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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
SMALL STOCK FARMS.
These Pay When Located Near a City or
Thriving Village.

In the changed conditions and meth.
J DDS Of eastern farming which the com
petition Of western cheap products has
caused there has been too little attention
gwen to me keeping and breeding of
stock. Excepting the keeping Ct COWS
mix rear cities and villages there Is
/ probably less stock kept in any Of Ire
/ ca, ern states than 20. 80 or more years
a2u
II is generally believed that stoe..
! farms must be large. This is "a relic Of
/ the old idea that stock can most protita
bly, be kept on pasture and hay and On
very cheap land This is no longer true
/ Corn and the fodder it produces, wheth-
/ er used as ensllage or in the dry state,
are cheaper as compared with their ef-
/ fectiveness than pasture or hay can be
+ except on land that costs nothing, says
/ American Gult1yator This authority
/ claims that stock farming can be dana
! here without much if any larger eXpen
diture Of capital than at the vest 1t
says:
The chief advantage which the east
ern stock farmer has is that his land is
where it will pay more to improve 1t
than is the land Of most western farm
ers. For the same reason il does not pay
even in the eastern states to buy the
cheapest land, cheap only because far
removed from markets, on which To
keep stock. 1t is true the stock itself
may be marketed without much extra
cost wherever located. But the increase
of sol fertility is worth far more near
city or growing village than il can BE
farther off.
Most stock breeders cralnp themselves
by purchasing too large farms on which
to operate If the stock is first class, ii
will pay to buy large part of the grain
with which to feed it, This is most true
where the stock farm is so located that
its increase of fertility will be worth
most. By growing large amount of
coarse fodder ut home and purchasing
grain to feed with it "a large amount of
manure is made every year and soil
fertility will increase rapidly. This can
of course be done anywhere, but at a
distance from market the improvement
in the land will not be worth so much
ana tne FARMER gains Will Do proper
tionately less.
So instead Of the eastern farmer think
ing himself deharred from stock keeping
and breeding because his farm is small
he should consider that rather an advan-
tage. What be needs most is better stock.
When he gets that, if he is near good
market, the after results will be surely
satisfactory. We have known many
farmers who began by purchasing few
acres close 80 some city and beginning
the milk business. After very few
years their land became too valuable to
produce the feed for their cows, and they
bought nearly everything they fed, at
the same time using their rich soil to
produce market garden crops or fruits.
In fact, the keeping of good deal of
stock is a necessary preliminary to sue
cessful market gardening, though both
kinds Of business are much too exacting
to be conducted by the same person at
once.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
A Contrast.

"There will be no dishwashing in
heavn, am thankful to say, exclaimed a
weary farmers wife, as she put away the
last plate after long day of toll, only tc
take up the burden again with the rising Of
the sun.
II really don't know what to do with my
time" remarked lady of fashion, who
was blessed with no special fad or fancy
al get through the morning somehow, by
rising late, writing my notes, and taking a
constitutional; but, positively, don't
know half the time where to tell the
coachman to drive to in the afternoons. =
Which of these women has the best oft
Must we perforce be content with the
only solutionthat is given us; shall the
clay say to Him that fashioned it, what
makes thou ?'-Ne70 Potk 1ti6Hne.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
A Point About Potatoes

In a bulletin issued by Prof Snyder, OF
the Minnesota State Agricultural Collage,
he makes point of int rest to the house.
wife. He shows that where potatoes are
peeled and started boiling in cold water
II ere is loss of SO per cent of the total
albumen, and where they are not pealed
and are started in hot water this loss is
reduced to per cent. A bushel of
potatoes, weighing 90 poonds, contains
about , pounds of total heterogeneous
compound. When improperly cooked
one-half of pound is lost, containing six
tenths of a pound of the most valuable
proteins 1t requires all of the protein
from nearly pounds of round beef steak
to replace the loss of protein from inn
properly boiling bushel of potatoes.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
The Boy MARTYR.

| Hezekiah Butterworth tells US in The
! Patriotic Schoolmastern that the first
person to fall in the Revolutionary War
was a boy.
There were few merchants in Boston
who continued to sell taxed articles they
came 10 be despised and hated. The
boys, in their hasty patriotism, made on
placard list of the names of those who
imported and sold prescribed articles, and
put it on pole that bore wooden head
and hand. They set this image up before
an importers door, with the wooden hand
pointing towards it. and this made
the importer angry, and he fired musket
into the crowd of boys. Christopher
Gore, afterward governor Of Massachu.
etts, was slightly wounded
Little Christopher Snyder, boy whose
mother was a widow, and who had
followed the spirit of the times. fell.
mortally wounded. They took up his
form and bore it away, and the whole city
wept. Never in America was there
boys funeral like his They made for him
a patriots coffin and bore his form to the
Liberty Tree, which stood near the
present corner of Washington and Essex
streets. On the coffin was the motto
Innocence itself is not safe The boys
Of nearly all the schools, some six hundred
in number gathered around the body as
an escort. The bells tolled, business was
closed, and some fifteen hundred people
followed the body of the first martyr to
the cause of American liberty to the grave.
AS the procession marched, not only
the bells of Boston, but those OF the
neighboring towns were heard tolling.
1t was almost spring and there was
mellowness in the air. That procession
was a prophecy of events to come, a
protest against the injustice of the royal
power. The sons of liberty should re-
member little Snyder's grave.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06

The very best best food for winter is
pure white honey. That seems to obtain
the least ndgesiible matter. Next to this
comes pure honey of darker shade. Il
artificial food be necessary do not skimp
them to avoid feeding use pure graduated
sugar syrup. This is best at any time
but so much of successful wintering
depends upon good food that one should be
espec tally particular IN t1e fall feeding.
One may at times have other material
quite as unobjectionable as this. but where
one is in doubt, the advice of an
experienced apiarist should be sought
before using it.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06

The American Agricultrist' review
of the fertilizer markets for the past
year shows that nitrogen in all forms
has ruled considerably lower, that pot
ash salts have been somewhat cheaper
and that there has been no great change
III the cost of available phosphorus aci3
Indications now point to cheaper phes-
pilates and potash salts for the coming
year with a stiff advance in organic Ii
trogen, especially i'll the form Of cotton
seed meal
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
Threw Away His Canes.

MIR. ID. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black
Creek, n. Y, was so badly afflicted with
rheumatism that he was only able to
hobble around with canes, and even then
it caused him great pain. After using
Chambe .lains Pain Balm he was so
much improved that he threw away his
canes. He says this liniment did him
more good than all other medicines and
treatment put together, For sale at so
cents per bottle by Bixby & Buck,
Druggists.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
DEAD RIVER LOG DRIVING CO

The members OF the Dead River Log Driving
Company are her, by notf d that the annual
M oti- OF the Ct mpany will b. held in Grand
Army Han, Augusta, Monday the 18th day OF
Febreafy next a. o'clock in lhe AFTERNOON
for the following purposes viz
lst. TO choose moderator
2ud, TO hear h. report of the treasure, aud
take such action rs may be thought proper,
Sd. to choose officers ter the ensuing year.
4th. to vote money to defray the ext ense Of
diving logs aud other nee, ssary bills
5th to act upon any o, hel business that may
1t gally come before them.
akowh gan, Me Jan. so, 1886 3w5
5 w. PHfLBRICK, Clerk.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06

If you can raise the average yield per
COW, only 100 quarts per year for the next
ten years, you will be we'll on the way to
success as a milk farmer. The way to do
it without expense is to breed the best
cows to bull of milk producing pedigree,
raise the best heifer calves and sell off a
few of the poorest cows each year.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06

The ambition of the boy or man who
finds JOY in plants, flowers and animals.
is on higher plane, asserts DIR. David
Woodwork, than that of the one who
goes forth to shoot deer or hunt ducks.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06

There is no excuse for poor bill of fare
at the farm table. The farmer is the only
person who can secure the most whole
some and delicious food at cost, and with
so little expenditure of cash. With plenty
of good, fresh fru t, vegetables, cream,
meat and poultry to be had by digging for
it the farmer can eat better food with a
better appetite than the millionaire.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
Cousumption Canbe Cured

by the use of Shilohs Cure. This
great Cough Cure is the only known
remedy for that terrible disease. Geo.
@. Sampson, Corner Druggist
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
pil1s Do Not Cure.

Pills do not cure Constipation. They
only aggravate. karls Glover Root
Tea gives perfect regularity of the bow
els. Geo +. sampson, Corner Druggist
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
nd, Lewiston, Waterville
z hapan and RAnRnr
From Boston, Portland. Lewiston, Augusta
Afnrvllin EknMhnCan and RAnRor

SE*Flag stations; at which trains will stoI
on signal or notice to Conductor
MIXED between Bingham and No. Arson.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Norridgewock, for Mere r, land Electric
Cars to and from Skowhegan.) At Arson. for
Sawyer's Mills, (Starks):
No. Arson, for North and West New Portland
Dead River Flagstaff and Eustis. At Bingham
for Forks, Moose River, Mayfeld, Kingsoury
and Abbott.
W. M. AVER SUIT.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
A Great German,s Prescription

Diseased blood, constipation, and kid
ney, liver and bowel troubles are cured
by karl's Clover Root Tea. For sale by
Geo. +. Sampson, Corner Druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
The City Trust, Safe Deposit and
Surety Co of Phila Pa,

Inc rporated and Commenced Business In 1896.
CIAS. NJ SWAIN, Pres. JAS. f. LYND, Sccy.
Capital paid MP IN cash s5CO000OO
ASSETS. DECEMBER 81. 1895.
Rea estate untn' numbered, 81 pa 81
Loans bond aud mortgage first hsnsl, gi 900 90
Stocks and bonds market value, 23l .68l 10
Loans secured by cOllatHras ,2N J6
Cash In office and in bank. 252 81 & %
Interest due and accrued, l6.B46 NJ
Premiums in due course OF collection, Is, l32 "a
INSTALLATIONS assets, 9,to5 86
Aggregate of all the admitted assets If the
Company at their actual value, 2,204,5l0 u
LIABILITIES, DECEMBER 81, 1895.
Mt amount Of unpaid losses and claims, 1852 30
Due depostors, 295.n2
Amount required to safely re.iasure all
outstanding risks, 1891 a
II other demands, viz: coms ssons, etc | 400 NJ
Total liabilities, except capital stock and
net surplus, 52l 1893 10
Capital actually paid up in cash, 500 600 90
surplus beyond capital, Bl,5O 81
Aggregate ar,ount of liabilities Including
ret surplus, 22O4 ,5o q
- DINSMORE & BICKFORD,
3w5 Skowhegan, Agents.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
Nerves on Edge,

was nervous, ired, irritable and
cross. karl's Clover Root Tea has made
me well and happy. MRS. +. u. WOR-
DEN. For sale by Geo. h. sampson,
Corner Druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06

is Shiloh's Cure. \ neglected cough
is dangerous. Step it at once with
Shiloh's Cure. For sale by Geo. +.
Sampson, Corner Druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
A Bal,y's Life Saved,

"Mv baby had Group and was saved
by Shiloh's Cure" writes Mrs. J. b
Martin, of Huntsville, Ala. For sale by
Geo. +. Sampson, Corner Druggist.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
Notice of Petition for Discharge

SOMERSET COUNTY CouRT OF INSOLVENCY.
In the case OF Prescott A. cleveland of Skow
hi gan, lhsovent Debtor, Notice is hereby
giyei that said De btor has filed in said Court for
sale County of Somerset his petition for dis
charge from all his debts provahle under the
insolvent Law of said State of Maine. and for
ceTt ticate thereof and that "A hearing upon the
same will be held at the Probate Court Room
in Skowhegan, in said County OF Somerset OF
Tuesday, the nth dav of February. A D., 1895
at one o'clock in the afternoon when. and
where all persons interested may attend and
show cause, If any they have. why the prayer
of said petition should not be granted.
Attest; NATHAN FOWLER,
Register OF said Court for said County OF
Somerset 2w4
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-02-06
For Over Fifty Years

MRS WiNsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP has been
used for over fifty years by millions OF moth
ers for their children while teething, with
perfect success. 1t soothes the child, softens
the gums, allays all paiu, cures wind collie,
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. 1t will
relieve the poor little sufferer Immediately
Sold by Druggists in every part of the world.
Twenty five cents II bottle. BE sure and ask
for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup" and
take no other kind. ly3S
Reprooi shonld not exhaust its nnwers on
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-05-21
Women Are Advancing.

Speaking Of woman in the professions, a
writer In Tho CongreRationalist says:
The advance in medicine may BIO gaugcd
by few salient facts. When Harriet Hos
mer, "a sculptor OF whom Massachusetts Is
justly proud, wished to study anatomy, she
knocked in vain ut the doors OF medical
colleges in New England and New York
Crossing the Mississippi, she went to Dr.
Mcdowell, dean Of the medical college in
St. Louis, who said to her, with true
southern chiyn!ry, You shall study anat
omy In my college, and il anybody inter
fcrcs with you he viii interfere with me
first. Agt in her own state, not long after,
tho first medical school in tho world for
women was opened. This WAS in Boston.
Nov. !, ISIS, with IL students. In the
same city today are two hospitals, the New
England Hospital For Women and Chill
dren and the Vincent Memorial hospital
which were started and arc managed by
women -
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-05-21
hrlor Amusemsnts,

pleasant variation In an evening OF
games Is tho drawing Of flowers with col
ored srayons and then having your guests
euess the names of the flowers. A list Of
mowers should be made out, each one with
ahumoor. On separate slips Of paper write
the name OF ono OF the flowers with its
corresponding number until Won have
used each one on the list. Give each guest
ono of tho slips, or have draw for them,
Aud pfo' .us ...... with era, o..s ..uJ shoots
OF paper. Give 10 minutes for the making
OF the flowers, then collect tho drawings
and PIN them up about the room. As the
names OF the flowers are read from the list
2uesses are given as to which 1owef
among the drawings represents 1t.
Another pleasant game is called match
Ing quotations. Well known lines are
written on slips of paper and then divided
into bits, each part having three or four
words These fragments are pinned about
the room on furniture, curtains and hang.
ings and each person takes one and starts
out to find the other parts that will make
tho quotation complete. Sometimes the
quotations may consist of an entire line
with tho second limo forming the other
half to be looked for.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-05-21

Whilcit is true that variety Is the spice
OF life" the best Judgment OF careful stu
dents is in the line of simplicity IN the
matter OF food. Have an adequate supply,
have it thoroughly and intelligently cook
ed, but let it be plain, simple, dIgestible.
In this direction a western health journal
pertinently If not very elegantly re-
marks: "Never have great variety at one
meal, but make the variety from one meal
to the next. Did you ever stop TO think
what conglomerated mass your stomach
contained after eating u great variety at
ono meal? If not, just imagine what you
have eaten and drunk mixed up in u bowl
and then ask yourself the question whether
1t is any wonder that people have dyspep-
eli -
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-05-21

by the death OF Mr.. James Mclleu, the senior
member OF the firm OF Curtis Davis II Co, the
co partnership existing between him and his
son, Mr., Edwin Il. Mellen wa terminated. ON
May !, Mr.. Edwin ID, Mellen formed a new Co
partnership with Mir. Stluan +. Kelly, the
weltknown mola-sc- mcrchau, Of Boston, for
the purpose Of continuing the business in all it.
branches
circular issued by the above gentlemen
under date of May J. state that all debts to.
and those due iy the g'I lra Viii be settled
with ana by them.
Thus the time hou1red u.ue aud business
Of Curtis ha't- y Go. wiz Do, i,rretaatod. and
the same honorable dratr- aEd -tahit. of
principles viii chaact,rls- BE- 4- u tie ra-t
that integrity ami outerprj-r Vl4ch have o-tah.
she'd its position the Faaa.t- aHI most =I.e
re--iul -eap HauumclurWt fsi. ia NV ing
land, and H.'e ..- t,aIl.. uuc. "W,ic.p.e
y Gap, tHe standard nuHary -u4p OF New, tnr
laul.-4drf
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-05-21
Magazine and Book Notes.

An illustrated article on the George
Junior Republic" little common
wealth OF city boys and girls vino are
learning to govern themselves on farm
near Freeyille, y. Y. will be given IN
Hdrper'S Weekly for May %. The same
number Will contain an illustrated art icle
10y Arthur Warren on Barney Barnato,
the katiir king; and an important art
feature will be the paper on Puvis de
Chavannes's new decorated panels for he
Boston public library.
The frct that the republican convention
Is to be held in St Louis in June directs
Special attt ntion to that city and will
make particularly timely the article ON
Tie city government of St. Louis which
DR.. Albert Shaw, the author OF "Munici-
pal Government in Great Britain, etc,
has contributed to the June Centuru 1t
i one of several articles which Dir. Shaw
is writing for this ma"az ne on the
government of American cities. The
same number viii contain an article by
Joseph b. Bishop on "Humor and Pathos
OF Presidential Conventions"
The '-lAneoln paper IN McCiure'S
Maya inc for June will describe Lincoln
in his familiar, every day relations with
his family, friends, and neighhors, at the
time of. his return to Springfield after
serving. a term i'll Congress. 1t viii
contain number of new facts and anec-
dotes, and will present Lincoln IN one of
his most attractive aspects. The paper
Will Toe fully illustrated, An entirely new
near View Of Grant viii he given i'll the
same number in Il paper written by the
mpn who was chaplain OF the 21st Illinois
When Grant vas Solonel of the regiment,
aud who lived, during that time, in the
closest intimacy with him. 1t reports
interesting conversations with Grant,
and relates number of characteristic
anecdotes.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-05-21
DIVIDENDS ARE DERIVED

tirst-from the sale of iots, the entire pro-
gneeds, les the small running expenses Of the
Land Office, going to stockholders.
Second-Building of houses.
Ihlrd-1rahsp OrtatiOn revenues.
Fourth Hotel and amusement privileges.
etc, etc.
The difference between the cost If Ire land.
the cost of buildings ETC., and tic ice at
which the same is sold, after eyann-t9 are
paid, goes TO the payment. of Dividends. The
laud Owned by the Company co-t Ii tecSlald-
cr7 cent per square foot. and if nov ellis f0r
an average of Il CkNTs PER SQUARE FOOT
A. a seaside resort Petit ManaH j. ,,g-t-u..l t.
which was sold in ls72 for $40 per acre ha- re
Gently been sold for s2l4Oto PER ACRE.
From no point in the most thichy settled rart
of Bar llarbor can a view ii .ny Atlantic
ocean be obtained. Bar Iiarhnr Aa- no satr
anchorage for Yachts, and the water Is too cold
for bathing. Petit Marian, On TIE other iuAd, Is
directly on THE OCEAN, wh,1c IL ~, : and
coves afford safe harbor for craft asid 1t has
bathing pool ten acres in cEt,ht, OF naturally
warmed sea water, the only me 81. tl4 Atlantic
Coast.
\ deer park in area nearly as large a Central
Park, New lOrk, stocked with several huGsreG
deer. Norway grouse, hares, partria ~ ~
other feature of Petit Manan, enjoy ri Us no
other seaside property and insars- it, arHlat
ity in autumn as well as in Summer. \ & sun
mcr resort Petit Manan for The first zine VIII
81 IN -'GNE OF this year. GNGH Nteeu
miIJ # ro,s : are completed, atTar r. ~ Y
Ce.leD drives over a country with au elevation
OF nearly TWO hundred feet above the -ca 4eNei,
a continuous view OF thu 0c"ta. groves OF
spruce, pine, birch, maple ;nd uutajn
ash bays, Coves and stretches of Ner are amt
rock formations, which in magnitude and
uuiqueness of shape are uneNc-t.,4 Ill.,. B, 81, re
on the Maine Coast. Petit Nanau'a fist 7f..-ui.
Will open with upward OF sixty hut1As- con
structcd including hotel and clubi a-e. Ilc
Company constructs houses atit In advance
over cost and viii sell lots WIKI hau=t- dis rom
$1,000 upward to any pric" desired, and viii
send on application skCtChea Of to...- g.. ig.
iugin price from $1,000 to $35 Hlg. pa t,H- ny