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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
Farm Notes.

THERE is no doubt that good dairy
cows lead to better methods. A man
is not likely to give irst-class treatment
| to scrub cows.
HALF bushel of potatoes day for
milk cow is the limit recommended
by Professor Fjord. More than that
injuriously affects the milk, he says.
ACCORDING to department agricultu-
raj statistics for 1890 the value of the
corn crop in round numbers was $780,
100000; hay crop, S571 900, 900, and
cotton crop, 1926 100000.
THE heifer ought to be MIXED ten or
eleven months the first time she is in
milk. 1t don't matter whether she
gives no more than pint day the last
month. The point is to fix the habit of
staying in milk. Too many of our cows
loaf six months in the year.
The churn will always churn, says
a writer, if the milk and cream have
been properly handled up to churning
time. In nine cases out of ten diff
Guilty in churning is due to improper
ripening of the cream, or filing the
churn too full, or churning at wrong
temperature.
SOME cows will not "give down {"
except when they are eating palatable
mess. 1t is bad habit to get them
into and they should be trained differ
emily. If but one or two COWS are
MIXED it is not inconvenient to feed
grain at milking time, but with herd
it is very troublesome.
CUT just below a joint when secur-
ing cuttings of plants of any kind and
cut from the tender portion instead of
from the woody part. A little practice
in this work will soon enable one to
know how to have cuttings that can be
relied upon.
THE best time to dispose of any sort
of live stock kept regularly on the farm
is when You can realize profit on the
same that is seasonable. Don't try to
get rich on one deal or hold on to
thing because some one tells you prices
will run up higher in the near future.
THE time for marketing chicks de-
ponds upon the breed. A Peking will
be as mature at nine weeks as will
Rouen at twelve. They should be
partly feathered out before taken to
market, but the second crop not al
lowed to start, as they will be full of
pin feathers and somewhat off in con-
ditiOn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

passage opponents made strenuous eff
forts TO load it down with features
which would kill it. Riders in the
shape of amendments were offered
among which were tax on beer, tax
on wool of ten cents per pound, and a
repeal of the differential duty on sugar.
The opposition came chiefly from the
big hog-packing centers and from the
South.
Should the president veto the bill,
which is considered unlikely, it may
still become a law, owing to the good
majority favoring it in both houses.
The bill defines filled cheese as a sub
stance made of milk or skim-milk with
the admixture of butter, animal oils or
fats, vegetable or other oils or COM
pounds foreign to milk and made in
imitation of cheese. Manufacturers of
filled cheese are taxed $500 annually
for each factory, wholesale dealers
$3.50 and retailers S12. BY far the
most important provision of the bill,
however, is that assessing tax of one
cent per pound to be paid by the man
ufacturer, and attendant legislation
which will make it possible for the in
nocent buyer to identify the imitation
product. Filled cheese must be packed
in new wooden packages only, and
branded with the words "Filled
Cheese in black-face letters not less
than two inches in length. These are
to appear in a circle in the center of
both top and bottom of the cheese and
on each of four sides in line running
from the top to the bottom. The pack
age containing the cheese shall be
marked in the same manner in the same
number of places, and all sales made by
manufacturers must be in original
stamped packages. Retailers can sell
only from these, and each parcel as it
goes over the counter must be properly
and plainly branded. Wherever sold
there must be displayed in conspicu-
GUS place sign bearing the words
" Filled cheese sold here" in black
face letters not less than six inches in
length upon white ground. The
usual penalties are attached for in
fringement of the law. Filled cheese
from foreign countries, in addition TO
any import duty, must pay an inter-
nal revenue tax of eight cents per
pound, which simply prohibits its intro
duction. AS the act will not 60 into
effect until ninety days after it becomes
a law, il will not Immediately help the
traffic in pure goods as it will another
season. Its influence cannot be other
wise than most beneficial; not alone
stimulating the home consumption
through the knowledge by the buyer
that he is getting just what he pays for,
but of equal Importance it should serve
to help build up our foreign trade,
which in recent years has fallen off so
seriously. During ten months of the
present fiscal year ended April 80 our
cheese exports were less than 30 100000
pounds, against 46,000,000 pounds for
the corresponding period year earlier,
70, 1852, 900 pounds in the twelve months
ended June so, 1894, 1851 500 pounds
in 1893 and 147,9o6,00O pounds in the
banner year 1881.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
Very Like a Black Swan.

1t was in New Jersey. The agent
was showing a prospective tenant
around, and mosquito lit on the pros
pective tenants hand. 81 thought
you said there were no mosquitoes
here" said he. "There amt" replied
the agent. What's that?" asked the
prospective tenant. CT don't know;
you brought it with you, didn't youP''
queried the agent. THAT'S a mos
quito, sir,' said the prospective tenant,
severely. "Really? Well, well, WE'LL
Say, let me take it home and show my
grandmother, will you? She's lived
here forty years and never saw one."
And he winked his other eye.
A NATURAL BEAUTIFIER. - Karl's
Clover Root Tea purifes the blood and
gives clear and beautiful complexion.
For sale by WE. Terrill & Co., Mont.
pelier, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
A NOcturne.

All was darkness in the basement.
Leaning against the wall stood a bicy-
Gle. Presently the sound of converse
ton was distinctly audible.
"Don't you think the Lubricator and
the Oil are getting pretty thick?" MUIR
INJURED the Sprocket.
"No," replied the Pedal; &" the Lubri-
Gator seems to be stuck on the Chain. :"
"That's what thought, "said the Sad
die; but got sat on so, don't dare
speak"
- think the Lamp and the Oil
would make a good pair" added the
Sprocket.
Yes, except that the Lamp
smokes and goes out nights" whis-
pered the Pedal.
" That's why 1 spoke of the Oil.
What the Lamp needs is good
match"
"If there's going to be wedding"
said the Bell, "I'll furnish the ring"
Then the conversation ceased, and
not even Wheel spoke.
KARL's CLOVER Root TEA is a sure
cure for headache and nervous dis
eases. Nothing relieves so quickly.
For sale by w. E. Terrill & Co., Mont
pelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

THE world makes and eats 100000
tons of butter and cheese annually.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
AGRICULTURAL,
The Corn.

song of the corn the sturdy corn, which bright.
ems this land of oursl
Its tender green In the early spring, Ia farer than
the poisoning fowers
Its amber silk, with its glossy sheen, is fit for a
fairys loom,
And dearer its dimpled golden than the rose or
lily's bloom
For they bear the promise Of happy hours to the
man who tolls for Bread
When he need not fear that his little ones must go
to their sleep unfed
There lovely flowers in this land of ours, where.
ever the foot may fall,
The tongue and the alike would tire should try
to tell them all,
From the arbutus on Atlantic shores to the golden
poppy's CLEANS,
As bright as the metal which lies at its roots by
Californian streams.
But never a flower such gifts has gained from the
sun and dews of morn,
or stands more fair in the summer air than the
blessed, golden cornl
-Ninette NJ, Lowater.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
His Hopes Blasted.

The highwayman had followed her
from town. He had observed the
pocket-book which she held in her
hand. 1t was fat, even as a plump
partridge. She was re turning from the
city, and he bided his opportunity. 1t
was dark. A lonely part of the road
was reached. He sprang forward,
sHatched the pocket-book from her
hand, and disappeared, He wendell
his way back to town. Gleefully he
sought his attic room. CT shall dine
well tonight" he said. And he opened
the purse and swooned. 1t was fat
with samples
ALL RECOMMEND IT. Ask your
physician, your druggist and your
friends about Shiloh's Cure for con-
sumption. They will recommend it,.
For sale by W. E. TerrilI s. Co., Mont
pelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
Pebbles.

MANY man who runs for office has
to walk back.
"WHY do they have to nail cam
paign lies?'" "To keep rival politicians
from swapping them off for drinks"
ITSAvEs LIVES EVERY DAY.-Thou-
sands of cases of consumption, asthma,
coughs, colds and Group are cured every
day by Shiloh's Cure. For sale by W.
E. Terrill & Co., Montpelier, Vt.
ONE of the favorite topics at Sunday
school conventions and religious meet
ings is, 4" How to Secure and Hold the
Young Men" Have you ever tried a
pretty girl and hammock?
"YoU don't know what you are talk
ing about" roared the campaign man
ager. The presidential possibility
bowed his head and admitted that the
retort was just. He had been talking
on the currency question.
THE ILLS OF WoMEN.-Constipa-
ton causes more than half the ills OF
women. Karl's Glover Root Tea is a
pleasant cure for constipation. For
sale by w. E. Terrill & Co., Mont
pelier, VT.
MRS. GREEN: " don't see why you
should fear for the future of your coun-
try" Old Green: "You don't?" Mrs.
Green: "Our son John has pointed
splendid way out of the silver difficulty
in his graduation essay"
A FACT WORTH KNowING.-Con-
sumption, la grippe, pneumonia, and
all throat and lung diseases are cured
by Shiloh's Cure. For sale by w. E.
Terrill & Co., Montpelier, Vt.
She bought pretty parasol
or an enhancing shade;
But dared not take it in the sun
For fear that it would fade.
Washington Star.
DEACON JONES: 81 trust you always
observe the Sabbath" Stakeholder:
" Well, | used to; but of late years l
find it more entertaining to observe the
way other people observe the Sabbath
than to observe it myself"
POET Ito farme): 6" See what beau
tiful prospect is unfolded in yonder
billowy fields, and bark! the voice of
the ploughman" Farmer: eyes, he's
been cussing that mule since daylight,
and it's one of them German mules that
used to pull beer wagon so he can't
understand word O. it'
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
Current Weekly Comment.

POTATOES. - Receipts have been heavy
the past week-76,5 500 bushels-and prices
have been ruling lower.
BEANs.-Receipts continue LIBERAL, 974
barrels-and the market has been ruling a
little lower than last week
HAY AND STRAw.-Recepts, 270 cars hay,
IL cars straw. The market is about steady,
with the general demand.ruling slow
CoRN.-Receipts, 220, 29S bushels stock in
elevators, 57,760 bushels exports, 81 COG
bushels The market rules steady with
quiet demand noted
CHEEsE.-Receipts, 5,157 boxes. The re-
ceipts are steadily increasing and the mar
ket is now well supplied. The demand is
still moderate and for small lots.
elevators, 4,926 bushels exports 1927
bushels There is quiet tone to the mar
ket, with values ruling about steady.
EaGs.-Receipts have been fairly liberal
IL, 900 cases-and with the market well sub
piled with berries and other summer fruits
the demand for eggs is falling off some
what. Eastern extras arein limited supply
and steady.
UR.-Receipts, 201S3 barrels, II, 3o1
sacks; exports, ABA barrels, 1877 sacks
The market shows an entire absence Of
life and the volume of business is slow, with
buyers only operating as they are forced to
have supplies.
WooL.-The action of the st. Louis con-
vention on the financial question and the
nomination of Mckinley for president are
two occurrences that have strengthened the
situation. No higher prices are quoted, but
holders are more confident than ever that
the market has touched bottom, and when
the change is felt it is generally believed
that it will be for the better.
BUTTER. - Receipts, S5,7S2 tubs, 1910
boxes - 1881 1896 pounds; exports, S,76S
pounds Receipts are still heavy and the
indications point to continued heavy ar
rivals for some time to come. The demand
was rather quiet following our last report,
and the market shade easier in tone.
Extra northern creamery goes to regular
trade at about former prices. Northern
dairy rules steady but quiet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
A Farmers Victory.

Probably most readers of the WATCH
MAN have kept informed of the prog
ress of the filled cheese bill, and are re-
joicing at its passage. 1t is not only a
triumph for the farmers but a triumph
for right and justice. 1t is a signifi-
cant fact that the interests of the farm.
ers are the interests of justice and right
and truth. What agriculture needs to-
day is to have justice done, and right
dealing prevail. Farmers suffer more
from fraud than any other class. Oeo,
filled cheese, adulterated maple syrup,
shoddy, etc. are examples of the
weights farmers have to carry. The
farmers have won against cleo and
filed cheese, and we hope will be able
to win against the other frauds. But
it looks as though the democratic party
was the biggest fraud of all from which
the farmers suffer. We cannot recall a
single instance in which that party has
used its power and opportunities to
really help the farmers. The sugar
bounty is a case in point; free delivery
of mails in the country is another. For
years the democrats have howled about
the miseries of the farmers, and
boosted what they would do for them,
if elected to power, but they have not
touched farmers burden with one of
their fingers; instead they have piled
up the burdens of farmers until the
tillers of the soil are ready to perish.
The filed cheese bill is case in
point. 1t will be well to remember the
names of the thirteen senators who
voted against this righteous measure
and in favor of the bogus product.
They are Bate of Tennessee, Berry of
Arkansas, Chiffon of Texas, George of
Mississippi, German of Maryland, Har-
ris of Tennessee, Jones of Arkansas,
Lindsay of Kentucky, Mills of Texas,
Morgan of Ala bama, Pasco of Florida,
Vest of Missouri and White of Califor-
nia-all democrats. In the house the
opposition was wholly democratic. The
party by its best representatives up.
holds fraud. How any farmer can cast
his vote for such an organization
passes our comprehension. No Won
der the farmers of the South are going
over to the populists in such numbers.
Pt1t ha nf hru he
farmers that it is quite possible to de-
feat the powerful organizations with
their immense wealth which are rob-
bling the farmers. The agricultural
press took up the matter and urged
upon their readers the need of earnest
action. Boards of trade in many cities
gave great help. City people and bust
ness men are learning that it is the
worst possible policy to let fraud drive
farmers to the wall. Cheese is one of |
the best articles of food, Large quanti-
Ties should be exported, but no one
here or abroad wants to buy filed |
cheese, which is composition of skim
milk curd and soap grease, colored and
otherwise disguised so as to appear like
cheese. The following from
the american AgricuIturist gives briefly |
the scope of the bill:
THE DAIRY INTERESTS TRIUMPHANT. |
After much debate and imminent |
danger OF being smothered to death,
the filed cheese bill has passed the
senate in the same form in which it !
came from the house. Thirteen SEN
ators voted against it and thirty-seven
for it. For several days prior to its
tsEE FIFTH COLUMN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

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-
uounced 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 catarrh proven to be consti-
tutional disease, and it therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j.
Cheney e. 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 to
cure. Send for circulars and testimo-
mails. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Ca Sold by druggists at 70 cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
Facts About Fertilizers.

Bulletin tifty-two of the Vermont
Experiment Station contains some
figures which should set farmers to
thinking. A few weeks ago the WATCH
MAN suggested some reasons for the
failure of fertilizers; but it did not ex-
haust the reasons, as is evident by the
facts which are given in this bulletin.
On page twenty-seven the bulletin
says: Gone manufacturer offered this
spring in Vermont brand containing
0.75 per cent nitrogen, eight per cent
available phosphoric acid aAd one per
cent potash. Its average selling price at
several points was 1927 30. For 1920
more the same manufacturer offered a
brand containing three times as much
nitrogen and potash and the same
amount of phosphoric acid. In the
first brand fifty-eight cents worth of
fertility at seaboard prices were bought
for one dollar; in the second, eighty
cents worth. Yet more striking re-
suits may be obtained by comparing
the products of rival manufacturers,
extremes being forty-eight cents and
eighty-one cents worth bought for a
dollar" And then it goes on to state
plainly very obvious fact: at is very
doubtful whether, at the present prices
for farm produce, many farmers can
afford to pay from forty to ffty-two
cents out of every dollar invested in
fertilizers to the manufacturer, laborer,
railroad and dealer"
Facts like these should be impressed
upon the minds of the farmers of Ver-
mont. That they are facts cannot be
gainsayed. The business of farming is
now in such shape that only by the
wisest economy can farmers save them
selves from bankruptcy. The way that
the fertilizer business Is conducted is
simply ruinous to the farmers. And
the remedy is not far to seek. There
is nothing more mysterious about buy
ing chemicals and mixing them at
home than there is about buying two or
more kinds of cattle feeds and mixing
them to give the cows. A man who is
capable of buying bran, cottonseed
meal, and gluten meal or feed, and
making good ration with them and
his homegrown feeds for his COWS is
capable of buying muriate of potash,
acid phosphate, and nitrate of soda or
dried blood or tankage and mixing
them for his soil. 1t takes skill to feed
cows or soils, but skill is something
which can be gained. 1t is necessary
to study some, but not great deal to
do both in far more efficient way than
is done by most men. To make the
greatest saving requires considerable
study and thought, but to make a great
saving does not. Thousands of farm
ers write to the agricultural and dairy
papers for advice about feeding, and
formulas for balanced rations are
printed again and again. 1t is not
quite as easy for stranger to write a
formula for soil ration as for COW
ration, but if farmers will write to the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
FACT AND FANCY.
Far'well, Gentle Spring-Ah,

gen'win ol'-time saint is he
Who hez tn grace or knack
To sing OF Hund'ed 'thout break
When settln on tack
Them poets gush bout loves young dream"
In verses smooth an neat;
Guess they hain't never histed tacks,
Nor Brussels carpet beat.
Halleluyah yah-yahl
No longer now 'mong crooked tacks,
Soap, pail, brush broom, I roam;
once more wife smiles, an I've regained
Lost Paradise" sweet home"
LENvoI
Don't ledge tn sweetness of gal
In boomers on a bike;
Wait till she tackles cleanln' house."
Then tell us how you like.
e. Bradshaw in Boston Transcript
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

BUCKLEN's ARNIcA SALvE.-The best salve
in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers,
salt rheum, fever sores, letter, chapped
hands, chilblains, COINS and all skin erup-
tions, and positively cures piles, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give satisfac-
ton, or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. For sale by @. Blakely,
Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24
RETAIL DEALERS, PR1cEs.
Boston Produce Market.

R-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for cholesale os mot ob6ns
prices unless otherwise Indicated and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-24

PURE, rich blood is the true cure for
nervousness, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the One True Blood Purifier and nerve
tonic.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-23
MAY BE PROSECUTED.
A Democratic Editor Who is Likely
to fleet Trouble.

We learn that the Democratic edi-
tor who recently sent out letters to
different candidates On the two
county tickets soliciting 500 and a
years subscription as the price of his
support during the campaign is to be
prosecuted after election. The
United States post Office officials are
after him, so we are informed, on the
charge of using the mails to solicit
brides or levy blackmail. 1t was the
intention to prosecute him at once,
but the officials thought it better
policy to wait until after election, in
order that no political capital might
be made out of the prosecution.
The editor has placed the entire Dem
ocrdtic ticket at the head Of his col
lumns and announces, since the mat
ter has been stirred up, that he will
support the ticket without pay. This
is hardly likely to deter the United
States officials from the action they
have determined upon. Besides the
contemplated prosecution, he will
also probably lose the federal office
which he holds.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1896-10-23

AS USUAL, the ReUieaU feels very
badly that the FREE PRESS got SCOOP
on lit by publishing in it's daily and
weekly editions the official state and
county election ballots Well, it is
too bad; but inasmuch as the law re-
quires the publication of these bal
lots at least two weeks previous to
the day of election, and the further
fact that the Reuieao did not comply
with the law, makes il impossible for
that paper to get pay-if the provis-
ions of the law are technically applied
The county commissioners at the Jan
uary, 1896, session did designate the
Revieao the official paper of the county
for the current year, but with equal
force and binding effect it passed a
resolution authorizing the publication
Of all legal matters in the FREE PRESS
at the same pay as that granted the
ReUieao. When the time comes for set
thing this bill the county commission
ers, and not Auditor Gunders will de-