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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-09
NOTICE.

A LII persons are hereby cautioned against
N trusting or harboring any OF the crew %
the Br. Steamship 'Arecpna" Captain Houston
from Glasgow. as no bills of their contracting
will be paid by Captain or
CHASE, LEAVITT 8 CO., Coasignees
septs,3t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-09
SCHOOL
PORTLAND ACADEMY.

Fall term begins Sept II and continues Il
weeks. Usual courses of study for pupils of
both sexes. A business course includes Short
hand by the Mckee New Standard method
with thorough preparation in English Grammar
and Civil Government Private pupils received
afternoon and evening. For other particulars
inquire of MISS E. A. FILES, Principal, 800
Free street.
Portland, Aug. 81. 1895. aug25d3w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-09

These are the main points of Speaker
Reeds comments on the question before
the state this year. Some things he
gained which do not agree with informa-
zion gained otherwise in detail, though
his forecast of the size Of the Republican
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

WASHINGTON. Nov. 19.-The Agricultural
Department fruit report for November says:
{" The returns give comparative yields OF
apples pears and grapes, and in the main
reflect the returns as to the condition made
apples the standard of comparison has been
exceeded in no less than eight of the north
ern tier of states, which comprises the most
important winter apple section of the coun-
try. Other states in this region also report
excellent yields. In other sections, as fig
ures show, the crop is at best only mediocre.
The returns for pears are nowhere as high
as for apples. but are generally better in
those sections where apples gave the best
returns. The grape is one of the most con-
slant of the fruits and, as usual, the re-
turns show a product more uniform the
country over than for either apples or
pears. AS compared with last year, the
present season has given generally larger
products.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
AGRICULTURAL.

Mr.. H. CLIFFORD of East Bethel,
VT, has purchased of Hood Farm,
Lowell, Mass, a very fine trio of thor
oughbred Berkshire pigs, including
the boar, King Lee VIII, who is by
the great King Lee aud out of Duchess
CXXlX., one Of the best brood sows
at Hood Farm and who weighed in
in March, 1896, 635 pounds; also two
SOW pigs out of B,ile Windsor l., a
daughter of Lord Windsor. They are
sired by Duke III, of Hood Farm, who
weighs at seventeen months 666
pounds, and won first prize as the best
boar of any age at the New Enallnd
Fair, 1896, the otly place where he
was exhibited in competition. We
think Mr.. Clifford will get great results
from this combination, and he has
used good judgment in his selection.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

chuSettS Ploughmon, a correspondent
writes from Maine as follows: In re-
gard to the matter of supplying hotels
with produce, l was talking to Mr..
Kicker, of the Poland Spring House,
and / asked him as 10 the amount paid
by that house for farm products, espe'
cially eggs, butter aud milk with some
other, what l might call minor prod
ucts) and he said $4,000 a year,
asked him what proportion of those
products were furnisht d ty the farm
ers of Maine, and he said: We have
to get all our eggs and poul ry, and a
large proportion of our butter from
Boston, Then he qualified it and
said: There are two or three men in
Poland and New Gloucester whom can
rely on, and who make contract to
furnish me with so many eggs on such
and such days, and l know they are
coming and can count on them If
the farmers of the country would only
furnish him with these products, he
said, he would pay them the profit
which he is paying somebody else.
Whereas, they are shipping their prod
ducts to Boston, and the dealers are
sending them back to him. There is a
groceryman in Augusta who has been
trying for the ! sst three years to find a
farmer who would furnish him ten
head of poultry day. Several have
made a contract with him, but before
the lapse of two months they dropped
ont ~
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
Milk Fever.

Milk fever is disease to be dreaded
ty the man who has first class dairy
cows, and who feeds and cares for them
in such manner as to make them large
producers. The man with scrub cows,
that have TO rustic for themselves,
during the winter, round the straw
stack, never suffers from loss by milk
fever when his cows come in, in the
spring. 1t is true he gets no pre- fit out
of his cows, and he rarely gets product
enough from them to pay for the little
feed and care they do have. But he
can, and does, console himself by say.
ing he never has milk fever with his
cows like those men do who "stuff and
pamper and baby their cows"
We have lost, within the past fifteen
years, several valuable cows with this
disease. We think we now know how
to prevent it. A heifer with her first
calf never has it, and very rarely with
the second calf. A COW that is MIXED
continuously, right up to calving, is not
able to have milk fever, at least, we
have never known one to. We h asi-
tated to write that last sentence for
fear some one would accuse us of advc-
eating continuous milking. That we
do not do, but still feel bound to state
that fact A COW that is starved, or is
fed just enough to live on, wi never
have milk fever.
Our way is to dry the COW up six or
eight weeks before she is due to calve,
(unless she is such persistent mixer
as to make that impracticable) at the
same time reduce her feed, by taking
nearly, if not quite all, the grain from
her. Her bowels should beskept loose.
If the COW is in flush pasture, and she is
one you have reason to believe likely to
have milk fever, the only safe way to
do would be to keep her up on dry
feed. We know it is hard for the man,
who has been in the habit of "babying"
and petting his cows and feeding them
to their full capacity to refuse them all
they want to eat, but it is the only safe
way to do with some of them. After
COW has had milk fever once she is
more liable than other COWS to have it
again; and, if she does have it a second
time, she will be almost sure to die.
A COW should be fed rather lightly
till she fully RECEIVERS, which, however,
wi be but short time, then she can
be fed as usual until it comes time to
dry her up next year. Then her diet
must be restricted or she will have
another attack and then she will most
likely die.-Hoard's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
A Lesson Hard For Dairymen to Learn.

In recent number of the Michigan
Farmer, l read communication from
E. F. Brown, giving the result of a
test made and record kept of the pro-
duction of one COW in dairy, which
clearly teaches most valuable lesson,
that was entirely overlooked in the re-
port. During eight weeks following
Feb. 8, this cow gave ,66S pounds
of milk, or 2S pounds per day on an
average. But there was variation
from 1913 to 2lS pounds per week, and a
history of the way in which she was
fed and treated during the time, and it
is in this we are to find the lesson.
During the first week, February to
16, she gave 201 pounds and the next
week 214 pounds, or a gain of 10
pounds. Now the first week was warm
and pleasant and she was turned out
every day twenty minutes to drink; but
the next week was regular blizzard
and she was not turned out at all, but
watered in the stable twice day, and
gained almost two pounds per day,
while the rest of the herd, turned out
as usual, shrunk 10 to II pounds each.
She therefore showed an absolute gain
of about 25 pounds per week, or over
81 pounds per day, or over II per cent.
Now this milk was made in winter and
was worth at least 81 per 100 pounds;
and if 80, it paid % cents per week just
for the care and comfort. Twenty-Five
cents per week means, for 26 weeks,
the usual period of stabling cows, is
SO so for 20 minutes exposure each day
and for added care and comfort. And
yet, how many cranks we have who
claim that the COW must go out every
day for breath of fresh air, and usu-
ally they mean run out from two to
four hours. If man has, say Is cows,
the loss for the 20 minutes exposure
each would be S97 80, or a good deal
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
ANOTHER LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Advises Use Of Or. GraGneS NeVura Because He Knows
II VIII Cure.
Fletcher Bids the Weak Nervous and Discouraged
Hope for the Wonderful Dr. Creenes Nervura Will
Cure Them.

formation go, the results are highly
satisfactory. This letter can befpub-
lished for others good.' & ls0 q
If you are sufferer from weakness
or disease, do not hesitate to take DIR.
Greene's Nervura and get well after
such a testimonial from so llustrious
and distingushed Statesman.
Do you think 20 eminent a man of
such high fficial position would lend
his name and give his emphatic advice
to use DR.. Greene's Nervura unless he
knew positively its great value, its
wondrous power TO cure? He knows
that his words will be needed and his
advice to use this grand RENE dy followed
because of his high standing and he
unhesitatingly tells the people, speaking
the welcome truth 10 the sick with the
voice and dignity of official authority
that DR.. Greene's Nervura ! lood and
nerve remedy will cure the weak and
suffering, will give health and strength
renewed life, restored energies and the
zest and happiness of living.
Remember also that this is no so
called patent medicine, but the pre-.
scription and discovery of DR.. Greene
of 81 Temple Place, Boston, the sue.
cessful special 81 in curing nervous and
chronic diseases, who can be consulted
without charge, personally or by letter
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

NJ ASA husetts.
Certainly no higher testimonial, no
greater proof of medicines wonderful
power to cure can possibly be given
than is here bestowed upon DIR.
Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy by this most distinguished
ST ,tesman aud head of the government
of the state.
Sur, ly no one who is i'll, WORKOUT
rundown, weak, nervous, Discourage
and disheartened ty repeated failures
to be cured can require any greater
proof, any stronger testimony that DR.
Greene's Nervura W II cure, that it will
certainly restore health and strength tt
the weak and nervous sufferer, than
Lieut. Governor Fletcher's powerful
words wherein he states that he has
personally used it in his family with
greatest benefit, knows it to be mos
wonderful curer of disease, and earnestly
recommends its use by all who are out
of health and need medicine.
The great Statesman says:
II have long heard of the good effects
OF DIR. Greene's Nervura blood and
nerve remedy and have used it in my
family. have heard cases among
my neighbors who have derived grea,
benefit from its use and can truly say
that as far as my experience and in
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
The'world believes its great men.

Their word is accepted as truth, their
example followed, their advice taken.
Knowing this fact, the illustrious
Lieut.. Governor of Vermont, Hon.
Henry A. Fletcher, of Proctorsvile,
VI, who is the descendant OF long
line Of Statesmen and Rulers, tells the
peol , if they wish to get well, if they
desire to get back their health and
strength, to use DR.. Greene's Nervura
blood and nerve remedy because he
knows from personal experience, from
its use in his own family and among his
friends. and from having observed time
and time again its wonderful curative
powers, that it wi surely and certainl
cure, that it will give strength to the
weak, strong nerves TO the nervous,
natural refreshing sleep to the sleepless,
perfect digestion to the dyspeptlc, rich
red blood to the feeble, freedom from
pain to the rheumatic, 10 fact, sound
and vigorous health to all who use it.
Lieut.. Governor Fletcher's family
have been leaders and advisers of the
people and publicly identified with the
history of the United Sites for more
than hundred years. His father was
both Lieut.. Governor and Governor of
Vermont and his grandfather was one
of the trainers of the Constitution of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

THERE Is NOTHING So GOOD
There is uoIhing just as good as DR..
Kings New Discovery for cOnsump-
ton, coughs and colds, so demand it
and do not pc nit the dealer to sell
you some substitute. He will not claim
there is anything better, but in order
to make more profit may claim some
thing else to be just as good. You
want DR.. Kings New Discovery be-
cause you know it to be safe and reli
able, and guaranteed TO do good or
money refunded For coughs, colds,
consumption, and for ell affections of
throat, chest and lungs, there is moth
ing so good as is DR.. Kings New Dis
covery. Trial bottle free at G. Bakely's
drug store. Regular size, fifty cents
and 81.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
What Can the Administration DO
for Farmers

Many Of us have some idea of what
the present one has done TO hurt the
farmers, and one of the most prominent
was appointing for Secretary of Agri-
culture, a man who was the most cranky
and unfit man for the place that Mr..
Cleveland could well have found. This
officer has it in his power to help the
farmers in many ways, and by appoint
ing a man who is well fitted for the
office, NJ. Mckinley will do the farm
ers very crest favor. Secretary Rusk
had wise policy. He advocated the
growing of all our agricultural supplies
at home, 50 far as practicable. This
should be done instead of sending mill
ions of dol ars abroad for what could be
grown at home. And right here comes
up the great question of protection.
Speaking for Vermont farmers, we
think they nearly all desire prote ction,
and it is to be hoped that they will get
it. Our Canadian friends have reaped
the benefit of the last tariff bill for quite
awhile. Now ii is time farmers this
side of the line got help from the tariff
laws. Hay, eggs, poultry and all other
farm products have been cheapened by
Canadian competition. If other inter-
ests need protection from cheap foreign
labor, surely the farmers do. Whether
the sugar bounty will be restored no
one can tell, but if it caa be, it would
be great help to our farmers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
Vermont Dairy Reports.

ANDOvER DAIRY ASSOCIATION, OF
Andover, for August. TX received,
$500 pounds; cheese, 5 3i2 pounds;
paid for milk, per 100 pounds, H.
cents; 10 pounds milk for l pound
cheese.
METTowEE CHEESE FACTORY, East
Rupert, for September.-Milk received
9,6l1 pounds; cheese made, 1901
pounds; paid for m TX per 100 pounds,
SO cents; amount of milk per pound
of cheese, 9 60; net on four per cent
basis. a,e.ss
GREEN MOUNTAIN CREAMERY, West
Topsham, for October.-MiIk received,
196,936 pounds; butter made, 10 800
pounds; average test (Babcocl), 4 IS,
paid patrons for butter, 10 cents per
pound.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

more than it would cost to hire man
to care for them.
But there was another factor which
entered into this gain, which should
not be overlooked. A part of this
gain was due to the fact that in the
second week the COW was watered
twice day instead of once. The
average dairyman does not seem to
realize the Importance of giving his
cows all the water they want and when
they want it. He does not remember
that. more than eighty.seven per cent
of the milk is water, and that without
this water, no matter how we'll the COW
is fed, she can't make the milk. Nor
does he realize how difficult it is-in
fact that it is mpossible-for the COW
to drink at one time enough water to
do her for full day and have her do
her best. An average l 900 pound COW
in full milk must have from five to
seven pals of water every twenty. -four
hours. Compelled to take this enor
nous quantity all at one time, she is
badly handicapped.
Every man on watering twice Gay
will notice change from once water
ing, and when watering three times he
will see an increase over twice; and
those who put in stable watering de-
vice, and give cows constant access to
water, are always surprised at the gain.
j. B. Shattuck of Cherry Creek, Chau-
tauqua Co., N. Y, reported at farm
ers' institute at Ellington that % cows
in his stable, watered twice day,
gained 27 quarts of milk (Which made
over five pounds of butte) daily, by
adopting a stable watering device which
gave them water when they liked. P.
j. Schuyler of Onondaga county re.
ported that 13 COWS in his stable gained
81 pounds of milk day by having a
stable watering device, over being
watered once day out of doors-gair-
ing from Ala to All pounds per day, or
gain of nearly IA per cent.
In my own stables the gain has been
as great, and l have always noticed
large fal ing off, if for any reason
was obliged to go back to the old sys-
tenn of watering for a short time. l
am sure that the average low yield of
milk per COW is more due to a scanty
SUPP ly of water than to under-feeding,
and that the greatest field for improve
ment in the dairy to-day is in the line
of making stables warm, and adopting
some system of stable watering. A
gain of from ten to fifteen per cent in
the milk yield would soon pay for the
best system, and what is more, when
the expense was paid the increase
would not stop. In what l have said,
no mention has been made of the very
great saving in the labor of caring for
the cows, nor of the great satisfaction
Of knowing that our best friends were
having all the water needed, and just
when they want it, to do their level
best. In reading dairy literature, l am
surprised that so few mention this sub
ject at all. and so few who do seem to
have any adequate idea of it's impor-
lance. - j. S. Woodward, Niagara
county, N. Y, in Country Gentleman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
The Home Market.

II it is best for manufacturers, if it is
best for merchants, it is also the best
for farmers, especially in New Eng
land. The nearer home products can
be marketed, the be ter. Ii there
could only be some way devised by
which growers could sell direct to cor
sumers, it would add millions to the
incomes of farmers. AS things are
now, middlemen and transportation
companies get all the profits, in many
cases, and sometimes more than the
profits. But when grower is so stu
ated that he can sell directly 10 con-
sumers, or to the retailer, he can usu-
al y do much better. There are not
many cities or large towns in Vermont
to supply with farm and garden pro-
ducts, but in the little villages one can
often work up quite trade. There are
always some people who do not have
gardens, and who like to buy fresh
vegetables and fruits; who prefer to
have their butter brought in by a
farmer, instead of buying store butter
OF course the home market in a small
village would be quite limited, and in a
short time there would probably be
competition to meet, but the one who
secured customers first and served
them best would have the larger sales.
But there is another side to the homo
market question. City people have to
take vacations, and while the swell
class go to Newport, Saratoga, ETC., a
large and constant ly-increasing number
camp out or buy bit of land and build
cottage. This should be encouraged
here in Vermont by all legitimate
means. AS prosperity returns to the
cities, more and more will want to get
the fresh air and beautiful scenery of
the country. If families can come and
stay weeks or months, it will make the
best kind of home market, for all
these people must be fed, and if the
farmers have plenty of fruit and veget-
ables, eggs and cream to sell, these city
people will make the best of customers.
1t is not the hotel boarders, or even the
farmhouse boarders, we now have in
mind, although both classes must be
fed from the farms ana gardens, but we
refer to those who live in cottages,
tents, rent houses for the summer, to-
Farmers boys and girls should learn to
care for gardens, fowls, etc. They can
make much money and will like farm
life much better. We think this way
of disposing of certain farm and garden
products is one of the best, and hope
our readers will do all they can TO en-
courage the home market in this state.
Since commencing this article we
have found the following in the Prac-
teal Farmer, which is a striking illus
tration of the need of attending to the
home market:
" NEGLECTED Home Markets.-In these
trying times we will have to look lit
tie more closely TO our home markets,
where we can sell directly to consum-
ers at reasonably fair retail rates. We
are often apt to overlook many of these
near chances of sale. In the Mdssa-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

With local applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh
is blood or constitutional disease, and
in order to cure it you must take in
ternal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure
is taken internally, and acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces.
Halls Catarrh Cure is not quack medi-
cine. 1t was prescribed by one of the
best physicians in this country four
years, and is regular prescription.
1t is composed of the best tonics known,
combined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous surfaces.
The perfect combination of the two in
gradients is what produces such won.
derful results in curing catarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
f. j. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, O.
ca Sold by druggists at seventy.6ve
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

THE first trade in coal was estab.
lished in 1881 between Newcastle and
London, but it took twenty years be-
fore it can be said to have been intro
duced into the metropolis. Goals did
not come into common use for domes,
tic purposes until the beginning of the
reign of the unfortunate Charles ]
(1623).
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

INSURANCE against fire in the case
of residences, shops, ships and ware
houses was in general use in Italy as
early as A. ID. 1894,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

STOMACH DIFFICULTY CURED. -
Several years ago suffered with my
stomach and had no appetite. l began
taking Hoods Sarsaparilla and soon
my face and neck were all broken out.
l kept on taking Hoods Sarsaparilla
till had finished two bottles when l
was cured. Since then | have taken
Hoods Sarsaparila when l needed a
medicine" M. j. Roberts, Thetford
Center, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-11-25

HOODS PILLS are the best after din
ner pills.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-08-29

THIS was Kate Fields opinion of her
own sex: If il go happens that a good
deal is said about women, it is because
women are an interesting study; not be-
cause they are angels in the pin-feather
stage on the one hand, or poor, crushed
worms on the other, waiting for come
body to turn them. Woman is human
being, seeking, like man. to find her
level. Next TO shutting her out OF occu-
pat.ons and epjoyments for which me-
ture has manifestly fitted her, simply
because she is q woman, the worst thing
you can do for her is TO pat her on the
head for her success, simply because
she is a woman. The sensible course is
to treat her just as you would man.
Some things she can do better, some
she does worse. Don't praise her second
rate work any more than you would
treat conspicuously that which is first
rate. All she needs is feir field and
no favor. Anyone who demands more
than that for her is her enemy. rather
than her friend.