davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
The Farmers Condition.

The farmers do not realize their
favored condition as do the laborers in
the city who, in the best circumstances,
have lowering over them the agonizing
fear that they will be thrown out of
work with nothing to fall back on. They
envy the condition of the farmer, who,
if he cannot always have luxuries, can
depend upon having the necessaries of
life. Trusts and rings may demoralize
business, but no combination of man
can prevent the sun from pouring his
riches upon the responsive earth. The
farmer can be sure of good, pure
wholesome food; his stock will not or.
ganize a strike against him, but will
serve him faithfully in return for
proper treatment. There must, too, be
constant demand for the farmers
products. People may do without fine
furniture, books, pictures, and fine
clothing, but they are not exempt from
the demands of appetite. People eat
during the hardest times, and to the
farmer all humanity looks for food and
clothing.-Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
Live Stock Market.

Satisfactorily hogs Sc higher at ACC
live weight
VEAL CALvEs.-Prices were little easier,
equal to strong 4c lower.
Mich Cows AND SPRNGERs.-The better
grades sold at $40 to 500. Common grades
were slow of sale at sale at $50 to S3S.
Arrivals of Live Stock at markets for the
week at Watertown-Cattle, 4,261; sheep,
1852; veals, 1,768; swine, 1885, horses,
Prices of sheep and lambs: In lots, $500
to $500 each; extra, So. % to $3.50, or from
&c to 4lc per Id; lambs, &c to 6tc; veal
calves, 3 to 54c.
Prices of market beef: A few choice,
5000 to 1928; extra, 1926 to 500; first
quality, $4.75 to $500: second quality, 81 to
$3.50; third quality, $3.50 to $3.50.
SHEEP AND LAMBS. - Supply about as
last week, with no improvement in value.
Western Spring lambs laid down here at
to 61c, yearling lambs at to 44c, and old
sheep not less than &c.
BEEF CArTLE.--The market had liberal
supply and prices showed no improvement
from last weeks decline The receipts OF
country cattle are rather light and prices
thereon are governed by the rates on West
ern.
Prices of store cattle: Working oxen per
pair, $50 to $3.50; farrow cows, So to So;
fancy cows, $50 to S70 mich cows and
calves, $40 to S4S; yearlings, SIS to SIG; two
year-olds, S12 to 500; three-year-olds, $50 to
S32; Western fat swine, live, SIC to ici
Northern dressed hogs, Age per 10.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
Making Glover Hay.

In my younger days l had great
trouble with this crop, and rarely had
had it cured so that it would be in the
best condition, and | almost became
disguised with it and ready TO give up
growing it, but some ten years ago
learned how to cure clover hay 80 as to
be sure that it would keep and since
that time have had no mouldy hay. The
secret is told in two words, cure twice.
What | mean by this needs little ex-
PLANTATION. In good hay weather it is
possible to get clover hay so well dried
in single day that it feels dry to the
hand, and no water can be wrung from
it by twisting wisp of it, and most
farmers after these tests will put it into
the barns, but it will invariably become
damp and clammy and heat if this is
done. No matter how dry clover will get
in one day, it is not safe to NOW it away,
and the farmer who wants good hay,
free from must and mould, should put it
up in cocks and let it stand over to the
second day and then sun and air it
thoroughly, and when it dries the Sc
cond time it is Perfectly safe to put
away. L usually cut clover in the after
noon, when it is free from external
moisture. If the next day proves a
good hay day we stir the swaths just
before dinner, turn it again between
one and two O'Clock and then begin to
cock it up 30 as to finish before the dew
falls. 1t ought to all be in the cock by
$3.50 o'clock The next day, if fine,
we open the cocks just before dinner,
turn the hay again between one and
two O'Clock, and then begin at once to
put it in the barn with confidence that
we shall have good, sweet hay.
Ii there seems to be danger of rain
the morning after the clover is cut we
do not disturb it at all, Glover can lie
out in one or two days rain before the
swaths are disturbed with but little
damage, or it will endure quite al
amount OF rain in the cock with bu
little injury, but we dry it and get it il
as soon as possible when good weathe
comes. 1 sold one year a carload O.
clover hay in Cincinnati, getting thu
top price for it, which was cured in al
exceedingly wet season. We begaI
cutting ten acres that year the 9th o
June, and it was the 9th day of Jul,
before we finished, and there wa
scarcely an acre of it that did not ge
wet at some stage of drying, but b.
careful utilizing of all the sunshin
there was we got the crop saved in goo'
condition.
One can do fairly good days worl
in the corn fields, and save the hay a
the same time, as it is not best to d
anything in the hay field before tel
O'Clock in the morning, and one team
can cut in two or at most three hour
in the evening as much as can be care
for the next day.-Waldo F. Brown, il
Cincinnati Weekly Gazette.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
Cow Lore,

Intelligence in COWS counts, as it
does with human beings. When at the
noted Smith and Powell stock farm of
Holsteins, in Onondaga county, N. Y,
few years ago, noteworthy incident
occurred which we'll illustrates the diff
ference in intelligence of pure-bred cat
tie and scrubs. There were but few
fences on the farm and the COWS were
herded by couple of small boys.
There were about 100 in all. The pas
ture was in rear Of broad expanse of
growing oats and reached by roadway
along the grain, which was unfenced.
The cows marched along this passage
way twice day, and L could not see a
spot where they had stepped hoof on
the oats ground, and was told they
never did it. How many boys would
it require TO keep 100 scrub cows with
in the bounds of such pasture? These
COWS had been taught their place and
they knew it as we'll as a man could.
Scrub cattle have not brains enough to
harbor such degree of intelligence.
The butter-maker's residence was on
corner of the highway and the road
leading to the COW barn. The flower
garden in front of the house was not
fenced and the COWS had to pass there
in going to and from the pasture. Sit
ting at an open parlor window with the
butter-maker, and seeing the string of
cows approaching near, | asked: Are
you not going out to protect your How
ers9" go, no." he said, they know
better than to harm them" The cows
had to turn square corner there.
Some of them came within five feet of
the flowers; but they did not deign
even to look that way. 1t is doubtful
If scrub COWS could ever be taught
these things. The wild blood in them
would assert itself sometimes, and they
would break away from any restraint.
A scrub will eat dry straw sometimes
when not hungry, if she thinks she is
stealing it, Docility is badge of gen.
tie breeding, in beast as well as man.
AS this is the time of year when ma
jority of dairy sires in the United States
are selected, why not get the best in
telligence, as their get will also be best
in production, and their cost now but a
trife more than scrubs?-Dr. Galen
Wilson, in Practical Farmer,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
Catch Crops.

On almost every farm in the country
there are spots every year which do not
produce anything because of some &C.
cident of weather or season. Very fire.
quently some catch crop that can be
put in late in the season may be used
TO occupy these spots with benefit to
the farm. by keeping down the growth
of weeds, and With cash profit to the
farmer
In wet season, such as we frequent.
ly have, there are often spots in land
not very we'll drained, where corn and
other early planted spring crops cannot
be put in. Such places become work.
able later and very often must be driven
across regularly in cultivating the crop
grown in the main part of the field
.nus 'ahip -. mucu time as any other
part Of the field and returning nothing.
There are several crops that may be
used as catch crops to occupy places OF
this kind. AS late as the last of June
we may plant sorghum to be used as
fodder, or green food for the cows and
hogs, early varieties of potatoes, Hub
bard squashes, or late cabbage. The
cabbage will do we'll if transplanted as
late as July from seed sown in May.
Later still Hungarian grass will make a
hay crop, and buckwheat will usually
ripen if sown during the first days of
July. Any of these crops have mar
ket value, and if a market is not access
sible may be used on the farm. The
squashes are good for the cows and
hogs, and nothing is more relished by
sheep than cabbage, it being an ideal
winter feed for breeding ewes.
AS late as the tenth of August tur-
nips may be sown and crop secured,
and very Frequently the very spot that
,, wss wet all the spring will produce. q
magnificent crop of turnips, which will
make good stock feed in winter. Il
these catch crops are attended to, con
siderable saving may be effected, very
frequently with but small outlay Of
labor.-E. S. Whittemore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
Late Forage Crops.

Most farmers get through haying
about July 20 to 30. Then there is
time to put some forage crop, but few
know what to put in so late. Few
Vermont farmers care to SOW turnips,
it ia too late for millet or Hungarian,
and they do not know what else can be
put in after July 20 or August l. A
late bulletin of Cornell University Ex-
pertinent Station gives some most val
liable information on this point. 1t
suggests new late forage crop, peas
and barley. We had intended to SOW
barley and rye, but did not suppose
peas would do well when sown 80 late.
1t seems, however, that they will, and
that we can get late forage crop by
sowing peas and barley after the mid
die of July. The beauty of the combi-
nation is that the frost will not hurt
either, and that they can be fed late in
the fall af:.oSrs w.: nc creen corn has failed.
Anothes crop Tor late sowing Is GRIM
son clover. Many have pfematurely
rejected this valuable plant because it
did not live through the spring and
reach maturity. But this is mistake.
If it makes a good fall growth, it has
stored up good supply of nitrogen, is
tall enough to make splendid fodder,
and it's roots and stubble are most val
liable fertilizer. OF course it is better
to have the clover last till the next
early summer, but perhaps it will be
as valuable in the north for fall feed as
it is in the south for other purposes.
There is always need of plenty of fall
feed, something after the frosts have
ruined the corn as to its greenness and
succulence. If crimson clover will ill
this Mace it will be of immense benefit
to the farmers of the north,
As to fiat peas, sacaline, katiir corn
teosinte, etc., not one of them comes
anywhere near peas and oats, corn
and the other plants we have men
toned. Sorghum has value, but IL II
not equal to corn, One of the plant
which has value but has not dom
well in the state is Alfalfa. This wa
tried few years ago by number o
farmers, the seed being sent out by tn
experiment station. None of it seemed
to do well, but it may be that this wa
owing to the lack of the proper bacte
ria in the soil. Possibly if the Ian
should be inoculated with the Alfalf
bacteria, it would bear good crops G
this plant. Its roots go very deer
twenty feet in some soils, so ths
drouths do not affect it, 1t takes con
plete possession of the soil 80 the root
of other plants are killed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
AGRICULTURAL.
Strawberries for Market,

1t certainly does not pay well 10 grow
strawberries for market in the ordinary
way. You might make cent quart
or less, but that hardly pays. The only
way to make marketing strawberries
pay, is to grow big berries of good
quality, and because b. lis are better for
big berries than matted rows, hills
should be the method of growing for
market. Make the ground around the
hill very rich, keep all runners cut off
and all weeds away, thus getting the
largest possible sized berry. Then
pack in full-sized packages, and have
every berry in every package as good
as the berries on the top. Put your
name and address on every package,
and you will command the very highest
price. There are plenty of small ber-
ries on the market, but you must have
a better article than anybody else, or
you will get the same low price that
others do. Try to secure the nearby
local market, rather than slip to stran-
gers. Produce very fine, large berries,
sell only large ones, put them up in an
attractive shape, secure, if possible
regular customers for them, and you
ought to make money from strawberries
The so-called matted row system pro
duces berries cheaply, but they sci
cheaply, too. One of the great secrets
of profitable production is the produc
ing a better article than that which il
usually sent into the market. This ii
especially true Of those who sell in the
local and home market Bushels o.
strawberries may be sold for eight tt
ten cents; but if you can produce ant
deliver berries that are much larger
give better measure, put them up in {
more attractive shape, and are goo(
salesman, you may sell berries TO
twelve, sixteen, or even twenty ant
twenty-five cents. This is an example
of the value of intelligence. AS WI
said last week, the man who uses hi
intellect is the man who will succeed
1t is the man who reads, who thinks
who plans, and who uses good judg
ment who will get on in farming in thu
future. He must work, but it is thu
man who works wisely whose work tell
the most. A man with a machine an(
a horse or two can do vastly more Worl
than the man alone. That machine il
the product of brains, intellect, intelli
gence. and the man who uses the ma
chine makes his horse do what he onc'
would have had to have done or hiret
done by hand. Mind must come to thu
front in farming, and the man who ha
the best mind and uses it the best will
make the most successful farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

OLD PEOPLE who require medicine
TO regulate the bowels and kidneys will
find the true remedy in Electric Bitters.
This medicine does not stimulate and
contains no whiskey or other intox-
icant, but acts as a tonic and Alternative.
1t acts mildly on the stomach and bow
els, adding strength and giving tone TO
the organs, thereby aiding Nature in
the performance OF the functions. Elec-
trio Bitters is an excellent appetizer
and aids digestion. Old people find it
Just exactly what they need. Price
fifty cents and $l.00 a bottle, at q.
Blakely's drug store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
Creamery Reports.

MARsHFIELD CREAMERY. - Report
for May. Milk received, 269, 652 pounds;
average test, 43S; cream received lO,69S
lbs; average test, 1912; butter made,
1914 pounds. Expenses, S305.7O;
paid patrons for butter, 16 cents per
pound.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

A LITTLE shrewd management is
often better than years labor. We
should study the soil we cultivate. Let
us always endeavor to plant that which
the soil will produce best without rob-
bling it of all its strength and fertility.
1t takes brains to farm right.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

No farm was ever SO rich it could
not profitably utilize every particle of
the manure made upon it. With lev
eled, clean fields, thoroughly cultivated,
and enriched by all the manure OBJ
tainable-one may be reasonably sure
of bounteous crops, and good and in
dependent livelihood.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

GOOD farm help can be had, and we
should not let a few dollars stand in
the way of procuring such. He can
add more to the farmers profit every
month than the excess of wages over a
shiftless mans hire. On the other
hand, poor hand will lose this differ
ence quite as easily.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

To get the fullest profit from your
hogs, butcher as many as you can al
home and turn them largely into sweet
country lard and bacon, Many buyers
will pay more for these right from the
farm than they would have to pay in
the general market.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

THE best patent right any farmer has
is his brain. He can use this brain
every day to his general advantage.
And there is no way that he can use it
to greater advantage than by making
handy implements to use about the
farm and garden.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

AFTER serious illness Hoods Sarsa-
parilla has wonderful building-up pow
err. 1t purifies the blood and restores
perfect health.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

81 WAS run over by a lumber wagon,
Did not expect to live. Was terribly
bloated. My friends bathed me with DR..
Thomas Eclectric Oil, and l was cured.
We have great faith in Thomas Eclectric
OIL" Mrs. William #. Babcock, Norvell,
Jackson Co., Mich.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

U-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for Wholesae lots mot job6ns
prieeI unless otherwise indicated, and intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

ARE you sufferer from that terrible
plague, itching Piles? Doan's Ointment
will bring you instant relief and permanent
cure. Get II from your dealer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

With the close of the presidential
campaign, THE TRIBUNE recog-
nizes the fact that the American peo-
Pile are now anxious to give their at
tention to home and business interests.
To meet this condition politics will
have far less space and prominence,
until another State or National &C.
casion demands renewal of the fight
for the principles for which THE
TRIBUNE has labored from its incep-
ton to the present day, and won its
greatest victories.
Every possible effort will be put
forth, and money freely spent, to make
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE pre-
eminently a NATIONAL FAMILY
NEWSPAPER, interesting, instruc-
tive, entertaining and indispensable TO
each member of the family. We furnish
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

in the right measure. 1t gives perfect satis-
faction. Buy one. The price is the only
thing cheap about the Lincoln" By mail
on receipt Of price.
VERMONT WArcHMAN Co.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 90
LUCAS COUNTY, 80

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F. j..
CHENEY & Co., doing business in the
city of Toledo, county and state afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of CATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use OF
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
~ my presence, this 9th day OF
}1.s. D'e xn %. a A. n;s 1856
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu'
cous surfaces of the system. Send fol
testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
CO Sold by druggists at seventy
! five cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

THOROUGH tests confirm previous
results,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

years. Scores are in use
in the banks, insurance Of
fiices and business houses
Of Montpelier. Hundreds
have been sold by this
Office in all parts Of the
state and country. 1t is
durable, good for years of
service, always ready to
go" but never drips, the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
HUMPH REYS'

CURES
No. Fever, Congestion.
No. Q Worms.
No. 8 Infants Diseases.
No. 4 Diarrhea.
No. 7 Coughs & Colds.
No. o Headache.
No. 10 Dyspepsia, Indigestion.
No. fl Delayed Periods.
No. ~ LeuchOrrea.
No. 10 Group.
No. IA Skin Diseases.
No. is Rheumatism.
No. 10 Catarrh.
No. 27 Kidney Diseases.
No. "a Sore Throat.
No. IT Grip & Hay Fever.
Dr. Humphreys Homeopathic Manual OF
Diseases at your Druggists or Mailed Free,
sold by druggists, or sent on receipt OF 22cts,,
50cts. or 81 Humphreys Med CO., Cor Willlan
md John SITS, New York
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07

Write your name and address on a
postal card, send it to Geo. w. Best
Tribune Office, New York City, and a
sample copy of THE NEW YORK
WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be mailed
to you.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-07-07
The Lincoln Fountain Pen.
PRICE ONLY S1.00-REDUCED FROM $3.50
WARRANTED SOLID GoLD-EvERY PEN
GUARANTEED.

The LINCOLN PEN" has been in use in this
office, on all kinds of work, for nearly two
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-04

hlirLltat touutS sends u Train Load
PLENTY al Money for


Special Dispatch 30 the Post-lnf ellicencer.
G0TI'ENpALE. Wash Jaly Cow
boy days and kItckitAg early days were
recalled VERY vividly Thursday evening
when hand 81 4si sleek steers passed
through Goidenaalo 80 route 20 Grants
station hy WAY ~ tbe Columbus
ferry A. tho river the herd WIS
increased bY a band OF cattle
fcom Peasant valley The CATTLE were
plso.d ar cars last Night and at she hreak
81 daN .this morning q long train bearing
kHkl.at notinez pulled out. headed for
Sioux CisY Ia.
isaac e.. parlana ~ Colaeuaele. rur-
chased she 7atsje and placed in circulation
among the eattis men about Slat. Mr.
l8ri9n3. after thlrty-fHe years absence.
wfll y.slt his birthplace oskaiooSa. dur
ing als fox laws stay IN iowa Mel Vi
l.eot. Goideras,e aotel man au4 pfo-
ne~r II the Coast. accompanies IRE train
ar8 from Sioux Ctry al. proceed on 10
Nova Sofia % Vislt tae place ~ has chilli
hood days after an absence Of nearly
forty years
k3e slsst eattensen are apparently in
ciaror. rs far 8s pleuty az ready money fg
r3a erueG Recently Arta4v Hale I'd
Scopes. 'Harstet, bros August Swvth and
- o Rich as par. h4ees XII kitat cattle.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-04
WILL NOT TELL THE NAME.
Bicyclist Nelson Protects His NHs-
terioux AsSaiiant.

CHICAGO, July S,-The police are con-
WINGED that both g. Il. Nelson, formerly Of
Cadailic. Mich. the hicyciist who WAS shot
in Washington park Thursday light. and
his companion. Mrs. Staples. knew who
the assailant was. Notwithstanding the
fact that Nelson made a sworn ante
mortem statement TO the contrary. He
swcre that Mrs. Staples did not shoot
him.
Mrs. Staples according 10 her own adj
mission, is a user Of morphine. She Is still
detained at the Hyde Park police station.
Today she told the police that one even
ing, she was riding her bicycle in
Washington park. near where Nelson was
shot, tall man, wearing a dark suit of
bicycle clothes and "A dark blue cap. tried
to persuade her TO talk To him. She says
she refused and the man who. She says.
was almost as dark as a negro then rode
away, saying that he would get even with
her
The physicians attending Nelson have
given up all hope OF his recovery. In the
Chicago hospital Mrs. Staples. on her
neck. begged him to tell the policemen
who surrounded his cot who shot him
Thursday night For Gods sake, tell
these people who II was. and make them
release me from jail" she said. Tell
them. anyway. | have no knowledge OF 1t
and that | am not To blame
Both Nelson and Mrs. Staples were cry
ing she pleaded with him. but all the
patient could say was that he did not
know who shot him