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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Small Fruits for Northern Vermont.

After testing great many kinds of
fruit that were painted in glowing
colors in catalogues and recommended
as perfectly hardy, L have found the
following 10 be the most satisfactory
for this section: Raspberries, the
Palmer Blackcap, Thompson's Early
Prolific, Child's Everbearing, and Cuth-
bert. For blackberries, the Snyder has
no equal here, but the Lucretia dew
berry does well. Out of dozen differ
ent currants, Fay's Prolific is the
largest and most productive. The
much advertised G andall currant does
not bear. Child's japanese wineberry
winterkills to the ground every winter.
Russian fruits, cherries, apricots and
plums, as well as apples and pears, are
coming into great favor by reason Of
their hardness, productiveness and
freedom from disease. Strawberries
grow here to perfection. The Cres-
cent, Sharpless, and Downing, are
standbys, but are being supplanted by
War6eld, Haverland, and Parker Earle.
Among the newer varieties Van De-
mAn, Leader, and Lovett do we'll and
evidently have future. Every farm
should have half-acre of good land
devoted to small fruits. 1t will pay
richly in the health and pleasure of the
family, and, rightly managed, it will
net the farmer more hard dollars than
any acre on his farm.-H. M. Page, IN
Rural Neao Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Homemade Garden Hose.

Take piece of 10 ounce duck and
cut it lengthwise into three pieces.
This makes 80 feet of hose about ~
inches in diameter. Place the edges to-
gether, double them once over, and with
sewing machine sew through the four
thicknesses twice. This makes a hose
that will stand or foot pressure,
writes correspondent of American
Gardening. He says: To make it wa
terproof we use five gallons of boiled
linseed oil and half gallon of pine tar
melted together. Place the hose in a
washtub, turn on the oil hot-say 100
degrees-and saturate the cloth we'll
with the mixture. Now run the hose
through a clothes wringer screwed
down rather tight, and it is ready to be
hung up to dry. Blow through it to
keep it from sticking together as it
dries. For this purpose use an elder
sprout about foot long with the pith
punched out. Tie string around one
end of the hose, gather the other end
around the tube and fill it with wind.
Then hang the hose on line, and it
will dry in few days and be ready for
use. 1t will last five or six years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Is the Best the Cheapestl

Within certain limits, yes. A man
came here the other day to buy some
pigs; there were ten in the lot and he
was offered his choice at SO each, or
the four smallest at $3.50 each. He
chose the four smallest. 1 think he
made big mistake. There was about
ten pounds difference in favor of the
largest; corn is worth here SOC bushel;
it will take at the very least bushel of
corn per head to make the small pigs
equal the big ones in weight and then
there has been much time lost. Be-
sides, the small ones will not make so
rapid growth as the big ones, and the
four bushels of corn fed to the latter
would probably make more pounds of
pork than fed to the former. The pigs
were all of the same age and, of course,
the small ones were the runts. Another
customer, a few days previously, to
whom l offered his choice at So or the
small ones at So so, took the best ones.
l think he did right. l once gave a
very shrewd man his choice of pair
out of a litter of seven fine pigs; he Sc
lected two very good ones but rejected
the largest pig in the litter, and gave as
his reason that the big one had had the
milk from two teats and when taken
away from the SOW would not gain 30
rapidly as the others that had only one
teat apiece. don't know whether he
was right or not, but l was satisfied TO
have him leave the biggest pig in the
litter. - Correspondent Stockman and
Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Salt for Bees.

On account of the avidity with which
bees take salt, says William Camm, l
had supposed it as necessary to salt
them as to salt my horses, hogs and
cattle. If one does not keep salt
trough for the bees, they are apt to
swarm about his stock and well troughs,
and many of them are drowned; but so
lo1g as salt water is given to them,
they will not go or bother anywhere
else. But aside from this question Of
mere convenience, l have found it
safest to be guided by nature; and
since bees show such love for salt, it
would seem that it is necessary for them,
and hence it should be our practice to
give it.-St. Paul Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Good Grading Important.

Macadamized roads on extremely
steep grades or on extremely fiat ones
are difficult to maintain in good condi-
tion and create constant expense. The
steep grade is of course Objectionable to
traffic from the fact that it places a
limit to the maximum load that can be
hauled over the road without additional
hauling power. One such grade on
road may involve the necessity of send
Ing tow team with every heavily la
den wagon. Many of these extra teams
will have to travel several miles to and
from the steep grade in question simply
for the purpose of assisting the load up
that one hill. You can readily figure
the annual loss to the individuals and
determine at once whether the expendi-
ture of comparatively large amount
would not have been judicious, in view
OF the fact that permanent saving
would have been effected forever there
after. But the steep grade, besides being
Objectionable and costly, adds another
element of expense, in that it increases
the cost of maintenance. 1t is liable
to be secured by heavy rains. The
sliding movement of descending vehicles
is injurious to it, especially if brakes are
used, and the heavy paving of the
horses in their efforts to draw their
loads assists in destroying the surface.
All these combined will necessitate fire.
quent attention to that roadbed, an ex-
pense that will be permanent.
On the other hand, level stretches are
equally difficult to maintain in good
condition, from the fact that, as they
are not washed by rains, dust and mud
accumulate en- them. The mud forms
channels, from which the water cannot
escape laterally, and through lack of
fall neither can it flow longitudinally.
The result is that it remains on the
roadbed, softens it, ruts follow, and a
permanent expense is again incurred
for the maintenance of the section.
1t will therefore be realized that econ
omy in grading can be false economy
of the worst kind.
Really good macadamized roads vii
never be realized here until they, like
all other things that we own and care
to keep in good condition, receive prop
er treatment at the hands of those using
them. just so long as drivers continue
to drive in one continuous track with
heavily laden wagons, so that the
calked hoofs of team after team are
picking the road loose in one narrow
lane while the wheels are pounding
and rutting it at each side as a suitable
frame for picture of destruction, just
so long you need not look for econom-
ical roads, because the heaviest and best
of construction will under those condi-
tons give but very ordinary results.
There is no reason why country or,
more properly speaking, farm wagons
and carts-springless ones, as a rule,
and consequently the most injurious to
a road-should not be provided with
wide tires and have the rear axle several
inches longer than the front one. These
vehicles in passing over the roads will
to certain extent, mend the damage
done by the Others Brooklyn Eagle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23

silo, where it was leveled and trodden
like hay in NOW. No weights were
used. 1t is now carried in baskets to
the cribs and the grain rations are scat
tered over it. Two quarts OF grain fed
in that way are as good as three fed
alone. 1t is needless to say that Mr..
SWEET intends to fill his silo another
season. A tank is placed on the upper
floor of the stable, 80 that water may be
carried to the barns. The water is sup
piled by windmill. There are two of
these on the farm, one near the build
ings and one in the pasture. In front
of the cattle, running the whole length
of the. crib, is a covered trough, six
inches each way, and lined with zinc.
A little hot water put into the tank
tempers the drink for the animals. 1t
is carried by pipes to the trough. The
stable, also, is very convenient and
fitted for four horses. The farm work
shop is we'll stocked with wood working
tools, and has an anvil and forge. Cold
aud rainy days are spent here pleasantly
and profitably. Mr.. SWEET sets the
tires as well as rims the wheels, and
has invented a simple but effective de-
vice for that work. Other inventions
of his are drill, a punch and a ma
chine to cut iron pipe. Commencing
in the milk business twenty-six years
ago, Mr.. Sgett drove the cart himself
for seven years, missing only three trips
during that time. Twenty-four years
ago he bought this farm of 100 acres,
pleasantly situated at Hampden Corner,
six miles from Bangor. The large,
convenient buildings are kept in thor
ough repair. -New England Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23

sacks or cheap brown muslin and as
nearly the shape of the ham as l can
roughly block it out, but they are never
perfect fits. Then stitch a firm loop
made of a scrap of cotton, folded and
stitched at one end. Have your sacks
large enough at the open side so that
after the ham is in you can fold the
open edges over well and sew tightly.
Now have ready tub or big bucket of
slaked lime that is creamy in thickness
and warm enough TO penetrate cotton
easily. Put wire hook in the loop on
the sack and dip the latter up and down
with the ham in it of course) several
times in the limewater until you are
sure the pores of cloth are filed with
the lime. Hang them up in the air till
perfectly dry, then lay or hang away
anywhere that is convenient.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
FARM AND GARDEN.
Commercial Fertilizers.

The experiment station at Burling-
ton has just published the " Analysis
of Commercial Fertilizers licensed in
this state. The bulletin is summarized
on the first page, from which we learn
that more brands have been sold than
ever before, that only one-third have
been up to their guarantees, but that
five-sixths have given the commercial
equivalent of their guarantees, and that
the average composition of this years
goods is the poorest known in the past
ten years, largely due to competition
and the increased cost of nitrogen.
Copies of this or previous issues are
mailed free of charge on request.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Clipped and Condensed.

THE food of the COW determines the
quantity of milk; the COW governs the
quality.
IF tomato plants are tall and spin
ding thin them in the hotbed, trans
planting the extra plants to a cold
frame.
THE wise dairyman always looks to
what is best for the COW, for in the end
be knows that such management will
prove best for him.
WHEN feeding mich cows, feed for
all the product that can possibly be OBJ
tanned. This means liberal grain ra-
ton in addition to the best hay.
GREEN soiling is one of the most d.
rect methods of increasing the capacity
of the farm, so far as the amount of
stock to be carried is concerned.
CREAM sometimes becomes bitter if
raised in pans at temperature too low
for the milk to sour. Milk in pans
should be sour in thirty-six hours.
Your seedlings should be kept fairly
moist and shaded from the full rays of
the sun. A light paper or thin cloth
tackled to light frame will answer the
purpose.
MAY is the month for putting out
your rosebushes. Procure the small
potted plants, as they are surer than
those that are larger and easily start off
in growth.
j. w. SANBORN, director of the
Utah station, reports that two years
experiments in sowing oats at different
dates showed marked advantage in
early sowing.
WHITE clover is excellent for filling
up bare places on grass plats, as it will
grow and thrive where other grasses
will fail, but it prefers rich soil that
contains lime.
IT is quite possible that the old wheat
on hand may be used to better advan-
tage for feeding stock than in any other
way. Have you ever thought of this?
If not, better look into it.
BUILD up the frame of the young
animal, 80 as to secure size, before at
tempting to fatten it. Fat is an en-
cumbrance to growing animals. When
they reach maturity is the time to fat
ten them.
DRY rations, though they contain
much more digestible nutrients, do not
increase the milk yield to any great ex-
tent. Succulent folders, containing
sufficient nutrients, appear to be better
suited for good milk flow.
THE harrow will be found of great
benefit to wheat as soon as it can be
used. All crops that are narrowed we'll
before the plants are too large will also
be benefited. The smoothing harrow
will not pull up wheat or young corn.
A SMALL flock of sheep will really
cost the farmer but little, as they con-
sumo many foods that would be useless
for any other purpose, especially dur
ing the summer, when weeds and
other waste foods are readily eaten by
them.
WHEN farmer endeavors to save
money by using scrub animals, he pays
dearly for his venture. Economy
should be practced, but not by the use
of inferior stock. The majority of fail.
ures with farming are due to keeping
scrubs. They are expensive Injuries
on farm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
A Model Maine Farm.

Emdale farm, owned by George w.
SWEET & Son, is one of the best farms in
Hampden Corner, Me. In the large
cow.barn they have silo Quilt on
level with the foor), eight by eighteen
feet base measure and seventeen feet
high, filed to about two-,h.rds its ca.
pacity with fine cut corn fodder, which
they have been successfully feeding
this winter. The corn was cut, then
carried by power and dropped into the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Putting Away Bacon Hams.

The following plan is recommended
by Rural New Yorker correspondent
as the very best for putting away hams
for summer use on the farm. He says:
After the hams have been properly
sailed and smoked, put each in COM
mon muslin sack--I make mine OF flour
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
HOw's This {?

we. oHer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by taking HALLS Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known f.
]. 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 4 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-fve cents per bottle.
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
HUMPHREYS

Nothing has ever been produced to
equal or compare with Humphreys
Witch Hazel Oil as CURATIVE and
HEALING APPLICATION. 1t has been
used 40 years and always affords relief
and always gives satisfaction.
1t Cures PILES or HEMoRRHoIDs, External
or Internal, Blind or Bleeding-It Itching and
Burning; Cracks or Fissures and Fistulas.
Relief immediate-cure certain.
1t Cures BURNS, Scalds and liberation and
Contraction from Burns. Relief instant.
1t Cures Torn, Cut and Lacerated
Wounds and Bruises.
1t Cures BoILs, Hot Tumors, Ulcers, Old
Sores, Itching Eruptions, Security or Scald
Head. 1t is Infallible.
1t Cures INFLAMED or CAKED BREASTS
and Sore Nipples. 1t is invaluable.
1t Cures SALT RHEUM, letters, Scurfy
Eruptions, Chapped Hands, Fever Blsters,
Sore Lips or Nostrils, Corns and Bunions,
Sore and Chafed Feet, Stings of Insects.
Three Sizes, 25c., soc. and $500.
Sold Druggists sent postpaid receiptof price,
HUMPHREYS NED CO., III William ST., New York.
0lD - an m n ~@u An
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&c. I. Hood g. Co., Lowell, Mass. (:

&C. l. Hood g. Co., Lowell Mass.
81 cannot praise Hoods Sarsaparila enough
for what 1t has done for my boy. Some four
years ago, when six years old, George was
attacked by hip disease in his right leg. We
had to get him pair OF crutches, with which
he was able to move about, but became
badly deformed We had to have his right leg
lanced just above the knee. In a few weeks q
second sore broke out, both discharging freely.
Agonizing pains afflicted him, he could not bear
to be moved. his growth was stOpped and
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
A STRANGE CASE.
How an Enemy was Eoiled.

The following graphic statement will be
read with intense Interest: al cannot describe
the numb, creepy sensation that existed in my
arms hands and legs. had TO rub and beat
those parts until they were sore, to overcome
in a measure the dead feeling that had taken
possession of them. In addition, L had
strange weakness in my back and around my
waist, together with an Understandable gone
feeling in my stomach. Physicians said IL
was creeping paralysis, from which, accord
ing to their universal conclusion, there is no
relief Once 1t fastens upon person, they
say, 1t continues its insidious progress until
IL reaches vital point and the sufferer dies.
Such was my prospect / had been doctoring
year and half steadily, but with no par
ticular benefit when / saw an advertisement
OF DIR Miles Restorative Nervine, procured a
bottle and began using it. Marvellous as it
may seem, but few days had passed before
every bit OF that creepy feeling had left me,
and there has not been even the slightest
indication OF its return. [ now feel as
well AS | ever did and have gained ten
pounds in weight, though / had run down
from 40 to 49, Four others have used DR..
Miles Restorative Nervine on my recOmen-
daton, and 1t has been as satisfactory in their
cases as in mine."--Jamcs Kane, La Rue, o.
DIR. Miles Restorative Nervine is sold by all
druggists on a positive guarantee or sent
direct by ne DIR. Miles Medical Co., Ellihart,
Ind, on receipt of price, 81 Fer bottle, six
bottles for -. express prepaid. 1t is free from
opiates or dangerous drugs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
Hoods sisss'''i1' Cures

Hoods sarsaparilla in his case has truly done
wonders. and he is daily gaining in flesh and
good color. He runs about and plays as lively
es any child, We feel an inexpressible 10Y at
having our boy restored to health, and we
always speak In the highest terms Of Hoods
SSarsaparilla" Mrs. HENRY W. MURPHY.
Exeter, New Hampshire.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-23
He Was a Mere Skeleton.

He had no appetite, and 1t was hard work to
make him eat enough to keep him alive. A few
weeks later we had his hip lanced, and follow
Ing this five other eruptons broke out, making
eight running sores in all. We did all we could
for him, but he grew weaker every day, al
though we had three of the best physicians.
As last resort we were prevailed upon
by relatives who had taken Hoods Sarsa-
parilla with beneficial results to give the medi-
cine trial. We got one bottle about the first
OF March, 1892, and he had taken the medicine
only few days when his appetite began to
improve. When he had taken one bottle he
could move about little with his crutches,
which he had not been able to use for the pre-
ceding three months. We continued faithfully
with Hoods Sarsaparllla, and in months he was
Able to Be Dressed
and go about the house without the orutches.
He has now taken Hoods Sarsaparia regularly
for eighteen months, and for the past six months
has been without the crutches, which he has
outgrown BY several inches. The sores have all
healed with the exception OF one which Is
rapidly closing, only the scars and an occasional
limp remaining as reminders Of his suffering.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13
ADVERTISERS, READ THIS.

RALEIGH, N. O., July 10, 1892.
MT. u. ". DenmGrk, Business MunnOer
Progressive Farmer:
DEAR SIR:-We recently run for a
short time an advertisement in THE
PROGRESSIVE FARMER, and we run at the
game time the same advertisement in
four other leading papers in the State,
and we write to say that we received
ten replies from the one in your paper
to every M received from all the other
papers combined.
Yours truly,
EDWARDS & BROUGHTON.
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IS MORE THAN PLEASED.

EASTERN TOBACCO WAREHOUSE
Oltho L. JOyner, Owner and Prop'r.
Greenville, N. @, Oct. 80, 1898.
EDITOR PROGRESSIVE FARMER Raleigh.
N. c.:
DEAR SIR Enclosed find check for
81 so in payment for the ad. you in.
serted for me. Your bill was for 20 90:
hope you will accept the amount of
check, as I got value received for the
With good wishes for the con
tinued success OF your paper, 1 am,
Yours very truly,
O 7, JOVNER
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Money to Loan !
COTTON and KAINIT.

Nor cotton, etter cotton, and cotton free
from blight will result by fertilizing with
KAINlE. Potash snlJ benefit potatoes, tobsccO,
vegetables and frHiTs OF ali kinds. Muriat- Of
potash, sulpaate Of potash and kainit. For in
f. rmat-On aid pam hlet, address
GER An "A. I WORKS..
1879 0, Nassau st, sew York Ciry.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-03-13

Farmers lose annually millions of
dollars by careless feeding of the breed
ing sows. Any starchy or carbonaceous
food like corn if fed to excess in the
absence of the protein elements, which
are necessary to the muscular deveIoD-
ment OF animals, shrinks the muscles
ana c0nst!pates so that parturition ia
and the sows and pigs are lost. Atthis
season of the year the sows which arc
to drop their pigs in the spring should
have but little corn but an abundant
supply of the more bulky products of
ground oats, millstufs, etc.
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and Dairy,
WATERLOO IOWA

Is the paper for the Creamery, Dairy and Cheese
Factory. 1t is the handsOn est publication of
its class. Excellent advertising medium. Month
ly; ST. per year. Send for free sample copy.
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NEW
Watson's Campaign Book.

The first edition having been exhausted. and
a stro G demand fo~it still continuing a new W
prOvemeDts lave been made. ~ HHS ILL
to March / SO. UsAU Oo"h
A table of contents, with appropriats pooo
references, has been aided page
Ene yea and nay votes on all the leading oues-
t1ons In the last Congress have been added
In short, the present edition is in eTerT
an Improvement on the Old. 0'0hS "@J
1t Will be sold as follows:
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WHAT OUR ADVERTISERS say.

OFFICE OF
BARNES BROS.
Electric Power Job Printers.
Raleigh, N. O., July %. 1893.
Mr.. Denmark. Business MANAGER:
THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER is an ad-
vertising medium. Besides
received from North Carolina, we have
received them from Mississippi. New
Hampshire and Pennsylvania, and u
advertisement was only inserted three
times. BARNES Bros,