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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-21
CAMP A. S. TRACY, s. OF "
.LnmeS h. Hodaes, Captain.
THE CHURCHES.


REV. 5. e. BLUNTi hEUTOh'
The morning services on the first Sunday
of each month will be Plain morning prayer
at 10 O'Clock; High celebration (only) with
music and sermon, at the usual hour OF 10 40.
On All other Sundays the services will be
Low celebration at a. M; mathis (only)
with music and sermon at 10 As a. m.
Sunday School, 2I2 p. M
Evening service, = p M
Fridays, I'5O p IN
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-21
ROMAN CATHOLIC.
REV. j. NJ. GELoT, PAsTol

REV. J. NJ. GELOT, PASTOR.
This is the order of services in the Il. c..
shurch commencing with Trinity Sunday,
June 8;
Mass at 10 100 a. IN. After Trinity, mass at al
ternate Sundays at and 10 30 a. m. Bene-
dection and prayers every Sunday at 30 p.
W. Regular time tor catechism, 30 p. m.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-21
TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

T aims puss Middiebury station at the hours
gi ZEN below
GONG NoRTH-Express, 2l a. M; local
express, 9:45 a. M; mail, 10 p. m; EXPRESS
3 40 D. m.
4o1sa soUrH-Mail, 9l5 a. M; express,
10 54p M; passenger, 2G p. M; passenger,
$40 D. M; express, 0;2s p. m.
MAILS CLosE-North, 30 and 80 p. M;
So 1th, sAO a. m. and go p. M; stage, 3
p. m.
See Central vt. timetable, elsewhere.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-21
CONGREGATIONAL.
REV. A. w. DICKENS,

REV. A. w. DICKENS, PASTOR.
Sunday services, 10 40 a. M; 80 p M
Sabbath school, II 100 m.
Thursday, conference meeting, 80 p M
Up. s. G. E., Sundays, 63Op' M
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-21

REV. T. g. LYONS, PASTOR
Sunday Services, 10 40 a. M; Z ~ p. m
Sunday school, II 100 m.
Prayer meeting, Thursday, 80 p. m
UP. S. C. E., Sundays, 700 p IN.
Seats tree.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-21
METHODIST.


REV. c. f. MOLE, PASTOR.
unday Services; 10; 40 a. m.
Epworth League meeting, 200 p M
Evening service, 90 p. m
Sabbath school, II 700 M
Class-meeting, II 700 M
ClRss-meeting Tuesday, 100 p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday, I 100 p. m.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-06-21
TAE ERArERNITIEs.

THE FRATERNITIEs.
AXE pUNMoRE LODGE, NO. IL, l. o. OF o. F..
W. l.. holland, ". g.; r. ". Fuller, y g.;
b. r. English, Sec'y.
Meetings every Friday evening at Z 80
o'clock. Degree work every meeting. Hall
in Dyer's block.
UNION LODGE, NO. 2, F. AND A. NJ.
+. j. Hubbard, ". NJ
Rap1nlar communications the first Monday
AVening of each month
POTTER CHAPTER, NO. %, R. A. M.
w. H. Brewster, M. E. Fl. p.
stated convocations the third Tuesday even
ing OF each month.
H1DDLEBURY COUNCIL, NO. IA, R. AND s. M.
". II. Bre'oster, T. I. NJ.
Stated assemblies the second Tuesday even
ing of each month.
Mt CALVARY CoMMANDERY, NO. l, X. t.
Sir ". H. Kingsley, Z. C.
Regular conclaves the fourth Wednesday of
zach month.
WIN. p. Russell POST, NO. SO, G. A. R.
C.E. Youtt commander; James NJ. Tracy
S.V. c.; Otis Abbey u. VIC.
Regular meetings the second and fourth
Wednesday evenings OF each month.
CAMP A. S. TRACY, s. OF v.
James h. Hodges, Captain.
Regular meeting the second and fourth Fri
day evenings of each month.
GREEN MOUNTAIN LODGE, NO. S74, X. OF H.
w. N. CuShmdn, Dictator.
Regular meetings the last Thursday evening
If each month.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
TOBACCO CULTURE AND FER
TILIZATION,

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
The methods of tobacco culture and
curing are go various that it will be
impossible in a short article to give any
directions that will be of general use.
Ine preparation OF the soil for the crop,
and It's subsequent cultivation and the
curing of the crop all vary with the
reglon-and the kind of tobacco that is
grown. And to some extent the fertiI
ization will also vary with these differ.
ent conditions. For the growing of
the heavy dark leaf, a soil abounding
in humus, and on which a growth eff
legumes has been buried, is essential,
while for the golden leaf tobacco "a
smaller amount of nitrcgenoUs matter
is needed. But no matter what kind
of tobacco is grown, there is one
requisite for all and this is potash in
an available form. ALI growers under.
stand the need for an abundance OF
potash for this crop, but it is not 30
generally known that the form in
which the potash is supplied is more
important than the potash itself.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
THE POULTRY QUARTERS.

The Farmers VOice:-There is a
great amount of material damage done
if the greater part Of the fowls on the
farm roost out during the summer. In
fact in majority Of cases roosting in
trees or even on fences is preferable to
roosting in a filthy, over crowded
poultry house as would usually be the
case if all the poultry hatched during
the spring and summer were compelled
to roost in the average poultry house.
But more or less of the fowls will be
sold off during the summer and early
fall and there should be quarters that
are dry, comfortable and rOomy for all
the fowls that are to be kept through
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
EGG INSPECTION.

By holding an egg up between the
eye and the light an expert can at once
tell the purpose for which it is particu-
larly Intended and promptly pronounce
as to its destiny.
There is the egg which exhibits a
small cloud floating in an orange sea.
This egg finds it's way to an humble
saloon and is beaten up into golden
fzz" to soothe the weary palate of the
retired politician.
Again there is the egg which shows
a galaxy of crimson stars, intimating
that the industrious hen that laid it is
suffering frtm m the heat and needs rest.
This egg finds its way to the quiet
restaurant, whittier the sign, Meals,
scents, - beguiles the hungry wanderer.
A third egg shows dark, solid body
surrounded by vapory liquid. 1t
abounds in the generous barrel housee,
whose motto is, IAN egg or a clam
With every drink" and where the gay
and careless reveler says, You spoke
late, when the hapless chicken equeaks
at the moment of deglutition.
A fourth egg, light in weight and Of
a sickly green complexion, sprinkled
with dark blotches, is popular at po.
litical meetings where the audience is
not quite in harmony with the spe4 ker
But above all, there is the honest,
fawless, unexceptionable egg proudly
laid upon fresh straw by kind and
wholesome hen. This is the legitimate
egg of commerce that makes the whole
world happy every morning. South
ern Farm
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
POULTRY YARD
FEEDING CAPONs-

The question is often asked: ssHow
are capons to be fed?" The answer ia
easily given. After caponizing give
the bird all be will eat of soft fee d, and
let him have plenty Of water. Capon-
lied fowls begin to eat almost imme-
diately after the operation is per
formed, and no one would think for a
moment that a radical change had been
made in their nature. Now leave the
bird to himself, as for the time being
he is his own doctor. It is well to look
him over two or three days after the
operation, as in breathing, the air
some times gets in under the skin,
causing wind puff" or a slight swell
ing, in other words. Simply prick
through the skin at the sides with a
sharp needle, gently pressing at the
same time, when the air will be ex-
PEELED and the capon relieved. Within
10 days fro m the operation it would be
difficult to find where the incisions
were made. A day or so after capon-
izing the bird should be allowed to run
at large, treating him just the same as
any growing poultry would be treated.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
CLOVER AFTER CLOVER.

1t is curious fact about clover that
when a clover sod is plowed late in the
fell and sown with winter grain it Is
impossible to get a good clover catch
on this land the following season. We
have seen this tried a great many times.
If a seeding is desired, timothy should
be sown heavily in the fall, as no mat
ter how much clover seed is sown in
spring, very little will be found by
harvest time. The trouble is that the
soil on the late turned sod cannot be
got into proper mechanical condition.
The sod holds the furrow up, leaving
q vacant place under the surface, until
its rotting in the spring causes the fur
row to collapse. This occurs just about
the time the young clover terminates
As iG catches hold of the soil the latter
falls back and leaves the young clover
plant exposed to the air, and hot sun
in April or May soon finishes it. Pos
sibly liberal use Of the roller to COM
press the soil in the fall might make
the clover seeding better, but there is
sure to be a falling down of the furrow
as turned in the fall when the sod be-
gins to rot the following spring
Cultivator.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
BREEDING.
ern Farm

The subject of in-breeding, that is
breeding fowls who are akin, is one
upon which there is much to be said on
both sides. Against the practice it
may be said that the tendency of close
breeding is always to reduce vigor and
stamina, and nothing but uncommon
strength Of constitution in the stock
can withstand this tendency towards
deterioration. In favor of the practice,
all breeders are aware that character
istic marks or traits may be fixed more
rapidly and surely by in-breeding than
out breeding, except such traits or
qualities as great size or vigor, which
are directly attached by close breeding.
Close breeding has filed many a poul-
try yard with weakly, roupy fowls.
The advice of writer, therefore, is
that in-breeding should be avoided by
the amateur. Change the cock every
year and zee that he is a robust, lively
bird. When the amateur has flock
of pure breeds, and desires to keep
them so, and it is impracticable to get
a cock of a different strain, we would
advise that ou breed the old cock to
the young pullets, or the young cock
to the old hene. Never, under any
circumstances allow breeding where
the relationship is so close as brother
and sister.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
No. Al

the winter. There should be room for
the nests, for the rocsss and a place to
feed, and this should be sufficiently
large to admit of the fowls having
plenty of opportunity to exercise. as
during the winter there will be moro
or less days that it will be necessary to
Keep confined. On the farm usually
IL Is best to allow the fowls to run out
every day that the weather will per-
NIT, but in doing this care must be
taken not to needlessly expose. In
locating the poultry house q dry place.
one that is easily drained, should be
selected; it is very important that the
quarters be dry. When other things
are as convenient, one of the best places
to put the poultry house is in the orch
ard, as they will benefit the soil and
the trees while the fowls will have the
benefit of the shade and the fruit.
There is no necessity for building a
costly poultry house, in fact, in ma
Jority OF cases it is not good economy
to do so. A rough board house with
the cracks carefully stuffed and lined
with tarred paper with tight roof
will answer. A shed roof with the low
side to the South and plenty of light,
arranged as convenient as possible will
answer. Two by four inch scantIings
planed smooth make good rocsss and
they should be arranged so that they
can readily be taken down and cleaned.
The nest boxes should be arranged in
the same way. There should be dust
bath arranged in one corner and
small box that can be kept filed with
sharp grit in another. 1t is quite an
item to have convenient, and their
comfort should be an important item.
The shelter should be arranged now as
soon as possible. N. J. SHEPHERD.
Miller Co, No
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
HORTICULTURE
METHOD OF CULTIVATING RASP-
BERRIES.

grow my raspberries, writes cor
respondent, in hills eight feet apart,
I would advise them to be 10 feet apart
They should be hoed, manured, and
cultivated well. In each hill there
should be four or six canes, and if you
grow them to any extent you should
run the cultivator through to keep
down the suckers, and all useless canes,
except the ones you intend for next
years fruit. Leave only the strong,
healthy, new canes; think it is good
thing to keep them about six feet high.
Don't let them come up as high as eight
or 10 feet. You will have q better crop
by keeping them lower. I don't pro
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
PLANTING OUT EvERGRzRNs.

AS rule it is more difficult to trans
plant evergreens than deciduous trees,
just because the foliage is always pres
ent IN the evergreens, whereas you can
plant the others when it is not. But
by taking evergreens just in the begin
ming CT the spring, before they start
into growth, if the season is not excep
tionally dry, they are easily trans
planted. The secret of transDlanting
them successfully is to transplant them
when they are quite young. then let
them stand for two years, take them
up and set them further apart, give
them two years more and then trans
plant them again. II evergreens were
trRnsplanted four times before they
came into the hands of the purchaser
they would hardly meet with death
But most men would sooner pay a few
cents apiece for trees which have been
transplanted once than pay a higher
price for trees which have been fire.
quently transplanted. Our people have
not yet been educated into a knowl-
edge of the difference as they have
been in Europe.
Ny advice, says farmer, would be,
unless the ground is in extraordinary
good condition, to take the young trees
as they are received from the nursery
and make nursery rows of them. give
them little care until they arrive at
the height of Is inches or two feet, and
then put them into permanent position.
They would re quire from two to three
years to grow to this height, and would
then be good size to transplant After
that their ordinary growth is two to
three feet per year in good soil, and
fully two feet in any soil, 50 that in six
or seven years the farmer would have
good shelter. Farmers Voice.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
AGRICULTURE.

ne preparation Of the soil for fruit
-aes should be similar to that for other
rs2s, except that it should be plowed
}ssler and be thoroughly pulverized.
. among your orchard trees often
sloIgh to perceive their wants. There
YORK to be done peculiar to each
th This is the season to gather
4g brush, briars, large weeds and rob
sprouts for bonfire.
70 keep the fruit clean, the ground
l baking, and to lengthen the fruit
season, before strawberries begin
pen mulch the ground around the
Is with cut straw or hay or lawn
ings. Thus managed, bed should
F. luce two full crops.
breeder or farmer who has ever
ID any of the improved stock will
"a that the old native was just g
l. The introduction of the draft
aaa coach breeds and thoroughbred
se more than double the value of our
7e horses, and so can we say of our
s5-rp and hogs.
= K salt with the food of the growing
- and give him box OF ashes into
h a little sulphur is thrown. This
r ents the loss of power in the hind
SO common in highly fed swine.
just right, they should reach their
n ounds in six months, and be sold.
- will then pay better to give your
to younger pigs.
young horse which has but little
,- commend him, may be made
rsa serviceable animal than on
h is naturally brighter and mort
e, but has been never properly
o, led. Education cannot supply
ties which are wanting, but it car
- lop and strengthen wonderfully
which is.
day will come when the farmer
close of the year, may take &C
Of his soil and the true value 0
arm will be found by adding tn
va of the plant food furnished AM
citing that carried off. He vii
upon his farm as a factory wher
material, chemicals and othe
izers are made into finished prod
IN the shape of grain and vege
g.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
LETTERS BY TELEGRAPH.
A System by Which, It Is Said, Two
Hundred Words Are Printed
a Minute

After laboring for fifteen years on
the problem of rapid telegraphy by
means of the typewriter, St. Louis
inventor claims to have solved it. The
system is said to print telegraphic
messages at the rate of 200 words
minute.
The message is dictated straight to
the typewriting operator. By device
attached to the type writer paper rib
bon about an inch wide, is perforated
by series of holes varying in position
and number according to the character
represented. The actual parforation
of the tape is not done directly by the
operator. If the right letter is struck
on the key board the machine auto
mat cally does the rest. When the
message is finished the ribbon is fed
into another machine. In it's passage
over a roller small metallic fingers press
upon it, and as different holes come
under the fingers electrical connection
is made with the metal roller beneath,
which produces the necessary letters.
This machine is in synchrOniem with
another machine at the other end Of
the line, and whatever letters are pro-
duced on one machine, say 10 New
York, are instantly reproduced on the
other machine, say in Washington.
The invention can be applied to any
standard typewriter. In the case OF
large business firms, newspaper CORE
spondents or others using the telegraph
extensively, punchers and ribbons
would be attached to the typewriters
in their offices, and the message would
be delivered to the telegraph Office on
spools ready for instant dispatch. By
the new method all possibility of tap
ping or rubbing the message is Obvi-
ated. The system is ten times swifter
than the Morse, and has the additional
advantage of turning out the message
on page form ready for delivery. The
cost Of transmission is brought very
low, and the possibilities of the system
are suggested by the fact that business
men, instead of sen ding their letters by
mail, can have them sent by wire at
the same cost as special delivery.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
GUARD AGAINST SINGLE CROPS

Diversified farming may seem to
some farmers too much of hobby in
certain quarters, but experiments in
that dire Ction this season are certainly
meeting reasonable anticipatione. It
would be misfortune if wheat should
pay so we'll this year as to induce any
to look to it as the sole depend
ence in the future. 1t will need but
few such seasons to forever dispel the
delusion that any part of this north
west Is one crop country. The gospel
of ''little farm we'll titled" is full of
promise for the future of this region
We know Of farmers in Minnesota who
have made more off OF eight acres,
with a score of different products than
many big wheat farms have netted. AS
suggestive of the benefits of irrigation,
in a strongly diverslfied sense, as now
successful in South Dakota, a farmer
in Utah gave Joel Shoemaker, a census
enumeTator, these figures: He had 80
acres; 10 of orchard and vineyard pro-
duced &. Z5O; III acres In Deans, pOCa-
toes and corn yielded $3.50; 20 acres in
alfalfa produced hay and seed to the
value of 81, 600; 20 acres in pasture fur
nished feed for COWS and hogs, and
yielding IN butter, pork and wool, 81,
500; 10 acres in wheat and oats, $3.50;
acres in root crops produced $500;
the other five acres were occupied by
dwelling house, farm lawn, and stock
yards, Oh which 10 stands of bees pro
duced an average of $3.50. Total an,
nual receipts from so acres, $8, 600.
His land is irrigated, of course. Mr..
Shoemaker says this is but one of many
farms scattered through the Western
States, showing what can be done by
diversified farming. - Northwestern
Farmer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19

Horses doing ordinary work drink
from seven to nine gallons of water
a day, oxen nearly as much, but COWS
warmly housed and deeply MIXED re
quire more. Very Injurious to animal
health is organic filth dissolved or sus-
pended in the water, and cattle should
have none but the freshest and purest.
This is no idle statement.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19

Manure has not of the same worth at
at all times. When lean beasts are put
up to fatten they at first exhaust the
food much more completely than when
they are nearly fattened, consequently
the manure is very inferior at first, but
it increases in quality as the animal in
creases in flesh.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
MACHINE TRLEGRAPHY--CRAIG
SYSTEM.

In some way the ring within the Ring
of telegraph monopolists has obtained
it's enormous wealth. Oae way" has
been by the purchase, or so called ''Con-
solidation" of competing lines. The
Western Union paid $23, 400, 600 Gwen
ty four million four hundred thousand
dollars) for property worth about g.,
SOC, 900. The innermost manipulators
had the conduct of the negotiations
which eliminated in this immense ag-
gregate transe ection. The other 'Way"
is by the exclusive advance possession
of the market news of the world. This
last named method of reaping colossal
gains, with which the ordinary stock
holder has nothing to do, is cOntinu.
ing source of revenue to the Ring; and
for the perpetuatiDg of this income a
high rate of charges for telegraphing
must, if possible, be maintained.
Reasonable rates for the people would
destroy the bureau which plays with
the price lists of staples in the principal
markets of the globe. If any merchent,
any farmer, could as certain the market
quotations of the worlds great ports at
any time on approximately equal terms
by those possessed and enjoyed by the
ring bureau Of the telegraph monopoly,
such opportunity would deprive the
ring men of many millions of dollars Of
annual extortion.
1t often happens that knowledge Of
the last Exchange Board sale of one Of
the great staple articles of trade, for a
period of ten minutes in advance Of
| general press announcement, is worth
millions of dollars to those ring
workers.
Do you now distinctly understand
why telegraph tolls in this country are
maintained at from three to ten times
as high as they are in nations which
own and operate genuine postal
telegraphy.
For several reasons the monopOlists
have their agents at Washington and
elsewhere, opposing every movement
that really has any Importance, or
promises or threatens to be of any con-
sequence, in the direction of the estab-
lishment of a postal telegraph. But
among these reasons, the greatest, the
most operative in the minds OF the
managers of the monopoly, is this last
named.
Yet it is the truth that our people are
the victims of the most oppressive ex-
tortion in the matter of charges Tor
telegraphing in this country. 1t Is the
truth. that by passing a genuine postal
telegraph bill and adopting the Craig
Machine method of telegraphing, our
government could connect every post
Office in the Union with all necessary
wiring, and at a large profit to the
national treasury send twenty-wOrd
messages between all points for ten
cents per message, and impartiaIly
dispatch all press items between all
points for twenty cents per hundred
words.-S. r. Star.
READ the offer at bottom Of fifth
~o0o or6 annd HT0 a dollar
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19

Avoid letting the manure lie all win
ter, but put it upon the land now if the
ground be level, where it will lie and
soak during the autumn rains and win
tec's freezing and thawiDg; its virtues
will be ready to enter and be incor-
porated with the soil, with but mini
mum less from evaporation.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-11-19
RALEIGH, N. c., NOVEMBER 10, 1895.

tect them at all in the winter. but some
OF the tender ones have laid down
under the snow, that is, laid them down
and let the snow cover them. l have
my raspberries eight feet apart each
way. Iplant them that distance apart
for the purpCs9 of being able to run
the cultivator through them.