange remarks that Gas a
dooryard tree, there is none that equals
the pear in uniting beauty and profit
1t occupies but small space, and
seems to thrive in the grass where
poultry and children roam or play.
The apple is too large, the cherry not
handsome in form or appearance, while
the peach and plum are of irregular form
and short-lived." And among all the
pear trees none are 80 handsome as the
Russians. They have large, thick,
glossy leaves-almost like those of the
orange - and naturally form a neat
pyramidal top. The fruit hangs thickly
and uniformly over the tree, and as
while pears are unripe they are very
poor eating, it is not attractive to pill
ferers.
IT is cause of much satisfaction to
US that this page is selected and pre-
ferred by advertisers of 80 high grade,
because it is a compliment to those who
read it, and deserved one. Our read
ers are truly of the bone and sinew"
of the country. They are the solid
yeomanry, which an old poet has well
said, "when once lost, can never be
supplied" And as the tendency of the
present age is to overlook, or under
value, this part of our people Except at
election time), we are happy to think
that even in commercial and manufac-
turing New England the farmer is
more and more recognized as occupy
ing an every way important place in
the body industrial, as we'll as in the
body polite. Our strongest desire has
ever been to have part, however hum
BILE, in promoting the interests of this
class. Age is upon us; and, like our
noble coadjutor, Mr.. Curtis, we may
soon be taken from our work by the
disabilities which attend upon it. But
our twenty-five years of editorial work
in the agricultural field we feel TO have
been the best part of our life. When
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

stocks, and set the trees deep, so as to
have all of the stock under ground. But
now we have other Russian varieties in
bearing, which produce fruit with
seeds; and from these seeds we are grow
ing trees which can be budded or grated
in their limbs. 1t is good thing, when
this is practiced, to leave limb or two
of the seeding until it bears fruit, as in
this way there is chance of getting a
valuable new variety.
WE hope to see the Russian pears
freely planted all through northern
New England, and new varieties grown
from their seeds in the way above sug-
gested. This can be done without the
loss of money or time. The seed-bear-
ing Russian pear which we have in
bearing is called Lutovka, and some
what resembles Flemish Beauty, though
the fruit is, yet at least, considerably
smaller than that variety. We have
six or seven other kinds which have
not yet produced fruit. We do not
know of any nurserymen who are yet
offering the Russian pear trees for sale !;
but doubtless they will soon be in mar
ket, and in the hands of the omnipres-
ent tree peddlers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

RECURRING to the Scott's Winter ap-
pie 1--WE have no trees for sale; but
most northern nurserymen have them
, now), perhaps we may be allowed to
chardist of experience, who has had it
as long as any one. This is r. w.
Shepherd, Jr., for many years secretary
of the Montreal Horticultural Society,
who has fine orchard at Como, on the
Ottawa river, where he grows fruit for
export to England. We find it in the
Canadian HorticulturiSt for June, 1893.
First on the list is SCOTS Winter, a
native of Vermont; tree quite hardy
and productive. The apple is of fairly
good quality and handsome appearance.
The only objection that has ever been
raised against Scott's Winter is that it
is rather small. l am better pleased
with Scott's Winter every year; the
fruit does not spot, and is late keeper.
l recommend it for cultivation in the
ottawa valley. Although SCOTS Win
ter may not quite meet the views of
exporters as to size, yet would not
hesitate to plant 1000 trees of that va
riety, and expect to make money, too"
We may add that in the large village of
Newport, where it has been longest
known, every housekeeper wants it, as
the best keeper that can be had. 1t is
used both for cooking and dessert; and
the demand for it increases every year.
There has never been any monopoly,
or "patent right" on this apple. The
original tree is still healthy, and in full
bearing, on the old Scott farm where it
originated, near the west shore of Lake
Memphremagog. If it had sprung up a
short mile farther north, it would have
to be set down as Canadian apple.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-12-27

WE see, occasionally, statements
that the Fay Currant is unproductive.
Either those who complain have not
got the true Fay, or they do not treat
it right. We have had it from the first
year it was put on the market, and are
increasing our paintings every year;
but it needs good and careful treatment,
like every other living thing that is val
liable. The soil must be in good order,
kept free from weeds, and the currant
worm must be destroyed before it has
defoliated the bushes. Neglect of this
is the great cause of failure in currant
culture. People wait until the leaves
are half eaten before they do anything
to destroy the worms. Those who do
this will have small crop the next
year. In some cases which we have
noticed, no care was taken to destroy
the broods of worms that appear after
the crop is gathered. 1t is these leaves,
thus lost, which should store the mate
rial for next years crop. We expect
to set 300 more plants of the Fay in the
spring.
OUR Vermont experiment station is
working on fungicides, and we are in
debted to Professor l.. X. Jones for a
copy of his excellent Report on the
subject, being an extract from the full
Report of the Experiment Station for
1892, which we have not seen. The
work has evidently been done with
care, and the results, as given, are in
structive. The information to be drawn
from such experiments is valuable
but, so far as we can judge, not con-
elusive as to the main point,-whether
it will pay to go into this spraying work
as recognized and essential process
in potato culture in Vermont. Certain
it is that fully as large crops are re-
ported without as with spraying; and
it is equally certain that potato growers
of experience and skill-such as Rev.
Mr.. Ranslow, for instance-fail to recog-