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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Rearing Young Turkeys.

A writer in the American Agricultlr-
iSt says: " 1t is best to confine the brood
for a week at least after Matching.
Should the mother hen then become
restless, she may be let out during the
middle of the day. AS the turkey re-
tires early and dislikes being disturbed
after settling down for the night, be
sure and coop them before the sun sets.
The young turkeys will eat but little
the first week. Feed separate from the
mother, for she will devour all the food
within reach. For downright greedi-
ness, an old turkey has few equals.
Dry bread soaked in sweet milk is one
of the best foods for the young,
as is curd from fresh buttermilk. A
whole flock has been raised on warm
curd. A custard made of one egg to a
pint of milk, thickened with bread (no
sugar., is a good food. When about
two months old, feed whole wheat part
of the time and mix corn meal with
their feed; this should not be fed ex-
clusively. Allow plenty of liberty, as
confinement will kill young turkeys.
When the mother hen begins tramping
wildly from one side of the coop to the
QUIET, DelLeT lev ueT OUT unless lue
weather is unfavorable. When about
the size of partridges and old enough to
follow the mother in long rambles, the
young will need but little attention,
simply little feed morning and even
ing. They much prefer bugs, grass
hoppers, insects and seeds to more
civilized ration. Do not neglect to
bring them home at night and put under
shelter until old enough to fly into trees
and care for themselves. Turkeys do
not always select wisely the best rest
ing place for the night, hence vermin
sometimes attack and annoy them.
Teach them to come at the sound of
your voice; it will save many weary
tramp in searching wood and fields.
Six weeks time is sufficient to fatten
for market. Feed twice day all the
whole corn they will eat, but do not at
tempt confinement, as turkey chafes
under restraint and will lose flesh
rather than fatten. They will not take
more exercise than is necessary to keep
in good health"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Cultivation OF Tomatoes,

Austin Goode writes as follows in
the Farm Ne,os: tomatoes are very
satisfactory vegetable to grow. The
seeds may be planted at any time now
in box in the house, and as soon as
the plants show the third leaf they
should be pricked out in boxes, being
set about two inches apart. IT they be-
gin to get crowded, they may be trans
planted again before being finally set
in the garden, as they seem to do bet
ter for repeated transplantings. When
ready to set in the garden, special prep.
arations for their reception should be
made. The hills where they are to set
should be made very rich-it is impos-
sible to overdo this, for they will grow
rankly in manure pile. The hills
should be at least four feet apart, I'M
less they are to be kept closely pruned.
A stake four feet high should be driven
down by the side of each plant at the
time of transplanting, or soon after,
and the plant kept tied to 1t. AS 1t
grows the lower branches should be
pruned away, and, after it is two feet
high, the top allowed to droop over and
spread out. This is the easiest way to
keep the fruit off the ground. The
plants should be pretty closely pruned,
a good plan being to pinch off the tip of
each branch as soon as it blossoms, al
lowing only one bunch to grow on a
branch. If this is done, not 80 many
tomatoes will be grown, but they will
be larger and make up in size what they
lack in numbers. If the season is dry,
they must be watered, and in this they
should not be allowed TO lack. fire.
quently pour four or five gallons of
water around single plant, the loose,
rich earth in the hill absorbing it
quickly and holding it for the use of
the plant. Clean cultivation is neces
sary and the plants cannot be hoed
around too much"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Potash for Potatoes.

The home mixture for potatoes and
grass proposed by S. S. Plat is a val
liable one for use on potatoes, with the
exception that one-half of the muriate
of potash should BIZ replaced by an
equal amount of high grade sulphate of
potash, which contains nearly as much
actual potash Qorty-eight per cent? as
the muriate. Large quantities of mu-
riate tend to make potatoes soggy, es-
peciilly on heavy soils, while the sui
phate of potash tends to make potatoes
dry and starchy. Muriate of potash is
cheaper than the sulphate, and it has
been found to be safe and economical
to use this form of potash in part. The
proposed fertilizer would be composed as
follows: One ton takage, 200 pounds high
grade sulphate of potash, 200 pounds
muriate of potash, and 100 pounds nj
,rate of soda. 1t would contain six per
cont of nitrogen, eight per cent of
p )tash, seven to eight per cent of avail
able and twelve to thirteen per cent of
total phosphoric acid, and would be ex-
celent for grass also. Nitrate of soda
contains on an average sixteen per cent
of nitrogen. -Professor Phelps, in Troy
Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Glover Ensilage.

The experience of several years
with clover for the silo, says cores
pondent of the Country Gentleman, gives
me as much confidence in its use as L
have in corn. | have filed a silo sew
eral times in May with crimson cover
with excellent results-once also with
crimson clover and rye, which kept all
right, but my cows disdained the rye.
Once l filed with Italian grass and
crimson clover. This was very good,
but the seed of the rye grass is too ex'
pensive and its termination uncertain.
For filling next May, have the clo-
yer growing with winter oats, which
bid fair to fiji the bill. The object in
growing some other plant with the clo-
yer is to increase the crop and keep the
clover from falling d wn. For the
silo, clover should be somewhat more
mature than for hay and should be a
little wilted and fir from rain or dew.
For winter feeding, corn and COW
peas, b alf and half, make the best en-
silage have ever found.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Current Weekly Comment.

CoRN.-The tone is rather easy. Buyers
are paying about 54c but concessions would
have to be made to induce free buying
POULTRY Receipts of live fowls con-
tinue light. Frozen poultry is in moderate
supply and generally held at full prices.
EGGs.-Choice western have been firm at
13c with some sales of fancy Michigan, ETC.,
at 1910. The market closes firm at quota
tons with steady demand.
BEANs.-Some are holding choice do
nestle marrow pea and mediums above our
quotations, b ut 50. Is is the top selling price
and only small lots wanted at that.
HAY AND STRAw.-The hay market is
firm for choice grades and such sell fairly
well. Rye straw is in short supply and
buyers are paying full prices. Dat straw is
dull
CHEEsE.-There is no Improvement in the
condition OF the market Supplies are lib
eral and are moving off very slowly and at
easy prices, with demand confined almost
wholly to the best grades.
FLOUR The stronger tone to wheat has
caused the price of -four to be generally adj
vanced, but trade at the higher prices is
light. Buyers were taking moder ate sup
plies at values ruling before the advance
but the make up tends to check this de-
mand.
BUTTER.-Receipts show a marked de-
crease owing to the freshets and washouts
on the northern roads. Only a small pro-
portion of the weeks supply OF northern
goods has arrived as yet, Owing to this
fact the market is a shade firmer. Under
grades are very dull.
WooL.-The demand is still slack. twill
be remembered that last weeks sales were
in large measure due to the arrival OF a di-
rect cargo of Australian. This week there
is really little new to be added. The sales
are mostly Except in the case OF foreign
wools) of odd lots TO close, and though the
attenda ice of buyers has been large, their
purchases have been mostly OF small lots OF
domestic wool.
LUMBER.-The freshets in Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont have had very
strengthening effect on the lumber market.
A great many logs went over the dams on
the rivers and many were lost at tide water.
Most OF them will be secured again, but
adding so per cent to the original value of
the logs. In addition to this not few OF
the mills have had to stop work, which will
| delay shipments. For the next few weeks
| we expect to see northern and eastern lum-
Der rather scarce in consequence.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24

SPRUCE.
Live Stock Market.

LIVE PoULTRY.-Supply light Sales at lie per ID
FAT HoGs.-Northeru hogs at 615c dress ed weight,
and unchanged Western hogs &c lower, and cost
TsghSsc, live weight
VEAL CALvRs.-Prices firm. j. s. Henry sold
10 head of 81 lbs at Sc; W. F. Wallace with l2O
head, sold at firm prices
MARKET BEEF-A few choice, at s6259s; extra,
s5.l5G6; first quality, Si7545 second quality,
Si25g5; third quality, 1904.
HIDES. TALLoW AND SKINs.-Brighton hides,
4l6g5Iac per ID; taow, 3d4c per 10 country hides
41sd5c per 10, tallow, 2G21ac per ib; pets, a@75c
each; calfskns. 65c@Sl1O; dairy skins, 3O65Oc.
STORE CATTLE.-working oxen, per pair, s6C 1l4O;
farrow cows, sl0922; fancy cows. SjO@6s; milch
cows and calves s2O94s yearlings Ssal6; two year.
Odds, S2922 three-year.olds, S2t@32; Western fat
swine live, 47s@53sc; Northern dressed hogs, SIC
per 10.
SHEEP AND LAMBS. We quote Western old sheep
atiq5Ac, and Western lambs at 5I4d61ac and North
ern, OF equally as good quality, would bring as much
j. s. Henry sold IL sheep OF 100 lbs at &C. 80 spring
lambs commission ~. A. Hathaway sold SO lambs,
averaging Ill lbs, at SIC Is sheep, averaging III TBS,
at SC.
CATTLE.-A train of five arrived from New
Hampshire, owned by W. +. Wallace, X. L. French
and G. A Chickering; also two cars by j. ). Henry
from western Massachusetts,; 80 cars cattle and 40
sheep from the West. When the balance of
stock will arrive is uncertain H. Gunsenhizer
at market in condition to buy cars Western cattle
of 1900 TBS, at &c. live weight. j. s. Henry
oxen to Somerville to kill. Western cattle mostly
for export.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Cholera in Fowls,

This common disease in fowls is due
mostly to overlooking, although it is
caused by germ which acts on the
blood. AS this germ is abundant and
is widely spread in the air, it is almost
certain to affect those fowls that are
weakened by any cause, and there is
nothing else 30 favorable to the infec-
ton of fowls by ii as the disorder of
the digestive organs by excess of stimu-
lating food. The sick fowls should be
put by them elves in coops wholly
withheld; a teaspoonful of saturated
solution of hyposulphte of soda is given
twice day, and water to drink. 1t
may be week before the fowl will eat,
and then some light food in small
gu unity is given. The indications of
this disease are yellow discharge from
the bowels, sleepiness and dullness,
and in time blackness of the comb; the
eggs of fowls thus diseased are not fit
for use, as they may cause violent and
painful diarrhea in persons eating
them. If set for Matching, the chicks
will be diseased and soon die.-Pioneer
Press.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Which...TOWn or Farm?

Those who live on farms isolated
from other people, year after year,
miss much in their lives which seems to
those living in town and cities neces-
sity. In many respects, however, they
are the gamers rather than losers by
the very quietness of their lives. In
most cases, believe, the farmers
wife compares her life with that of her
sister in the city and sees herself in
every way the unfortunate one. 1t is
not necessary to enumerate the glowing
pictures which pass before her mind
and make her sigh for something diff.
ferent from her hum-drum, monotonous
days on the farm. She forgets what an
independent creature she herself isl
While she can have her gown made ac-
cording to the prevailing mode by the
help of the fashion magazines and look
neat and presentable, she escapes the
demands of society for many an I'M
necessary detail which costs the woman
in town much time, thought and money.
Again, while the woman on the farm is
signing for companionship, neighbors
to drop in, etc., the one in town is be-
ing constantly interrupted and longs
III q HulOt hOuI W ocNOtt 10 ucT IdVOr-
lite book, her necessary sewing or to at
tend to her little ones as they come in
from school. There are, grant, draw
backs in both cases. Lives are 80 diff
ferently lived that the saying, "Half
the world don't know how the other
half lives" is true enough. This is an
age when intelligence in q woman
counts for very much. BY knowing
how to do the Everlasting housework'
on farm the best way saves great
deal of time. BY knowing how to save
and not waste either the food or cloth
ing gives more to do with, and the re.
suit is, in most cases at least, a half
hour every day or in the evening to i'm.
prove the mind. A good book or q
first-class magazine is very good com.
pany. / believe much of the discon.
tent of young farmers wives and
daughters comes from reading the mis-.
cradle "story papers" which are found
to be taken in many farmers families.
Most of them clothe life in anything blu,
what is sweet, practicable and useful
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
The Coach Horse for the Market.

In answer to an Indiana inquirer ii
may be said that the highest price ever
paid for hackney stallion in America
was S15 900, which was given by Dr.
w. Seward Webb to Hon. Henry Fair
fax for Matchless of Londesborough."
Before Dr. Webb could get this stallion
to Sheburne, ". Burdett Coutts, Brook
field Sud, London, Eng, offered
1924 900 for him. g. Danegelt," the sire
of " Matchess," was sold to Sir Walter
Gilbey, Elsenham Hall, Essex, Eng
for S25 900 Our correspondent further
inquiries if the hackney stallion will best
produce the class of horses demanded
by the eastern trade. The question can
perhaps be answered by r.stating that
the highest average ever made on a
public consignment of carriage horses
S995-was made by Henry Fairfax last
spring with lot OF half-bred hackneys,
the get of " Matchless of Londesbor-
ough." If our correspondent would
drop in on our horse market at the
yards and note how quickly every horse
of rotund form and high action is
dubbed Hackney" by statesmen, he
would gather an idea of the selling
value of this class of horse. The high
class hackney stallion with plenty OF
size, mated properly, will undoubtedly
produce the horse which at the present
time commands the highest price for
the eastern market and for export as
coach or carriage horse. But this does
not mean that any sort-and no sort
of mare can be bred to common-like
hackney (of which, unfortunately, we
have few)w the certainty of pro-
duciug a high-selling colt. Mares must
be especially chosen for mating with
the hackney and the colch stations.
The Gazette has always insisted on this
point There must be little blood in
the mare aud some finish; cold-blooded,
plain-shaped, coarse mares cannot be
counted on TO throw highly-fnished
colts to the service of any coach stall
lion. Figs do not grow on thistles.
The hackney is not the only horse that
makes into salable coach and carriage
horse. The great majority of horses
now in high priced leather in this coun-
try are from our native stocks-trot-
tiers, Morgans and thoroughbreds. The
imported coach breeds have not been
in this country long enough to put
many of their progeny on the market.
But it must be understood that the
horse-breedng districts of this country
have been fairly secured to find the
mparatively few horses fit to go into
costly harness, and many Of them are a
very common sort. Still they are the
best to be had at present We have
not bred or trained for this purpose.
Our nearest approach to a native bred
coach horse is made by the use of a
well-built thoroughbred upon strong
and shapely mares. BY this cross prop
erly made we may get size, substance
and finish, but action is ordinarily Woe
fully wanting. 1t is fact that on the
present market, other things being
equal, the higher carriage horse goes
with his knees and hooks the higher the
price he commands Breeder's Gazette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Plant Food Furnished by Rye.

Rye as a green manure is especially
valuable on light soils. The corn crop
is a great consumer of water, and the
large quantity of humus in the rye will
greatly aid in the retention of water
within the soil for the use of the corn
crop. One ton of green rye is esti-
mated to contain nearly eleven pounds
of nitrogen, four and one. half pounds
of phosphoric acid and twelve and one
half pounds of potash. Nearly all of
this plant food has been obtained from
the surface soil, hence there is little
actual gain in the way of plant food by
pl' wing under. The plant food com.
ing from the green rye is more readily
available to succeeding crops than that
which comes directly from the soil.
Some quick-acting fertilizer used in the
hill at the rate Of about 600 pounds per
acre would probably produce large
crop when used with the green rye;
$50 pounds each of nitrate OF soda and
muriate of potash, with 300 pounds of
dissolved South Carolina phosphate, or
dissolved bone black, would make a
mixture suitable to use. The growth
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Horse Notes,

SPEED finds its sphere only on the
race-track; and it is poor-paying busi-
ness to breed to that end. Aim for size,
style and beauty, which always COM
mand good prices, because they have
commercial value in the large in dustrial
world.
BARRING accidents, sound horse
should be as good at twenty as at any
other age, yet for some reason our old
horses cannot stand much fatigue.
They would last much longer if they
had better care, and the operating eX-
penses of the farm be materially re-
duced. Exposure has as much to do
with it as overwork.
DURING the past fifteen years in
Australia the number of horses has
increased from 16S to 100000, and
their present rate of increase is 80, 900
per annum; eighty per cent of them are
for the saddle and light harness. None
of them are under roof from birth to
breaking, nor do they get more to eat
than the grass they pick up.
No scrub horses on the farm will pay
these times in any civilized country;
neither will any gelding pay. Raising
geldings to work on the fields is an
American folly, while in Europe these
are sold to the cities, and the mares are
kept to pay their way while raising
colts. Raise better horses and cling to
the mares, and the tune will change by
and by.
CANNOT we take a hint from the
statement of an English writer that the
most important interest left to the Eng
llsh farmers which has not been Sc
riously threatened by foreign competi-
ton is heavy draft horse breeding?
Certainly we should see that they have
the competition. We could export
thousands of the heavy draft geldings if
we would only raise them. He says
that $500 is not an uncommon price for
one we'll seasoned. -Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
Analyses of Fertilizers.

The Vermont Experiment Station
has just ssued Bulletin No. 46, con-
tanning the analyses and station valua-
tions of thirty three brands of COM
mercial fertile RS, the output of eleven
manufacturers There is reason to be.
lieve that fully nine-tenths of the trade
in Vermont is confined to ihese brands.
The analyses are published earlier than
has hitherto been customary. The bull
letin will be sent to any address on APP
plication A postal card directed to the
Experiment Station, Burlington, VT, is
sufficient.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
AGRICULTURAL.
ArbOr Day Hymn.

Joy for the sturdy trees,
Famed by each fragrant breeze,
Lovely they stand.
The songblrds DER them trill;
They shade each tinkling rill
They crown each swelling hill;
Lowly OF grand.
Plant them by stream and way,
Plant them where the children play
And toilers rest
In every verdant vale,
ON every sunny swale-
Whether to grow or fail
God knoweth best.
Select the strong. the fair;
Plant them with earnest care;
No toll is vain.
Plant in a filter place,
Where, like a lovely face,
Let In some sweeter grace,
Change may prove gain.
God will his blessing send.
All things on him depend.
His loving care
Clings to each leaf and flower,
Like Ivy to its tower.
His presence and his power
Are everywhere. S. f. Smitl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24

of rye on light soils, to be used for
green manuring, is to be commended
for preventing the loss of nitrogen,
which readily takes place on such soils
when they al left bare. Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24

If we cannot take but one paper or
magazine, let 1t be one which will bear
upon our lives, making us more con-
tented, teaching us how to make our
homes more attractive, our dear ones
more happy and our minds and hearts
purer and more ft for life here and
hereafter. Cultivator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
HOW's This 4?

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
]. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by the firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, Ohio.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system.
Price seventy.five cents per bottle.
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24

IT is reported from Maine that an
orchardist put the pigs into failing
orchard and they tore up the tough sod
to the great benefit of the trees.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-04-24
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