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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-27
Miss schorcht. the yIoliniste.

MissValesca Schorcht, the eminent yioliniste
and pupil of Joachim, assisted by NJ IS Carrie
bowes as pianiste, Louis CrepauX as barytone
and Frederic Schorcht as aceompan.st, gave a
musical entertainment last Thursday night at
Golden Gate Hall that was well received.
There was a large audience, among whom
were some of the most cultivated in the City.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-27
HonorabIy Discharged.

William J. o'Farrell was acquitted last
Thursday in Judge Joachimsen's court of a
charge of petty larceny. He was arrested last
month and was charged with stealing meat
from stores on Market and Sixth streets.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-27

JEwKLRY store. 81 Third. removed to 303
Kearny. Large stock of diamonds, watches, etc.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-27

BRIEFS and transcripts printed reasonably;
rapid and reliable. MysellRollins, % Clay. >
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-27

HAIR BRUSHES, solid back,
white French bristles, all sizes.
To-day special l........
LADIES' UN DERVESTS, white
merino, jersey ribbe and shaped, 6
II. n. L. s. and II. n. s. S. Our 4
5Oc line to-day at.................
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
ALPHA" De LAVAL FIRST
THE Field" NOWHERE.

figures respective makes of Cream Sep
practical gd intending buyers of such machines
inferior machines who have yet recognize the inevitable
nece made the better
1897 Butter Contest the National Creamery Butermakers
Owa
February 3S2 entries representing
Maine tCaorna including Canada WELL OF
Alpha" SO "Sharpe" IA Reid" "Jumbo
U. S."6 Danish Weston" and "Springer"
In Medal the Annual
Meeting Daymens Association De Kab
OF these entries,
55 Alph" "Sharples U. S." and
Overflow"
Wisconsin Experiment Station Bulletin No. 5eMarch 1897
233 Wisconsin creamere using 1856 parator
onow ITO "Apha-De LAVAL 80 Sharpe 30 Weston" 20
IL )" II ~ S. nd4 BarberOvfow"
Medal Contest covering 1895
February 400 entries
throughout the country OF these SO
were Alpha" Sharpe7 Alexandria "Reid and
Weston"
figures the actual Cream sparao
effective possible They cut
They show the Alpha" FIRST, and its field
of infer competitors nowhere.
months fully oneha the cemeies using
will
already 1897
Alpha Creamery
De machine the AphaBaby
Of against all other makes combined
Baby Dairy catalogue No. 257 containing
of practical daiyng facts and information
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
Growing Strawberries.

The eminent authority on agricultu-
raj and horticultural matters, Mr..
Waldo F. Brown, writes as follows in
regard to growing strawberries:
"Why does not every farmer have an
abundant supply of strawberries? 1
can grow more bushels of them on q
given sized piece of land than of corn,
and while 1 can buy corn at from
twenty-five to fifty cents bushel can
rarely buy good strawberries for less
than $3.50 to 81 per bushel. After
growing them for nearly forty years 1
pronounce them surer crop than corn,
wheat or potatoes. have seen
square rod produce over two bushels in
a single season, and my family has
never been without strawberries a sim
gle season since began housekeeping
in 1868. The family which grows it's
own berries usually has them in abun-
dance and of the best quality, while the
farmer who buys usually furnishes few
berries and frequently poor ones.
There are few localities which will not
furnish market for good strawberries.
and 80 l always plant literally and
usually sell enough to pay all the ex-
pense Of growing and picking, and leave
me little profit besides. In 1895 my
bed Of twenty-five square rods fur
nished the family, aud we sold 1928
worth, wholessling them to a single
customer at about three cents quart
below the retail price. The drought
Of the fall of 1895 greatly injured my
bed, but the same amount of land gave
us all we wanted and S12 worth to sell
in 1896.
"Plants of the best varieties can be
bought at about fifty cents per hun
dred, and bed set with 500 plants will
produce somewhere from five to ten
bushels of fruit under favorable condi-
tions. do not like to give list of
varieties, for what does we'll in my To-
cality might not in a different one, but
l advise every one to get the advice of
some grower near him and buy plants of
him. After the first year grow your
own plants, but do not dig them from
between the rows in your bearing bed,
but either plant separate bed from
which to grow plants or else dig at one
end of your bed, taking up all the good
plants, for it is a damage to bearing
bed to dig plants through it, and if one
only digs between the rows he is likely
to get poor plants. One mistake fire.
quently made by the novice is to buy
high-priced novelties which are as yet
INFESTED, and every experienced straw
berry grower knows that in nine cases
out of ten such prove worthless"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
Current Comment.

OATs-The market is quiet, but prices
maintain generally steady tone.
CoRN.-There have been large receipts,
but it has been mostly for export. The
local market is steady.
EGGs.-We have had another week of
heavy receipts but very large proportion
has gone directly into cold storage. De-
mand improved considerably following our
last weekly report, and slight advance was
made.
CHKEsE.-Receipts for export, All boxes.
There is good steady market for old stock,
and prices for all grades are we'll sustained
Some small lots of new cheese are coming
in and choice small sizes are selling fairly
at about 11lc for both northern and western.
BUTTER.-we have had weak and de-
clining market since our last weekly report,
not 80 much on account of increase in sup
ply as from lack of demand. Buyers have
been holding off as much as possible, only
taking the goods as they were actually
needed.
PoTAToEs.-Receipts have been quite
liberal for the past week, but there has
been demand enough to keep stock from sc-
cumulating and the market closes with
steady tone on choice stock. Best Aroos-
took Hebrons and Green Mountains are
selling very well at 43c. Rose have only
limited sale.
FLoUR.-The better tone to the wheat
the flour trade to some extent, but the gen.
eral movement is yet quiet. Prices have
hardened about 10c from the lowest prices
asked, but buyers are yet disposed to oper-
ate conservatively. The feeling is not very
bullish on the part Of jobbers, and the trade
in general will only operate to meet press.
ing needs.
MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP.-Receipts have
been heavy, but there has been little bet
ter demand than last week. Sugar has
been selling for the most part at 7 to &c, and
it takes fancy lot OF small cakes to bring
over SC. There has been very little call for
tub or pail sugar as yet, and there is large
stock on hand. Choice heavy syrup has
been selling fairly at Soc, and this is the top
price for everything except small lots Of ex-
ira heavy cans.
pounds. This week has been noted as the
biggest week on record for arrivals Of foreign
wool. From Rosario (Argentina), 672 bales
came in, from Buenos Ayres 2,111 bales,
from the Cape of Good Hope 1929 bales
London sent US 1858 bales, Liverpool
1885 bales and Glasgow 64S bales: The
approval Of lot after lot Of this foreign
wool, practically sold before arrival. makes
the sales appear larger than they really are.
The market is decidedly quieter.
LuMBRR.-The market has improved dur
ing the week, but not to any marked de-
gree. The yards, in fact, are rather slow in
taking hold, and are awaiting the develop
ment Of trade before purchasing any con-
siderable quantities. One who has been
pretty much over the country says that the
yards have an unusually small amount of
lumber on hand for this time OF the year.
Even the argument that prices are likely to
advance in the near future does not prove
stimulus to buying. The dealers say they
first want to see the business.g
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
Live Stock Market.

BEEF CArTLE.-Recepts Of cattle were
heavy, particularly from the West. Last
weeks prices were pretty we'll sustained.
PRICES of sheep and lambs: In lots, So to
So 80 each; extra, 1918 to S., or from 2 to
&c per Id; lambs, 4 to &c; veal calves, 3 to
sic.
PRICES of market beef: A few choice,
Sc to $3.50; extra, $3.50 to 1919; first quail
ity, S. to $685. second quality, 81 to $3.50;
third quality, $3.50 to $3.50.
ARRIVALS Of live stock at markets for the
week at Brighton: Cattle, 5l2 sheep, 256;
veals, 3S2; swine, 1,241; horses, 176. Al
Watertown: Cattle, $3.50; sheep, 1925;
veals, 1925; swine, 1883. At Somerville:
Cattle, 2,806; sheep, 7,l9S; veals' LOIS;
swine, 2S,T3.
PRICES of store cattle: Working oxen per
pair, $50 TO $780, farrow cows, Sl2 TO S22;
fancy cows, $50 to SOS; mich cows and
calves, $40 to S4S; yearlings, IS to SIG; two
year-olds, S12 to 500; three-year. olds, $50 to
$50; Western fat swine, live to 49c; North
ern dressed hogs, 5sc per Id.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
Selling Cows.

Much attention is being devoted now
to the subject of soiling cows during
the severe droughts that are Of annual
occurrence, and inquiry is made for the
best crops to use for the purpose. Rye
is much used, but it is poor crop at
best and is only at its best for two or
three days; before that it is too watery
and beyond is too woody to be of much
feeding value or be relished by the
cows. Wheat is much better. 1t has
greater feeding value and the cows
like 1t better and 1t will remain much
longer in good feeding condition. AL
falfa, where it will succeed, will be
excellent. 1t comes early, is nitro
genous, has great feeding value, yields
well and makes quick second growth.
Oats and peas sown at intervals of
eighteen days may be made available
for long time and are an excellent
milk-producing food. But why bother
with any or all these in any country
where corn does well? No other crop
can be talked about that will grow 30
readily and yield anywhere near 80
much or 30 good food, per acre, as
Indian corn. The trouble has been
that it could not be got in best condition
for feeding until late in summer, but
later tests have shown that by putting
it into silo it can be kept 30 as to be
as available as summer food as for
winter.
Last year we had large surplus of
potatoes which we could not sell and
80 we fed them to the cows, and not
wishing to feed too much succulent
food we covered up the silage and fed
potatoes. The result was that when
the awful drought of last summer struck
us we had one silo nearly full of good
silage. When we commenced to feed
it we were surprised to find our COWS
coming up on milk as though turned
into fresh June pasture.
So repeat: Why fool around witt
any of those so-called soiling crops
making it necessary to spend large
part of each day cutting and hauling {
jag for the COWS when we can fill oul
silos quickly in the fall and have the
food in best possible condition ant
where we can get it quickly before the
COWS? And then we can easily grow
twice as much food value on an acre
with this as with any other crop.
But some one objects. Corn is not {
balanced ration while some of these
other crops are nearly or quite 30.
Admit this claim and it only adds Il
the value of the crop. We can brinl
from oil meal, cottonseed meal, or glu
ten meal, all rich in protein, the yer,
element needed to balance up the silag'
as ration, and all Of them worth near
ly as much to apply as manure, as the,
cost in the market. So that while rails
ing and feeding the better balanced
soiling crops we are adding nothing t,
the fertility of the farm; by the use o
the silo and buying these nitrogenou
foods to balance it up, we are rapid
building up the exhausted fertility o
the farm.
1 am strongly in favor of soilin,
cows, but I would do it by building
more silos, raising more corn to I'll
them, and then buying the cheap by
products, instead of trying to raise a.
the feed needed and thus let the fer
tility of the farm run down.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
AGRICULTURAL.
ClingIng to the Old Ways.

1t is strange how farmers will persist
in doing as their fathers have done. In
some communities they become enter
prising and progressive, in others they
go right on just as they have been
going, making no allowance for changes
in conditions. Hundreds of farmers
will SOW few acres of oats, plant a
piece or two of corn, grow quantity
of potatoes, and SOW piece of fodder
corn. He knows there may be drouth,
but he does not get ready for it. He
knows his pasture is running out, but
all the provision he makes for this
is the sowed corn. You will see him
drawing out manure and putting it IN
little heaps TO be spread later. The
enterprising farmer will put in plenty
of early peas and oats. This he will
feed to his COWS when the drouth comes.
He will SOW no corn, but plant it with a
machine. He will not hill up his corn
and potatoes, but will use the best
modern tools for cultivation. He will
go into clover with determination to
succeed, and make the most of it. He
will raise lots of corn, will build silo,
will not go into growing little of
everything, but will grow few things
and learn to do we'll with them. II
hardly pays to grow oats, unless one
can get large yields. Corn is 30 much
better and surer every way, and one
can buy gluten and bran to supple
ment the corn and make money.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21

RUBBER STAMPS made to order by the
Watchman Publishing Company.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21

HOODS PILLS cure all liver ills.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

AS mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on pre-
scriptions from reputable physicians, as
the damage they will do is tenfold to
the good you can possibly derive from
them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufac-
tured by f. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
o., contains no mercury, and is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the sys-
tenn. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken
internally, and made in Toledo, o., by
+. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
"a Sold by Druggists. price sew
enty-6ve cents per bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
What Poor Roads Cost,

Few people realize how costly poor
roads are. Take sand roads, for in
stance, where the wagon wheels sink
down into the soft sand, they are al
most always hard to pull loads over.
Take the common dirt road. 1t is
quite good in the summer when packed
down hard, but when it is very wet,
when the fall rains, freezes and thaws
come, and when the frost is coming out
of the ground in the spring, the COM
mon dirt road is terrible. The very
word mud has a sickening sound.
Stuck in the mud" means trouble
and worry. Mudhole means loss,
hard work and danger. Bad roads
make many other things bad. One
great need of farmers is an easy method
of getting their products to market.
The larger the load which can be
drawn and the quicker one can 60 over
it, the less it costs the farmer to do his
business. Bad roads take great deal
of valuable time, take a vast amount of
horse power, and wear out wagons at a
rapid rate. Look at the wagons in
communities where mud roads hold
sway. The horses, the men, the
women, and even the children have a
weary, bedraggled look. Bad roads
depress people. The effort to get out
is too much for them, 30 they sink down
in listlessness at home.
On the other hand, good roads make
everything seem more businesslike.
Farmers can hitch up and drive to mar
ket with heavy loads. They can hitch
up and drive out for pleasure with
their wives and children. But who
would think of driving for pleasure in
the mud? The young people can take
80 much more comfort riding together
on good roads. The schools are far
easier of access, and 30 are the meet
ings and the postofice.
The writer has had full proof of the
value of the good road within few
weeks past. Having several heavy
loads to move partly over plank road,
then over short piece of common
earth road, which was in the most
wretched condition, he found how cost
ly the bad road is. Then he has driven
the same load over plank road, one
made OF coal ashes, and one OF the mud
diest and meanest' of dirt roads, and
has then taken a similar load on to an
asphalt pavement. The last named is
the most perfect road there is, except
when it is covered with thin sheet Of
Q ice. But team can trot up hill with a
heavy load, on spring wagon, upon
the asphalt. For country roads the
best material is the stone lying on the
fields. But it costs money to build the
stone roads. There must be stone
crusher, and this must be supplied
with power to run it. Large stones are
to be placed first, then smaller ones,
then the crushed stones on top, and q
heavy roller used. The only way for
poor communities to build such roads
is for the state to provide the stone
crusher, engine, and roller and the peo-
pie do the work and provide fuel.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
A VALUABLE PREsCRIPTIoN.-E

A VALUABLE PREsCRIPTIoN.-Ed
itor Morrison of Worthington, Ind,
"Sun," writes: you have valuable
prescription in Electric Bitters, and l
can cheerfully recommend it for Con-
stipation and Sick Headache, and as a
general system tonic it has no equal"
Mrs. Annie Stehle, 1926 Cottage Grove
Avenue, Chicago, was all run down,
could not eat nor digest food, had a
backache which never left her and felt
tired and weary, but six bottles of Elec.
trio Bitters restored her to health and
renewed her strength. Prices 80 cents
and $1.00. Get a bottle at G. Blakely's
drug store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21

Like bliousness, dyspepsia, headache, consv-
patton, sour stomach indigestion are promptly
cured by Hoods Pills. They do their work
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
KEEP everything about the poultry
house clean, with plenty of fresh air
and sunlight.

81 HAVE used Burdock Blood Bitters In
my family for two years. 1t is the best
medicine ever used. 1t cured me of cry
sipelas in very short time also cured my
son OF scrofula after the doctors had failed"
Louie 8. Woodward, Laurel Hill, Fayette
County, Pa.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21

ALBURGH, VT, March Is, 1897. a" My
sister who has had catarrh very badly
began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla last
fall and has taken it more or less ever
since. She derived great benefit from
it. Not only is her catarrh relieved
but her general health is much i'm
proved. Others in our family are now
taking Hoods Sarsaparilla as aspring
medicine and find it all it is repre-
sented to be."-H. G. Lessor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21

Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell Mass
The only Pill to take with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-21
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

U-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for ohosale lots mot job6ns
prices) unless otherwise indicated. and are intended
to represent actual seles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-30
Important Montana Discovery.

For the past 10 or u years prospectors-
have been trampiug over a portion of the
country west of Maiden Mon. that has
been covered with what appeared to be
po-ohxry. pure and simple, says the
Butte Miner. but a thorough test of this
rock shows it to be q certain kind of
granite with a porphyry tendency and
shows an average of $50 in gold per ton.
The rock is q perfect slide. and is so
broken up that no mining is necessary
as the pieces are. many of them very
small. thus enabling it to be miHed at q
small cost. There nave been four claims
taken up. two of which are owned by F.
w. Flint, and it is estimated that on Mr.
F'lint'S property alone there are between
100000 and 100000 tons in sight Mr.
Flint also owns two valuable cyanide
propositions and q mill site directly oppo-
site these new claims. and is at present
negotiating for 100-tOn mill to be erected
on his property. This new find promises
to be hrst-clasS cyanide ore and will net
the party building mill at least s.. 10 per
ton. Mr.. Flint will endeavor to interest
a syndicate in this property. as he has
ample facilities for accommodating two
large plants on his ground. Sample as.
says run 81, Sc and $3.50, while general
samples show $3.50, 81 and $3.50 in gold.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-30

such condition that he could have left
them and = he been alone on the trip,
ne thinks would have now been on
MS way 70 ~ new Eldorado. The gen.
tleman says the scenes presented at
Skiugway IS indescribable. The beach at
TINS point IS rugged mountain side. coY-
cred with trees, brush. boulders and pre-
clpitous lodges and it is with difficulty
that ships cargoeS are landed; and when
they are the wild scramble for ones pos
sessions commences. Everyone going in
TO the hlondike has his stuff packed into
lOO-Dound parcels. covered with water
proof canvas; so all outfits look alike
and to find what belongs to you among
the hundreds and thousands of parcels
Is no small task. Mr.. Keith is of the
opinion that hundreds and hundreds Of
men VIII never get out of sight of the
landing places. On the boat in which Mr.
keth went no were seven women bound
Tor the new sold fields. one of whom had
been there and was then going back.
This woman did not consider the journey
anything to be particularly dreaded,
claiming all that was necessary to make
the trip successfully and without hard
snip was TO be cautious and not too
nasty w. A. Wilson, who is going into
the klondike in the interests of Mr.
Keith and others, has gone round by the
ocean route to 81. Michaels. From there
he goes UP the Youkon by steamer and
expects to reach Dawson City about Sept.
%. Mr. keiths estimate of the total OUT
put from the hlondike does not make tfle
amount over 81 600 600.