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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
Why Milk Should be Tested.

Some years ago, says the Farmers
Reuie,o, Governor Hoard paid $500 to
have a COW census taken of town,
and employed one of the brightest men
in it. 1t is called the second dairy
town in New York, in Jefferson county.
He employed G. w. Jennings to go
around and take the record of every
COW in the township, and what she had
produced and what she cost, and it
took him all summer, from early spring
to fall. What he wanted was that
there should exist in the United States,
in some political unit like township,
an accurate statement of just exactly
what the truth was concerning the
earnings of the cows; that it should be
disclosed whether these men were
making money or not, or deceiving
themselves. That man went through
that work, and he found out that the
farmers of Ellisburg had deluded them
selves into the idea that they were
making money, when positively the
cows of that town were running them
in debt $4,000 every year. Testing
the milk would have revealed that
Many of the present subscribers of the
Doirynadn were not reading the paper
when that noted COW census was taken,
which was in 1888. Mr.. Jennings en-
bodied the result of his very thorough
Investigations in series of seventeen
letters, which were widely copied and
referred to by the agricultural press in
both the United States and England
Some very curious features were
brought out in that census. 1t was
disclosed that not only were the COWS
running the farmers of Ellisburg every
year S25, 900 in debt, but, in addition,
those farmers actually had so little in
tellectual interest in their own finan-
cial cosdition that they would not sub
scribe for the Dairyrmdn to any extent,
to see what was the truth about them.
So in order that they should see the
truth, we sent every farmer copy of
the paper free containing each of Mr..
Jennings letters. 1t was just that low
degree of intelligent interest in the
problems of modern dairying, that re-
fusal to read sound dairy literature
that lay at the bottom of their bad sue
cess and losses. That kind of spirit
will get in its work on any man who
has to do with COW in these modern
times.-Hoard's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
American Versus Foreign Goods.

There is an impression abroad, and
it is almost universal, that imported
fabrics, especially wooden goods, are
better than American goods. This was
undoubtedly true in years past, but not
now, generally. A merchant tailor told
us, the other day, that some of the best
goods he had in his shop were of Amer
lean manufacture. But" he added,
"we dare not tell certain of our custom
ers so. They will have imported goods,
though no better than American, and
cost twenty-five to fifty per cent more.
Lots of American goods are sold to
customers as imported, and they never
know the difference" The American
Wool and Cotton Reporter refers to this
subject, and says that this misrepre-
sentation is common thing; that it is
estimated that forty to sixty per cent of
the cloth manufactured into clothing
here is imported, but clothing stores
represent it at eighty TO ninety per cent,
and that such misrepresentation is I'M
fair to American industry, for if the
cloth is just as good as the foreign
cloth, it ought to have the credit, in
stead of which the English manufac-
turer gets it. 1t is not lack of patriot
ism so much as belief that the i'm
ported goods are better that causes
Americans to buy the latter. When
they see and know that our home
manufacture is as good as foreign, they
will buy the former.-Ohio Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
Killing Weeds by Electricity.

Railroads have been the means of
spreading many bad weeds, as any one
living near their lines can testify. The
wide spaces On each side of the track
afford an excellent breeding-ground for
them. In the South it is said that
there are so many weeds on some roads
that they delay the trains, and traffic
has had to be suspended for day or
two until the weeds could be cut. But
now electricity is beginning to be used
as weed-destroyer, with the best of
results. Metallic brushes extend out
over the weeds 30 as to touch their
tops, and currents conveyed through
the weeds which kills them to the ex'
tremities of the roots. Can this method
modified for the purpose, be made
available on the farm? What bless
ing it would be, for instance, to have a
portable wee d-killer TO use in field
where there are docks, thistles, milk
weeds and the like. If man could
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

only carry an apparatus 80 constructed
that he could touch the tips of weeds
and kill them root and branch by a
simple contact of metallic points, what
an advantage it would be. Many per-
ennial weeds are very hard to eradicate,
because the roots go down deep into
the ground, and even when great pains
are taken if tip of root is left in the
ground it will grow and thrive. The
carefully-kept lawns of wealthy men
are often greatly harmed by such weeds,
and such men might find out a way to
kill weeds by electricity.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
Why Are Farms and Farm Products
Cheap?

Editor of Wdtchmdn Il was quite
interested in the article in the WATCH
MAN of June II by your lady con-
tributor, "L. B. BIZ 1 do not agree
with her on the supreme importance
of the financial problem, as there would
be money enough if our farmers and
laborers could have it instead of its
going to pay for foreign products, or
share her fear of the silver-shod donkey
winning the race; but can answer one
of her questions to my own satisfaction,
though quite likely not to hers. Forty
years ago Vermont farms sold readily
at good prices, because there was de-
mand for them, the state being then
full of people who wanted homes.
There was also demand equal to the
supply for Vermont farm products at
paying prices. After the war the west
ern fever struck the people of Yer
mont and ragged till the population of
many towns in the state had been re.
duced from forty to sixty per cent.
Vermont came to have the name of
being simply good state to get out of =,
and those hopeful emigrants to the
Dakotas looked back with pity upon
the people who had so little enterprise
as to remain in the old Green Mountain
State. Thus, instead of men looking
for farms to purchase, there have come
to be land-poor farmers looking for
purchasers with none to be found,
while the many thousands from all
over the world who have settled the
West have raised immense quantities
of farm products which, by unjust dis
elimination of the railroad managers,
have been landed in eastern markets
at less cost for freight than we have to
pay for the short distance to the same
markets. Again, the laws of our state
exempt deposits in savings banks to
the amount OF 81 800 from taxation,
while every dollar deposited in farm
mortgage is taxed to its full amount.
This class legislation operates heavily
against the farming interest to favor
the banking interest. These are de-
pressing forces enough to weigh down
the price of our farms and products,
but it is incorrect TO state that they
have been constantly on the downward
course, regardless of the tariff policy of
the nation; for during the brief period
that we had the benefit of the McKin-
ICY uarll anu luc reClprOClIy tredtleS tue
farming business did improve. This
improvement was visible enough so
that people began to look for farms to
purchase and good number of New
England farms that had been aban-
doned were bought and used as homes;
but when the blighting curse of free
trade administration struck US that i'm
provement was speedily wiped out, and
the business sunk to the lowest level
ever yet reached in this generation.
CORINTHIAN.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
Furnishing Butter Direct to Private
Customers.

We all realize the desirability of deal
ing directly with the consumer in dis
posing of our farm products. The
middleman has been pronounced an
unnecessary evil, yet his services are
really indispensable in disposing of
many of them. We cannot sell our po-
tatoes direct to consumers unless we
peddle them out from house to house,
a peck in a place. The same is true of
other things. There must be some one
between the producer and the con-
sumner, for while we sell in large guam
titles, he buys in small ones. We sell
at wholesale, he buys at retail. Here
steps in the middleman, and into his
pocket goes the profit. AS an instance
of this, last fall, when our markets were
flooded with potatoes and fifteen cents
bushel was all they would bring, the
grocers were selling them out at thirty
cents. A pretty good profit in pota-
toes, after all, but it was the middleman
who got it, not the producer. With
our butter we are able to dispense
with the services of the middleman en-
tirely, if we choose to do so. 1t can be
be sold directly to the consumer better
than almost any other farm product.
1t can go in original packages, in
quantity to suit the purchaser. 1t
can be delivered at a stated time
and at stated price. Transpor-
tation is made quickly and at rea-
sonable rates. The cash is always
forthcoming; we do not have to trade
it out at the store. OF course, one
needs to made good quality of butter
in order to hold a private trade. 1t
must also be uniform. To send good
butter one time and an inferior quality
the next would be to invite loss Of
confidence which would be disastrous
Promptness in filling orders is also of
paramount importance. If an order is
sent for butter at certain date, or
Dat once" it means that failure to re-
ceive it at the expected time will be a
disappointment, and such disappoint-
ments we cannot expect will be re-
ceived with forbearance very many
times. We have standing orders for a
stated amount each month. This is
better than to depend upon families
writing when they want more, as some
times they delay sending for few days,
the family in the meantime obtaining
butter at their grocery. | have heard
complaints from some who have tried
furnishing butter to private customers.
They say their customers are overpar.
ticular and given to fault-inding. In
short, that it is more trouble to cater to
their tastes than the butter is worth
In all my experience have not had the
least trouble in this respect. Our Gus
toners all understand that if at any
time crock of butter does not sui
they are expected to return it at our ex'
pense and it will be replaced by an an
other. / think it is no more than RICH,
that a person paying such price fol
butter should get what they want, anG
tsRE FIFTH COLUMN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
SHORT LUMBER.
SPRUCE
Current Weekly Comment.


EGGs.-Receipts continue liberal-19 39I
cases for the week-and trade is generally
quiet. Eastern extras sell in a small way
at about former prices.
LUMBER.-The market can actually be
called tirmer, inasmuch as the dealers and
yard men are more willing to meet the
views of manufacturers.
HAY AND STRAw.-Receipts, 302 cars hay,
121 cars straw. Trade in hay is dull and the
market is rather easier under larger re-
ceipts. Rye straw is dull.
FLoUR.-Receipts, q, 742 barrels, 29, $50
sacks; exports, 5,S77 barrels, 1892 sacks,
The market continues slow and the gen.
eral business doing is small.
CoRN.-Receipts, 49, 40 bushels; stock
in elevators, 15S, 932 bushels; exports, 49,
273 bushels. The market has shown linn
tied spot demand, but prices for the best
corn are quite firm
OATs.-Receipts, 1871 ,435 bushels; stock
in elevators, 1882 bushels; exports, 50,-
945 bushels. The spot market has been
only moderately supplied as whole, but
the demand has ruled quiet for all grades.
WooL.-The past week has been the most
active one in domestic wool that we have
had TO report for very long time. The fact
that the refusals to sell have been more fire.
quent than the acceptances indicates that it
is sellers rather than n buyers market.
CHEEsE-hecelpts, d, 4oo boxes; exports,
65,970 pounds. The receipts have not been
heavy but full more than enough for the
demand Vermont stock is running poor
and has very dull sale. Very little call
for sage cheese.
BUTTER. - Receipts, 5256S tubs, 26,6S6
boxes-2, 1862, 734 pounds same week in 1895,
1858 $40 pounds. Exports, 69,715 pounds.
The receipts have been heavy for the past
week, but there has been steady fair de-
MI
market continues in fairly good condition.
Extra northern creamery has steady sale
to regular trade at unchanged quotations.
Northern dairy is quiet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

AS an illustration of the value of a
good creamery, take the following in
stance: A creamery which has had
rather Indifferent success in the past
was purchased by new party last
spring, and straightway it took on
new lease of life. Over II 900 pounds
of milk are received daily, the farmers
can get sweet milk direct from the
separator to take home, and general
satisfaction seems to be the rule. Best
of all, the price of May butter is fifteen
cents, which is as good or better than
sixteen as ordinarily sold to dealers by
the farmer, the packages, etc., costing
cent or more per pound. But the
price paid in the same town by dealers
to those who made their butter at
home was only twelve cents. Those
who are of a mathematical turn of
mind can figure out the amount saved
by the creamery to the farmers of the
town on IL 900 pounds daily of say
four per cent milk. 1t is needless to
say that this creamery is located in
Vermont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

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wood, in Hoard's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

Y-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for phoesale lots mot jobbns
prfces) unless otherwise indicated, and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

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AGRICULTURAL.

hVhAVOAA ~ NiAht
NOT long ago we printed an article
on dealing with commission merchants.
This week we give our readers an arti-
Gle on dealing with consumers. The
article contains many valuable hints
and suggestions, and is condensed from
the report printed in Hoard'S Datrymdn.
IT seems pity that crimson clover
has proved so disappointing in the
North. But northern farmers are not
going to give up yet. Some say that if
the seed is sown among corn in July it
will make considerable top growth and
large root growth, which, if plowed
under in the spring, will add much to
the fertility of the soil. 1t should not
be sown until July. Spring SOW ing is
a failure. But the sooner it is got in
after July the better.
THE question of summer dairying is
not wholly one of profits. At this sea-
son of the year, when farm work is
pressing, to have the time devoted to
milking shortened up one-half and
gradually diminished to the vanishing
poi1t is great advantage. To save
expense in every way is one part of
successful farming, and it costs a good
deal to get lot of cows MIXED in hay
ing time if they are in full flow of milk.
1t is far better on this account alone to
have them come in the first of Septem-
Der. There is far more leisure in the
fall than in midsummer on the average
farm, and milking can be done in the
fall and winter with far less expense.
THE practice of sowing grass. seed in
corn the last time it is cultivated is
gaining ground in many towns. Level
culture is Of course essential. Also the
farmer must forego the luxury of the
last hoeng, if he is addicted to it. The
arguments in favor of this method are
many. The corn is usually heavily
MANFRED, and the intervention of
grain crop between the corn and grass,
especially if it be oats, is apt to be quite
a drain upon the land. Then, if the
corn is kept free from weeds, the
ground will be nearly bare after the
corn is cut, and thus much fertility is
lost, as warm weather causes the for
nation of nitrates in the soil through
the agency of microbes. If there is no
growing vegetation in the soil, the
nitrates then formed are quite sure to
be lost.
DON'T sow corn. If you do, you will
get stunted, pale, watery lot of stuff,
no more fit to give COW for half or
two.thirds of her feed than a quart of
thin, watery apple-sauce, made from
green apples, is fit to make dessert for
a Woodworking man every meal. A
COW is actually worse off fed on sowed
corn than ii compelled to gnaW an old
pasture, for she cannot get enough of
the watery stuff into her stomach to
satisfy the needs of her body. Sow
barley, Hungarian, millet, Japanese
buckwheat, but not corn. 1t was not
made to SOW. 1t needs to be grown in
hills or drills, so that the light can get
in and so that it can develop in the
light and heat. Corn must begin to
glaze, or be in the boiling stage, before
it can be cut at the highest point of
profit. Many dollars are lost by feed
ing immature corn.
AS an illustration of the value of
good creamery, take the following in
stance: A creamery which has had
rathar indifferent auccpaa in the mast
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-01

"SSold by Druggists, seventy-fve
cents.
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NOT long ago we printed an article
on dealing with commission merchants.
This week we give our readers an arti-
Gle on dealing with consumers. The
article contains many valuable hints
and suggestions, and is condensed from
the report printed in Hoard'S Dairymon
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-01

The Centrels of Comrnunipaw visited
Fairview on Sunday and played a game
with the local club of that place and re-
turned with the honors. A large crowd
saw the match, and the residents of Fair
view declared the Centrals the strongest
amateur team that has visited the place
this season. 1t was virtually a pitchers
battle, in which Cody excelled by a single
hit The Centrals began the run-getting
at once. Wells started with a home run
and Dawson and Booth each made hits.
but were unable to get In. Another run
by Wells in the fourth inning virtually
won the game. although Booth came to
the rescue with a tally In the eighth.
Only one circuit of the bases was made
by the home team. Riker got around in
the fifth inning. Several times they had
Three of these were caught mapping at
the bag. Jewett played a fine game at
this position. Cody had six strike cuts.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-01

The Hudson County Wheelmen win
ave a big time at the race meet to be
held at the Gutenberg track Saturday,
September 26. and the members are get
ting in condition for the contests. The
programme will be full of exciting fea-
lures, and the Boys can anticipate a
large attendance. There will be Ave
events. as follows:-One-ha1f mile scratch,
one-mile handicap, one-mile scratch. two
mile handicap and five-mile Hampton
ship of Hudson county. The following
clubs will be represented by their best
riders: Clio, Arcanum Kings County,
Riverside Wheelmen. Castle Point Cycl-
ers. Hamilton Cyclers and Union
County Roadsters.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-01
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The Warrens beat the Monmouths Sun
DAY IN an exciting game by better bait
ting, base running and cleverer fielding.
They were clearly the better team and
played until the last inning without an
error. when Riley missed the fly knocked
by Blake. Shea pitched a strong game
and kept the Monmouths guessing. He
had excellent command of the ball and
had drops and in curves to burn. Dolan
was easy and the Warrens slugged the
bah hard in the hrst four innings and
won the game with lots to spare. A home
run by Jordan. a three base hit by Wal
aided were the features. Score
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-01

The Fries defeated the Palisades YES
terday in the second game of their series
by a great batting streak in the seventh
inning: The game was stopped at this
and in the first encounter the Palisades
won, but the Fries turned the tables this
time very decidedly. Both teams made
five runs in the first inning. Palisade led
with one in the second. but the Fries tied
the score in the third and went to the
'front.' with one run in the fifth. PAIL
sades put on a bracer in their half of the
seventh and counted three times. Their
opponents were determined to win. as II
looked like rain at any minute. and Davis
led with q tw~o-bagger. Kelly followed
SUIT and hits were counted until the
Eries had put a safe margin on their
side of the score sheet. Totals we're