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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
Values of Fertilizers.

The experiment stations of Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
and New Jersey have fixed as the value
of fertilizers in 1895, eighteen and one
half cents per pound for nitrogen in
ammonia salts, fifteen cents for nj
trates, sixteen and one-half cents for
organic nitrogen of fine, dry, ground
fish and of meat and blood, twelve
cents for nitrogen in cottonseed meal,
sixteen cents in fine bone and tankage,
fourteen cents in fine medium bone
and tankage and five cents in coarse
bone, and in hair and horn shavings
and coarse fish scrap; six and one-half
cents for water-soluble phosphoric acid,
six cents for nitrate soluble, two to five
cents in different grades of ground fish
and bone tankage, five cents in cotton
seed meal and wood ashes, and five and
one-half cents for potash as high-grade
sulphate and four and one-half cents as
muriate. These prices are one.half
cent lower than last year for nitrogen,
two cents lower for organic nitrogen in
ground fish or meat, three cents lower
in cotton-seed meal and one-half cent
higher in the bone and tankage, and
one cent higher for lower grades
Phosphoric acid is one cent higher, ex-
cept in bone and tankage, which is I'M
changed in the different grades. Potash
is also the same as last year. Troy
Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
For Sale at a Bargain!

House, Barn and Building Lot on Mechanics 81,
One of land. partly covered with fruit trees.
OF. Firstclass invs stment. A. j. HOWE,
Real Estate Agent
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
Black Sheep.

Among the many pure-bred flocks of
white sheep now in existence, none are
so pure but what occasionally a black
lamb will make its appearance. Aud
just how far back the little fellow would
have to trace his ancestors before he
could lay claim to his black coat, no
one knows; but he is there, all the
same, writes J. A. G., in the Ohio
Farmer. About the year 164S or 1860
we have some history of the black sheep
being bred and raised in the eastern
states. They were valued in some To-
Calities among the early settlers mas
much as their wool required no dyeing
when made into cloth. During the
years from 1856 to 1865 we know, from
personal observation, that in central
Indiana there were many focks of
black sheep bred and raised. They
bred pure black, it being very seldom
that white lamb was seen among the
black t1ocks. Many families, even at
that late day, spun and wove their own
cloth. The black wool was considered
stronger and more durable than the
white wool. We have seen these focks
of black sheep in all their purity, and
have helped to shear them. In size,
they were fully up to the average of the
common sheep at that day. They
sheared from four to six pounds of
wool, which was a very good average
at that time. But of late years black
wool has declined in price, since dyeing
or coloring the wool has become such
an easy process. This, we presume, is
the reason for abandoning the black
sheep.-New England Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
Vigilance the Price of Success.

A recent trip into the Red river val
ley by the editor was by no means dis
appointing, 30 far as crop conditions
are concerned. While frost has done
some damage to flax, barley and milet
among field crops, it was thought that
the heavy rains of May "a and % would
recoup the biighted energy of the
plants that were frosted, and, with fa-
vorable succeeding weather, the pros
pect for bountiful harvest would be
assured. But many enemies yet lie in
wait for the grain, and assurance is
never made sure until the crop is safely
harvested, threshed and sold. Dry
weather, hot winds, bugs, grasshoppers,
thistles and other noxious weeds, hail,
tornadoes, blight, rust and early frost
may each one yet get in deadly thrust
at the maturing plant. In spite of the
promise of early and latter rains, and a
never-failing seed-time and harvest,
there seems to be in air and earth a
host of evil genii that battle against
mans best efforts-a never-wearying
yet fitful contest. 1t requires the pa
thence of Job to uncomplainingly see
all the fruits of ones labor destroyed
by the elements; sometimes the de-
struction comes in a single day, and
again by slow, torturing degrees.
There is no denying that the lot of a
farmer is not one beautiful elysian
dream, but it is beset with much that is
hard to bear; and yet in the grand sum-
ming up of all, industrious farming is
not so full of failures as commercial
pursuits; and in figuring up the aver
age lot of man the number of success.
full farmers far outnum bers all other
classes of business occupations. II
is better after all TO look at things as
they are, and not as we might wish
them. If we cannot harness the ele.
ments, we shall have to be governed BY
them, and the quicker one learns thi;
the sooner will il become rule of life
to take every precaution against pos
sible evil. A great deal of complaint i;
due to the neglect of ordinary precau
tons that should have been taken
Eternal vigilance is not the price of {
merchants success alone, but it is the
cost one has to pay for even ordinary
progress in every department of life
and it is even more so in the life of al
who depend largely upon the uncertain
elements for their success. North
western Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
Corn for Green Feeding.

1t is strange how different men get
such different results from doing APP
parently the same thing while fitting
piece of land for sowed corn for green
feeding. A farmer called on me and,
when told what l was going to put on
that piece of land, said he was surprised
to see so many men put in corn for
green feeding. "For," he said, 81
know it is not only good for nothing to
produce milk, but certainly will make
cows fall off in their yield, and have
the figures to show that / am right"
He said that last fall, while carrying
his milk to the factory where it was
weighed every day, his cows did actually
give less milk after he began feeding
sowed corn. And he was right; they
did give less milk, and, without the
figures to show, his word is good for
the statement. Here are two very COM
mon mistakes that this gentleman made
which caused such a surprising result:
First, he sowed three bushels of corn
to the acre on land that was heavily
MANFRED, and his corn was tall, slender
and thick, and was of little or no value
except for the water it contained. Sec
ond, he fed this corn in the pasture in
the morning in such quantity that the
COWS filled their stomachs full of this
worthless stuff and then spent nearly
if not quite, two-thirds of the day chew
ing it over in a cud, and consequently
did not feed the pasture to amount to
anything, and, of course, could not be
expected to produce much milk. Now,
if this farmer was the only one that
makes these mistakes, it would not pay
to discuss the matter But he is only
one of hundreds who do the same
thing year after year. Last fall, in
driving through the country, was sur
prised to find so many men doing Just
quite sure / shall see the same thing
again this faN. If men will insist on
believing that, if one stalk of corn is of
any value for food, ten grown on the
same space of ground are worth ten
times as much, it is uphill work to make
them believe that there is any value in
any corn fed green. Now, l am Just as
positive that my COWS give more milk,
and it makes more butter after | get
them nicely on to sowed corn ration,
and have the figures to show that l
right. But plant my corn with drill
and put in from eight to ten quarts per
acre in rows a trihe over three feet
apart, and it is always Gas is everything J
feed) fed in the managers; and when
feeding but once a day, it is fed at
highland just the slight difference in
my ways and those OF the gentleman
produces exactly the reverse in results.
We both tell the truth and back it up
with figures, and yet the experience OF
each of us proves the others statement
false. 1t is in this, as in so many other
things in farm work, little difference
makes great change in results
Country Gentleman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26

RUBBER STAMPs made to order by the
Waterman Publishing Company.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
AGRICULTURAL.
The Old Man at Commencement.

Hitch up the ox.team Johnny, an drive 'em to the
gate;
For me an yer mothers gon to see Mol graduate;
An Jenny's abakin' biscuits an Sally's aslicin'
ham;
An I'm just so proud o. Molly that don't know
where ami
Yer mother raised the chickens that bought her
books; and sweet
To me was the daily labor In the summers burnin
heat
When thought of her bright eyes besmln', an said
to myself; I'll state
Thar amt gal In the country so fifteen to gradu.
uate"
So I plowed in the summer sunshine an worked in
the winters cold;
An i've bought her the finest dresses that ever the
store.men sold;
An III see her there, with her bright, sweet eyes
like stars in the twilight late;
An maybe there'l be some tears in mine when see
her graduate!
never was much on arnin-for my means was
mighty small;
But 1 reckon when Molly comes back home she'll
know enough for us all;
An thar amt gal in Georgy, though you hunt for
'em an late,
Thatl look sweet Molly when she comes to
graduate Atlanta Constitution.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26

selves from a ring-ridden market as it
is to produce something to send to mar
ket.-Farmers' Voice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26

THERE Is 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 great many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and, by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proved catarrh to be consti-
tntional 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 10
cure. Send for circulars and testimo-
mails. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
CO Sold by druggists at rs cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
Notice.!

/, Walter Daley, OF Calais. Vermont, County Of
Washington, have this day given my son Leroy IL.
Daley the remainder of his minority, and will pay
no debts of his contracting nor claim any OF his
wages after this date. WALTER DALEY.
May 25, 1898.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
The Work for Summer.

The ordinary summers work on the
farm needs no special mention. Every
farmer understands that there is plenty
Of it. But there is, or ought to be, a
good deal of work outside of the or
binary, which the farmer should regard
as important. He may call it pleasure,
but it may rightfully be called part of
farm work. There are summer meet
ings of the grange or other organiza-
tions to which he may belong. 1t is
his duty to attend these and bear his
share Of the burden OF making them
interesting and instructive. There is
nothing 30 pleasant to us personally as
attendance upon the county grange
meetings in summer. We always learn
something of value and always have
the best time imaginable. The picnic
and the state and county fairs demand
the farmers attention. In times like
these, when economy in production
and the growing of new crops are of
vital Importance, farmers cannot min
gle together too much. Part of their
regular work should be to find out what
their brother farmers are doing and
how they are doing it, and they can
learn these things at the summer farm
ers' meetings and at the fairs. Then it
is not to be forgotten that all the farmer
has ever got, in the way of legislation
or court decisions on great questions,
he has got because of his united de-
mand for reform. What else does he
want or need? Whatever it may be he
must ask for it in a way that will Sc.
cure attention; and there is no better
place or time to talk over the seds of
agriculture and to arrange for making
united movement to secure what is
wanted than at our meetings in sum
mer; and there is no better way of do.
ing it than by talking with each other.
Certainly there is no more important
part Of our work than to provide for
the protection of our rights. 1t is quite
as important as growing good crops,
more 80, though thousands of our
farmers do not seem to comprehend it;
and it is quite as important that we
should do something to protect our
tsln FOURTH COLUMN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
SHORT LUMBER.
Live Stock Market,

MICH Cows-Good quality, s2 a4s each; fancy,
S5O97O
LIVE PoULTRY.-There were fully 9 tons on the
market. Sales ranged at lOalc q ID.
FAT HoGs.-Prices were &c higher than last week,
sales ranging at 52ia57Sc q M dressed weight.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-Sheep. in lots, 81. s25O@3
q ID.
VEAL CALvEs.-Where the quality not choice,
prices were lower by &c u b. Sales ranged at Sc,
5Hd594c.
MARKET BEEF.-A few choice, $685. extra,
S5,5UG5I5; frat quality, S475d5.25; second quality,
s3.75d4.50; third quality, S3d3.5O.
STORE CATTLE.-WOrking oxen, per pair, S6O9li5
farrow cows, Sl0G22; fancy cows, S5OG70; milch
and calves, S20d4S; yearlings 5s96; two years
old Sl2d22; three years old, 2!Cd32.
HIDES TALLuw AND SKINS Brighton hides,
7g3sc q NJ tallow. 3qic b III country hides,
s5ca Sl3; sheared skins, lOg5Oc lamb skins 2Oa25c
dairy skins, 5OI165c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
STRAYED.

There came into my enclosure about three weeks
ago one Jersey COW, color fawn white spot on the
back Said COW is dry. and about four or five years
old. The owner can have property by proving claim
and paying charges. H. W. BATCHELDER.
Plainheld VT, June Is, 1895.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

tR- The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for Dhoesale lots mot ob6ng
prices unless otherwise indicated, and intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-06-26

merit durability price low
"Incon" reduced S1OO
but drps the ink flowing steadily and uniformly They
satisfaction the banks
and Offices and classes of pens
all
Money refunded not satisfactory "a By mail,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27

Indicate as surely as any physical symptom shows anything, that the or gans and tissues of the body are not satisfied with their nourishment.
 They draw their sustenance from the blood, and if the blood is thin, im- pure or insufficient, they are in state of revolt. Their complaints are made to the brain, the king of the body, through the nervous system, and the result of the general dissatisfaction is what we call Nervousness.
 This. is concise, reasonable expla- nation of the whole matter.
 The cure for Nervousness, then, is simple. Purify and enrich your blood by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla, and the nerves, tissues and organs will have the healthful nourishment they crave. Nervousness and Weakness will then give way to strength and health.
 That this is not theory but fact is proven by the voluntary statements of thousands cured by Hoods Sarsapa- rilla. Read the next column.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
TERSELY TOLD.

Ben M. Jacobs & Rsos. sell furniture. .
 All ladies' high and low shoes at cost and 25 per cent reduction on all men's shoes, except BanDister's, until April 1 at T. c. Kings.
 Marriage licenses have been issued out of the probate Judges office to the following couples: J. A. Brock and Mrs. Lee Gray, J. F. Scott and Miss N. M. Grantham, J :. M. Gryder and Miss Lorena Outlaw.
 R. H. Hudson went before Justice Mar tin yesterday on two charges of assault with intent to murder and waived exam ination. He was held under the same bonds and the matter referred to the grand jury.
 The Birmingham Bar association will meet in called session next Monday at 12:30 D. m. for the transaction of business. 1t Is understood number of applications for mem bership are to be voted on at that meeting.
 Dave McSpadden was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff !. J. Hewitt on an alias charging him with bribery in connection with the recent municipal election. He was placed in the county jail, but gave bona and was released before staying there long.
 The local insurance men had no notice yesterday of the removal of the three uar- ter clause, and if such was done 1t was not known here. It was expected President Egg gleston would remove it immediately on ceiving Secretary Fleming's report, but such does not seem to have been the ca e.
 h the direct testimony taken in the AL drich Underwood election contest an at tempt was made 10 prove that one H Schwa bacher, whose name appeared on the poll list at the Bessemer box, was dead aod had been for three or four years. Schwa- bacher was before the commissioner at Bessemer yesterday, and stated that he was very much alive and that he voted at Besse- mer on the day of the congressional elec- tion last November.
 Tax Collector Hewitt stated to an AGE- HERALD reporter yesterday that tax col lections for Jefferson county had been bet ter comparatively for the year 1894 than for the previous year. For the months of October, November, December, January and February, 1s939i, the total collections amounted to S145, ,0lS 32, and for the same months in 1894 the collections amounted to S125 ,077 S9, decrease of nearly S20, GOO. The collections for the month of March 1894, amounted to little over $40, ,000, and for the same month this year the tax col. lector estimates that he will collect not less than S60 ,000. This is on an assess ment 0 $7 ,O00, ,O00 less in 1894 than in 1893.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
THE THIRD TIME
A CHICAGO CLOTHING HOUSE IS BURNED

A CHICAGO CLOTHING HOUSE Is BURNED.
 SOME CLOSE CALLS.
 CHICAGO, March 26.-For the third time the stock of the Bell Clothing company, which occupied building at State and Quincy streets, in the center of the retail district, was destroyed by fire this after noon. When the blaze started State street was crowded with shoppers and the store was filled with people. So rapidly did the flames spread that the frightened occu- pants of the building scarcely knew what was the matter before they were tumbling over each other in their haste to get down stairs. Some tried the windows and a half dozen were hanging to the big sign for dear life, when the fremen arrived and rescued them with ladders amid the cheers of D tremendous crowd.
 i. Among those who narrowly escaped was sSamuel Cohn, one of the proprieters. c. . H. Smith did not wait for the hremen, but jumped and suffered a sprained leg.
 The insurance on the stock is S250, 0)0, and the toss issstimated at {20) GOO. The stccS ts.owned by J H. Cohn & Co. The loss on the building, which is owned by the Cor with estate, is S25 ,Ooo, fully insured. J. H. Cohn is in New York. The last fire in thestore was August 2S last. The stock waS>then a complete loss, but well insured.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
HITTING AT BISMARCK
OVER THE SHOULDERS OF HERR LAsKER z. A. A. AND nTHER GERMANS.

OVER THE SHOULDERS OF HERR LAsKER 7. 4,A AND oTHER GERMANS.
 BERLIN, March 26.-The Vossische Zei- tung, while regretting the decision of the reichstag in regard to Prince Bismarck, re- nnipds it's readers that he majority of that house only meted out his own measure to the ex- chancellor. The paper recalls Bis marck's wrathful refusal to allow the vote { df ccpndolence passed by tbe United States con gress on the death of Herr Lasker to be laid on the table in the reichstag, although there was no constitutional objection to such action, and says:
 "A man who carried personal animosity beyond the grave would not have con scented to congratulate an opponent on the occasion of that opponents SOth birth day"
 The Vossische Zeitung also recalls how Bismarck persecuted, boycotted and slan- dered his opponents, expelled officers from tho army on account of their political views, withheld rewards and removed judges and professors merely because of their progressive politics.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
WILL END TO-DAY.

LYNcHBURa, Va., March 26.-The case of the United States vs. R. H. Pannil, charged with aiding and abetting w. G. Hammer, teller of the First National bank, in em bezzlng the funds of that lnstltu- tion, now on trial in the United States dis trict court, this city, is nearing the end. Today was argument day, and the court room was crowded. The entire day was consumed in the arguments by counsel, aud court adjourned in the midst of the district attorney's speech. The case will go to the jury tomorrow morning. The Instructions to the jury have been sub mitted, and are unfavorabie to the accused. His counsel excepted to the instructions.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
UNDER ONE COMMAND.

RICHMOND, Va, March 26.-The gov ernor has issued an order assigning the Portsmouth battalion to the First brigade and attaching the Roanoke Machine Works Guard to the Second regiment, thus putting all the white military under the immediate command of Brigadier- General Phillips. He has also appointed board of officers to meet here at such time as the adjutant may direct for the purpose of revising the mili- tary laws in conformity with sections 303 and 374 of the code,
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
WHOLEsALG ORGANIZATION.

NEW YORK, March 26.-Off went eigh- teen heads in the department of public works this afternoon. Eighteen men, who are classified on the crvil service list as laborers and have been doing clerical work, were notified that their services were no longer required. The reason assigned by Deputy Commissioner Collis was, that q tech nical infraction of the civil service rules had been committed. The rules provide that laborer must do a laborer's work, and that he cannot lawfully do clerical work. The successors of the men will be taken from the civil service list. The men were mostly employed in the office of the water register.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
Fresh bread and candy made daily at c. w. Cody's, 1920 to 1926 3d avenue. 7e5 H2p
A BETTER FEELING,

DUBOIS, Pa. March 26.-Hugh McCol- tough, councilman. has been appointed receiver for the defunct Bank of Dubois, and, with the stockholders, met the cred itors at the opera house this afternoon. As time drags along the creditors have become considerably excited over the banks affairs, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in judgments have been entered against the stock holders, but since this afternoon s meeting matters are assuming more definite shape, aud better feeling prevails.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
STILL NOT SETTLED.

ATLANTA, Ga. March z6.-A temporary injunction was granted by Judge Turnbull oi Rome today restraining Mayor King from acting as chairman of the Atlanta po- lice commission. The muddie will be set tied by tbe courts, which will decide whether English or King is entitled to act as chairman. The com mmissioners were in session all last night and until o'clock this morning. They cast several hundred balIot3 without an election.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-27
Spring opening at Caheen Bros. & Co.'s next Monday and Tuesday.
GREETED AS NONSENsICAL.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.-Friends and relatives of the iate Ex- Senator Fair de- nounce as nonsensical the story of Phoebe Couzins, that he came 10 his death by poison administered by parties who would benefit by his death taking place at a cer- tain time. Miss Couzins' assertion that Sue was betrothed to Fair is also declared to be false. Dr. Mark Livingston, Fair s physician, says: "After Senator Fair s death his organs were all removed and ex- amned They showed plainly that the cause Of death was diabetes.''