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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

Current Comment.

CoRN.-The demand has ruled light with
only small business doing. Prices have
ruled fairly steady.
OATs.-The market continues quiet, the
demand being confined to moderate pur-
chases as supplies are needed.
CHEEsE.-Receipts include 1924 boxes for
export. Demand continues light but stocks
are 30 we'll reduced that holders are indif-
ferent about selling at present prices.
BEANs.-The market has been very dull,
but with only slight change in prices. There
Is very light demand for the best marrow
pea at 81, and some are offered to arrive at
less.
FLoUR.-The wheat market has ruled
firm, and ranged rather higher, but the
sales OF flour have been small. Jobbers
have fair supplies on hand, and buy mostly
as they happen to need the goods to use at
once.
POULTRY. Receipts for the week, 13543
packages. Receipts have been heavy since
Christmas, and demand has been so light
that large stocks OF all kinds have accumu-
lated.
for the past week, but demand has been
so slack that there has been some accumula-
tions OF fresh goods, and the market closes
with dull and weak tone June creamery
! is dull, but holds fairly steady.
Gs.-Receipts have been quite liberal.
| D6nduu IL always uBuU dJ JHl5 btdbOn OI
the year. Trade is unusually dull and for
the past day or two has been al most at a
standstill. buyers only taking small lots for
immediate use and quotations are nominal.
LUMBER-Some few cargoes from the
East arrived this week, but otherwise there
is hardly anything doing. Even these few
cargoes it was hard to move. For this rea-
son those cargoes coming forward are not
bringing very good prices The car mills
are not doing much either, but are holding
prices steady. Short lumber of all kinds is
! quiet and featureless.
Wool. - Sales for the week, 2,166, 800
The year closes with dull week marked
with few features of interest, with small
sales and with lower prices. On the last
two days Of the week the attendance inn
proved little, and there was evidence that
at a price, buyers stood ready to operate
largely, the price, however, was so much
below current figures that little business has
| reaulted
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Brighton Live Stock Market,

SWINE. - Western consigned to home
slaughteries. Eastern selling at Al cper Id
dressed weight.
Mich Cows.-The arrivals were about
$50 head. The demand was fair, with
choice new milch cows at prices as high as
last week. Two sold for S65 each; l springer
for S33; 2 springers for $50 each.
VEAL CALvEs.-The supply was fair and
the demand moved quick. The market was
cleared at prices showing no change from
the current prices of last week. Twenty
seven calves, average weight 1877 lbs, sold
for 5lc per ID; II, average weight, 100 lbs,
sold for sc per Id; 10, average weight, Ill
lbs, sold for 4lc per ID.
BEEF CATTLE.-The supply was large and
the demand active, with values stronger
than last week. Twenty six cattle, aver
age weight, 900 lbs, sold for 4fc. per lb 10
cattle, average weight, 1,600 lbs, sold for &C..
per 10; cattle, average weight, ITO lbs,
sold fer SO 60 per 100 pounds. There were
no arrivals of Western beef cattle.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The supply was light
and the demand active. Within ten min
utes after the arrival OF the stock it was in
the hands of others, at values showing no
change except for few exceptionally fine
lambs One hundred lambs, average weight,
20 lbs, sold for sc per Id; 10 lambs, average
weight, IS lbs, sold for 5Ac per ID; Is sheep,
average weight, 107 lbs, sold for BIC per Id.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Take Time to Read.

There are very few farmers who have
not time TO do considerable reading at
this time of year. But there are great
many farmers who do not always keep
a book or paper on farming at hand to
pick up in leisure moments. 1t is use
less for any man to expect to succeed
in farming unless he reads up his bust
ness. Not long ago we visited the Of
flee of large experimenting estab-
lishment, and on the table were several
periodicals. which pertained to that
business. Then we were in large
cooperage works and on the Office desk
were periodicals for the managers Of
that business. We were in a tannery
Office and there were periodicals. In
the doctors and lawyers tffices you
will find papers adapted to their work.
Is the farmer an exception? Can he
get on as well without reading up on
his work? We know he cannot, and if
any farmer who reads the WATCHMAN
does not take farm paper, we hope he
will subscribe for one at once. No
man needs the help of papers 80 much
as farmers, and this is the season of the
year to impress this upon him. 1t is
not the reading of great city papers
which helps, the reading of political
papers and newspapers we advocate,
but reading farm papers and books for
farmers also. Take the long evenings to
get thoroughly posted up on your b usi-
ness. We hope from time to time to
notice valuable books for farmers in
this department.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Forest Apple-Trees.

In some parts of Pennsylvania are to
be found wild apple forests, having
been seeded by parent-growths the
same as regular forest trees. Without
pruning, cultivation, or any care what
ever, they start out on their little
careers, make their way, live their
lives, bear bushels of fruit that is never
gathered except by hunters .or wild
animals, and die when their time comes,
the same as their taller and statelier
neighbors.
The apples they bear are of different
sizes, colors and flavors; a bright red
being one of the favorite hues. No
doubt there are new and sturdy varie'
ties gradually developed in these self
cultivated nurseries of nature; and
fruit fanciers might find in them soLle-
thing worth grating into their or
chards.
These wild apples are, figuratively
speaking, nuts" to the squirrels
which live upon them when storing
their cold,weather food, and are even
said to be learning which are the win
ter apples, and to save them among
their eatable treasures-though not as
yet in barrels.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Secretary of Agriculture.

During two past administrations the
of agriculture has been
managed by other than farmers. This
time an effort is made to have the Pres
ident select an agricuturist for that pc
sition, to recognize the claims of the
farmers TO that department, to place at
it's head one who thoroughly under
stands the agricultural situations and is
competen. to manage for the best in.
terests of agriculture and the country
at large. This is commendable effort,
surely, and ought to be heartily sup
ported by the agricultural press, with
out exceptions. If the President should
not have any advice, in selecting his
cabinet, he needs no advice afterwards,
and hence needs no advisers. If he
desires his country's greatest good he
will be glad TO have dlsinterested ad-
vice as to who would advise him most
wisely during his administration. An
agricultural paper may have no partic-
ular candidate, but all the same, it
should advocate the appointment of an
agriculturist as Secretary of Agricul.
ture. 1t is conceded that lawyer will be
made attorney general, that a statesman
will be made premier, that a financi 4
will be laced in the treasury depart
ment, etc. All that farmers ask is 10
extend this principle to the agriculture
departMent.-Ohio Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Fired on Fort Sumter.

The man who loaded the cartridge
for the first shot which was fired on
Fort Sumter, a shot which viii live in
history for centuries as the initial blow
of that long, dark struggle, lives on
farm near Rome, Ga. His name is
Thomas w. Wheat. He is a strapping
six-footer, in his fifty sixth year, but
he does not look more than forty. He
had gone down to Augusta on Christ
mas dsy, 1860, for he lldsy frolic, be-
ing just twenty two years old, when he
was induced to 90 with crowd of other
Southern youths to Charleston ito
fight the Yanks." He had been given
to understand that the difficulty would
be of short duration, as it was not eX-
pected that the South would be very
long in convincing the North of the SUI
periorlty of its forces.
Wheat was attached to a South Car
DINA battery and stationed at Sul'ivan's
island. Just after midnight on the
morning of April ID, 1861, the long roll
was sounded, and his company took
their places at the guns. Wheat was
assigned as loader for the ten-inch NOR
tar. He measured out the powder,
ulIcu tuC Cal tiluRo oho Wv ehS iuSS ava
the first shot. Then, just at daylight
showed them the outlines Of the old
fort, Capt. HalleIquist, who was in
command, pulled the lanyard. The
shot re-echoed from shore to shore
stirred up Charleston and the world
knew that the war of the rebellion had
begun.
"My blood was up" said Wheat in
telling the story, "and in a twinkling
l had rammed another charge down the
black throat of the mortar. l was per-
mitted to fire the second shot myself"
Wheat served ali through the war
and was not wounded once. He was
not even captured until 1865, when
at Salisbury, N. c., he surrendered
with his company to the fifteenth
Pennsy lvania, commanded by Capt.
Waggoner.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Vermont Dairy Reports.

GRAND ISLE Co-oPERATIvE CREAM.
cry, Pearl, for November.-Mi re-
ceived, 800, 1888 pounds; butter made,
16,410 pounds; average test (Babcock)
4.31 per cent; paid for butter fat, 20
cents; paid for four per cent milk, per
100 pounds, 80 cents.
MEADOW BROOK CREAMERY, West
Glover, for November. - Cream re-
ceived, 2S,543 pounds; butter made,
6. 300 pounds; paid for butter, 18 cents.
UNION CHEESE FACTORY, South
Wallingford, for September.-Milk re-
ceived, 1896 pounds; cheese made,
1882 pounds; paid for cheese, 8.3I
cents per pound; paid for milk, not
tested, 85.97 cents per 100 pounds.
Same, for October. - Milk received,
106,838 pounds; cheese made, 1900
pounds; paid for cheese, o 2 cents per
pound; paid for milk, not tested,
81 1924 cents per 100 pounds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
AGRICULTURAL.
Keeping Out Cold-.-Letting In Light.


These days of zero weather emphe-
size the need of making ell farm ami
mails as comfortable as possible. To
this end three things are necessary:
Warmth, light and ventilation. In
state where lumber is 80 cheap there
need be no lack of warmth. Walls can
be made double and packed with saw
dust, chaff, straw, or leaves. Cracks
and holes can be stopped with old bran
and fertilizer sacks. If the barn is old
and poor there is no need of cold
stable. The walls can be banked with
straw or coarse manure. 1t is not diff
cult to make an old barn stable 80 warm
that manure will never freeze. But
while all this is being done, ventilation
must not be neglected. We have been
into stables in barns built seventy-fve
years ago which were warm and yet
well ventilated, and we have been in
barns lately built in modern styles at
cost of one thousand or nearly two
thousand dollars, but which were 80
close and warm as 10 be oppressive.
There YVES strong and disagreeable
odor which filed the barn. These
barns were 80 close that although there
were small ventlators, yet they needed
the big doors thrown open and thor
ough airing. Cattle need great deal
of fresh air every hour, and when there
are from ten to forty head of stock in
stable, I'll less there is good deal of
fresh air provided, the health of the
animals must suffer. We know of one
farmer who built new horse barn,
making it as close as he could with
building paper, matched boarding, and
clapboards. That barn was the pride
of his heart, but, alas, before spring
his horses grew sick and he came near
loosing them just for lack of fresh air.
Keep out the c. Id but let in the air.
The idea of well-lighted stables has
been pushed, and with good reason, for
light is one of the best things for cattle
next to pure air. But it is best to go
slow in this also. A stable can be made
light enough for all practical purposes
without making half of the sides of
glass. Glass lets in light but also let's
in cold. More cold gets into stable
through good-sized window than
would through large crack, but no
fresh air comes through the glass.
Double windows keep out the cold, and
it would be better to have few double
windows than many single ones. The
single window is much of the time so
covered with frost that its capacity for
letting in light is lessened. All through
the long winter nights the single wiz
dows are an evil, chilling the air of the
stable unless they are provided with
shutters or tight curtains. The true
way, we believe on the whole, is to
have as mary double windows a. one
can afford. Provide inlets for plenty
of fresh air, but do not let the wind
blow directly on the cows, and keep the
stables re asonably warm.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
An AntidOte for the Hen Fever.

There is a great deal of money made
from hens. There are large profits
for those who live near good markets
and possess the requisite patience, ap.
titude, love of the business, and other
necessary qualifications. But because
some succeed is not proof that all will,
one half of those who go into the bust
ness make money. The other half
lose more or less, and it would evi.
IDENTITY have been a great blessing TO
the unsuccessful ones to have had the
business put before them in its true
light 80 that they would have been
saved the loss of money and time. Not
every one can know until he has tried
it whether he is able to make money in
poultry raising, but he should count the
cost before beginning. He cannot do
this unless he knows the cost, and that
is one of the great needs of those who
are thinking of going into the poultry
business. Somebody who knows the
cost and the conditions of success should
instruct them in such way that
they can form a somewhat correct esti-
mate of the cost and of their ability to
make poultry-keeping pay. We were
good DEF surprised in reading little
book entitled GA Living from Poul-
try" to find that it did not advise
everybody to go into the business, that
it was not devoted to showing how easy
it is for anybody and everybody to
make living from poultry. Instead
of that it seems more designed to keep
the great mass of people from rushing
into the business and then, after hav.
ing invested more or less money in a
poultry plant, getting disguised with
the whole thing and giving it all up.
There are certain conditions of success
in getting living, or any part of a
living, from poultry, and this little
book makes clear what these condi-
tons are. We bt lieve that there is a
great opportunity for farmers and ott-
ers here in Vermont to make fair
profit from poultry, but while this is
the ca e, good deal of disappointment
and loss would be saved if farmers aud
others who are thinking of going into
poultry keeping would read this little
book. 1t shows where poultry farming
pays best, and we do not think people
in this state should be deferred from
the work on account of there not being
large cities in this state. While it is
better 10 be near city, one can find a
market for fresh eggs, and for dressed
fowls and chickens in almost any large
village and in many sma ones. Other
topics treated are: How Much Land
Is Needed; Chow to Use Small or
Large Capital ~; GLOW to Begin the
Business ~; Buildings; "Notes on
the Breeds and Their Qualities. Also
seventy five paragraphs of most val
liable hints and advice on poultry mat
tiers. The book is written by M. X.
Boyer, associate editor of Farm Poul-
try. 1t is published by L. S. Johnson
& Co., Boston, Mass. Price twenty i've
cents. We advise all who are thinking
of going into the poultry business to
read this little book. 1t may save them
many dollars.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

BUCKLEN's ARNICA SALvE,-The
best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum. fever sores,
letter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns
and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles, or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. For sale by G. Blakely,
Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
HOw's This Z?

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by HALLS Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, O..
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years,
and believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions and finan-
cially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, Ohio.
WALDING, KINNAN q MARVIN,
Wholesa Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, seventy-five cents per bottle
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

THE purely scientific papers pub.
lished in the United States are only
sixty in number, with combined cir.
culation, each issue, of 49, 25 copies.
Printers Ink.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

RHEUMATIC FEVER" l was af-
hicted with rheumatic fever which con-
lined me to my bed for some time. |
also had nervous prostration and was
complete wreck. | began taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla and this medicine
cured me so that never felt so well in
my life. am now able to do all of
my work. Mrs. Daisy Spencer, Barre,
VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

81 WAS troubled with that dreadful dis
ease called dropsy; swollen from head to
foot. Burdock Blood Bitters has completely
cured me. 1t Is a most wonderful medi-
cine.'--Joseph Herrick, Linwood, Ont.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
RETAIL pEALERs' PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

eY-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivera FOR phosale toti mot jobbne
prices unless otherwis. Indicated, and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

HOODS PILLS cure all liver ills.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Boston Wool Market.

MICHIGAN.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-12

government at every municipal elec-
ton. The Republican party will be
called upon to disband, to disintegrate,
to dissolve into individual capacities
and to act as individuals. We will not
be permitted to act as an organiza-
tion.''
Senator John M. Thurston, of Ne
braska. was the next speaker. He
said, in part: Following every Re
publican political success there is great
danger to the Republican party, and it
is, first and last, powerful in every cleo
tion of the land. The citizens COM
mittees propose to revolutionize things
and set UP their individual judgment
against the will of the party itself
What has the history of municipal con-
troll in New York city and in Brooklyn
had to do with Republican success in
the United States. 1t has had every
thing to do. 1t has made Republican
success since 1872, always doubtful and
only to be won by the most heroic eff
forts, by the greatest efforts and by the
unity of all the forces of good govern
ment in the country.
There will be no more Republican
presidents in the United States in your
life or in mine, maybe, unless you elect
Benjamin F. Tracy"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-12
THURSTON SPEAKS FOR TRACY.
A Defeat in New York May Mean No More
Republican Presidents.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-Gen. Ben
jamin F. Tracy, former secretary of
the navy, and candidate for the office
Of mayor of Greater New York, was
the leading orator at the first Repub-
lican mass meeting held in Brooklyn at
the Academy of Music on Montague
street tonight. There was large at
tendance. Gen. Tracy, as he rose to
deliver his address, was the recipient
of applause which lasted several min
utes. Gen. Tracy referred to Tammany
hall and Organism as the chief oppos-
ing forces of the Republicans in this
campaign He referred to Henry
George as a candidate upon the plat
form of Organism. There is still an
other party which has made it's APP
pcarance as separate and indepen
dent party he added, "the party
known as the Citizens Union, of which
one Low is the leader" Gen. Tracy
devoted much of his time to a discus
sion of the Citizens Union, and among
other things said: "The meaning of
the success of the Citizens Union here
is the destruction of the Republican
party. If Mr.. Low is elected, of course,
all the influence of that great office
will be used to insist upon citizens
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-12
Gen. Flower Thinks That Might Mean the Estab-
lishment OF Another Stockyards Which
He Regards Doubtful.
Negotiations Pending for the Lease of the Dakota
Companys Plant to Some of the Big Packers
May Be Closed This Week.

only object Armour & Co. could have
with such large tract of land would
be to build another stockyards, and
he did not think the stock men would
favor two such institutions. Mr. Flow
er also stated that Phil Armour had
owned a large tract of land, over 100
acres, at st. Paul Park for the past
eight years.
Incidentally Mr.. Flower mentioned
that the stockyards company was me-
got1ating with three large packing
houses the largest in the coun-
try-for the lease of the Dakota Pack
ing company plant at South ST. Paul,
and a deal for it will probably be clos
ed up shortly. This would result in
two large institutions of that kind at
the yards and afford a strong compete
tive market.
Swift e. Co. already have a large
force of men at work in making the
necessary changes and repairs and
overhauling the machinery of the prop
erty recently leased by them, the Min
nesota packing house, and the plant
will be in full operation In several
weeks. The beef house is already run
ming, and yesterday the company pur-
chased 200 head of cattle at the yards.
'I have talked with a number Of
stockmen from the Western ranges
continued Mr.. Flower, "and they are
all well pleased that Swift & Co. came
in here. 1t is a big thing for them.
as it is for local interests
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-12
DiotiDg iD tbe
\ Streets Of Rome

ROME, Oct. IA large procession
of tradesmen headed by the prosyndic
of Rome and the president of the cham
ber of commerce, marched to the Office
of the minister of the interior this af-
ternoon to protest against and confer
with the government regarding the in
creased taxation. Premier Rudini, who
is also minister of the interior, receiv-
ed committee representing the trades
men and promised that all that was
possible would be done to promote
friendly relations and greater equity
between the tax collectors and tax
payers
In the meanwhile a large crowd of
people had collected around the min
istry, and angry shouts were heard
and some of those present tore up paw
ing stones and otherwise assumed 4
threatening attitude. This caused the
police to make an attempt to disperse
the violent portion OFFS the crowd, and
in the conflict which followed six pos
licemen were injured and one rioter
was killed. The crowd raised revolu-
tionary cries; while the fighting was in
progress revolvers were freely used:
many persons in the crowd were in
jured, and twenty of the leaders of the
disturbance were arrested. The con-
dition of three of the wounded police
men is serious.
The streets have been quiet this
evening. A special detail of police is
patrolling the district that was the
scene of the disturbance In all there
have been twenty-four arrests. The
ricter who was killed has not been
identified, but appears. to have been a
workman. The prefect of police has
ordered the dissolution of the Roman
Socialist union. Tomorrow, the pro-
syndic of Rome and the president of the
chamber of commerce. who headed the
procession, will be received by the Mar
ouis di Rudini, who will discuss the ap-
plication of the income tax
1t is estimated that there were at
least 10000 people in the procession