The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-18

secretary of the board of agriculture,
publishes an interesting report of farm
sales and new industries in Vermont,
in 1893. We regret that we have no
space for the document, or for areview,
this week.
THE Board of Agriculture publishes
in the Brandon Union a dissertation on
tuberculosis, and gives notice that it is
"willing to aid science in offering the
services of an expert in applying the
tubercuin to any herd where it may
seem advisable-provided the owner of
such herd will agree to slaughter and
allow the examination of all that re-
spond to the tuberculin test, without
compensation from the state"
SENATOR MORRILL, completed his
eighty-fourth year on Saturday last.
The event was celebrated by friends,
without distinction of politics or pre-
vious standing on the tariff or any
NNHNi HuOotlOh' liz
comes at time when the great eco
nomic system of which he was the father
is at the supreme crisis of its existence.
This adds interest to the occasion and
gives uggestiveness to the spectacle of
men of all shades of political belief or
unbelief uniting to do the veteran
statesman honor. May he survive to
see the great economic system which
he devised survive its latest peril.
The st. Johnsbury Republicans East
Burke correspondent says that two or
three hogs on the Darling farm, where
tuberculosis had infected large herd
of cattle, having died were examined
and found to be affected with the dis
ease. Thereupon eleven more were
killed, and upon examination no ex.
pert was needed to show that they were
badly diseased. These hogs had been fed
on the milk from the tuberculous cows.
All the hogs are to be killed and buried.
One more warning jealousy to guard
the health of food animals, and one
more illustration of the unsoundness of
Chairman Winslow's dictum that tuber-
culosis cannot be transmitted from ami
NAL TO animal. -
The time of the Canterbury pilgrim
age, noted in Chaucer's quaint lines,
'fWha ot ApriIa ritI bis
The droughte of Marche hath perced to the rote,"
marks the practical close of the maple
sugar season. The general tenor of
our correspondents reports is that a
larger quantity, of better quality, has
been made than last year. A few re-
port the reverse condition. Most |
farmers are gathering their buckets,
though in some places sugar of inferior
quality will be made for a week or two.
The quantity made is so large that
prices rule low, aud it is probable that
the market value of the output will not
be greater than that of the lesser one of |
a year ago. 1t is apparent that more
samples will be sent to the government
testing stations than heretofore. The
bounty feature of the present tariff law
has had the effect of
squirting up the farmers to improve the
quality of the product-a consumma-
ton devoutly to be wished"
The municipal elections Of last week
in New York and New Jersey are
briefly summarized, as follows Albany,
three years ago democratic by 5000 and
last year by 5000, gives $500 repub-
lican majority. Jersey City, whose
democratic majorities of 5000 30 5000
have repeatedly kept the state demo-
cratic, gives 400 republican majority.
Newark has for ten years been strongly
democratic, but now gives 4,792 repub-
lican majority. Orange, which usually
gives democratic majority of 400, has
given 700 republican majority. Trenton,
the home of the potters, gives 3,40O re.
publican majority. Elizabeth gives the
republicans entire control of the city
government for the first time in fifteen
years. Camden elects every one of the
ten republican candidates for council
men, and all the justices are repub-
leans, the majority being 1890. All
over the state democratic strongholds
have turned republican, and by MAORI
ties which are amazing.
WEARY of the bosses - is the latest
explanation of the remark
able republican victories all over the
None so blind as those who
won't see. The meaning of the revul-
sion in popular sentiment, which began
with the elections in November last
and has grown like the proverbial
SNOWFALL, is as clear as a pike-staff to
those who have eyes and will not per-
vert the functions of sight. The issue
at every election, state or municipal,