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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
The Value of a Roll Of Wire Gauze.

Henry Stewart of North Carolina
says: Four dollars were we'll spent five
years ago in the purchase of roll of
fine wire gauze, to line one of my corn
cribs. The crib is twelve feet wide,
at the bottom, eight feet wide at the
top, and eight feet high, in the side of
driving shed. Every year, the mice
made me miserable by their waste Of
the grain as we'll as by fouling it. So a
happy idea struck me one day, which
was to line the crib inside with this
gauze. Getting a roll of 200 square
feet, at two cents foot, covered the
inside of the crib with it, and have
peace and comfort ever since. No mice
have got into the crib, and as l have
just cleaned out the last grain from it,
there is no waste, no filthy rubbish, and
no fouled corn. The guaze is tackled
on to the studs under the laths, and
not fly is able to get inside the crib.
l count it saving of 200 per cent
every year on that little Investment
Rural New Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
Cows in Dry Weather and Fly Time

In O certain town there are two
farms, one on the north side of the road
and the other on the south. Both
farms have daily supplied a creamery
with the milk from twelve COWS during
the past three years. The pastures on
each farm, in July and August, attain
about the same degree of barrenness;
the sun shines with equal intensity on
both, the rain fails to beat upon either
Of the pastures or on the cows, and the
latter are grievously tormented with
flies. While both herds are exposed to
the same unpleasant conditions during
the day, there is one important differ
ence in their treatment after they are
gathered into the barns at night.
Those on the north side of the road
enter gate on the west and 90 thence
across dry barnyard to the neatly
whitewashed stable; there they find
green feed and grain before them. At
the present time, this feed consists of
green corn and thirty-five cents worth
of corn meal per day. In return for
this feed, these cows gave, August l,
1897, 234 pounds of milk, which tested
As per cent fat, making total of 10y
pounds of butter fat. This was worth !,
at that time, IA cents per pound and
amounts to S1.47.
When the COWS on the south-side
farm return at night, they are given no
green feed or grain; the mud from the
pond hole in which they have been
standing all day is only partially cleaned
from their udders and TANKS at milking
time, and the dirty, switching tail of
the COW makes a cloud of dust, por-
ton of which is sure to get into the
cow stable, together with the pond hole
and other failures to comply with
printed regulations supplied both farms,
makes at this creamery difference of
four cents per 100 pounds between the
grade of milk supplied by this south
side farm and that from the north-side
of the road. But if the same price of
fourteen cents per pound of butter fat
is paid both lots of COWS for their milk,
their reward is not the same per COW as
that received from the north-side cows.
On this particular day, these twelve
south-side cows gave III pounds of
milk, which tested 4.3 per cent fat,
making total of IA pounds of butter
fat, and this at fourteen cents per
pound amounts to $1.03. The south
side cows were not fed anything when
brought to the barn. but MIXED and
left by the barn side to wander or to
wonder why their milk had fallen off
forty-two pounds in week, and their
neighbors only twenty-four pounds.
The twelve COWS on the north farm
were given green feed and grain each
day, and their milk amounts to enough
to pay their owner $1.47, which is
forty-four cents more per day than the
other man received from the same
number of COWS kept on dry pasture
only, in dry weather and fly time.
E. H. HARRINGTON.
University of Wisconsin Creamery.
Rural New Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
A Short Potato Crop.

This is evidently assured. There are
generally few potatoes in hill and
what there are, as rule, small, and as
we write, reports of rot are coming in.
1t looks now as though potatoes would
be high, very high next spring, and
that early potatoes will be good article
to raise. Look sharp after good seed
and good supply of it. 1t is likely that
many small potatoes will be planted.
and we think it will not be mistake
to use small potatoes for seed. A
Massachusetts man tried planting small
potatoes for seven years in succession,
using the seed from the small potatoes
planted the preceding year, and plant
ing only the small ones, that is the
seed was about an inch in diameter.
At the end of seven years the potatoes
from the small seed had not degener-
ated in size or in any other way. We
have an idea that some kinds of pota-
toes would degenerate, and thai others
would not. The kinds the writer has
tried showed no diminution in size
from planting small potatoes for seed,
but we think some have reported diff
ferent results. At any rate we should
not fear to plant small potatoes next
spring, in fact we intend to do 80.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
Live Stock Market.

ARRIVALS OF LIVE STOCK AT WATERFOWL
Cattle, 1889; sheep, 4,3S6; veals, 1881;
swine, IA 500.
swINR,-The market was steady on West
ern at to 4ac live weight country hogs at
5tc, dressed weight.
Mich Cows AND SPRINGERs.-The move
ment was moderate. Good mixers sold at
fair prices. Choice cows, $50 to SOS; COM
mon cows, $50 to $38.
VEAL CALvEs.-Prices were steady at
about last weeks level 8 to 54c. Only
choice lots bring over that. The demand
was better thar last week.
PRICES OF MARKET BEEF.-A few choice,
Sc to SO so; extra, 1925 to 1915; first quail
ity, S4.75 to 50; second quality, 81 to $3.50;
third quality, $3.50 to $3.50.
BEEF CATTLE.-Western stock cost a
shade less than last week. Some of the
nience of both buyers and sellers. Trade
was rather light.
SHEEP AND LAMBs,-Butchers would not
go extensively into Western because of
high cost Good lambs could not be laid
down here at less than &c, and that price
kept bayers off. Butchers bought instead
some Canada and New England lots at to
5tc per h.
PRICES OF STORE CATTLE. - Working
oxen per pair, 500 to $3.50; farrow cows,
$40 to 500; fancy cows, $50 to $40; milch
cows and calves, $40 to S4S yearlings, So
to SIG; two-years-olds, S12 TO 800; three
years.old, $50 to $50; Western fat swine,
live, to Aye; Northern dressed hogs, 51c
per ID.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
SOLE N. E. AGENTS,

like manner perspiration mats the coat,
and clogs the roots of the hair with
scurf, and produces eruptions on the
skin that are often difficult of cure. 1t
should, therefore, be settled rule that
whether the horses are kept in the sta
BILE or not, their feet should be regu-
and dried, and the legs we'll wisped or
hand-rubbed; this friction tending to
restore warmth to the extremities of
the tired animal, and relieve swelling
or soreness. Merely to wash off the
dirt from the fetlocks and feet, and
leave them to dry gradually, is even
more pernicious than to let the animal
remain in the state in which he comes
from work. The hoofs should be &C.
casionally oiled and stopped. For the
latter purpose cow-dung is the best ap-
plication in common use. Clay hardens,
and becoming dry soon, heats and
otherwise Injuries the hoof; but the
common felt stopping, now sold by all
saddlers, is far heater, and quite as eff
fectual when merely wetted. The feet
require more care than is usually be-
slowed upon them in farm stables, and
scarcely anything occasions them more
injury than the reprehensible practice
of letting horses stand upon soiled lit
ter until 1t ferments, and the common
but very mistaken economy of not
shoeing sufficiently often. If litter is
too scarce to allow of that part which
has become saturated with urine to be
thrown into the yard, it should at least
be carried out and dried, every morn
ing the weather will admit of it, and q
little fresh straw laid out for the horse
to stand on.-Cor. Ohio Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
AGRICULTURAL.
A Wet Season.

That is what this has been. There
has been plenty of water for all crops,
and in many cases good deal too
much. Many acres of land have been
rendered useless for this season by the
water, and many other acres have been
nearly rendered useless. AS late as
the first of September there were many
acres of grass to be cut in some places.
The water had stood on the land until
that time, 30 that it was impossible to
cut the grass. What a misfortunel
some might say. But that is not all.
Hundreds of acres of grain have been
spoiled, hay has rotted, not a few fields
have become dead loss. But there is
a bright side to it all. Plants must
have water. The most serious prob
lem which confronts the farmer is the
water supply of his crops. 1t is said
that the annual rainfall of this country
is only about one-half of what it was
forty years ago. Then it was seventy
inches; last year it was only about
thirty-four inches. This alarming de-
crease has this year been arrested and
il to be hoped that it will go no lower,
but that we shall hereafter have plenty
of rain. Many claim that the decrease
in rainfall is due in great measure to
the cutting off of the forests, and argue
that the planting of trees is the one
great remedy for drouths. Be that as
it may, we must have water if we have
crops. And with all it's evils, wet
season is far better than dry one.
No doubt many thousands of acres of
land in the state need draining. We
know that many could not get on to
land which they had intended to plant
to corn or potatoes until it was too late
for them. We know of other pieces OIL
land which were carefully prepared
and planted but which were so wet that
the seed either rotted or if it did moi
the weeds got such start that they
killed or choked down the crop. There
are probably more acres of weeds in
Vermont this year than ever before
They have run riot on more than one
farm. We never saw a season when
the cultivator seemed to do so little
good. Tear them up and the rain
would set them out again 80 that they
would keep right on growing. There
are lots of ifs about this matter. If we
could only know beforehand what the
season would be, what difference il
would make with our plans and work
But that is impossible. We must dc
the best we can, use all the knowledge
we have, and get all the help we can
from the experience of others.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
Orchard and Garden.

One of the tanners greatest bless
ings is the abundant provision which
may be secured from the orchard and
garden. City people do not know the
value of really fresh fruits and vege-
tables until they get into the country,
and too often they do not find it out
then. A great many farmers do not
know the treasures of appetizing eat
ables which may be produced upon a
few rods of ground. All summer and
through the fall into the winter, if not
all winter the farmers table may be
daily supplied with fruits and vege-
tables. These contribute to the health,
to the pleasure and to the economy of
the farmers family. To healthy, I'M
perverted appetite what can be more
luscious than nice apple, or pear, or a
well-cooked dish from the garden? AT
this time of the year when vegetables
and fruits are to be had in such pro-
fusion, one realizes as at no other sea-
son the value OF the orchard and gar
den. 1t costs something 10 provide an
abundant supply of fruits and vegeta.
bles, but it is one of the best invest
ments which farmer or suburban
resident can make. The orchard takes
time to grow, but the years pass rap
idly, and the tree set on the baby's
first birthday begins to bear by the
time the child is old enough to go to
school. And pear, cherry, and plum
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15

DID you ever try Electric Bitters as a
remedy for your troubles? If not, get
bottle now and get relief. This medi-
cine has been found to be particularly
adapted to the relief and cure of all
female complaints, exerting a wonder.
full direct influence in giving strength
and tone to the organs. If you have
loss of appetite, constipation, headache,
fainting spells, or are nervous, sleep
less, excitable, melancholy or troubled
with dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the
medicine you need. Health and
strength are guaranteed by its USE
Fifty cents and one dollar, at G. Blake
ly's drugstore, Montpelier, Vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
Creamery Reports.

METTowEE CHEESE FACTORY, East
Rupert. - Statement for June: Milk
received, 157 1929 pounds; cheese made,
15,4S9 pounds; paid for milk per 100
pounds, 81 cents; pounds of milk for
one pound of cheese, 1925.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15

Do my vocal lessons disturb you?
asked the young woman with musical
ambition. Not that know of, replied
the truthful young man. Why, /
should think you'd know if they did.
No. Since the dentist took the front
room on the first floor, 1 can't tell
whether you're practicing music or he's
practicing on his patients.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15

It's dreadfully queer, said the house,
wife that the potatoes you bring should
be 80 much bigger on the top of the
basket than they are at the bottom.
Miss, said the honest farmer, it comes
about this way-p'taters is CROWN so
fast right now tibet by the time l git a
basketful dug the last ones is ever so
much bigger than the fust ones.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15

Weary Watkins-Say, what is moral
courage anyway? Hungry Higgins
heard preacher say it was the power
TO say No. Weary Walkins-When
you're asked to drink or to work?
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15

81 AM an old soldier OF the Rebellion, A
year ago was in bed all winter with chronic
Three doctors failed to give
me relief. Two bottles Of Burdock Blood
Bitters put me on my feet. 1t is worth its
weight in gold" W. b. Knapp, Ltchfield,
Hillsdale county, Mich.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
Boston Produce Market.

"The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers forehOesaIe lots mot jobbins
prieesj anless otherwise indicated. and Intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-15
HOW's This 7

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY q CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, Ohio
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in al
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
| by the firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists
Toledo, Ohio.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole.
sale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Halls Catarrb Cure is taken inter
nallly, acting directly upon the BLOOD
and mucous surfaces of the system
Price seventy.five cents per bottle
Sold by all druggists. Testimonial
free.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-06
Ar Dl4uGeIsTs-as Sc A BOTTLE

foot deep, falling n foot. Now. at
Niagara. there is a steady and big fall OF
a stream of water really large, but
much smaller than the North River at
New York are favorable for the economi-
cal Harvesting of Niagara, and at many
ether places power can be produced prot
itably from falling water.
"At New York there is a rise and fall
of a much vaster volume of water, but
the movement of this water is so in
termtttent and it's volume SO vast that it
would require uncalculated millions Of
cash to bring it under control. and the
power developed would be only a fraction
of the power obtained at Niagara in pro-
portion to the volume OF water and the
expense Of the machinery, for the inter
mittent rise and fall at New York is only
four or five feet, while at Niagara the
steady and ceaseless fall Is $50 feet and
over.
1.-The extensive use of wind power, save
for pumping purposes" Mr.. Edison con-
tinued. lis hedged about by. somewhat
similar obstacles, and certainly will not
come until all other more economical and
convenient ways of making nature serve
man have been exhausted. Blu that we
shall make nature do more and more for
as year by year, until d more wondrous
revolution in power production than any
thing yet accomplished has been wrought,
there is no manne of doubt"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-06
MORE GIFTS TO STEVENS.
Wife of h Founder Donates Pros
Merry Worth AGO n0N

Mrs. Martha B. Stevens of Castle Point
has transferred to the trustees of the
Stevens Institute of Technology in Hobo
ken, two large lots and houses adjoining
the institute grounds. The property IS
valued at $4,000. The lots are about 70x
200 feet and front on Eiver street, oppo-
site the institute and run down to the
river front. The constant development
of the river front VIII in a short time
greatly increase the present value of the
estate.
DR.. Henry Morton, President of the IN
stftute. has his residence on the property.
but as the Institute will not need to ex-
tend its building for some time. DR.. Nor
ton will continue to live there and will
pay the $1,000 annual rental to the Insti-
tute instead of to Mrs. Stevens.
President Morton gave to, the Institute
LOO shares of railway stock, valued at
o $4,000, or its twenty-fifth anniver-
sary, which was celebrated by a dinner
at the Hotel Waldorf a few weeks ago.
In making the gift DR.. Morton said that
the natural and necessary growth of the
institute would necessitate greater ac-
Communications and a larger revenue. With
this view he made the donation.
Miss Stevens, who lis the widow of the
Iounder OF the institute, followed DR..
Morton's suggestion. President Morton
SAD ne did not know at present what the
lrusuees would DO Will the gift. A
npfary or a laboratory may be erected
on the " acquired property. 1t NAV
be probable, however. that if the valle
OF me property increases as a site for
res.uences, the trustees may build a hand
some residence and devote the reyenue
to the Institute.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-06
10 BUILD IN APRIL.
Rev. Father Meehan's Plans
for the Church and
School of All Saints.
AN ACTIVE PARISH.
Extraordinary Success of the Re-
cent Fair-Oatholic Church
News.

Ground will be broken the middle Of
April for a handsome modern building that
the parishioners of All Saints parish, La
fayette. will be proud of. The building
will be one of the finest equipped build
ings in the city, and will accommodate all
the medmbe of the parish.
When the Rev. Father Meehan first
tool the parish in hand he determined to
find out how many Catholics there were
in his parish. So with this end il view
he took a census, n discovered that
there were $500 souls in his keeping. He
then began to think of building a church
as the present place of worship, Lafay-
ette Han, is hardly the proper place to
hold divine services in.
Father Meehan selected as a site the
property at the corner of Lafayette and
Wilton streets, and soon a a deposit
paid. He decided that 10 secure the nee
essary funds 1t would be advisable to hold
a fair.
The fair was held a week ago, and at
its termination the gross receipts were
found to be $4,000. This extraordinary,
fair sum was used to advantage, ard the
building will soon be begun.
Three sets of plans have been submitted.
but as yet Father Meeha has made no
decision. He want a building that will
contain a chapel capable of accommodate
ing all his people. a hall to accommodate
300 people, and a school in which 500
children could be taught. A Ladies' So
cial Society will be organized, and recep-
tfons will be held.
The building will be of brick, and will
have all modern improvements and con-
veniences. Work will shortly be begun
and the building will be finished, it is
thought, by August.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-06

Won't you jest please put inter yure
paper that all the swell secretly girls amt
without hearts-i was in the jefferson
nosplrtaI some weeks before christmas
ana lnere was the sweetest yung girl
mrs. M shoes a wider as used to come
TO see the sick and bring flowers and
frute fer us big uns and TOYS to the lille
uns--sne alus had a smile and kind
come IN when a little boy what was oDh-
crate on his face the dockter toolyen
the Stitches. out and it was soar-apd he
cant slep-and is to little to talk-whdn
ne SEED her come in he jest put UP his
iltle arms and she tooken off her glofs
TOOK him in her arms and in a little fine
ne was a slepen like a top, she put him
~ ~ III III peoLthat IS only one of the lots
OF tnlngs she does we all luve her even
the nurses was glad to seed her come in.
] wish could do something for her.
please Mr.. Editer say in yer paper how
much poor perple like a kind word. lie
never forget that sweet girl and wish
there was more like her.
from a poor woman yer wodent no if
I Dute my name.
Ihe above letter is printed as received,
WITH a single exception, its photographic
ana other defects only serving to attest
the more strongly the sincerity of the de-
served tribute which it carries. We omit
only the name of the lady who thus
Drought joy and calm to little sufferers
and won the grateful homage of the old
err ones.
This unsolicited testimony to the value
OF the sympathetic presence of a gentle
ana loving nature. among the poor and
ioWly. when stretched on beds of pain
ann disease, carries its own lesson. Let
those whose s~elf-appointed task is to visit
n cheer the sick be not weary in we'll
DOING. They will have their W reward.
When saw we thee sick and in prison
and came unto thee?',
land the King shall answer and say
unto them:-Verfy. I say unto you, In
,asanlch as We have done 1T unto one of
the least of these, my brethren, We have
lone it unto me" -Philadelphia Press.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-06
India Il b Scarce.

Can the terrible news be true? / have
nc wish to unduly harrow the feelings Of
bicyclists, but it is no longer possible to
conceal the fact that something like an
quarters which should be we'll informed
upon the subject. Para, which is the
chief source Of supply, is doing her best,
and c-onsignments reaching a total of
$1,000 tons annually now reach us from
Brazil. But even this, with West African
Shipments in the bargain will not nearly
suffice to meet the demand treated by the
fine, healthy rage for the pneumatic tire
now ~animating all classes of bicyclists.
Tress are being s~ssiduously cultivated in
West Africa, and various improvements
have been introduced there in the mode of
collecting the precious sap, so that one
may expect in the near future to receive
much larger co-nsIgnments from that part
of the world. Still the situation is one
which can not fail to damp the spirits Of
the boldest bicyclist.-St. James Budget.