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Spraying Potatoes.

Agricultural Editor: SO many are
inquiring about spraying potatoes for
blight that it seems best to issue an
other circular letter giving directions
for the use of bordeaux mixture. We
are satisfied after five years experience
that it pays to spray all potatoes in Yer
mont with this mixture. Our potato
vines are attacked by two distinct
blights. The early blight attacks ear
lier potatoes, spreading slowly in Jrly
and August, causing premature death
of vines but no rot. The late blight
attacks later potatoes in Angus and
September, Speeding rapidly in warm,
moist weather, and is followed by rot.
The early blight is a complex trouble,
caused by the attacks of insecs as well
fungi. 1t is already appearing on early
potatoes. Being complicated disease,
it is less perfectly controlled by spray
ing than is the late blight. Our re-
suits last summer showed that it can be
at least partially checked by bordeaux
mixture. The late blight and rot is a
fungous disease, and bordeaux mixture,
properly applied, is an almost perfect
remedy. BY its use we have invariably
kept our later potatoes alive through
September and have lost but very few
from rot. The result has been that our
yield of later potatoes has been more
than doubled by spraying. Every
potato. grower should try il this sum-
mer, especially On medium and late po-
tatOes.
The formula for bordeaux mixture is
as follows: Five pounds copper sui
phate, five pounds lime (must be fresh,
not air-slaked), fifty gallons Gone bar
reD water Dissolve the copper sui
plate in a clean wooden or brass vessel,
Stake the lime in another vessel, then
dilute with water to thin whitewash
and strain it into the copper solution
Stir thoroughly, and add water to make
about fifty gallons Gone blrreD. The
following suggestions may prove of use
/. Keep yOur mcclure clean. Chips,
Jumps of lime, etc., in the mixture will
clog pump or nOZzles. Therefore,
thoroughly clean all vessels to begin
with. Strain all water and copper So
lutions through cheese.cloth, unles;
they are perfectly clean. Strain the
lime whitewash through some coarser
cloth or sieve, and throw away all the
dregs and Jumps.
2. To diss0lUe blue uitriol. 1t may
be quickly dissolved in water by heat
ing in a brass kettle to the boiling point
or by pouring boiling water over it. Th'
most convenient way we have found
however, is to dissolve in cold waite
by putting it in a coarse sack and sus
pending this in the top of tub or bar
rel of water. AS fast as the heavy so
luton forms, it settles to the bottom
and fresh water rises. BY using a gal
Ion of water for each pound of blu
vitriol, it will dissolve in few hour
in this way.
3. Keep stock solution. We fin,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
Tenant Farming.

Statistics for 1898 furnished by the
census bureau led the Springfield Re
publican to the conclusion that we are
actually facing the unpleasant possibil-
ity of the planting in this country Of a
landlord system of wide and increasing
extent. The aggregate number of farms
In the New England states has not in
creased materially in the past decade
But in Massachusetts the number OF
freehold farm families declined from
30, 266 to 30, 370, while the tenant fam
lilies increased from about $500 to
5000. In Maine the 2,7S0 tenant fam
flies had increased in the decade to
4,731, and the freehold families had de-
clined from 81, 52S to 81, 251. Iowa in
the decade gained 3, 521 owning cult
vators and over 1G, 500 tenant cultiva-
tors. Georgia lost 8, S44 owning cultiya-
tors and gained 80, 900 tenant families.
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A Story for Farmers.

Mythology made Ant@us the son of
the Earth. And the great strength of
Antteus depended upon his constant
contact with the soil. The gods gave
him power to meet all enemies success
fully, and to struggle with all vicissi-
tudes and difficulties VIGOROUSLY, pro-
vided that he always kept in contact
with the earth. Hercules, finding out
the secret of the strength of Ant@us,
who had thrown in wrestling matches
all the athletes of his day and genera
ton, cunningly approached, and by
some enchantment alluring Ant@us to
leave the earth, bore him into the
clouds and there easily took his life.
The American farmer is Ant@us. Let
him keep forever in loving contact with
the soil, which, like mother, will care
for him and his so long as he is obedi-
ent to the laws of nature and loyal to
intelligent industry. The pretended
friend of the farmer, who lectures him
upon the abjectness of his political and
social situation, who talks to him of
impossible financial theories, teaches
him economic heresies, and fills him to
overlooking with vagaries, is the mod
ern Hercules; and all the farmers
whom he has taken into the clouds
and mysteries of his sociology and gre
gariousness, his money fallaces, and
other like things, have, like Ant@us of
old, been deprived of vigor and virility,
virtue and vitality.-J. Sterling Morton,
IN the Forum.
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IS IT The LIVER?
Can Liver Pills Cure the Evils OF
Indigestion

For hundred years doctors have disa-
greed about the liver. Only yesterday,
fguratiyely speaking, they woke up to its
real uses in the digestion and absorption Of
food.
Biliousness is not Indigestion. Liver pills
stimulate the secretions, but do not stimu-
late the storage powers Of the liver or aid
digestion. If you cannot digest starch food,
your liver cannot store up reserve. You
are always hungry, but food does you no
good.
IL is not the liver. Pills won't help you.
III Is partly the stomach, but medicine won't
help 1t. What you need is Paskola, food
that is already digested. Pasxola is made
of grains and fruits, artifcially transformed
into the actual products of digestion. When
swallowed it is at once absorbed without
further digestion, and part Of it is stored up
in the liver. There is no waste about
Paskola. 1t is highly concentrated food.
but, unlike most concentrated foods, which
are usually indigestible, it causes the
stomach to work, because it is already di-
gested. Paskola helps the stomach to digest
other food. 1t is the food for all people who
suffer from indigestion.
Mr. Charles e. Isaacs, Alb Main street,
Worcester, Mass, says: "I have tried
many doctors and countless patent medi-
cines-all were of no avail till | took Pas
kola.' To eat a meal now is a pleasure
heretofore it had been torture"
Descriptive pamphlet free on applica-
ton to
THE PRE- DlGESTED FOOD CO., 30 Reade ST., N.Y..
w. e. TERRILL & CO.
| 9 State Street, MONTPELIER VT
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Raising the Calves.

The proprietor of Kenridge Farms,
Cornwall, N. Y, celebrated for its
registered Jersey cattle, sends us the
following communication, which we
gladly print:
Agricultural Editor:-In the issue of
July / note piece taken from Rural
Life in which it is claimed that better
calf can be raised on new milk than on
skim-milk. The claim, think, is par
tally true, inasmuch as calf will not
look so we'll the first six months if
raised on skim-milk; but l claim that
it will make better COW and will be
bigger o-year-old than one fed on
new milk, because the solids are not all
removed from the milk in separating,
and solids will make bone-in other
words, good large frame, and that is
what We want. However, if it is pre-
ferred, after the calf is three weeks
old, a very little oil meal can be scalded
and added to the skim-milk. Oil meal
costs only one and one-half to two cents
per pound, while butter fat varies from
twenty to thirty cents per pound, thus
making a much cheaper ration. My
method of feeding is to begin to work
the calf on to skim-milk at two or three
weeks of age, not feeding all skim-milk
until ten days or more-never less.
Then l mix very small quantity of
scalded oil-meal, working up to pint
at sixteen or seventeen weeks old.
think that it will be found that the
much -derided skim-milk calf will hold
his own better when it is turned to pas.
ture, as most all farmers have to do
than the new-milk calf, and will come
up looking better when it is year old
That, certainly, is my experience. Oh
course, care and judgment must be uset
in changing calves that are not strong
from one milk to the other. We should
do all farm work as the painter mixet
his paints" with brains"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
Clipped and Condensed.

FEEDING soaked corn to steers in
summer is practiced by some with profit,
they claim.
A FACTORY for making Swiss cheese
has been established at Pinlschi, Wash,
by John Schiller.
LET your horses come to heavy pull
ing gradually, and not until their bones
are well matured.
A MONTANA cattle-dealer who has
just returned from France thinks there
is fair chance for the expectation of a
good many fat cattle to the French
markets.
IT is not uncommon that litters i'm
prove in size and quality as the dam
becomes older, but her milk increases
so that it is better to keep old sows for
breeding.
IN France every fowl is fattened sep
arately by hand. The process is a cram
ming one and consists in feeding a Ger.
tain number of pellets composed of
barley, corn and buckwheat meal
dipped in milk.
No hog is so ravenous as the SOW that
is sucking lot of young pigs. The
incessant drain sharpens her appetite,
go that very liberal feeding is necessary
in order to enable her to supply the
wants of her litter, and keep in rea-
sonably fair condition.
THE fowls should be supplied with
drinking troughs into which it will be
impossible for them to get their feet.
| If they can climb in and out, the water
quickly becomes too filthy for drinking,
and to this may be attributed large
share of the diseases which af1lict
poultry.
AN exchange says the best-known
preventive of cholera in flock is the
extract of logwood. Put in only enough
to redden the drinking water the least
bit, once week being sufficient. This
precaution is recommended by many OF
the leading Colorado poultry fanciers
who are using it.
MEN who rely upon clover as theil
basis for maintaining the fertility of the
farm rarely have cause to fear the
sheriff. The clover need not be fed di.
rectly to the soil, but perhaps it is all
the more beneficial if it goes first to
good beeves and mich cows and NUT.
ton sheep. But one must not lose sight
of the fact that its final destination is
the soil. So says writer.
THERE is nothing else which pays sc
well for the money and labor expended
on it as patch of small fruit, well
cared for. There is no other manner
in which the farmer can get so much in
the way of good, wholesome food fol-
so little ground. And yet there are
many who give this important matter
no attention, thinking that it is not
worth while for them to bother with it
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
Nitrogen and Ammonia.

Many persons are puzzled to know
whether nitrogen" as it appears in the
published analyses Of the different
brands of fertilizer is exactly synony-
nous with the term ammonia. Rural
New Yorker offers this explanation:
Nitrogen is single elementary sub
stance. Ammonia is combination of
nitrogen and another substance called
hydrogen. Hydrogen is the lightest gas
known and is therefore ranked in weight
as l. Nitrogen weighs II times as
much, volume for volume, and there
fore ranks II. Ammonia is composed of
one part nitrogen and three parts hydro
gen and therefore ranks II by weight.
Therefore pound Of ammonia contains
only ourteen-seventeenths, or S21S per
cent, Of pound of pure nitrogen.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25

THERE ls more catarrh is this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For a great many years doctors pro-
uounced It a local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and, by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
meni, pronounced it incurable. Sci
enoe has proved catarrh to be consti-
tutional disease, and it therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment. HALLS
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. j..
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses of from
ten drops to teaspoonful. 1t acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucus sur
faces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails tC
cure. Send for circulars and testimo-
malls. Address,
F.I. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Ca Sold by druggists at 70 cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
Protection from Lightning.

There is more danger in the country
than in the city, the network of tels-
graph and other wires through the
streets offering opportunities for surplus
lightning to be drawn off and dissipat-
ed All barns, houses and other ex-
posed buildings should have rods, which
should be of either iron or copper.
Buildings on hillsides are especially
liable to be struck.
The top of the rod should be plated
or in some way protected against rust
ing, and it is better if made with sew
eral points extending in different direo-
tions. The base of the rod should be
sunk deeply enough to reach moist
ground or water If the conductor goes
near large main drains, 1t should be
connected with them. But it is unsafe
to have the rods go near small gas
pipes. The lightning might melt them
and would of course set fire to the gas
There is no such thing as a definite
protected area from a single rod The
very heaviest bolts of lightning cannot
be entirely carried away by an ordinary
rod. Iron rods weighing 80 ounces to
the foot are advised as the best proteo-
ton, but ON the highest part of the
building there should be q number of
points spring upward which may be
smaller and connected with q rod of
this weight Lightning generally, but
not always, follows the point Of least
resistance. The exceptional cases are
where the discharge is too great to fol
low the line prepared for it A metal
rod, if small, may be disregarded when
the electricity is following a current of
air. A gorge between two highlands is
less safe than are the localities higher
up where the air does not go in streams,
which, being larger, make better con-
ductor than any small metallic rod can
do. Fortunately these discharges of
lightning too large to go through rod
are exceptional, and a good lightning
rod well connected with moist earth or
water furnishes sufficient protection in
most cases
The nature Of the ground has much to
do with liability to lightning strokes,
Land of chalk formation is least liable
to attract lightning. Clay soil has
seven times this attraction for lightning,
and sand has nine times as great attrac-
ton A building near running stream
Of water is more likely to be struck, as
the water attracts the lightning in this
direction. While rain is falling slight
discharges of lightning are carried down
to earth without injury to trees or build
ings.
There is no danger in carrying small
metallic articles, as knives, watches OF
chains about the person. They are toe
small to have any influence in attract
ing the lightning Neither can safety be
found by going to bed and trying to in
sulate ones self in feathers The gen
eral rule for safety is not to stand undel
trees in storms, nor in the doorway o.
barns, or close to cattle, or near chin
neys and fireplaces. Avoid places where
there is any draft of air, as it is mos
likely to be the path taken by lightning
discharges.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
Agricultural Notes.

According to the last census, there
are 564, 641 farmers in the United
States. The average farm is 1877 acres
in extent, with an average value, in
Guiding buildings, of less than So, 600.
The report Of the statistician of the
United States department of agriculture
shows considerable reduction of the
areas Of wheat and oats in the United
States and corresponding increase III the
area Of corn.
The advocates of the deep trench sys-
tenn are able to prove that they can
raise the largest, finest and best favor-
ed celery in this way On the other
hand, it seems to be conceded that fair'
ly good celery can be produced at iesF
cost when planted near the surface
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
AGRICULTURAL.
Pumpkins in the Corn.

when the purpling haze of autumn
Falls upon the distant hills
Ana old mother earth sits smiling
Till my heart with rapture thrills;
Like a girl who greets her lover,
When 10 e's sweetest thoughts are born,
behold with eyes of gladness
Golden pumpkins in the corn.
behold the landscape glimmer
Meath the mellow autumn skies;
In a dream Of heeting beauty
All the world around me lies.
] can feel my pulses Jingle,
While laugh each i'll to scorn,
When see those yellow pumpkins
As they ipen in the corn.
When see them in my fancy
am back again boy,
To the time when life before me
Was an endless round of JOY.
And among the pleasant memories
or the days that have gone by,
still think of Jack o'lanterns
And dear mothers pumpkin pie.
can taste them while my fancy
Turns again to huskng bees,
When the girls are all nutter
And the boys for kisses tease
While the pumpkins nudge each other
In kind of social way,
As they nestle in the fodder
or get trampled in the hay.
l can think of days long vanished,
And of days that are to be,
with a quiet resignation,
knowing death will come for me-
And though leave no treasures
But friends whose hearts will mourn
May my memory be as golden
-Tankee Bld
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When Weary and Languid
Use Horsford's Acid Phosphate,

When you are weary and languid
with the heat of summer, and strive in
vain to keep cool, and your temper also,
the use of Horsford's Acid Phosphate
will materially aid you.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25
BRADFORD ACADEMY.

For the higher education of young women. Build.
lngs unsurpassed for comfort and health Twenty.
hYe acres-twelve in grove. Lake for rowing and
skating Classical and general course of study; also
preparatory and optional. Year commences Sep
TENDER IL, 1894. Apply to
MISS IDA @. ALLEN. Principal, Bradford, Mass.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25

If you are working your horses, don't
let grass take the place of grain. Keep
up the grain ration and let the grass
come in as relish.
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For Sale at a Bargain !

uopse parn and Bdlding Lot on echanics' St,
one acre Of land payy covered a wiih5sit
~ IN T Tsn vtaioss inisstment. A. JHOWE,
i-o'' Real E,ate Agent
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-07-25

PIGS should get accustomed to full
feeding before they are weaned, or
they may be stunted.
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House and Barn for Sale

On North Street, A. J. HOWE, Real Estate Agt,
~ Main Street
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-30
WIN Stop Rough Play.

New YoBl, Nov. 30,-Police
Superintendent Byrnes announced
today, that no exhibition Of bru-
tally will be permitted at the
Yale Princeton football game on
Manhattan field tomorrow. Supt.
Byrnes has instructed Inspector
Collins to stop the game lift proves
to be anything but purely scien-
tific contest. The superintendent
said he would not allow the play
ers to act like a lot OF prize lighters
and publicly MAIN each other for
life. The game will be stopped at
the first exhibition of brutality.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-11-30
SPRECKLES ON SUGAR.
FREE MATERIAL MEANS IDLENESS
FOR THOUSANDS.
The Only Remedy, He Says, Is
Protection of our own Manu-
features by Government.

SAN Francisco, Nov. 30.-In
reference to the interview with H
o. Havemeyer, president Of the
Sugar Refinery company, Adolph
Spreckles, director and secretary OF
the California refinery, said: 81
have read Havemeyer's interview
and understand the exact condi-
tiOn Of sugar refining in
the eastern states. Havemeyer
and his people control
the sugar trade Of all the country
east Of the Mississippi river and
the California refinery controls
pretty much all west of the river.
| think Havemeyer is right when
he says the closing OF his refin-
cries will throw 10000 people
out Of work. The reason they are
to close is this: They cannot COM
pete with foreign sugars. The adj
ministration has effectually shut
out the sugar refining business in
this country. German granulated
sugar is laid down in New York
at 1886 per hundred pounds and
raw or crude sugar costs laid
down there, $3.50. That leaves a
margin Of six one-hundreths Of
cent per pound on which
to pay the refining expenses
and make profits. The thing is
simply absurd. In the east they
pay refinery hands $l.70 per day.
In Germany the wages are but
$l.l3. The trade cannot stand the
difference. German sugar is beet
sugar refined abroad. This market
is now bringing in great deal
Chinese sugar that is refined by
two English firms in Hong Kong,
They use raw sugar from Batavia
and the PHILIPPINE islands. Those
refineries employ coolie labor at ten
cents per day. There is only one
remedy and that is protection"