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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
AHORT LUM KR.
SPRUCE.
Live Stock Market,

SHEEP AND LAMBs.-In lots, s2d2. S6DS each; ex-
ira sS'5od45O or from 2G41ac per n lambs, 4q5hc
FAT HoGs.-Western fat swine, live, ..@.c;
Northern dressed hogs, SIC per M stores, retail
Rl,5Oq5.
MARKET BEEF.-A few choice, s6l87.5O; extra,
S55od6.75i first quality. s6q5.25; second quality
std45O third quality s3d3.50.
STORE CATTLE.-Working oxen, per pair from
ssOqliO; farrow cows. slsq92; fancy cows, s5O@p70
Inich cows and calves, S2O@4S; yearlings, SS@bl6
two years old, Sl2G22; three years old, S2GG32.
HIDES, rALLow AND SKINS. - Brighton hides
79e9sc per 10; tallow 3G4c per ID country hides,
6ts41c per 10 tallow, 2G24c per ID wool pelts none
calf skins SOcdsl45; sheared skins, rs 40c; lamb
skins, 3OdoOc dairy skins, 60G75c.
CATTLE-Dealers found prices on par with last
week and bids were made at fair figures. c. II.
Carpenter had 10 steers and offered 3}1c per h.
live weight, but did not sell at that rate w. H.
Monroe sold various lots of Western steers weigh
Ing from leo to 1900 lbs. at 4d6c per h. live weight
F. g. Foss sold oxen. average 1850 lbs at SIC per
lib, oxen live weight 1880 lbs, at 43tc per ID, 3
steers eff the eastern train $50 lbs at sac per h.
steers, over 25OV lbs, at i34c per Id, live weight
VEAL CALvRs.-A little competition and values
well sustained A good article at 534q61ac per ID.
Common gaades lose per h. The disposals were
considered easy at firm prices. Libby Brothers sold
IS calves of 27l0 lbs, at sac per h. Is do, of 1920
lbs at SIC per ID; E. G. Foss sold 81 calves, average
no lbs, at &C per III j. NJ Phbrook sold Il calves
average 100 lbs at SIC per ID; Thompson d Hanson
Jones sold 10 calves weight 1880 lbs, at about &c
pprl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
A Word for the Cow.

Dairy farming kept the wolf from
hundreds of doors in the West last
year, and now great many creameries
are charging and others are being
built. That's business. 1t is time we rec
ognize the value of the COW. She works
nights and Sundays, and when there is
nothing better to eat will still make
something out of earless cornstalks.
She pays the taxes and the hired man,
and in a pinch feeds the pig, chickens
and children. The pig is often called
the mortgage-lifter. But when the
corn crop fails the pig is dead issue.
He would have disappeared totally from
hundreds of farms last year but for the
COW, who fed his pigship through the
winter while grinding the family living
out of cornstalks via the churn. The
cow is the king of beasts, though it is a
"bull'' to put it in that way. Now let's
see that she has COW palace to live in
next winter and food prepared "to the
queens taste. Troy Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Farm Being Slowly Consumed.

A singular spectacle is presented on
the j. H. Dowell farm, near Mont
pelier, Ind, which attracts hundreds OF
visitors daily. 1t is the curiosity of q
farm of sixty acres which literally is
being destroyed by fire. Much OF the
land in the vicinity of the Dowell place
is muck to depth of twelve or fourteen
feet, the vegetation having accumu
lated and slowly decayed for many
years. The recent dry weather has
made this peat as infammable as tin
der, and when fire reached it few
days ago il ignited and has been burn
ing slowly ever since. Altogether sixty
acres have been burned over, thirty. five
acres having been consumed, while
twenty-five acres are yet burning. The
flames do not break out from the soil,
but the whole surface is covered with
dense smoke, the ground at times as
Stunning the dull red glow of burning
brick, 1t is utterly impossible to ex-
tinguish the fire, and the energies of
the neighbors are directed to saving ad-
jacent property. The fire on the Dow
ell farm is more disastrous in financial
way than is popularity imagined. The
twenty.h five acres now being consumed
are three feet lower in the center than
when the flames began their ravages.
The peat, or muck, dried out by the in
tense heat, will continue to burn until
the water line is reached, the fire will
then die out, and when the ashes that
are left blow away there is nothing left
but large, dry pond as unproductive
as an abandoned gravel pit. For the
the next two or three generations the
land is worthless, and it acquires value
only as the vegetable growth again COL
lects and forms new coat of soil.
Near the burning muck, separated only
by ditch which workmen are now la
boring industriously to widen, is tract
of 10 acres, an unbroken area of peat.
Should this take fire from the land now
burning it will be impossible to save
any part of it, and ITO acres altogether
of Mr.. Dowell's land will have been
consumed. -Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Large Butter Yields.

A yield of milk largely above the
average, and production of 300 pounds
of butter per year, is considered quite
small by the breeders of choice butter
and milk producing breeds, as several
Holstein cows have yielded over forty
five quarts of milk per day, as we'll as
produced in the neighborhood of 1000
pounds of butter year, and the Guern-
seys and Jerseys also have excellent
butter records, all of which show that a
standard of 300 pounds of butter per
annum is not an exacting one. The
question to consider is whether farmers
will be satisfied to keep COWS that pro-
duce less, and thus increase their ex-
penses in proportion to receipts and
consequently lessen the profits. Pro-
gressive dairymen are not satisfied with
300 pounds of butter in year, but are
breeding for more, and are aiming to
raise the standard of their herds. Such
stand should be taken by all dairy
men and farmers. If they cannot
secure higher prices they can, by breed
ing for it, in few years get twice the
yield of milk and butter that they now
receive, and on the same quantity OF
od.-Pioneer Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Docking.

The barbarous and cruel practice of
docking probably prevails more in
England than this country, for DR..
George Fleming, one of the most emf
nent veterinary surgeons in Great Brit
ain, refers to it in this caustic and mer-
tied style: cit is extremely rare to
find horse or pony of any kind which
is not more or less curtailed of its fair
proportions, and so manned for the rest
of it's life that it must suffer from the
attacks of insects and have parts ex-
posed that should be concealed against
cold and heat. Nothing can be more
painful or disgusting to the real horse
man and admirer of the most symmet-
rically formed and graceful animal than
the existence of this most detestable
and torturing fashion,"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

be dryish and sandy or gravelly, rather
than wet and clayey. II all goes we'll
one cutting may be secured the first
season. Some little hand wedding may
be necessary in order to secure per-
feet stand. The second year about
three cuttings should be secured. Gil
mate and adaptibility of the soil play
such an important part that success or
non.success cannot be foretold. In
any case, cut the green material often
enough to keep the stalks from becom-
ing woody, which they are apt to do If
left until most of the plants are in bios
som. There is no danger from feeding
it, either dry or cured, in reasonable
quantities. Pioneer Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Raise the Standard.

The Philadelphia Record says: Prom.
inent dairymen, who have commenced
with limited capital and built up large
business in cattle breeding and the sell
ing of milk and butter, affirm that no
dairyman should be satisfied with COW
that produces less than 300 pounds of
butter a year, or one pound per day
during the period when she is not dried
off. The large majority who keep COWS
will not assent to this claim, for while
in herd some individual COW will fully
come up TO such standard, the herd,
as a whole, will fall far below the mark.
That herds are rare which contain a
large number Of COWS that will produce
300 pounds of butter year per COW
must be admitted, but progressive dairy
men who have determined to increase
the yield of milk and production of but
ter by improving their herds have sue
ceeded. They have demonstrated that,
while there are few herds up to the
standard of capacity, yet they should
be, and that farmers can offer no reason
for maintaining herds that are below
the limit fixed, as all can easily reach
the mark, and even pass beyond it, if
they will determine to do 80.
That nothing can be secured except
from the food allowed is an admitted
claim, and liberal feeding is to be en-
couraged, but the capacity of an indi-
vidual animal to digest and assimilate
food may be much greater than with
another. In fact, an animal may have
greater capacity of feeding than an
other, but the profit from the food is in
that which is digested and converted
into the desired product. When certain
animals have tendency to convert
foods into beefs they are used for that
purpose, because they will correspond.
ipgly fall off in some other direction.
When they convert the food into milk
and butter, and show but little charac.
teristic to fatten, they are designed for
that work. Such animals are classified
as breeds and have their characteristics
fixed, because they have been selected
to perform certain duties for over q
century. 1t follows, then, that nc
farmer can expect to build up his herd
unless he resorts to the pure breeds fol
that purpose, as he cannot proceed to
improve unless he knows the family OF
animals from which to begin and what
may be expected. 1t is only by using
the pure breeds that the increase OF
milk and butter can be secured, as food
alone will not accomplish the result, un'
less fortified with capacity for digestion
and assimilation by the animal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Clipped and Condensed.

SHEEP intended for mutton must be
kept quiet, handled gently; they cannot
be made part of a system of farming
that includes restlessness, unsteadiness
and continuous changing of conditions.
RATS and mice should not exist in
the barns or stables, and the best pre-
ventive is the cat, but she should never
be fed at the house, nor given more
than light meal once day. Well.fed
cats are lazy and indolent. Make them
work, and there will be fewer rats.
AN eastern farmer puts clover hay in
his NOW, alternating with it layer of
oat straw. The latter thus has the
flavor of the hay impaired to it, and
while it contains no more nutriment
than formerly, it smells and tastes bet
ter, and animals fed upon it eat it all up
clean.
AN exchange thinks that farmers
who are Disguised with horse raising
this year will be disguised with them
selves before the colts of 1895 mature,
that they did not grade up and raise
more good draught horses. Improve.
ment in the worlds industries has be-
gun, and cities must have the useful
horse.
THERE has been large waste of
apples in some sections this season,
they having fallen from the trees pre-
maturely. Winter apples may be kept
with less difficulty if they are gathered
from the trees carefully so as to avoid
bruising them, as the least injury will
cause rot. The early apples can be
Htoh cd int nj nr
gar.
THERE is scarcity in good beef cat
tie, and the demand will be strong for
some time. The fattening of cattle the
coming fall and winter should pay. The
manure will be an object also, as the
gain in that direction is often equal to
the profit on the food used. 1t will not
pay, however, to pick any kind of steers
to fatten. Get good ones and fatten
them quickly.
CRUDE carbolic acid is cheap, and
may be used with as good results as the
refined article. 1t will not unite with
water, but forms an emulsion with soap,
the same as kerosene. A quart of
crude carbolic acid is added to quart
of strong soapsuds and well egitated,
when more soapsuds may be added un-
till the proportion is one part acid to
ten of soapsuds 1t may then be sprin-
killed. on the floors or used in the stalls.
BOTANY is always an interesting
study, and in country schools, espe.
cially, it ought always to be made
prominent. One of the most practical
features in schools should be the study
of different kinds of weeds, including
if possible some that are not known in
the neighborhood. If this is done the
approach of these weeds may be made
known as soon as they appear, and
efficient means be taken to destroy
them.
TURNIPs are sometimes grown on
stubble land, as catch crop for sheep,
by broadcasting the seed. After the
turnips are ready the sheep are turned
on the land, and consume not only the
turnips but the young weeds. While
it is not the most profitable way to pro-
duce turnips, yet it is claimed for the
method that the only expense is to
pillow and harrow the land and the cost
of the seed, no other cultivation being
given.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
AGRICULTURAL.
Driving Home the Cows.

He drops the bars down, one by one, and lets the
pass through,
Then follows them along the lane as once he used
to do
And memory whispers he climbs the grassy
meadow slope
or happy days when, long ago, boy full of
hope
Used often here to lie and dream upon the hins
soft crest,
When tired of play, his head upon its daisy .hecked
Till leaping dog awakened him with sharp and loud
bow.wows,
To warn him that the time had come for driving
home the cows.
And now he splashes in the brook that flows from
yonder spring;
1t rippes bubbles, murmurs, like bright and living
thing;
upon its sparxng current here, he used to sail his
boats,
And once again he throws chip, to watch 1t as 1t
floats;
whirling, dancing, jumping, far away a-down it
Up and down and here and there with all the chang.
ing flows
Till out of sight it whrls at last down where the
channel bows,
As once he did when years ago while driving home
the cows
And all day long in the meadow, while raking the
fresh.cut hay.
The brightest fancles come to him with the bright.
ness of the day.
And every cricket chirpng, and the lark that scars
and sings,
The butterfly that dazzles with Its brightly painted
wings,
All seem to be companions. as he works and works
away
Till sun sinks low and lower, with the passing of the
day,
And voice calls through the shadows and the
slowly gathering gloam:
John. my dear. let down the bars, the cows are
coming home" Boston Traveller.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

HERE" says an exchange, sis
something that is worth money to any
farmer to know: Sprinkle little stone
lime in your stock tank, and not a
particle of green scum will form in the
water. When the lime loses its strength
and scum begins to form, which may be
twice during the season, wash out the
tank and repeat the dose. 1t is cheap
and not only harmless but wholesome,
keeps the water sweet and saves work"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
The Use of Alfalfa.

Alfalfa is not suitable for pasture. II
serves its best purpose when used as a
soiling crop, at least in New York.
When grown in drier climate good
hay can be made from it. Sow on
we'll. prepared ground from peck to a
half-bushel of seed broadcast per acre.
Harrow it lightly and roll. Do not SOW
until the ground has become warm and
the season well advanced. The last of
May or the first of June seems to be
the most suitable time. The soil should
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
Bilionsness, Indigestion, ii ca d ac he (.
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market,

~ The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for wholesale mot jobbng
prices unless otherwise indicated and intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

think durability the
the Lncon $3.50 reduced S100 dube ready
but dp the ink flowing steadily uniformly They are in
this giving they the banks
business classes of of Mont
pel vicinity all the
Money if satisfactory By mail paid
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Wanted I!

GOOD MACHINISTS. at the works
of the VERMONT FARM MACHINE
COMPANY, BELLOWS FALLS, VT
Steady work for good men.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11

YNHIS pleasantly quiet delightful
walk HOME
spacious nicely furnished heated have uhey
exposure delightful Champain
are
resident physician and trained All
supervision the
of
benefited
Cylinders furnished physicians druggists
a half the charged in the Cities
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received
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-16
Awaiting Harvard,s Renlv.

Princeton, Oct. 15.-The undergradu- ates of Princeton are anxiously await ing Harvard's final reply to the commu- nication forwarded by the advisory board on Saturday night.
 A football game between Harvard and Princeton is far from being the certain ty that has been represented by Prince ton correspondents. Manager MiIbank in a conversation to-day stated most emphatically that Princeton would play on November or not at all. Harvard has held out for November g. and unless the Cambridge men concede the point the game will not ibe arranged.
 It is the concensus of opinion in the Princeton camp that Harvard will yield the point. This sentiment was distinct ly expressed by the management to-day when they ordered Beef" Wheeler to again join the ranks of the Varsity "Beef' was ineligible to play in the Yale game, as he has already played four years with the Tigers. This four year clause will not apply in the Har- yard game, and his presence in the prac- tice to-day is taken by the undergradu- ates to signify the managements assur- ance of a game.
 The turn affairs have taken is not ex- actly what the supporters of the orange and black desired. Taylor Payne of the advisory board expressed the sentiment of the undergraduates to-day when he said: "We are willing to lose the game this year if by doing so we can draw Harvard into series of annual games for five years" This they have failed to do, and the wisdom of entering into a compact for two years is doubted by the wiser heads.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-16
ocean Steamships to Race.

New York, Oct 15,--An international race between ocean steamships will be- gin tomorrow, when the St. Louis of the American line will compete with the White Star flyer Majestic to settle the question of which service is the quicker in carrying the United States mails to London.
 The race will start from New York, the St. Louis going to Southampton and the Majestic to Queenstown and Liverpool. The St. Louis will carry the mails for the first time, ten years contract having been granted to the American line by the federal govern ment. She will have to cover 275 miles more than her rival, carrying the bags directly to Southampton, while the Ma jestics mail will be unloaded at Queens town and forwarded to London from there.
 It will be carried over the line of the Great Southern railway of Ireland to Kingston by a special train, and from there to Holyhead by steamboat-a dis tance in all of 504 miles. Fifteen hours and forty minutes is allowed for the trip. From Southampton to London is journey of two hours.
 Thus the St Louis has about thirteen hours to reach port after the Majestic has made her first stop.
 The St. Louis will leave her pier at il o'clock tomorrow morning, the Ma jestic starting four hours later.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-16
At Work on General Lathrop's Case.

Albany, Oct. Ex-Governor Mortons legal adviser, Charles z Lincoln, is looking over Prison Superintendent Lathrop's denial of the charges made by Former Congressman Weaver and Former Sheriff J. B. White, filed yes- terday. MT. Lincoln has already read the charges. It is the general ial- pression about the capitol and the exec utiye chamber that Governor Morton intends to have MT. Lincoln pass judg- ment upon the charges and the denial and dismiss the charges without going to the trouble and expense of appoint ing a special commissioner, who would have to hold his court of investigation in Steuben county, as that place is General Lathrop's home.
 The strength of Superintendent Latin rop's denial lies in the fact that it is backed up by the personal affldavits of a number of witnesses who have a knowledge of the case, while his two republican accusers only allege on ir1- formation and belief that the charges made in the report of the senate inves- tigation committee are true. They have no personal knowledge of them.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-16
N. r. Q. P.

Charter Oak lodge, N. E. O. F., will meet at 730 o'clock tonight instead of at 8 o'clock. X musical and literary entertainment win follow the regular session.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-16
FAIR H4rEN.

The schooner Carrie E. Look has ar rived from Jacksonville with lumber for the saw mill. Captain Stevens re- ports heavy weather during the latter part of the passage. and during the recent blow he was obliged to lay the vessel to under Cape Fear. The vessel had a long trip twenty-three days, hav- ing been consumed on the run.
 If ever a petition should be successful that one praying for rebuilding the fire alarm bell tower on East Pearl street ought to. The paper is eleven feet in length and contains 800 sigma tmes.
 The current number of the Illustrat- ed American contains group picture of the installation of Captain Samuel AL man as rear admiral, commanding the National Association of Naval Veter- ans, which recently took place in Web ster hall, New York. In the group Is the picture of Walter F. Jacobs. com manding Gideon Welles Association of Naval Veterans, and whose home is on Saltonstall avenue.
 The Fair Haven four-master, Napo- leon Boughton, has arrived in the har- Dor with coal for the railroad.
 Many Fair Haven Odd Fellows parti- cipated in the state parade of the order at Waterbury yesterday.
 The friends of Attorney Jason P Thompson of Pine street will be sorry to learn of his continued serious illness. The second entertainment of the Peo- ple's course at the Grand avenue Con gregational church will be given by the Boston Rivals tomorrow (Thursday) ev- ening. Of Miss Downer, the pianist of the company, the Berlin, N. H., Intclli- gencer says:
 Miss DoWner made an impression here that will not soon be forgotten, al 1 though she was heavily handicapped in her solos by being obliged to perform | them on the venerable and decrepit | "boX' known here as the opera house piano. To musical people, who appre- ciated her delicate accompaniments to
 the numbers of the great maestro, a sec ond hearing is looked forward to with pleasant anticipations."
 The Waterbury American in a notice
 of Miss Burpee, the reciter, says: ''fhe 1 favorite of the evening was the elocu-
 tionist, Miss Vora Burpee, one of the most charming women that has ever re l cited in Waterbury. The sweetness ol her manner, the expressiveness of hei face and wise selection of pieces suit
 ed to her personality, made her great favorite. Her selections were gems ir
 themselves, and such as to give oppor'
 tunity for a display of her diversified talent"