The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-07-19

cover this fact.
If this is democratic republic, why
should not democratic republicans gov.
ern it,-with republican democrats 10
help them? Where is there a place in
it for an aristocracy of any sort?
IT is not sheep, alone, which are en-.
dangered by dogs running at large.
The Connecticut Farmer tells of recent
case where a dog became rabid "and
attacked a number of cows, biting five
of them severely. Several days ago one
of the cows which had been bitten be-
gan to act queerly and on Saturday died
in fit. Veterinarian Beckley of Merl
den, after making thorough examina-
ton, pronounced the cause of death TO
be hydrophobia. Upon the strength of
this, the selectmen ordered that the
four other cows, belonging TO as many
farmers, should be killed, and they
were accordingly dispatched" And
thus you see five good cows sacrificed
to the privilege of dog to wander at
will. How many human lives were
hazarded in the same case is left TO the
imagination of the reader. "But our
dog isn't going mad" Who can say
thai? -
OUR valued Connecticut contempt
rary also tells us that William Bogue
of East Lyme is probably the quickest
man in the state of Connecticut with
p IL of shears on a sleeps back. On a
recent visit to Long Island he happened
to have day when his physical dis
ability did not weigh so heavily as
ual upon him, and he managed to
shear seventy-three sheep on that day,
and later did up the feeces. Mr.. Bogue
was subject of wonder to the Long
Island people. Nobody could be found
in that district who could be induced to
compete with the doughty William,
and upon his return home he sought a
competitor among the people of his
own Stdlo' liz lSoucu d DIohuoluc Clldi-
lege in one of the papers published in
his county, offering to shear sheep with
any man in Connecticut, the amount of
stakes to be named by his competitor,
and the contest to take place at any
time and place. No one has yet been
found who wants to risk money in COM
petition with Mr.. Bogue. Mr.. Bogue
is veteran of the late war, and about
three years ago was granted pension
on the ground of physical disability.
OUR readers are aware that we are
not and never have been in any way
favorable to the long-continued plumber
of the national treasury for the pur-
pose of enabling rural congressman to
cheaply compliment their political sup
porters with free garden-seeds. The
present secretary of agriculture seems
to think it about time to stop that leak,
which has reached the large figure of
S135,000 year. He says: "This
amount of money gives to each mem
Der about $4,000 packages of seeds; so
on an average one man out of three
among his constituency, we will say, is
remembered. The other two that are
not remembered are very apt to find it
out, and sometimes small things of that
nature are remembered on election day.
On the whole, neither the government
nor the congressman are benefited by
the deal, and there is no means of de-
termining how much Canada thistle
and weed seeds are distributed through
the scheme. The department buys
these seeds in wholesale lots from the
supply houses, and to show you the
profit the wholesale seed men make on
some of these operations, Colonel Har-
ris informs me that they go to Kansas
and buy sorghum seed at something
like two cents pound, and then come
back and sell it to the government for
sixty. There have been cases on record
where government contract paid, you
know"
AS this plumber of the treasury is
divided between the congressman of
both parties, and as the democrats are
now in the majority, we hope all our
readers will rejoice with us when this
abuse is put stop to,-if it is.
WE are not sure that it is ever best
to feed any kind of live stock for a long
time exclusively on single article of
diet. A variety of food is usually con-
sidered to be desirable; and we think,
in America at least, that this rule is
generally accepted-at any rate in the
eastern states. Yet it is we'll to know
that it is not impossible to keep our stock
in good order, and even to fatten them
on a single food. A Neac England
Farmer correspondent saws: "Thert