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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-03
ENTERTAINED THE VETS.

j. j. Hill Extends hospitality to the
First Minnesota.
The First Minnesota formed in line
at the place assigned it when the
grand parade started and marched
down Summit avenue as far as the
ladies' headquarters, where they left
the parade and proceeded to the resi-
dence Of ]. J. Hill. Mr. Hill had pre-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-03
MRS. HULL RELENTING.

Said That She Will Not Prosecute
Her Husband.
1t is said that Rev. ]. c. Hull has
enlisted the support of his sister and
that the latter has practically per-
suaded Mrs. Hull not t6further prose-
cute the charges against her husband.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-03
LOYAL LEGION TOO.

The Minnesota Commandery of the
Loyal Legion were the hosts of Com
mander-in-Chief Walker and Mrs.
Walker at their quarters in the Ryan
annex last evening. The apartments
were handsomely decorated, the re
ceiving party standing beneath a beau
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
Some Poultry Advice.

Poultry of every kind have a real
love for a fond owner, or can love and
trust q friend. This is so with mine.
How soon they learn to distinguish the
voice of friend or foe; quite a young
chick will hide from the latter, yet love
their owners voice. One should never
deceive their fowls, never call unless
you have feed, and never feed without
calling. They Don learn not to ex-
pect food unless called. Give them all
you expect to feed them at one feed at
once; then they will never acquire the
habit of following, expecting more.
Never call for grit, water or milk. l
dislike so much to see a woman step
out the door, and every chicken on the
place shoot out from under the house
and run after her; it shows bad raising
in chicks. Stop them from going I'M
der the house, give them a small lot, a
large open shed, and a house all their
own; feed them there, and nowhere
else. Let them know that nothing has
a right there except their W family.
Do not crowd ducks, geese, ETC., with
them; keep each breed separate; watch
the roosts; the lazy, loafng hens are
the ones for market or table use. Lay
ing hens are active always, looking out
for something to eat. Keep plenty of
litter under the shed, with a supply of
millet, broom corn or sorghum seed,
wheat or any small grain, to keep them
scratching. Do not give all corn, or
thew will soon be full and on the rOost.
Give plenty of grit, and a good pile or
box of ashes and road dust for dust
bath. Feed plentifully with the right
kind of food, such as as green cut bone,
potatoes, turnips, scraps from the table
and milk, and they will lay; they can't
help it, for they are built that way. Do
not feed a quantity of corn unless at
night and if very cold; then call them
from the roost quite late, and feed
them literally; it helps to keep up
warmth.
l would not advise the keeping Of
fowls, without proper care. In mercy
kill them, or give them to some one
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

anyhow, in his estimation, and his land
is 30 plaguey weedy that he gets aw.
fully discouraged. Just across lots q
little way is a man who, by reading
the farm papers, has got his head filed
with new-fangled notions. After he
got his crops planted, when the land
ought to have been let alone, he went
right on with one of those new.fash-
Toned things they call weeders and
scratched the ground over. He ought
to have been content with that, but
what did he do but go right on to his
fields a few days after the corn and
potatoes were up and scratch the
ground over again. Any fool might
have known better than to rake over
the top of the ground when crops were
growing On it, but it does beat all
what notions folks will get into their
heads. Them weeder fellows know
how to pull the wool over farmers
eyes. And that man actually went
right into his fields every five or six
days and run that weeder right through
his crops. He said it did not kill a
dozen hills, and it did kill millions of
weeds; that it kept the surface of the
ground loose, so that the soil where the
roots were did not dry up, and when it
rained the rain soaked right down
where it was needed. And just think
of it'll That nan didn't use a hoe in
his corn and potatoes at all. He just
walked behind that weeder and had
the horse do all the work. He said
when a mar let his fields go till hoeing-
time a hard crust would form on the
surface, that this was bad both when
it was dry and when it was wet, and
that a frequent stirring of the surface
kept the weeds from getting a start and
was better every way. He said deep
cultivation or blowing cut off the roots
of the crops and backened them; that
surface cultivation, after the first few
days, was the better way; that his
way saved lots of hard, discouraging
work. You can see what stuff folks
get into their heads who read the farm
papers. They had much better save
the money they pay out for papers and
weeders and put it into the savings
bank. Then they would have some
thing to show for it-have something
to leave to their heirs, instead of vast
ing it on such trash.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
Cooperative Creameries in
Newbury.

Editor of Watchman:-If you will
allow me space in your valuable paper,
l would like to explain the workings of
cooperative creameriee, SO called, in
this vicinity. 1t is passing strange that
an industry upon which depends the
prosperity of the dairymen of this state
is so little understood and so difficult to
understand. The writer, wishing to
investigate and ascertain for himself
the why and wherefore of this wide
range of discrepancy between cream
cries, has taken the trouble to look up
the affair, with the following results:
We have in this vicinity three cream
cries. Two are run on the cooperative
plan and the third is proprietary. Each
is receiving nearly the same quantity
of milk. No. l creamery paid for May
milk 164 cents per pound, butter fat, or
an equivalent for four per cent milk of
66 cents per hundred. No. 2 paid 10
cents per pound, butter fat, or an
equivalent of 60 cents per hundred for
four per cent milk. The third cream
cry paid Is cents per pound, butter fat,
or an equivalent of 70 cents per hun
bred for four per cent milk. Now
here is a difference of II cents per
hundred pounds, between neighboring
creameries, all claiming to market their
product in the best possible shape and
in the same market. The above differ
ence in net price returned to the farmer
is on the supposition of a uniform test,
but on investigation / find in respect to
the test, though it is undoubtedly cor
rect when in educated hands, l must
nevertheless accuse some creameries OF
downright carelessness or utter indiffer-
ence to the rights of their patrons. l
have watched with more or less inter-
est the ups and downs of these cream
cries. l have seen a dairyman leave one
creamery and go to another, and by so
doing have seen his test raised one
hundred points. 1 am told our bovine
mother is liable to have the constitu-
ency of her milk vary somewhat, but l
take sides with her and hold this is too
much.
Now, in behalf of the dairymen of
this vicinity, | have CONF to the fol-
lowing conclusions and commend them
to the readers of the WATCHMAN:
Farmers in cooperative creameries
have seldom been known to amass a
fortune, and l am not antagonizing that
system of business. However it be-
hooves every producer of milk to
market his products to the best posi-
BILE advantages; and, to avoid and over
come this knitting of tests, ETC., / pro-
pose that we make a straight, clean
deal and sell our entire milk for 80
much per one hundred pounds, the
price to be agreed upon in advance.
Skinned milk has lost much of it's
old-time value, and l believe this plan
will not only obviate the many little
difficulties that beset the present syst
tenn, but will be the means of making
US nore money and at the same time
end our fighting. JOHN KENDRICK.
Newbury, VI, July l, 1896.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
Haying Machinery.

1t does not require one-fourth of the
manual labor or human strength to do
the haying now that 1t did a few years
ago. The tools now in use are very
much superior to what they were
twenty to thirty years ago. Take the
horse-rake. The kind once in use re-
quired a hard pull on a lever at every
dump. Now the driver touches a trip
with his foot, the horse dumps, and the
weight of the driver balances the
weight of the rake-teeth so they do not
bang down, but drop steadily. The
latest makes of mowers are so made
that either by springs-or, better, by
the weight of the driver-the cutter
bar can be raised with a slight effort of
the hand or foot. In some machines
the foot-lift is so perfect that on ordi-
nary fields all the lifting can be done
by the foot, leaving both hands free to
drive. The cutter bar has been length
ened until in the same time two-thirds
more grass can be cut with very little
more labor for the horses. A most i'm
portant point in is durability.
A machine may be an ideal in all other
respects, but if it wears out rapidly or
breaks easily it will be a poor invest
ment. A man who has rough and
stony land must either fit it for the
mower, or, if he cannot well do that,
either NOW by hand or get a machine
which will cut grass on rough land. A
great deal of hand moving is done
which might be done by machine, using
one adapted to the purpose. There are
mowing-machines which will do ex-
cellent work or rough land. In using
an old machine watch the bearings at
the ends of the pitman to see that there
is no lost motion. Most machines are
now made so that lost motion in these
parts can be taken up. Where it is not,
the machine is apt to clog. When the
knives get ground to a point they will
not do good work. Care should be
taken in grinding to keep a wide bevel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
The Man with the Hoe.

You have seen him, lots of him, toll
ing under the sultry summer skies,
pausing at times to lean upon his hoe
and gaze at the rows before and be-
hind him. This man planted his corn
and potatoes and then let them Sc
verely alone until hoeing-time came.
Then he run the c~ultivator or a light
pillow through the rows, and then came
the tug of war. The weeds had a good
start. 1t was hard work to find the
corn in some spots, the weeds were so
thick. After hoeing-time the crops
are left to their fate. When a man has
toiled day after day in a field with a
hoe he has surely done his duty, and if
the weeds grow after that it is not his
fault. Farming is a mean business
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

who will care for them. Only yester-
day O neighbor said, 81 don't know
why l don't get more eggs. L have fifty
hens and my husband feeds them like
hogs, and L have gotten only three eggs
since Christmas" l knew she had no
hen.house, and their only feed was
corn alone. When l told her l had
sold fifteen dozen from my flock of
twelve laying hens, besides what we
used in our family of six, during one
month of hard, snowy, freezing weather,
she seemed amazed, and asked what | fed
them. First l give a warm breakfast
OF cooked beans, peas, potatoes or tur-
nips, made stiff with meal or bran,
when she exclaimed, "Ohl my, I'll
have to send mine to the hotel" Well,
now this same neighbor is a good, in
telligent woman; in pastry, art work or
flowers she is not excelled, but a poor
hen is out of her place in her yard. l
think it cruel to wi any living thing
of Gods creation and not study its
wants, at least enough to make it COM
Portable. Always be kind and select
your hens for mothers which have the
best disposition. Never set nervous
hens the second time; they will break
their eggs and trample their chicks.
Two hens can be set at one time aud
both matches given to one hen. 1 have
the light Brahma crossed with S. G. B.
Leghorn, six first cross, ten from first
cross, with a fine, full stock, light
Brahma cock, with six full stock, light
Brahma pullets. This is a splendid
cross. / have a desirable cross and
full stock, all in the same house.
Young chicks need constant care.
Some recommend one feed, some
another, but l feed all cooked feed.
Corn bread, baked very thick, seasoned
with pepper, salt, soda, and wet with
milk. Care should be taken not to lei
them fall into the habit of crying, which
is very annoying to biddy and mistress.
They should be fed often, until old
enough to go to the fields. If they
once acquire the habit of crying, feed
will neither cure nor prevent it.
have never had lice or mites. l do not
neglect my hens or their house more in
winter than 1 do in summer.-Practical
Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
MICHIGAN,
KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.
Current Weekly Comment.

HAY.-The demand is dull and the tone
of the market easier.
BEANs.-The market is less firm than a
week ago. Yellow Eyes are in light supply
and are wanted at quotations.
PoULTRY.-Receipts Of eastern live are in
small lots and sell fairly at quotations.
Arrivals Of all grades have been light.
FLoUR.-The demand from consumers is
small, and it does not tax much to meet
their needs. The market is heavily stocked
CHEEsE.-Receipts are moderate and de-
mand light. Vermont cheese is not giving
satisfaction and has to be worked off at easy
prices.
EGGs.-Receipts nave fallen OFF, and most
arrivals are more or less affected by the
heat. The supply of strictly choice fresh
stock, suitable for the best trade, is running
short.
WooL.-The market has evinced much
less activity than last week. There is prac-
tically no inquiry, and prices are in many
cases fiat, on the basis of the lowest point
of last years sales.
BUTTER. - There has been very little
change in the condition of the market. Re-
CENTS are still heavy, but the demand for
fine goods for storage holds out well, and
there is a moderate consumptive demand
Prices are without quotable change.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
More Steam.

A friend finds fault with my advising
farmers to put on more steam, says a
correspondent of Practical Farmer.
He says, in subs lance, that it is no use
to work hardert and make more for
someone else; hat the world is all
wrong and farmors are being robbed in
every direction. Professor John Hamil-
o says when men talk so they have the
"dyspepsy" oftentimes from eating an
unbalanced ration. There are, however,
some things that are not quite right.
We may be paying somewhat more
than our share of the taxes. Our of
fcers may be getting salaries too large
in proportion to our incomes. 1t is
hard to pay old debts 10 with produce
so low. But 1 do not believe the world
is all wrong, or that the farmer has no
chance. Hence l encourage him to 60
ahead and do his best, just as l do my
self, meanwhile trying to get any little
wrongs righted. To illustrate what l
mean, let me say that 1 met a farmer
recently who was making a great out
cry about how he was being robbed to
pay men large salaries. / quietly
asked him what all his taxes amounted
to for a year. He cooled down a little
as he mentioned. $50. Now it is quite
possible that he is paying $40 or 30
more than he ought to in strict Justice,
and still he is losing under his stables
and around his barn from 800 to $3.50
worth of fertility, at market prices,
every year, and has been doing it for
twenty-five years. He could stop this
leak himself very easily, and l think he
would better do it than spend the time
growing about the $40 loss. 1 can
point him to spots on his farm where a
few tiles and a little work would ave
him more crops every year, on the
average, net, than it would take to pay
all his taxes. I have always thought it
better to help myself, where l could,
first, and some way these other
wrongs seem of much less account
afterwards. If we are to wait before
putting on steam until everything is
just right, according to u notion, we
may as well draw the fire and let her
rust out, and be done with it. 1t is
true we could not now sell our farm for
anything like what it cost us. But
what do we care? We don't want to
sell it.. We could not put the money
anywhere where it would be safe to
pay US as well. 1t is, however, dis
tressingly hard for the farmer who
bought land years ago at high prices,
and who has been so unfortunate as to
be unable to get out of debt, and now
perhaps he is paying interest on more
than his farm would sell for, and the
money comes in 80 slowly IN account
of low prices of farm products. But
cheer up and try again, my unfortunate
brother. Men in other lines of bust
ness are often as hard pushed as you.
There must come a reaction Don
Don't give up the ship. The darkest
hour is just before day. Put on more
steam! That is the way we did, and
we have seen as hard times as often fall
to the lot of farmers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
500 Reward - 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh, being a
constitutional disease, requires a con
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
A-.A
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

In preparing paris green keep in
mind the formula here given: Add to
the water an amount of q~uicklime equal
to the amount of paris green. This
prevents burning of the foliage by the
poison. If too much lime is added, it
will do no harm. Too great care can
not be used in handling paris green.
A very little makes a fatal dose.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

WE again urge upon our readers the
need of destroying pernicious weeds
There are good weeds, bad weeds and
terribly bad weeds. White daisies,
buttercups, milkweeds (the silk grass
kind, not the hollow-stalked variety
and the ~polypods, or water brakes, are
all of more or less value as cattle feeds.
Some of them are of much value. But
paint brush, all varieties Of the wild
mustard and wild carrot, with many
others, are a pest and scourge to any
farm. Every plant that looks like mus
tard Or radish should be destroyed.
Common caraway spreads rapidly and
is better entirely destroyed. A single
plant, allowed to grow and scatter its
seed, will do much mischief.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
AGRICULTURAL

TIMBER cut in early summer, peeled
but not trimmed, is said to last longer
than if cut at any other time. The
leaves exhaust the sap, and the wood
seasons better than in any other way.
Rotting of wood is caused by a minute
plant, which thrives best where there is
warmth, moisture and confined air.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

OYSTERS are provided with eyes, but
the oysters eye is not located where
public opinion places 1t. What s called
the eye of the oyster is the great mus
Gle which holds the shells together and
which is separated by the knife of the
operator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

SURE TO WIN.-The people recog-
nize and appreciate real merit. That
is why Hoods S%arsaparilla has the
largest sales in the world. Merit in
medicine means the power to cure.
Hoods Sarsaparilla cures-absolutely,
permanently cures. 1t is the mi true
blood purifier. Its superior merit is an
established fact, and merit wins.
HOODS PILLS are easy to take, easy
to operate. Cure indigestion, head
ache.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

ALL the good resolutions are not
limited to January /. 1t is a good
time now to resolve to grow plenty of
strawberries for home use and to select
a place for the bed. If the land is in
grass, plow after haying and sow to
millet or barley, making the land rich.
The best soil for strawberries is a
rather light soil which can be irrigated.
When irrigation cannot be done, a
moister soil should be selected. If
there is any one near you who grows
this delicious fruit consult them, but do
not waste their time needlessly. Spring
is the best time to set the plants, and
you will hardly get the soil too rich.
Why should not every farmer have an
abundance of fruits and garden ..vege-
tables? They are healthgiving and add
greatly to the pleasure of farm life,
Lots of families would be far better off
to stop buying medicines and go to
growing fruits and an abundance of
vegetables for home use,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES
Boston Produce Market.

eH The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for pholesale lots mot job6ino
prices) unless otherwise indicated, and are Intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
S1.oo se @atIsh'e Chased s@dda Holder old $1.oo

You may think it cannot possess merit or durability, the price is so low; but
the "Lincoln' is a 80 so pen, reduced to SlOO. Il til durable, always ready to
"go," but never drips, the ink flowing steadily and uniformly. They are in use
in this Office, giving the best of satisfaction, and they are n use in the banks,
insurance and business offices and among all classes of users of pens IN Mont
peier and vicinity. Orders are received from all parts Of the country.
Money refunded if not satisfactory. ca BY mail, postage paid.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08
The Way the "U.S."
whips" the Poor" "Baby.'
U.S." people sued Mrs. Rowland because she chose
the Baby" She beat them in both trial and appellate
courts. and then sued them for expenses and for the
|" storage" of the United States machine.

FIVE CORNERS, Cayuga County, N. Y =.
W have used a Baby No 2 Separator twice a day for nearly two years. 1t
is very easy to clean, not taking tel minutes % take it apart an wash it.. 1t is
much easiera and quicker washed than the United States and easier kept clean.
Has u sharp hanges to cut your hand on. 1t is eaIlv turned by hand power.
With the DeLaval we cal make a pound of butter from sixteen pounds of milk
any month of the year, while with the United States it takes twenty-five pounds
of milk for a pound of butter. We gave both a fair trial and decided we wanted
the Baby There were quite a number of people near me who tried both, but
all took the DeLsval after a few days trial. No one need be afraid to try the
DeLaval. We would give up u dairy if W had to do without the Separator
now. We separate as 500 as is MIXED, and then the milk is swarm to feed,
and with M meal makes good calf feed'' MRS. GEORGE ROWLAND.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-07-08

rBSold by Druggists, seventy-tive
cents.