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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
The Best Feed for Fowls.

If better attention was given to the
feeding of fowls during late winter and
early spring, eggs would hatch better.
One great cause of egg sterility is too
much rich, soft food where fowls are
confined. In small Enclosures, poultry
are unable to get the proper exercise,
and this, together with too much soft,
rich food, is one great cause of infer
tile eggs. l would caution any one not
to feed too much cayenne pepper;
little is good, but too much is the worst
thing to feed to breeding stock.
Chopped onions, a little ginger or all
spice, with small quantity OF salt, are
the most suitable for seasoning soft
food. The grain should be of the
very best wheat when fed whole. Oats,
buckwheat and screenings do nicely for
change, and if the fowls are confined
or if the weather is cold, feed in such a
way that they will have to earn by hard
work every grain they get. Shavings
and chaff placed in the bottom of the
pens and the grain scattered in this will
accomplish the desired end of making
them work for what they get. Fowls
are subject to indigestion just the same
as a person, 80 keep them busy. If
corn is fed at night, when the weather
is cold, it should be warmed, but feed
sparingly; it is too fattening, and over
fat fowls will give infertile eggs
Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
Wholesome Food for Calves.

1t is practically impossible to have
calves do well when quite young with
out a good supply of milk. Skimmilk
can be used very satisfactorily by adding
ground haxseed or flXseed cruel.
They require little less of this mix
ture than of whole milk. The Iowa
experiment station, in test of feeding
whole milk vs.. skimmilk in connection
with ground haxseed, found that by
adding ground iaxseed TO the skimmilk
they got nearly as good growth as with
the whole milk. Calves one to five
months old ate "a little over gallon of
skimmilk per head daily, to which was
added about pound of ground flax
seed. A like amount of faXseed boiled
or soaked, making it soft and in the
form of cruel, would answer as well.
That amount furnished nearly the same
quantity of oily matter as average whole
milk contains. A greater amount of
flaxseed added to the milk will usually
cause "scours in calves. Give grain
in addition to this milk ration, and if it
is supplied together with good hay
Glover or some fine hay) the amount
of milk fed need not be raised as they
grow larger. Equal parts by weight of
bran, shorts and cornmeal make a good
grain ration for calves. Ground oats
or barley could be substituted for the
shorts in the ration, if they are more
convenient or cheaper. At five to
eight months old the calves can be
gradually worked over to taking an
all-grain ration, and if the change is
made by degrees they will not notice
it much. Calves raised by hand must
be fed regularly with warm sweet milk
to do well, and if skinned, some sub
stitute for NATURES nutriment which
was removed must be added.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
UndissOlved PhOsphates.

The general improvement in the APP
pearance of the fields as we'll as the si2o
of the crops raised at the Massachusetts
agricultural college station should So
licit the interest of farmers similarly
for their own fields and crops, says Tho
New England Homestead In the last
annual report Professor Brooks says that
this land is under system of rotation
an essential feature of which is two OF
three years in grass without manures.
except possibly a little nitrate of soda
in early spring for the second or third
year. This application of perhaps 1875 to
$50 pounds per acre of nitrate costs only
So or 81. With such manuring as is
practiced an increase of about two tons
per acre is looked for, when land is
reseeded, over what it would have pro
duced if it had lain in grass without
manure.
AS rule, the system of cropping is to
fall p!ow, manure during late fall and
winter, and if sod prepare for seed in
spring with disk and Acme harrows.
Stubbe is lightly replowed in spring.
With manure fertilizer is narrowed OF
drilled i'll at time of planting. Undis-
solved phosphate is used instead of so
much costly superphosphates for phos-
phoric acid. The past year 300 pounds
of South Carolina phosphate rock,
ground fine, has been applied to every
acre under cultivation in hoed or sown
crops. Last season was the first year of
the extensive use of the undissolved
phosphate, and superphosphate has been
used to considerable extent.
Large amounts Of muriate of potash
have been applied to nearly ali the
fields except potatoes, where sulphate of
potash was used, as past work has made
so evident the relation between the sup
ply of potash in the soil and the growth
of clover and other legumes. Under
such a system of fertilization and with
the large amounts of grain fed on the
farm the crops of another year will
probably show greatly increased
yield. The manurial treatment of crops
and the kind and quantity of manures
or fertilizers applied per acre are illus
trated in the following table:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
Keep Humpin'."

remember the time when I was lad;
An lived on the farm with ma'am and dad:
In the long hot days how I'd have to hoe
out in the cornned row after row.
How I'd think of the fishes that lay in the brook,
An Just a-longin' to take my hook
An line, an sprawl by that ole trout stream,
Fer loved in them days to loaf an to dream
An watch the FISH ajumpn;
Then I'd groan an bemoan my unfortunate lot,
I'd go TO my father an say " It's so hot
Can't the corn an pertatoes walt well as not?"
But my father he'd say
In a stern sort of way
Keep humpin'."
Then I'd work with a will till each separate row
Stood forth without airy weed to show;
An each little rock I would duly install
In its proper niche in the ole crumbln' wall
An I'd say to my father as proud as could be,
" I've finished my work, dad" an then in high glee
OF I'd CO. skippin' an iumpn';
Then he'd say =" It's well done exceptin' one spot;
Now bring down them cows from the north pasture
lot
There's no time to shlrk-a farmer has got
$50 my father would say
In a stern sort of way
Keep humpin'."
Take this for your maxim and may it e'er be
Deep seated and firm as the roots of a tree;
Whatever your work, whether peddling corn
Salye or door-mats, or tootin' ahorn.
Or sellin' Of clothes-line cloth by the yard,
You'll find that your duty'll be much the less hard
If you put to your labor the heft of your SOUL
Half-hearted won't win-you can't fetch the goal
BY occasional skppin' an jumpn';
If you're fully determined my friend to git there"
You mustn't sit down by the waysde and swear;
You can gather more courage from fervent prayer,
And, AS father would say,
In a stern kind of way,
Keep humpin'" Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
FARM AND GARDEN.
Outside Spring Grating.

The real value obtained through
grating is very great in any orchard of
fruit trees, shrubs and vines. The
process is really simple one, and there
is no reason why old varieties of fruits
should not be greatly improved by the
grating of new and better varieties on
the old stocks. There is an increasing
tendency to propagate fruit trees and
plants in this way, although years ago
there was a strong prejudice against it
bv those who considered the work hard
and dangerous to accomplish. Graft
ing can be accomplished out of doors in
the spring of the year very easily, and
there is scarcely year but some OF the
trees could be improved in this way.
The work gives the best results in the
spring, just as the sap is starting up
into the trees. There is less damage
caused by excessive bleeding then; and
if there is a natural relation between
the stock and the scion, the new growth
will readily start into life and become
firmly attached to the tree. When the
sap is thus active, the union between
scion and stock occurs very quickly.
Many good stocks are found in or
chards, whose branches are poor. /.
pays to graft such trees little each
spring, So that in the course of few
seasons a complete change will be
made in the old tree. Sometimes the
best varieties of fruits do not produce
large, healthy trunk. 1t pays occa-
sionally to plant very poor variety of
apple, pear, ounce or peach in order to
Get a good stock. When the trunk has
attained fair size then begin the work
of grating improved varieties on it,,
cutting off all the limbs of the first va
riety in order to make room for better
fruits. In this way we get the founda-
ton of a good tree, and also the finest
fruit in the market.
Varieties of apples, pears and peaches
are changing every few seasons; and
when some strictly good kinds have
been introduced they should be grated
upon the old stocks. In this way the
character of the orchard is constantly
keeping abreast of the times. When a
certain variety takes well and sells well,
it can be propagated rapidly over a
great numb5r of trees. Grating and
budding are really the easiest and
quickest way of growing new varieties
of fruits, and the surest way OF turning
our old, Improbable fruit trees into
good, valuable products of salable fruit.
To make grating a success there
must be a natural relation between
stock and scion. For greatest profit
pear should be grated on pear, apple
on apple and ounce on ounce, al
though pears have been known to sue
coed on some kinds of apple stocks. 1t
is not advisable, no gever, to resort to
this mixed method of grating, except
for show and ornament. The stock
must be in active growth and the scion
dormant to make grating successful.
The graft should be cut off before the
sap has started it into spring growth.
Keep it in dry, cool cellar until ready
for use.-American Cultivator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
Dry Food for Chicks.

Dough is Objectionable as food for
young chicks, for two reasons. First,
it contains too much water, and the
chicks are thus forced to swallow more
water in the food than they otherwise
would. Second, there will be portion
left over, which is liable to ferment,
thus leading to disease, the cape worm
being one of the ills to consider. Dry
food is more suitable. 1t is not neces-
sary to feed chicks until they are thirty
six hours old, and then rolled oats or
oatmeal may be given every two hours,
only small quantity being required.
Stale bread or mashed potatoes may be
added by way of variety. When a
week old, screenings may be allowed,
and as soon as they can eat it, whole
wheat and cracked corn may be given.
AT this stage three times a. day will be
often enough to feed, and no food
should remain over. 1t is better foi
the chicks to be underfed than overfed
If they have grass plat upon which tC
exercise, they will find many substances
for use, and will grow rapidly if kept
dry and free from lice.-MirrOr 0nC
Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
HOW's This =?

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Hall's Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY e CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known f.
J. 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 & 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, 1894-05-09
Paris Green.

1t would seem that enough had been
said and written about tne proper use
OF this pois for destroying Insects TO
have any well-informed reader OF the
papers know that it can be used with
success and with very tritling risk; in
fact, it offers the only effcctual weapon
of defence the farmer has against the
potato bug, the cankcr worm-when
once the latter has passed up the tree
and laid its eggs-and against many
other insects that gnaw the leaves and
cannot easily be fought in any other
way, such as the late web caterpillar,
the curculio and others. Many people
seem to have senseless fear Of poison,
and dread to touch it or to have any
thing to do with it. OF course il must
be used with caution aud prudence,
and shou be kept VIII re cniidren and
domestic animals can 10y no CHARGE be
injured by it; but many people do not
seem to understand that the very mi
mute particle of arsenic which is death
to the suall and delicate worm or bug
is harmless to the larger animals aud to
mankind. The fact is that without
paris green we should have no potatoes
at prices within the reach OF the or
binary pu Sc, and few plums and only
wormy apples. The use Off little more
common sense is needed amont over
timid people to make them use this val
liable weapon and protect their orchards
from the disgruc ful appearance they too
often present vhan stripped of their
leaves by the mixer worm.-Neco York
Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

A MILLION FRIENDS" A friend
in need is friend indeed" and not less
than one million people have found just
such a friend in DIR. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs, and
Colds. If you have never used this
great cough medicine, one trial will
convince you that it has wonderful cur
alive powers in all diseases of the throat,
chest and lungs. Each bottle is guar
anteed TO do all that is claimed, or
money will be refunded. Trial bottles
free at G. Blakely's drugstore, Mont
pelier, VT. Large bottles, fifty cents and
one dollar.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
WHAT IS MAL-NUTRITION?

Mal-nutrtion means that the food you eat does NOT
nourish you The plain English Of it ia starvation
Everybody who is thin suffers from mal.nutrition
Everybody who is getting thinner than he ought to
be suffers from malnutrition.
Doctors have gvenit many learned names; Anar.
MIA Dyspepsia, Phthisis, Diabetes 1t is all NAL.
nutrition.
TO learn how to cure a disease we must first find
out the cause Of 1t. The cause of your food NOT
nourishing you? What can It be that you do not d.
gest 1t? And how can we possibly help you II you
cannot digest your food2 by giving you food That
ia already digested
Cod liver oil and other fatty food is often given to
people who suffer from mal-nutrition But it never
does them any permanent good. The reason is
PLAIN rats and oils the most indigestible Of all
foods They cannot be pre.digested You cannot
helpa tired horse by giving him more work to do.
Nor tired stomach either
If your stomach cannot nourish your body with
ordinary food, must take food that will nourish
1t in spite of your stomach. PASKOLA is such a
food.
If PASKOLA were a fatty food It would be no bet.
ter than cod liver OIL PASKOLA ia a starch fond
1t is possible to pre-dgest starch food. PASKOLA
is predigested. PASKOLA contains natural fer.
ments that help to digest other food.
OF the three great classes of foods, Starches AL
bumens, Fats only has any effect in the diseases
of malnutrition: THE SrARCHES II we want to
get fat must have starch food. If we suffer
from mal-nutrition we must have PAsKOLA.
PASKOLA is not a medicine, and does not con-
tain any drugs 1t is pleasant, natural food, pre-
pared fiom richest grains and certain kinds of fruit
1t has been prescribed by many eminent physicians,
and is rapidly taking the place of drugs in all cases
of malnutrition.
Descriptive pamphlets free onlapplicaton to
THE PRE- 0lGESTEO FOOD co., 80 Reade ST., n. y
w. h. II errilI 81 Co.
state Street, Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
Hunting Horses.

There is a difference, The Horseman
says, between the mere high jumping
horse that can take a seven barred gate
In the show ring and the horse that can
take leap over fence and ditch mile
after mile in following fox hounds. The
latter is the real hunter. He is shown
in the accompanying illustration. The
high jumper leaps simply up and down
sgain. The hunter must take flying
leap as he runs and lose no time.
Since riding to hounds after alleged
toxes is becoming fashionable, the breed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

STHE farmer who confines himself to
two or three staple crops, and who has
not ventured beyond them, does not
know the full capacity of his farm. He
should try some special crop on a small
area, and endeavor to have a greater
variety of articles to sell. The causes
of failures in some crops do not in
huence other kinds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

PEACH trees when set in the orchard
should be we'll cut back and the growth
of the following season trained as de-
sired, by rubbing off all buds that start
to grow where branches are not desired.
Keep the heads low and laterals well
spread out for easy picking.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
Farm for Sale

On account of the sickness of my wife, ! am com.
PEELED to sell my farm, situated In Worcester. VI.
The farm comprises 225 acres OF land-lO0 acres of
timber, the balance in tillage land and pasture.
VIM keep eighteen COWS and team SUFFICIENT for
with farming tools and stocked with horses, cattle
and sheep. win be sold all together or separate, as
running at the house and barn. $500 laid out on the
house the past year. Any one wanting to buy a
good farm at low price, now Is the time, as cir
cumstances compel me to sell. For any informa-
ton in regard to the farm, and terms. apply to Il.
NJ Irish, Montpelier, VT, or Carlos Campbell, now
living ON the place CARLOS CAMPBELL.
Worcester, Vt, April Is, 1891.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

ORDER your envelopes, note heads, bill
heads, statements, etc, of the WArcHMAS
job Office Stock and workmanship always
the best, prices the lowest.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

CRUSHED oyster-shells are excellent
for laying hens; one pound of crushed
oyster-shells will supply enough lime
for about seven dozen eggs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09
FOR SALE.
Lot OF Land

Situated near Berlin Corner, said to contain 65
acres. This will make some one "A fine pasture, as
there is brook of never failing water It, To the
right this property will be sold easy terms,
and at very reasonable price. For further par
ticulars address
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

Hoods Pills cure liver ills, constipation,
biliousness iaundlce, sick headache, indigestion.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-09

ing to a limited extent of hunters will
be profitable. The following on the
breeding of these animals is from The
The herald., 1894-07-13
Various Kinds of Ladies.

The young husband had waited with
exemplary patience while his wife made
a tour of inspection through the various
departments of the store. He counted
the number of street cars that passed
and scanned the shopping public with
interest. Then he turned his attention
to the store windows and studied the
various bargains. When his wife came
out, she said in an apologetic manner:
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting
so long, my dear, but l had to wait for
my change an endless time. Has it been
awfully stupid out here?'
"Oh, no." said the obliging husband.
"On the contrary, have learned that
there are many kinds of women I never
dreamed Of"
$50 you've been watching the womenr'
she snapped.
mo, but I've been looking in the win
dow, and find that there are navy blue
ladies-you see the sign, Navy blue Ia
dies suits And there are pink ladies'
observe the pink ladies' shirt waists
There are tailor made ladies-there you
see proof of it in the tailor made ladies'
suits There arc also real ladies, as the
placard Real ladies' handkorchiefs'
testifies. No, I don't count the time
lost
Whereupon his vito said that she did
not know what he was talking about
New York World.
The herald., 1894-07-13
"A Ghost suofyy.e

Hero is ghost story-one of q large
class and therefore more likely to be
veracious, especially as it first saw the
light in a London paper. 1t has an -ap-
pearance Of strict and even narrow
truthfulness. There was q certain Cap
tain Blolaberg, of some regiment un-
known, on active service in America.
Five or six of his brother officers, he be-
ing engaged on duty 200 miles away,
were dining together The door was
opened, and Captain Blomberg ap-
peared, to everybody's surprise With
out speaking, he walked in and sat
down in vacant chair. They all asked
him how he came there.
To their questions he made no reply.
Then enc of them said, "Blomberg, are
you mad?'
On this he rose and replied, "When
you go back to London, take my son to
the queen and beg her to be his protect
or
This said, he walked out of the room
as he had come in. A few days after
ward the news came that he had been
killed in action on the very day and al
the samo hour of his appearance.
1t is pleasing to record that the queen,
on whose favor the gallant officer may
have had some claims, did protect the
son, who became chaplain in ordinary
to his majesty, deputy clerk of the kings
closet canon rosidentiary of st. Paul's
and vicar of st. GILES, Cripplegate. -
Now York Commercial.
The herald., 1894-07-13
Not Ashamed of Kis Record.

"While waiting at railroad station
not many miles distant from Utica the
other day for an east bound train" said
man, "a train passed going west. AS
the end Of tho train pulled out of the sta
tion aman with unusually long legs was
seen running into one end Of tho depot
and out of the other to the platform.
He started after the moving train at a
lively gait. He carried two grips, one
in either hand, and they swung to and
fro in a laughable manner. On he went,
and ON the train went. He gained on the
train at first, but the train was all the
time picking up, and he finally stopped.
He walked back leisurely, the onlookers
at the depot waiting till he came up to
give him the laugh. AS he approached
them he dropped his grips, quietly put
his hand in his pocket, pulled out roll
Of bills, selected q $40 note and ex-
claimed:
"I'll bet $40 there is not a man in
this whole crowd who can catch that
trainP
"Of course there were no takers, nor
did any one laugh at him for failing to
catch the train himself either -
Utica Observer.
The herald., 1894-07-13
Firing Big Guns.

1.-THE man who has never been in close
proximity to 100 ton gun when it is
fired can have little conception of the
noise and vibration, said Lieutenant
John W. Leigh, retired naval officer.
Partly by courtesy and partly by
chance was on the Thunderer at the
siege of Alexandria some years ago.
Two sets Of advice were given me as to
how to act when the big guns were fired.
Old experienced seamen can stand the
shock by raising on their toes the mo-
ment the word is given to fire. The ma
jority of people, however, find it neces-
sary in order to preserve their ear drums
from perforation to lie down, resting
most of the weight on their hands and
toes. Even with this precaution the SEN
sation is most unpleasant until one gets
used to it. Even with the comparative
ly small guns in general use in our navy
the conoussion on board a ship when
shot is fired is very annoying, but the
enormous guns used so generally in Eu-
ropean navies are source of terrible
danger to tho crew as we'll as the
enemy, and I doubt if they could posi-
bly, be used in hand to hand encoun-
ter, useful as they are for destroying
distant ports. st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.