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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13
AGRICULTURAL.
What to DO With the Potatoes.

To many dairymen the question,
"Whst shall we do with the large
potato crop2" will seem an idle one,
and it does to me. When asked by
someone who is really in doubt about
the matter, it really seems very strange
that any man owning dairy of cows, a
team of horses and other farm animals,
can fail to know at once what to do with
his potatoes.
We often hear the statement from
some of our institute speakers that GER
tain articles of food contain more nutri-
ment than the chemist seems to find,
or, in other words, practical experience
of feeding shows them to possess
greater feeding value than they are
rated to contain. Occasionally 1 meet
farmer who places but light value
on potatoes as stock food. l must
believe they arrive at such an errone-
GUS conclusion from faulty methods in
feeding, or lack of proper observation.
COurs is n potato section. Potatoes
are like oats-they thrive best upon
high, cool ground. In the years before
the advent of nearby railroads, farmers
were obliged TO utilize the farm crops to
sustain the farm animals. l have
seen two store pigs carried through the
winter and make fine gain with an
eight.quart pan of small potatoes baked
and fed while warm once day, with
the addition of the dish-water and
Relationships from the kitchen. l
have repeatedly noticed old cows that
had been MIXED up to September first,
then dried off and fed small unstable
potatoes until the first of December,
without grain, that would make the
finest beef. | do not mean to say it
will be the marbled beef of the
western corn-fed steer, but have seen
such cows that would yield sixty to
eighty pounds of rough tallow and
meat of the most juicy character, sweet
and tender, and as fat as anyone cares
for.
know from practical experience
that potatoes make most excellent pig
food during the fall months, my prac-
tice being to fill forty gallon
farmers boiler one-half full with po-
tatoes, and fill up with sliced pumpkins.
When well cooked l mix in peck Of
corn meal and pulverize all together
thoroughly; then remove to barrel
and mix with what skim-milk we have.
Our twenty-siX pigs now on hand are
making very fine growth on this diet.
Fed judiciously, to cows in milk, l
value them equal with grain. This
may seem broad statement, but will
explain. We milk more or less OF our
COWS all winter, and our experience is,
winter mixers need liberal grain feed
ing. 1t often occurs that COW will be-
gin to lose her relish for her grain.
The moment l see any disposition on
the part of the cow to mince, remove
her grain and substitute feed of 90
tatoes. Two or three feeds of them
regulate the stom ach and the grain is
again eaten with relish. Horses,
colts and calves love them dearly, and
they are of great value when these ami
mails are confined to dry food.
refused to fill an order recently for
anything less than forty cents per
bushel, preferring to keep them and
feed to stock. The present season is
an excellent one for farmers to try ex
periments in feeding this valuable farm
crop.-J. d. Smith, in Practical Dairy
man.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13
Hay for Hens,

Most people think that it is impos-
sible to furnish an adequate supply of
green food for their fowls during the
winter, and do not think that the sub
stitutes they furnish their horses or
cattle might be used in feeding their
fowls just as well. Hay is nothing but
dried grass, as every one knows, and it
contains all the elements of nutrition
that is found in grass, when green, the
only change being that the water it con-
tanned has been evaporated, leaving all
the other elements in practically their
original condition. Feeding hens hay
is a comparatively new idea, but it is
one that has immense possibilities, and if
good clover hay that has been cut when
at the proper stage is cut up finely
and stepped and mixed with bran or
shorts 1t will be devoured with
evident relish and with profit to the
poultry-keeper. Clover is a good egg
food in itself, and when it has been
made into hay it is just as good as it is
green. If there is no hay-cutter about
the place, the heads and leaves that
shatter off in feeding the other stock
may be used in place of cut hay, as they
are really more valuable, pound for
pound, than the whole hay If these
are even gathered up and thrown
to the poultry without any prep
aration, it is astonishing how much
of it they will eat, and what good effect
it has on the production of eggs. Other
sorts of hay may be used with benefit,
but clover is the sort that makes hens
lay the most eggs and that they like
best.-Farm News.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13
Improve the Farm,

To improve the farm constantly-not
only in the direction of bringing the
soil up to higher degree of fertility,
but also to make the dwelling aud other
buildings more attractive and comfort
able-should be the aim and ambition
of every progressive rural citizen.
Farmers do not have much opportunity
to see to these things early in the
season, and they can hardly be attended
to in midwinter, so that the autumn is
usually regarded as the most favorable
time for doing the work. The repairing
of houses and barns, as we'll as the erec-
ton of sheds for stock and storehouses
for produce, are, therefore, now in order.
All broken gates and shackly fences
should be put in good condition. Some
kind of portable fencing would be found
very useful on many farms, and those
who can construct such a convenient
article are advised to do 80. Another
thing that large number of soil tillers
are much in need of is a good place to
keep their manure. Our cultivators
indirectly lose great deal OF money
every year for want of serviceable
manure shed or cellar where fertiizing
material can be kept without waste.
If you have none, now is the time to
build it, and if you can make one that
will hold liquid manure 30 much the
better. 1t should be near the stables,
but far enough away from the well or
spring to prevent any contamination of
the water. Speaking of water, every
husbandman onght to have it con-
venient in both his house and barn.
Should you not be thus provided for,
attend to the matter at once by con-
structing pipes to convey the water to
both the dwelling and the quarters
occupied by your domestic animals.
Among other improvements, ditching
and draining can be done in dry
weather. Undertaking is one of the
most profitable investments that can be
made, as it increases the productive
capacity Of the land for long success
sion of years. All these and various
other things of minor importance
should be looked after before winter
opens.-Christian at Work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13
TuberculOus Cattle Killed,

The state inspector, says an exchange,
has killed twenty-three head of cattle
belonging to Byron jenkins, a farmer
living near Owego, n Y. All of the
animals were Infected with tuberculosis
The inspector recently killed ten head
of cattle owned by George Griswold,
proprietor of an adjoining farm. The
butchers who saw he infected cattle
after they were killed cay that they
have killed cattle having the same
appearance, aud that the carcasses
have been sold for beef.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13
A Large Butter Yield.

Davis Maxwell of Wales, Maine,
keeps good dairy of twenty five to
thirty Jersey cows. He has twenty
heifers all pure bred in high grade. He
annually makes about four tons of but
ter, which is largely marketed in Lew
iston. He grows good steers and
usually keeps several pairs.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13

BUCKLEN's ARNIcA SALvE.-Th,
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores
letter, chspped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t lie
guaranteed TO give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cent? per box. For sale bv C.. Blakely
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13
otices

Notice Is hereby given that the Vermont Mutual
Fire INSURANCE Company of Montpelier, VT, with
draws from the offer of reward Jointly made with
the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company and the
New England Fire Insurance Company of Rutland,
Vt. for the payment OF FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS Tor the Information which shall result in the
detection and conviction of any person persons
who may, on trial, be found guilty of the crime OF
incendiarism or arson, in firing any property In Yer
mont, which, at the time OF the FIRE wa insured by
any of said companies. And we shall pay part OF
any such reward accruing after this date.
VERMONT MU rUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.
Montpelier, VT, October q, 1895.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13

A NATURAL BEAUTIFIER. - Karl's
Clover Root Tea purifies the blood and
gives a clear and beautiful complexion.
For s lie by w. E. rerrill & Co., Mont.
pelier, VI.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13

Boston Produce Market.

nE-- The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for wholesale lots mot jobbin0
prices unless otherwise indicated. and intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills,
Biliousness, Indigestion, IL eadach
A pleasant laxative. All Druggists.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-13

Hoods Pills family cathaTtic. rs &c. anu
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09
"SHEEPSKIN JOHNSON"

Out in Clay county where the German Mennonite farmer drives
broad backed horses and lives fat with plenty to and wine
his cellar and where the Swede
has become thrifty farmer with farm and home his
farm house garnshed with orchard hapey
lives Charley Johnson Years when he from
the old country and he sheepsn front
protect his clothes while at work. the custom with farmers
Sweden Partly because Of the sheepn and partly dis
tngush him from large number Of other wede ohnson
called Sheepskin Johnson He odd OF chicken
the neghbors used to but honest and worked hard early
and late At first he bought only eighty
paying cash down only small perhaps @ He dug
hole in the side of hill, covered it with and
prairie sod hung horse blanket the opening for door and
this his home in the world His little white
headed children busted themselves gathering vegetable fuel
gunnysacks from the and when they busy
this other useful work they played about the
happy and contented Charley thrifty fellow all
Nebraska swee farmers and each three added
eighty his farm He graduated the dugout
comfortable sod house with hnge roof this gave
place commodous frame house higher ground with
barns and apd large wind mill whd gracefully round
and round day and night furnishing stream Of living water for
and beast "A nk dees country been all right said Charley
friend few days Some fae he all time kick
Nebasky been purity good Sometime ha bee ete dry but
most time git plenty Ven hare from Sweden da been
plenty aer ali time kick bout rain but kick poo verk
all time, get five eighty make eetle all
an gall she ha dem house and
yoo good buggy anybody Dem fe in dem
he write plenty lie about dees Nebrasky He
not get rain Veil not git rain but git
plenty an dem farmer he make plenty faer
all time kick aer he all time wait
all time vcrk Dem kckin faler ha been all
for faler he all time git ob but dem ve a ha all time
git plenty Dem kckin faler ha pull dem
rain aer ha to Texas but Sheepsn Johnson
Clay county.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09

letter reads like the truth And probably is All who
have enough and shelter nothing do and heart
speak his complete tired
diante His contained pieces Of statuary
which parting them he left his fellow board
his anda with apology for the trouble his death
would Here thoughtfuness kindness and generosity
locked. and tired. He had
ard bored before he would be again His
important the procession the spectacle would not be
changed by his disappearance from it. So he dropped Of it.
him the wicked will
He himself casped her eternal embrace The idea
him. he put aside reccued daily until Satur
walk He the Of the by scanned
with lines seemed happy In the stores people
josted him and scowed Why should he say for this
stranger a strange land" II Catholic should have
said that he might be soon in paradise.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09

Elderly remember their spring btters with shudde
present generation has much be thankful
their blessings being such and thoroughly effective spring
medicine Ayers Sarsapara 1t health
maintaner.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09

The Olympic whist club entertained last Friday by Mr. HON
Honeywell The following present. Misses Martha Buks
Maude Riser Sadie Graham, Dora Harley Helen Hoover Grace
Ashton. Ena Ricketts, Florence Wnger Stella Curtce Hody
Huntsnger Florence Fafwe Daisy Cochrane Mess Arthur
Walsh Harry Grupe Harry Harley Ralph Winger George Walsh
Ernest Folsom Wilson Wnger Clare Young Frank Hadey Homer
Honeywell George Johnson Arte Chapman and Frank Kitchen
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09

The Ravola club domino party Lansing hall last
highly enjoyed by all who present The following
of the dancers Misses Daisy Cochrane Dora Harley
Ada Hcaton Marie Marshall Lucy Griffith Mae Moore Sadie Ora
Grace Huntsnge Helen Hoover Grace Ashton Florence
Farwe Maude Shaw Ena Ricketts, Nellie Lau Stella Curce
Jessie Leland Florence Wnge Miss Hodd Miss Payne Hast
ngs; Harry Grupe Wilson Wnger. Arthur Walsh Frank Hadey
George Johnston Harry Frank Ralph Wnge Clare Hebbad
Duff Andrews Sedgwck, Clare Young Foster Beach, Harry Har
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09
ley Albert Pussy Oliver Cough Frank Kitchen Elmer Merrill
Ora Ward and Ernest Folsom.

The Daughters OF Veterans party for the Sons OF
Veterans Wednesday evening c. A. r. hail. The evening
spent dancing which Empire Autoharp
Light refreshments served during the evening The
members Of the club Tom Brown Willie Brown Paul
Scott Garoutt Abe Yarow John Dixon James Sharp Harry
Lnder Sam Gordon.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09

AE inqusve world will be seeking and pyng for motive for
assisting nature and huyng departure from this EARTH
other than complete teness
No. there the Of dissipation
bling nothing and rooted conviction that have
lived long and tired and choose to take
path full enjoyment of all my faculties the
silent land where the wicked troubling and the
doubt that after lifes itful that
shall sleep WELL want fancy unea crowd of people riding
after who cared a in life for gaudy flowers
The paupe coffin and the house hears to rattle bones
suffice And the Poers field will
make downy couch to bones in Let be buried With
the burial of stranger in strange land unhonoed and
unsung Mrs Allen will take full charge Of affairs which
few and simple and Of property leave here And
firmly and fully desire that of relatives be told OF
departing method they pecuares and would
think sgracng the family they knew do think have
anything further add except apologize for the and
trouble shall cause and to humbly take my leave
PERCY G. CHAMBERLAIN"
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09
THE COURIER
TEDIUM VITAE.

Percy g. Chamberlain shot and killed himself in Chicago last
Saturday He retired captain in the British HIS
friends he comfortably supported from the income Of
England He As years DID, unmarried and Of cheer
full disposition They found the following letter his address
ell ITO the whomsoever it may concern
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-03-09
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY.
is home from his trip to Whitehall, Ill.

DIR. Ladd is home from his trip to Whitehall Ill.
Cobb and wife New York city in Lincoln
Tuesday,
Stella Payne of Hastings visiting with the Misses Lau
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-17
SUBMARINE MOUNTAINS.

There exists in the great ocean between Australia and the New Caledonia a range of mighty submarine mountains, whose limestone tops rise within 300 fathoms of the surface. The discovery of these peaks, rising sheer 7500 feet from the bottom of the deep sea, was made by the men who have just finished laying the first section of the trans-Pacific cable. Sir Audley Coote, who was at the head of the cable expedition, arrived recently at San Francisco from Sydney, New South Wales. He says:
 eve had anticipated no great difficulty in laying the cable section, and did not find any until suddenly the bottom of the ocean began to rise. We were forced to cut the cable there in midocean and to buoy up the endss It was then found that what had hindered us was a range of submarine mountains
 '"There is nothing else like this in the world that I know of. The mountains rise in abrupt peaks and are hard lime stone and granite. By careful measure ment we found that the peaks were more than 1000 feet on the average, and the highest of them 7500 feet from the bottom of the ocean. Less than 300 fathoms from the surface of the water we found the tops of the highest mountains. The range extends for nearly seventy-five miles-that is measuring from the ex- treme northerly to the extreme southerly point. To lay the cable around this range took forty-eight miles more of cable than we had counted on. We had to go around tfe peaks as a railroad would go around a mountain on land.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-17
WARRIOR BUSINESS MEN
Resolve Against the Wholesale Jobbers' Asso-
 sociation's So-CalIed Boy cot

We, the business men and merchants of Warrior, Ala, and vicinity, in common with the masses of the people of the south realize that we have vital in terest in the pending matter between the Southern Wholesale Jobbers' association and the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road company, wherein said association seeks to have said railroad exact of re- tail dealers and consumers a higher rate of freight on the necessaries of life, thus effecting an unjust discrimination against our interests and in favor of the wholesalers, and have today met togeth- CT in the interest of a thorough discus sion of the question involved. This ques- tion involves our public welfare. After a thorough and deliberate congideration of the whole matter we are firynly convinced that the demands of the Wholesale Job bers' association are unjust and against the best interests of the great body of the people. and should not be acceded to by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company or any other railroad company who have received concessions, etc, from communities through which their lines are in operation. -
 Resolved, That the methods employed by said association to enforce such de- mands are unworthy of any legitimate business organiza ton. We fully indorse the Louisville and Nashville railroad management in it's refusal to comply with these unjust and discriminating de- mands. and pledge ourselves to support in any legitimate way said Louisville and Nashville railroad in it's fight against these unfair demands of said association, believing said demands, if acceded to, will prove disastrous to our entire com munity.
 Resolved further. That this meeting fully indorses and appreciates the en- deavors of the Louisville and Nashville railroad in it's liberal efforts to induce a good class of immigrants to locate along it's lines, and realize that it should keep itself in this position in order to induce an intelligent class of immigrants to To- cate in the communities situated upon its lines.
 Resolved further, That a CODY of these proceedings be furnished to the Louisville and Nashville railroad officials, to the Warrior Index, to the Montgomery Jour- hal, to the Birmingham News and to the State Herald, with request to publish in full.
 l.. c. Harrison, lessee Warrior Coal and Coke company's mines; T. w. Street, merchant; T. Oliver, confectioner; Col lins company, general merchandise; D. N. smith, general mercha ndise; Watts Coal and Iron company; Thomas Cross. M. D.; Hagler BroS., merchants; w. R. Dean, merchant; Mabel Mining company. T M. Davidson. president T. M David son, banker and merchant; R. B. Mont gomery, postmaster.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-17
UNION TOWN.
The Weather Beautiful-Cotton Bringing 8
 Good Price.

Uniontown, Oct. 16.-(Special)- )-Beauti- ful weather has prevailed here for some weeks past, and crops are being gathered rapidly. There is a considerable falling off in the local cotton estimate. The staple is very fine and farmers are get ting good prices. The corn crop has turned out considerably better than was anticipated a few weeks ago.
 Misses Madge and Mira Hill left this morning for Atlanta, where they will remain for a@month, the guests of their cousin, Mrs. William PriSlean.
 Miss Hattie Howard, who has spent the summer in the Virginia mountains. re- turned home last week greatly benefited in health.
 MT. Henry R. Dawson and Hon. A. D.. Pitts of Selma were here yesterday.
 The negro, Willie Bennett who was shot some days since by Tony Jemison, who afterwards committed suicide, is improving.
 Miss Stella Pickering has returned from visit to Miss Collins, at Gallion.
 Candidates are beginning to loom up in these parts. There will be no trouble to get a man for each county office, as there are numbers who are burning to serve their country.
 Mr. Max Sington, the Misses Huey and Miss Anna Stuart of Marion came down Sunday and spent the day with Miss Alice Marx.
 Miss Louise Sheppard of Faunsdale is spending this week with Mrs J. P. Creath.
 Mrs. Alphise Gholson, widow of the late Rev. Mir Gholson, former rector of the Church of the Holy Cross, has arranged to move to Uniontown.
 Miss Minnie Nixon is the guest of Miss Corcoran at "Knoxwood," near Demopo- lis.
 We will have three marriages of prom inent Uniontown people this fall. The first is that of Miss Adelaide Marx to Dr. Henry Hirschfield of Mobile which will take place early in November
 Miss Mamie Morgan is in Marion, where she will be bridesmaid to her cousin, Miss Morgan, who will marry Mr. James Smith.
Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-17
AUBURN.
Prospects Indicate a Red-letter Session-Th
 300 Mark Likely to Be Reached.

Auburn Oct. 16.-(Special Corresponds ence.) e.)-This session promises to be a red- letter one for Auburn. Two hundred and seventy is about the number of matricu- lates up to date and indications are that the 300 mark will be reached in January. A course In pharmacy has been estab- lished, which will no doubt prove success ful on account of the superior advantages for laboratory instruction. The work on the new gymnasium has begun and the building will probably be finished by the last of October. Its dimensions are 4Ox 80, and 1t is located at the foot of the terrace on the western edge of the drill ground and athletic field. Beneath the building there will be ample space for bath rooms and lockers The building will be quite an addition to the campus and will greatly improve athletics
 The present prospects for football are very bright. Every afternoon the scrubs and candidates for the college eleven line up and have a snappy game. The system of training under the direction of our efficient coach, MT. William Heisman, late of Pennsylvania, is much better than that of last season.
 The staff for the Orange and Blue has been elected, and publication will begin about the last of the month.