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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
GRAND CIRCUIT TROTS.
ayERAGE TIME BEST SINCE HAR-
MSS RACING BEGIN As SPORf.
srL xyoodnut Fell and with His Driver
Was Run over by Red Oak-a Ini-
yersai Favorite Defeated.

COLUMBUS. o.. August zine IN
usually hot weather brought generally
fast time at the Columbus DrivinsS PARK
races to-day. but no records were broken.
The weather was excellent, and the Track
fast. The average time OF the day 5 races
is probably the best ever made IN one
day since harness racing began US
sport. Tho attendance was very large
In the nrst heat OF the 80 pace SiiH
Woodruff fell and was run over ~ hV'
Oak. who was just behind Neither OF the
horses nor their drivers were baby hutt
silk Woodruff was d.stanced, but the othef
WAS allowed TO remain IN the race.
A FAVORITE's DEFEAT.
The defeat OF ClaywOrth, in the -'O1
trot was "a surprise. the horse being UNI
yerssi favorlte. and won but Oh" neat
So also with Wilmarch, who was gen
oral favoritc Ia the 2.l5 trot. but never
got better than nth place. Fred Is. won
me. first heat, but Newcastle had II easy
after that. 1t was the biz day Oh the
season. ice Patchen. Rubenstein' ana
Robert J. goirg in tho free-for-al pace
TIC following are tho summaries
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
RAITINORE 10: NEW YORK. 4.

BALTIMORE. Aug. 5.-Esper was in
fine fettlc to-day. and was given fine
support Clarke was hatted almost AT
will by the Champions and his support
was bad. Attendance. 1900.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
BROOKLYN. &: PHILADELPHIA. 8.

BROOKLYN. n. Y. Aug. 5.-Ihe Brook
lyns won to-days game in the third IN
ming. scoring six runs on four singles
Corcorans home rum, Cooley's muff and
Cross high throw to the plate keener
was hit hard and was poorly supported.
Payne was in good form until the ninth,
when errors by Lachane and Corcoran
brought in three runs. Score.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06

Lee Lodge. No. ~. knights OF Honor.
VIII ia future hold IT meetings IN
Smiths annex han. No 3li north fiIth
street. on the second and fourth satur-
DAYS I'm each month.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
Totals
NEW YORK.

summary: Earned runs-BaIumoTe' .,
New York. 4. Bases by errors-Balti-
more g. New York l. Left on bases
Baltimore. 5: New York, Bases on
balls-Esper. 2; Clarke ]; Gettinger, l.
Struck out-Clarke. l. Home run-Con-
naughton. Three-base hits-Keeler. Two
base hits--CJeaSon. Sacrifice hits-Ul-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
Totals. ............,
WASHINGTON.

Summary: Earned runs Washington
8: Boston. ,. Home runs - Bergen
O'Brien. Two-baso hits-llamilton, LUSH.
Sacrifice hits - Tenney, DemontreNille.
Base On balls-Sulivan 2, Mercer, /.
Base on crrors-Boston, J: Washington, /.
Struck ont - BY Mercer, &. Umpire.
Lynch. Time Of game, one hour ana
forty-one minutes.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06

That's the time when the
clothes are brushed thor
oughly-when you suddenly
discover that the SUIT really
looks shabby.
What satisfaction it is to
4 man to step out in a brand
new Suit-correct IN make,
fit and style, made OF good,
honest MATERIAL Suit that
will last and look well.
That's the kind we are
selling now at about
rA< m tho Nnftor
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
PITTSRIRG.

summary: Earned runs-Louisylle. !;
Pittsburg. :. Base on errors-Ilousville. ..
Pittsburg l. Left on bases-Louisville II:
Pittsburc, O. Base on balls-Holmes. g..
Hermann. !. Hughey. 3. Hastings. >.
Struck out-Holmes. l. Hastings J. Three
base hus-Stenzel Two-base hits-Mc-
Creary Mcfarland. Stencil. Hastings.
Donovan Sacrifice hit-Ely. Stolen bases
Dexter. Mcfarland. Cassidy. Holmes. 2
Donovan. Stencil. 3; Smith. Davis. Double
rlay -Clingman. Rogers. and Cassidy.
wild pitch-Herman. /: Hastings. l. I'M
prc. McFarley. Time. two hours and NIFTY
minutes.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06

SufnWdTN. LdTUDU -KIcUmOnI. j.
Lynchburg. ?. Two-basc hits-Foster.
Mari. Little. Grove Three base hits
Boland Home runs-Grovc. Stolen bases
-Sholta (9, Mari Pendcr 90. Sanford
90. Tannchin Stocksdale. Pickering. Lea
by Dolan 60. Double plays-Iittle TO
Fear. Bases on halls-off Stocksdalc. L.:
off Boylan. I. Struck out-by Stocks
dale 8: by Boylan, g. wild pitches
Stocksdalc Time OF game. one hour
aud thirty-nvo minutes. Umpire. Nc
Namara
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
VISITORS WIN THE LAST.
PLATED BEGTER ALI-ROUND Ball
THIN the HUsTLERs.
Tho Contest Was I'm Doubt Until the Ninth
Jnning-PetersburgD Defeated hoan-
oke--Ball Notes.
Games Yesterday.
Standing Of the Clubs

Lynchburc. 6: Richmond, ..
Norfolk. .. Portsmouth. "
Petersburg. 8. Roanoke, =.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06
In the ninth inning Tannehil batted for
Kahn. making one run
LYNCHIsIRG.

Totals .......... 80 II 0 '27 lS 3
zone man out when winning run was
made.
Score by innings. II
Richmond ..... .......... O21O1-5
Lynchburg ...... ........ o o o. 003 l-6
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-06

Games won and lost by each CLUB 10
each other club:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
SHORT LUMBER.
SPRUCE.
Live Stock Market.

FAT HoGs.-western fat swine, live, 3kd3ac;
Northern dressed hogs, 4kc per h.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-In lots, 81 .5062G25n each ex :
ira, S275935O, from l1d3sc per ID; lambs S@iHc.
MARKET BEEB.-A few choice, s6lDT.00; extra.
s55Od675; first quality. S55v95.75; second quality,
S4d45O; third quality, a3d3.5O.
VEAL CALvEs.-Not active. The few that were
offered sold as last week j. s. Henry sold "a head
of 1880 h. at Sc u b. A. A. Pond sold at SIC " ib.
STORE CATTLE-working oxen, per pair. from
S60@l4O; farrow cows slU992; fancy cows, S50D70 (;
mich cows and calves, S2O9iS; yearlings s89l6i
two'years old, SIEGE; three years old S2Oq32
HIDES, TALLOw AND SKINS. = Brighton hides;
4b@5hc per ID; tallow, 3dic per ID; COUNTRY hides,
31sdl1ac per h; tallow, lb92c per o; wool pets /,
Ssq55ci calf skins, 6OcGSisG; lamb skins, none !;
dairy skins, 3jd40c.
CATTLE-Live stock was light in supply not only
from the North but the West. The movement in
cattle showed a steadiness in values and the bust
ness was light for home trade and export. J. A.
Hathaway sold Is head. average 1900 10, at &C. live
weight j. Golden sold head, average 1900 h. at &c.
live weight w. II. Wallace 2head of 300 ID at SIC.
SHEEP Over 5000 head from the West, of which
9OOu were In hands of exporters. Home butchers
well supplied and prices rule steady j. Golden sold
lambs at &c f} h. and sheep at &c; A A. Pond sold
26 sheep Of 2t3O ID at PIC u nj H. A. Wilcox sold 40
sheep of $50 h. at &c and lO2 sheep and lambs Of
$500 ID at SIC % ID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01

and resolutions, analvze the state ex
penditures, and, before the next po.it-
ical canvass opens, present to the pee
pie a statement of retreDchments which,
in their judgment, are wise and pos
sible without injury to the cubic in
situations and the proper sdministra'
ton of the affairs of the state govern
ment." The purpose is good one,
but particulars are needed. II will be
Gas tinkling cymbals and sounding
brass" unless the Grange committee
goes early and systematically about its
sccomplishment-unless lis members
fortify themselves with knowledge,
have at their command the essential
facts of their case, and begin earnestly
and in season to present them and i'm
press them upon the people and upon
candidates for office. Upon this COM
mittee are Hon. G. j. Bell, the state
master, who is now senator from
Caledonia county and has been MEM
Der of the house of representatives, and
G. F. Smith of Morrisville, repre-
sentative in the present legislature from
Morristown, and one of the leading
members at the sessi IN Of 1894. So the
committee embodies the men and the
experience to 90 to the bottom of the
matter of the investigation of state ex-
penditures and to carry out inteli-
gently and efficiently, in season and in
q practical way, the purpose of Mr..
Messer's resolution.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
Current Weekly Comment.

EGGs.-Receipts have been fairly liberal
and demand slack with prices tending
downward.
RN-Receipts, 1915 bushels There
is yet slow demand ruling with prices
quoted about the same.
BUTTER.-Receipts, 500, 1852 pounds. The
demand has been light the past week and
the tendency to lower prices. Low grades
are very dull
OATs.-Receipts, 1891 bushels. The mar
ket is quiet, with the demand yet of a
hand-to mouth character. Unclipped oats
are in small supply.
HAY AND STRAw.-There is moderate
demand for hay. Choice lots are in light
supply, however, and hold steady in prices.
Rye straw is quiet, but the market is steady
for choice. Dat straw is dull and nominal.
CHEESE. - Receipts, IA, 2O3 boxes. The
market remains very quiet and without ma
terial change. De nand is Tor small lots
only. Prices about as quoted, but some of
the finest September and October lots are
held higher.
FLoUR.-There has been no improvement
in the tone of trade the past week. Buyers
were not disposed to carry over into the
new year any larger supplies than possible.
Winter wheats are yet held high. Low
grade flours are yet dull and nominal.
LUMBER.-The end of the year is always
marked by lack of business in the market.
Inc mills mat snip Dy cargo note a lull IN
the market, which is, however, to be looked
for at just this time. They expect to do
something later Short lum Der is dull. The
falling off in the demand for boards has
been followed by an easing in price.
WooL.-Sales for the week, 4,5650
pounds. The last week of the wool year,
says the Commercial Bulletin, is worthy of
its predecessors. This year has seen the
heaviest imports known, the largest sales
known in Boston, the lowest prices on
record and the most feverish speculation.
1t closes with proposed change in the tariff
formulated almost within twenty four hours,
and a wild condition Of nervousness and
unrest The week has been dull one and
sales are small.
PoULTRY.-The receipts for the past two
weeks have been 40, 100 packages against
"a AIS packages for the same time last year.
The market has been heavily overstocked
with turkeys. chickens and fowls, and while
there was the usual demand for Christmas,
| it was impossible to find buyers for such
unusually large arrivals, and nearly third
of the receipts went into cold storage.
Choice northern turkeys and chickens were
in moderate supply, but hard to sell at the
usual advance over western.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
Knowing What You Are About.

Do yen keep dairy record and know
what each COW is doing for you? You
should know exactly how much milk
each cow produces in year, and if you
are making butter, you should find out
how much butter fat each cows milk
contains. We keep record of every
one, and have now reached and passed
the point where the poorest mature
cow must give 5000 pounds of milk in
year in order to have us board, milk
and take care of her, and we are in
hopes to reach the 1000 pound mark
this year. Remember this is not the
average for the herd, as each COW
must stand or fall OF her own produc
ton. We do not limit them any further,
and each Que may give as much more
as she feels disposed. We produce all
the food for the COWS upon the farm
except the bran. We think it pays TO
buy this to make nearer balanced ra-
ton, and it costs us about IS per year
for each cow. We pasture very little,
and run winter darying almost exclu-
siyely. If we should reach the 1000.
pound mark for the poorest cow, would
we be satisfied? Indeed we would not,
for we believe it is our duty to make
use of the ways and means that are
given to each one of us to improve any
line of legitimate business in which we
may be engaged. We have no blooded
stock, but the whole herd consists of a
few grades, backed up by the so-called
barnyard stock" and we have raised
nearly every cow on the place. Now
do not think for one moment that we
are opposed to blooded stock, for we
are not. We think our main hold in
climbing higher on the dairy ladder
will be in this line, and we have sim
ply told you what our own herd con.
sisted Of, and what it was doing, to
more fully impress it upon your minds
that " what, how and when to feed" is
the foundation of the dairy business. -
M. E. Parmallee, in Practical Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
AGRICULTURAL.
A TwO.Sided Question,

Commenting on recent remark in
an exchange that districts given up to
milk-sbipping show gradual reduction
of the farm and in the quality of men
engaged in farming, Professor SAnborn
says: /" We do not affirm or deny the
accuracy of the conclusions, and only
invite attention to the thought in it's
abstract bearing. lis true as general
proposition that men who use only their
duller faculties, and those inefficiently,
find that, like an unnourished plant or
like unexercised parts of their body,
they dry up and sbrivel, and the indi-
vidual becomes the little, lean, lank,
knurly and often sour specimen of
humanity whose visions are like the re-
versed telescope. Nature has no place
for such men. Society and the civil
world have no more place for such men
than nature has for stunted and over
Swallowed underground. Many of them
get on the farm and there simply vege-
tate, and, to an uncritical world, too Of
ten pass as a standard for measurement
of agricultural intelligence and aspira-
tiOnsD
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
The State Grange.

The report of Secretary Howe at the
recent annual meeting of the State
Grange showed that the increase in
membership during the year had been
about 1000, and that eight new sub
ordinate oranges had been formed--a
striking tribute to the fruitfulness of
the labors of the former master, Mr..
Messer, and the skill of the new master
aud his colaborers in outstanding the
fruit. In his first annual address,
State Master Bell referred to the growth
of the order in the state, the new in
terest and enthusiasm manifested, the
meetings held, and the consequent adj
dition to the sum of intelligence in the
citizenship and in rational social en-
joymeut. The time has come, he said
ito make the Order a power in the
land for all that is progressive, loyal
and Anne rican." We want to see the
Grange show that this is not idle decla-
NATION by carrying out in practical
effective way the important resolution
the Order adopted at the instance of
ex.State Master Messef. The new
master has made popular and eff
ficient administrator during the first
year of his term of office.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
Use Good Dairy Salt.

In our own experience, in acting as
Judge of butter at fairs, we have re.
peatedly found samples OF really we'll
made butter absolutely spoiled by the
use of poor salt. The owner had
thought to save two or three cents and
wasted ten times as much. In the
Practical Farmer, B. r. Stouffer tells
somewhat of a similar story, and one,
too, that contains lesson worth re-
Numbering. He says: "The writer
has superintended the dairy exhibit of
the Nebraska Dairymen's Association
for some years, and my experience
may be of some benefit to those people
who think salt is salt. On one occa-
sion Judge while examining butter
said: This is not sailed with dairy
salt / asked: What is it sailed
with2' He replied: With salt from
those small packages put up for family
USE The butter was scored off some
points in consequences. Upon inquiry
l found that the Judge was correct.
This occurred several times and the
facts were the same in each case. AT
the dairy exhibit of the Nebraska state
fair in 1895 one of the expert judges
told me that one of the exhibitors, an
extensive creamery company, used a
western salt, as he could detect it in
the taste of the butter, and the keeping
quality was injured by its use. This
corroborates one of the first mentioned
cases, as the salt used was the same in
both cases. When butter goes on the
general market it is subject to this ex.
pert judgment, and you suffer by using
cheap salt, and help build up the oleo
trade. AT the Worlds Fair in Chicago
J the judges of butter claimed that the
Canadian butter had fishy taste.
Their dairy commissioner hunted This
up and found that their imported salt
was brought there in vessels or cars
used in the fish trade. He believe
that the discovery was worth very much
more to the Canadian dairymen than ali
the expenses they incurred at the fair
Hoar1's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
DehOruing Cows.

In number of cases that have come
under our observation the yield of milk
of cows inclined to be bad tempered
has been very materially increased by
dehorning; and at the same time the
cows have been made more agreeable
TO milk and to handle 1t is we'll known
that the COW that quietly, peaceably and
couten eddy feeds and chews the cud
makes more miIk-other things being
equsl-than the COW that is quarrel
some and in turmoil. Dehornin :
nearly always has remarkably quiet
ing effect on bld-tempered cows; and
sometimes such a cow Is splendid
milker-too valuable to be sacrificed
when dehorning will make her tolerable
and at the same time increase her milk
yield. The most has been said about
The advantage of deborning steers to
ia ten, but probably the greatest gain
is from dehorning cows.-American
Agriculturist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01

Public interest will steadily increase,
and the disappointment of the men
whose votes turned the scale at the last
election, with the results under the
administration they elected, will make
the campaign the most intensely ex-
citing in the history of the country.
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
How to Use a CrOsscut Saw.

Hold the saw in position square
across the log, the center of the saw
directly over the center of the log.
Stand 50 that you face the line of the
cut with the handle directly opposite
the center Of your body. Keep as close
and cloihiug. Get the stroke with your
arms aud the bend and turn OF your
body. Hold the handle loosely in both
hands, with the outside hand below.
Pull the saw straight through the cut
both laiterly and perpendicularly. Prac-
tice 80 you can change sides and draw
either right With a lit.
le practice this can be done more rap,
idly and easier.-Exchauge.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
Clipped and Condensed.

AN Idaho sheep-raiser sent 1900
wethers to England. Their weight was
116 pounds each. He paid So per
sheep for shipment and forty cents for
selling. Seven men went with the
sheep to care for them. They sold for
$7.75 per head, and he made fair
profit. With the use OF mutton breeds
he would have had sheep of nearly
double the weight.
The chief obstacle to success in
growing pigs is the danger of becoming
overstocked. There is always profit
if pigs are sold while young. But many
farmers who have fine lot of growing
pigs will not sell them, thinking to
make greater profit by feeding until
they have attained full growth. In
most cases this is mistake. The
older pig grows the smaller is usually
the profit from him.
OWING to the location of some sta
bles it is impossible to get much sun
light in them, but in the greater num-
Der of barns, where the COWS stand in
row next to the side, it would be an
easy matter to put in few windows.
One window for every two cows should
be the rule, and they may be swung
open to throw the manure out of them
if necessary. If the sun can shine di.
rectly on the cows, 80 much the better.
THE temperature for fattening an
animal is something that is seldom con-
sidered, but the temperature has great
influence on the cost of the process
When an animal is not we'll sheltered
and is exposed to winds which come in
through cracks and crevices, the farmer
will find that more food is required
The temperature of stable cannot be
made uniform, but the stable can be
put in good condition for the comfort Of
the stock.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-01
TIE Farmers and State Expenses.

The Vermont State Grange adopted
an important resolution on state ex
penses at its recent annual meeting in
Brattleboro. The preamble recites the
fact that Vermont is pre-eminently an
agricultural state; that under the cou-
ditions existing for the past ten years
farm property and farm products have
decreased largely in value, much OF
the latter being below cost of produc-
ton; that during this period state ex-
penditures and official salaries have
been increased, some without just
cause; that the reduced income from
farming renders it difficult for farmers
to meet the increased taxation imposed
by the increase of state expenses and
official salaries. Therefore the Yer
mont State Grange will ask the next
legislature to provide for such reduc-
ton of public expenditures as the ex-
igencies of the times demand, without
Injury to public institutions and the
proper administration of the govern
ment, and to reduce public salaries to
an amount not exceeding the sums paid
in 1880. The Grange legislative COM
mittee is directed 10 bring these matters
to the attention of the incoming legis-
lature.
There is nothing particularly radical
or socialstic in the demands of the
Grange. There is large element of
truth in what this organization of the
intelligent farmers affirms, and reason
in what it demands. The members
should impress the truth their resolu
tions recite upon the people, before the
legislature is elected; upon the as
pirants for the governorship, before the
nominating convention is chosen and
has assembled. The answers that can
didates for governor, for senator and
for representative shall give, and the ev-
idence of good faith back of their an
swers, should determine the preference
of the farmers for candidates.
1t is true that state expenditures in
some departments of the government
have been growing without just cause,
as a great many citizens believe. The
military is one of these departments.
Official salaries is another. 1t would
not be difficult to name others of doubt
full expediency. In other departments,
the changed policy of the state has
made large increase in expenditures
unavoidable. The representatives Of
the people, the farmers themselves
being in large majority, have insti-
tuted this policy. The Soldiers Home
the State Asylum for the Insane, have
taken, and will continue to require, a
large annual expenditure. In the de-
partment of education the outgo haf
been increased. In these and some
other departments retrenchment will
be difficult. In order to handle thit
matter intelligently and effectively, i
seems to us that the Grange committee
should at once make careful study Of
the subject covered by the preamble