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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
Current Weekly Comment.

MAPLE SUGAR M SYRUP. - Sugar has
been in steady fair demand and is pretty
well sold up. Syrup is still moving rather
slowly.
PoTAToEs.-Receipts for the week nave
been moderate-44, 900 bushels-but trade
has been dull and there is plenty Of white
stock offering down to zoe.
EGGs.-Receipts, IA barrels, 29, 1887 cases.
The receipts for the past week nave been
the largest of the season and the market
has been dull for average grades.
CHEEsE.-Receipts, "a, 1853 boxes; for ex-
port, 2,065 boxes. The market is very dull
and the old stock on hsnd is working out
in small lots at low and irregular prices.
CoRN.-Receipts, TO- 61 bushels; stock in
elevators, 30, ia bushels; exports, $50 BUSH
els. There is a slow demand for all grades
and the market shows a little easier tone as
a whole.
OATs.-Receipts, 81, 377 bushels; stock in
elevators, 66, 100 bushels; exports, 81, 265
bushels. There is a slow demand on spot,
with prices rather easier for all grades.
The exports of late have been more, but it
takes little to meet local buyers wants.
LUMBER.-There has been an improve
ment in the demand for lumber Of all kinds.
Business in short lumber is all hat could
be expected. Clapboards are being picked
up at good prices, while shingles re rather
slow of sale, though quite firm. Box boards
are quiet.
FLOUR. - Receipts, 1891 barrels, 81, 1888
sacks; exports, 7 1882 barrels, "a, 240 sacks.
Wheat has shown considerable iuctuation
during the week, but the price of -four has
held very steady, as a rule. This has not
resulted in business, however, and sales
ave been very meager.
HAY AND STRAw.-Receipts, 215 cars hay,
% cars straw. The market has ruled quiet,
but cars that are strictly choice maintain
steady prices. The supply of low and me-
dunn hay on hand is yet excessive and there
is pressure to sell this kind, which keeps
prices easy. Rye straw is firm.
BUTTER. - Receipts, 49, 1888 tubs, 1870
boxes-S25. 918 pounds; exports, 1920
pounds. There has been only a moderate
increase in receipts the past week. Buyers
took hold freely at the low range Of prices
established a week ago and stocks of fine
fresh goods were soon closely sold up, very
little being carried over. The market
shows a firmer feeling and late arrivals
meet with a ready sale,
Wool. Sales for the week, 1865 900
| pounds. The market has ruled very quiet
the last week, though the attendance has
been, on the whole, rather larger than
usual. There is no very solid basis to
prices in any direction and the drop in the
London sales has had, of course, a dispirit-
ing effec5. Neither manufacturers nor
dealers appear to tax much interest in the
coming clip, in spite of the fact that money
is much easier than it was. This is in part
due to the fact that there are heavy stocks
of raw wool in the hands of mills and deal
ers, and in part to the very uncertain future
of the goods market.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
WinOOski Valley Jerseys.
BY g. o,

Your mention of the Billings herd of
Jerseys, a few weeks since, reminds
me that there are others near home,
not excelled by any known, and that a
quarter of a century ago Winooski val
ley was made famous by the Jerseys
raised by Peter LeClair of Winooski,
notably "Stoke Pogis 3D." the most
celebrated of all Jersey sires. 1t would
be much against my wish to say any
unkind word of those who try to i'm
prove their dairy or other stock by
breeding or care, but credit to whom
credit is due should be the rule; and
the exile that went to the State Expert
ment Station from the Billings herd, or
the COW that promised so well-on pa
per-at Chicago has not been heard
from lately. Their bull, two years old,
at the Chicago exhibit was highly COM
mended by one of the judges on ac-
count of his great size, weighing 700
pounds, while one of the same age,
''2d National" bred and reared under
your shadow, weighed 900 pounds as he
passed your office, on his way to Or
lando Clark of East Montpelier. His
dam, "Misnomer," two pounds and
fifteen ounces per day when four years
old, and much more when six years old,
is now owned by Clarence H. Pitkin of
Montpelier, with a fine lot of her near
by descendants. With imported and
other families they make not only a
handsome herd but there axe no better
Jerseys known to breeders. His
"Stogis is an inbred "Stoke Pogis
3D." tracing six times to the three full
brothers "Stoke Pogis" Sd, 4th and
9Th, and tLilteen times to their sire,
"Stoke Pogis," and nineteen times to
the great COW, "Dauncey's Rita"
through the best of the Dauucey Jer-
seys; also to Victor Hugo" "Ma-
tilda," and six times TO "Marjoram."
The Vermont Experiment Station could
well afford to pay a few hundred dol
lars if it could exchange the escutcheon
of their recent purchase Of the Pratt
Institute, Brooklyn, for one, on one of
MI. Pitkin's two year-o!ds. They use
four pages of their report in lauding the
merit of that purchase.
The true Jersey, tracing to the Island,
improved by good care and judicious
breeding, is a prize indeed to those who
prefer good milk, and particularly to
those who depend upon the dairy for
income. That a COW is speckled, fawn
or called Jersey amounts to nothing in
milk or money.
Having sold, about three years since,
between twenty and thirty young Jer-
seys in this vicinity, those who keep
them to maturity will find they have
the rich, delicious milk and cream that
needs no coloring for choicest butter
and such as only the good Jersey pro-
duces. All except one small lot-which
were repurchased have shown their
ability to hold their own against all
corners, though leaving box stalls and
going into %stanchions and mixed herds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
How About those Cows?

Several months ago the WATCHMAN
gave an account of some very large
Yields of butter obtained from herds of
cows in different towns in the state.
These accounts are interesting reading
as object lessons showing what can be
done with the right kind of COWS and
the right kind and quantity of feed, but
are of no possible benefit to those of US
who have not attained to that degree
of success, as they give no hint at the
way it is attained.
Will the persons who have given
those accounts be SO kind as to tell US
what those COWS had to eat and how
much of it; in what shape the feed is
given, and how many times a dav;
whether the water they drink is
warmed, and something of their gen
eral management? Have any readers
tried the plan of m%oistening the hay
fed to cows and feeding the provender
with itp If any have tried it, will they
be so kind as to tell us how much of
each ebay and provender) was fed and
with what results, as to any advantage
Answers to these questions may help
some poor, struggling farmer to sue
cess. Cows are about the only thing a
Vermont farmer can get any money
from at the present time, and the
margin between the greatest iucome
from a dairy and the smallest possible
expense of running it and maintaining
a family, including taxes and other
necessary expenses, is 30 small that a
small gain or loss in the management
may turn the scale between a success
and a failure. CORINTHIAN.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
Summer Feeding of Dairy Cows,

The advantages claimed for constant
stall-feedlng, or soiling, over pasturage,
may be summed up as follows: A COM
%paratively small amount of land is re-
quired per head; the food supply can
be closely regulated; the annual does
not waste its energy in searching for iis
food; and finally, the manure may all
be preserved for use in growing cult
waited crops. With good pasturage
three acres are required to support a
cow, while in the soiling system two
cows may be supported on one acre.
In 1892 the Storrs Experiment Station
fed four COWS on ID acres from June !
to November /, although no special eff
fort was made to produce heavy yields
of the various folders used. The past
season the station has fed six COWS on
three acres from June 20 to October %.
In stall-feeding very little, if any, of the
food is wasted, while in %pasturing much
is spoiled by the tramping of the ami
mails if the ground is wet, or by the feed
being covered OF made unpalatable by
the droppings. On large, rough pas
lures, where only a scanty supply of
food is found at best, our cattle are
often obliged to exert themselves to find
more food than is needed for the sup
port of the system, and hence have but
little food and energy for the building
up of products. Our periodic drouths,
and consequent shortage of pasture
feed, which is almost sure to occur at
some time during the summer, makes
the use of more or less supplementary
feed necessary if we keep our cows
producing to their full capacity. At the
present prices of dairy products, any
thing but light grain-feeding during the
summer season is largely out of the
question, except for milk-producers and
others getting high prices for their
products. There are two ways in which
q supply of coarse food other than pas
turage may be f~urnished-as silage, or
by the growing of soiling crops, and
feeding them in a green state. The use
of silage to add to the supply Of summer
feed is increasing in favor. A few en-
terprising dairymen are growing sufi-
cient corn-fodder, and preserving it as
silage, to supply the herd for the entire
year. Where this can be economically
done, ii is one of the cheapest means of
keeping up a regular supply of feed. 1t
has the advantage over soiling of reduc-
ing the labor of getting the feed to the
animals. Corn silage, however, does
not furnish a perfect ration, and needs
to be supplemented by the use of small
quantities of M or more of the nitro
genous grain feeds, like cottonseed,
gluten, or linseed. In a few cases,
crops which are ready TO harvest early
in the summer have been preserved as
silage, for feeding during the latter pant
of the summer.
There seems to be some d~ificulties
experienced in the summer use of 81
lage that do not ap e a during The will
ter season. Fermentation in the silo
tsEE FOURTH COLUMN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
Live Stock Market.

MILoH Cows.-Not a large supply and slow trade.
Brock 81 Wood sold 8 extra cows at S5 per head.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-Inlo lots, s242.25g2 80 each; eK-
ira, s2.75gi.5G, or from 2g4hc per ID; lambs, 3qShc.
MARKET BEEP.-A few choice, s696.50; extra.
E5.25a5.5O; first quality, S475d6.Ob; second quality,
PS750i.25; third quality, S393.50.
VEAL GALyEs..Number at market from vtY
1,26l; N. H., 1855; Mass. 81. Nothing over SC and
largely at ih9i4c; all disposed of.
FAT Hoes.-western fat swine. live, 3S9ihc;
Northern dressed hogs, Axe per ID. Stores, retail,
l.25d4Oo, Number at market from Vt, 3l7; from
N H., 43; from Mass, SO; from West, 5000.
HIDES, TALLow AND SKINS. Brighton hides;
4a4hc per ID; tallow, 393Ac-per ID; country hides,
SaSHe per n; tailow, nc per, 10; wool pelts.
SS9e5c; calf skins, 55c9 20; dairy skins, 259i0c.
SHEEP.-Number at market from VT, 90; n. H.,
3l7i Mass, rs; West. n,sO7; Butchers cannot now
depend upon New England for a supply, although
there are some fine odd lots marketed from the
North. Prices rule fairly steady ON sheep and lambs.
CATTLE.-Number at market from VT, 81; n. H.,
50; Mass, 10; West, 1910. Separate from the West
ern. the arrivals of live cattle and sheep were light.
Exporters were handling a large number of cattle.
About 200 Western cattle for the home trade and
cost a tri1e less than last week; Hi.l5 per cwt. the
top price for Western cattle, unless very fancy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only n way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an iniamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian tube. When this tube is in
famed, you have IA rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is en-
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken
out, and this tube restored to its nor
NAL condition, hearing will be destroyed
forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but
an infiamed condition of the mucous
surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that can not be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
f. j. CHENEY g. CO.,
TOLEDO, OHIO.
Sold by druggists; seventy-five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
No Cripe

When you take Hoods Pills. The big, old-fash-
Toned, sugarcoated pills, which tear you all Ito
pieces, are not in it with Hoods. Easy to take
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
Crops for Green Feeding in Summer,

One of the first crops in the spring
that is available for soiling is rye. This
crop should be sown September l, at
the rate of two and one-half or three
bushels per acre. The time during
which the crop is in the best condition
for feeding is short. After the heads
have generally appeared the rye soon
becomes woody, and is then more or
less rejected by stock. For this reason
the period of feeding must be short,
and large crops cannot be expected.
Another spring crop, and one that
may be made to follow rye if desired, is
winner wheat. This crop is more leafy,
develops more slowly than rye, and can
be advantageously fed for a longer Pc
riod of days. Although not a legume,
it gives quite a high percentage of pro-
tein, and is a fodder to which cows
seem to respond readily with an in
creased product. 1t can be advantage
ously fed between May 16 and June l
in the latitude of Connecticut. Like
rye, it needs to be thickly sown-not
less than two and one-hslf bushels per
acre. This crop responds quickly to the
application of nitrogen, nitrate of soda
probably giving the quickest returns.
By the use of fertilizers rich in nitro
gen, not only the total yield, but also
the value of the crop may be very ma
terially increased.
RED CLOVER.
Farmers to-day do not appreciate the
value of clover as a forage and hay
plant to the extent that its merits war
rant. Many contend that the seasons
have changed, and that clover is more
apt to winterkill than formerly, but this
is probably not the real cause of the
decrease. The fact that hay with simply
a small admixture of clover is branded
as s%econd-class by liverymen may have
something to do with the reduction in
the amount grown. This is all wrong,
for an admixture of well-cured clover
improves the value of hay for all kinds
of live stock. 1t seems probable that
there is something lacking in our soil
that makes clover less productive than
formerly. The best clover lands in the
United States are found in limestone
regions, and it is quite likely that the
lack of lime in the soil is often the
cause of failure with the crop.
Next to the grasses, clover is one of
our surest crops for hay, and ten tons
might be grown with profit where one
is now produced. The experience of
some of the leading farmers in many
sections has shown that the best time
to SOW red clover is after winter grain
during the latter part of July. A good
catch is generally obtained at this
time, and the clover becomes firmly
rooted by winter, and is not liable to
be thrown out as a result of freezing
and thawing during the winter and
spring. Red clover is n of the most
heterogeneous of our folders, and can be
prodtably fed for about two or three
weeks in June. A good second crop
will be available early in August, aud
on rich lands a third crop about Sep
TENDER 20 is not uncommon. Alfalfa
takes its place in the west.
OATS AND PEAS.
Oats and field peas sown broadcast as
early in the spring as the soil can be
thoroughly worked, make one of the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
Stubborn
# Ulcers

due to disease, or an impov-
erished condition of the blood,
r a source of annoyance to the
medical fraternity. While con
tinually growing deeper and
larger the circle of diseased flesh
surrounding them is all the time
extending, closing up the ducts
through which replenishment
of tissue should come. For such
troubles physicians everywhere
are praising the results obtained
by the use of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06

In the first place the system
needs re-invigorating, new flesh
tissue should be formed, new
and pure blood created, in fact, a
new and well nourished body
where room for disease does not
exist. Food is the thing, and
Bovinine, that greatest concen-
tration of the vitalizing elements
of lean beef, is the most fitting
nourishment of all for speedy
results. Then applied externally
it nourishes by absorption,
where the disease is most appar-
ent, thus striking the enemy on
all sides. Ask any Druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06

druggists. 25c. @. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
The only Pills to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
AGRICULTURAL
A Stun Der Song.

Come, long floods of liquid geld,
when the western sun is beaming,
And the autumn wheat fields hold
In their hearts the mellow cleaning.
Sleep, my babe, the day is old,
Droop your head in childish dreaming.
Now the sun has gone to rest;
Through the window dusk ia creeping;
Stiffness reigns from east to west;
Time my little one was sleeping.
Farm, Field and Freside.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

Eg-The quotations given below represent prices
by receivers for wholesale lots mot job6ing
prices unless otherwise indicated. and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06

and easy to operate, is true
of Hoods Pills, which are
up TO date in every respect.
Safe, certain and sure, All
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-06

Spruce frames, cars, ordinary
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-26
LOOK AT THIS:

800 yards Dress Goods in seasonable
weights and colors at 25c and Soc per yard
Similar goods have never been sold under
35c and 40c the yard.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-26
CRUISE OF THE HORsA.
The Trial of the Captain and Two
Mates in Progress

Philadelphia Feb. 25.-The trial of ]. H.
Wiborg, Jams p. Petersen. and II. johann
sen, the late respective captain, first mate
and second mate of the Danish steamer
Horsa, who were indicted yesterday on
the charges of conveying a filibustering
expedition to Cuba in violation of the neu-
trality laws was begun shortly after noon
to-day in the United States district court
with Judge Butler on the bench.
District Attorney Ingham and Assistant
prosecution and the defendants were rep
resented by Capt. W. w. Kerr, ex-assist-
ant United States district attorney, and
Charles l.. Brown.
When District Attorney Ingham had
completed his outline of his case to the
jury, and the star witness of the govern
ment, Carl Arnston, had been called the
court at 1880 o'clock took a recess until
O'Clock.
The vessel, which is alleged to have
carried arms and ammunition to the in
surgents, left Philadelphia on Nov. 8,
bound for Jamaica for a cargo of fruit
One of the firemen on board, Carl Arnston,
had previously been on the Leon, then of
the same line. and his story of the trip
as subsequently told, was to the effect
breakwater she went north to Cape Bar
negat, on the Jersey coast and there came
to anchor. He alleges that a tug towing a
steam lighter came along with a number
of men on board and that they, together
with numerous boxes, were transferred to
the Horsa. The expedition is alleged to
have started from Brooklyn.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-26

them out and their identity can only he
Earned oy chance incident or informa-
ton from outside sources. The Cubans
can play that game, too"
j. ID. Hart Is suspected of being part
owner OF the filibuster Laurada, which
left New York Oct 70 for Cuba. He said:
THE Bermuda is owned by DR. Ruin OF
Baltimore, who chartered her six months
ago for the fruit business. All the money
the fruit trade
Marshal Mccarthy this morning told the
story OF the capture of Gen. Garcia. He
said: AT ! O'Clock this morning after we
had arrested the Bermuda. the tug Nc
Caldin was sighted heading for the hlibus-
terer- Before we got 10 her she had put
several men aboard. Then she saw US
coming. and, casting off her lines. started
swiftly towards the Liberty Island dock
at the Battery. Capt Bradley Of the Hud-
son. jingled for full steam and the cutter
dashed after her. One hundred and fifty
yards from the battery wall we ran her
down and captured the tug. Gen CaliXto
Garcla was on board, The Old mans race
was study. He just set his mouth hard
and looked out over the hay. My men
were sorry for him and TO tell the truth.
l was myself.
Not a man escaped. but we got every
man who started for that ship. The arms
and ammunitiOns were not sent to the Ber-
muda until the last moment. The Stran-
dhdn was caught only after long chase
toward the Narrows. She had between
thirty and forty tons of ammunition
aboard.
None of the men on the Bermuda made
any resistance when We climbed aboard
last night, except the steward. He swore
like typical Spanish pirate and threat
ened to cut everybOdy's heart out right
there. Two of my deputies grabbed him
and put him on the Hudson. Then he sub
sided 80
After the seizure the Cubans mobbed a
Pinkerton detectice on the Bermuda, and
but for the timely help of Marshars men
they would have killed him.
James McCaidm speaking for McCaldin
Bros, owners of the tugs W. ]. McCaldin
and McCaldin Brothers, said: I'VE knew
nothing of any filibustering in
tent. We were hirder TO put
stores and men on steamer.
We did not when we made the contract,
even know the name of the steamer. We
took the contract at ordinary rates, and
were trying to carry it out when we were
boarded by the revenue tug. At that time
stores aboard the Bermuda.
Our captains and men were not put
under arrest Our tugs were detained at
the barge office and l went and complain
ed to United States Marshal Mccarthy.
He went with me to the United States
district attorneys Office and the district
attorney told them they had no legal ex-
cuSe for holding out boats. Then they
gave me an order to the deputy marshals
they had left in charge of the tugs, and
they were released. They are at work in
the harbor now"
who made the contract with your"
Il prefer not to say. 1t was made in the
ordinary way of business. and we tried
TO carry II out. We violated no law and
can be subjected to no penalties"
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-26
More Troops From Spain.

Madrid Feb. 25.-The announcement is
made that 5000 fresh troops from Spain
will reach Cuba by the end of the pres
ent month, and 5000 more arrive there
at the beginning of March. The Heraldo
publishes a dispatch from its correspond
ent in Havana denying the truth of the
reports of the death of the rebel leader
Maceo. The dispatch also says the rebel
leader, Et Inglisite who has been cap
tured by the Spanish, claiming to be an
American citizen, in order to escape, is
being tried and condemned by court mar
tial.