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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Farm FaggOts.

You cannot afford to let those in
ferior apples 60 to market with the
good ones. ss$S s.
To make grating wax: Resin, one
pound; Burgundy pitch, one pound;
bees wax, ten ounces; yellow ochre,
eight ounces.
Make the butter frst-class and put it
on the market in such a manner as TO
show for all its worth Often good
butter maker does herself injustice in
this regard.
A good lantern is indispensable on
the farm. 1t should be kept in perfect
order, ready for quick use. Have a
certain place for it and never set aside
from its regular place for any reason
Whatever.
Peach trees should have the ends of
long shoots shortened in, that bushy
specimens may result. A bushy tree
yields more fruit than an unpruned one,
and nicely shaped trees are pleasing OBJ
jects to look upon.
Here is the way prominent stock
man puts it: We are going to have the
best times we have seen in fifteen
years, and the stock-raising interest
will, with proper management, have its
full share in the general prosperity.
One objection urged against winter
dairying is that it is so much trouble TO
raise the calves When they cannot be
turned out on pasture. This difficulty
is not serious one if you have good,
warm barn, clover hay and ensilage.
Those of our readers who took our
advice and saw that the pigs and shoats
received through the summer fair
proportion of bone and muscle forming
foods, have now a staunch frame upon
which TO lay the fat produced by corn
diet.
The use of butter which contains
neither salt nor coloring matter is said
to be increasing in New York TO such an
extent that it may now be obtained at
some of the best hotels and restaurants,
while other houses are using butter
containing about half the usual salt.
OF course, customers can season the
fresh butter to suit their own individual
tastes. Hebrews are the largest con-
sumers of unsalted butter.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Cheapest Farm Power.

Where there is work enough to justify
the outlay, beyond doubt the best and
cheapest power in the end is gas or
gasoline engine. 1t certainly has a
great advantage over an ordinary steam
engine with but one disadvantage, that
of not supplying steam in dairy work.
The gas engine requires 80 much less
space, is cleaner, safer, more econOmi.
cal, more convenient and less eXpen-
sive as regards first cost. If there is a
regular and frequent work, nothing
more satisfactory can be obtained.
When the work is all done in a short
time, as in filling silo, and one has
plenty of horses, as is usually the case
with farmer, tread power is good
machine. 1t is far superior to the old
style sweep power. Two horses on a
tread power will give nearly as much
power as four in sweep. They do no
pulling, but walk straight ahead in a
. natural position. No driver needed, all
that is necessary in starting is to open
the brake. One need not even speak
to the team. The brake stops it very
quickly when desired. 1t occupies very
little space, and is perfectly safe. !
several years in filling my silo, with
good satisfaction. Sometimes second.
hand power can be bought very cheaply
that will do the work OF higher-priced
one for many years, with but slight ex'
pense for repairs England Home.
stead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
A Study of the Cost OF Milk.

A large milk producer in Ulster
county, New York, writing on the SUBJ
ject of cheap milk production, says:
"The poorest cow / ever owned gave
1000 quarts year, at cost of over 5
cents quart, while another COW pro-
duced 1000 quarts, at cost of less
than three-fourths of l cent quart.
"a year ago my food cost per COW
per day was 26 Is 100 cents. OF this
the farm furnished Scents and IL 1900
cents was purchased. On this expense
the herd averaged IA quarts per day, at
cost of $4,000 cents per quart. The
ration was: Twelve pounds of hay, s
pounds OF cornfodder, 10 pounds of
wheat, pounds of wheat bran, 6
pounds of hominy and pounds of cot
tonseed meal. An effort was made TO
reduce the cost by better study of the
feeding question, and the following ra-
ton was adopted: Twenty pounds of
hay, 3 pounds oat straw, pounds oats,
6 pounds wheat bran, 4 pounds of buck.
wheat middlings and 2 pounds of cot
tonseed meal. This ration cost 2l4
cents a day. or Il is 10 cents was
ased on The farm aud III cents pu'
chased. The milk yield increased to Is
IA 100 quarts a day, making the cost
per quart l 4-l0 cents, a saving of nearly
one-half of cent per quart per day.
SIN 1888 my cows averaged 1000
quarts per COW, and the milk cost me
2 $40 cents per quart. Last year the
yield was 1854 quarts per cow, and the
cost per quart was only / 40 cents, or
reduction of exactly one-half."
This result Was brought about by
wedding out the poor cows and putting
good ones in their places. To know
the good from bad, the milk of each
cow was weighed and tested at regular
intervals.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
AGRICULTURAL.
More Profit in sheep than Poultry.

No one questions the value of a flock
of poultry on farm when well kept.
All the estimates as TO profits are too
low. There are eggs and chickens that
go onto the farmers table that never
get into the account book. My expert
ence has proved that with good
market near by, small flock, we'll
cared for and skillfully managed, pro-
life in producin eggs and good for
rearing chicks, may without difficulty
pay, in clear profit, the interest on $50
year for each hen. This is only three
dollars, and have made with the best
of care and management fully Elk dol
lars year from a small flock of light
Brahmas from eggs and chickens alone.
No fancy prices were received for the
eggs. They were simply sold for domes-
tic use, and were fresh and guaranteed
to be not more than three days from
the hens. The broiling chicks, too,
were fed well and reached a good size
early, so that they were tender and
sweet to eat, and brought high price
Perhaps it will not be thought rea.
sonable, but / have found it true in
practice, that sheep may be kept for
may be. This is counting things at
cost, for it is not fair to charge flock
with fodder and and grain at the selling
price, and then expect it TO pay another
second profit. But this is often done
and yet this second profit is really made
from the sheep. i have fed sheep for
rs cents year, over and above The
value of fleece, in cases where they
have had TO be fed on costly food and
hand fed the whole winter. Elsewhere
/ have fed sheep for 70 cents year,
all expenses included. That is where
they have been pastured nearly the
entire ~ months. 1t has cost me the
same amount 10 feed o hen, that is, as
it must be fed TO make profit. And
in the case of the flock | have sold
three months-old lambs for $40 head,
and the ewes, fat in the fall, at profit
of three dollars head All this was
clear profit, for in the most expensive
method of feeding the fleece never
failed to pay the sleeps feeding. But
as rule it is quite possible to feed a
sheep for the same cost as for five hens
and at the average value of their pro-
ducts the sheep will be far more profit
able than the hens will.
There is the home market, however,
for the sheep reared on a farm, TO the
extent of at least 20 head, and at the
average value of the meat 60-pound
mutton will be worth six or seven dol.
lars. And just here the farmers meat
clubs will serve good purpose. These
are mutual assoc atoms, each member
of which kills beef or mutton in turn
dividing up the meat according TO some
rule established on fair and mutually
satisfactory basis. In this way the
meat is disposed of at the full butchers
price, and at the end of the season an
accurate division is made of the funds
in hand or of the credits, the balance in
cash accruing to each creditor being
settled. In this convenient way the
cost of the meat supply is reduced to its
actual value and at least one-half the
money otherwise paid will be saved
For this mutual cooperative business
the sheep is most acceptable. Ne,t
England Homestead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Care Of Swine.


81 never succeeded with swine until
l ceased 20 regard them as the lowest
animals in existence" says George K.
Newell in National Stockman. "When
/ learned to treat them as well as my
horses and cows / made them pay as
well.
"My first winter hog pen was on the
north side of the barn and outbuid-
ings, because that happened to be the
most convenient. Then l learned that
sunshine would make hogs grow and
cause them to be thrifty, the same as
it would corn and potatoes. After that
/ had the pen where odd SOP could
look into the windows, whenever the
clouds did not obscure his face.
about this time | also learned that
swine did amazingly better in dry,
warm quarters than they did in cold,
wet ones; that pigs could be raised as
easily in winter as in summer by keep
ing them from freezing to death; that a
pregnant SOW should be kept in an
apartment by herself, and that hogs of
all degrees and ages should be fed as
regularly as mich cows.
"'Strapge that you were any length
of time in the hog raising business
without discovering such simple facts,
l hear some reader say, / must con-
TESS, however, that l was, and that l
can now count up farmers of my ac-
quaintance on the fingers of both hands
and toes of both feet who are still max.
ing the mistakes that | made when !
first began pouring swil into pigs
trough.
"The hog should have his habitation
the same as the COW. Swine that can
boast only of the barnyard as their
home, who root in an open shed among
rustiug farm machinery for exercise,
and who burrow under a straw stack
for shelter, are a standing advertise
ment for the inattentiveness of their
owner. Yet how prevalent is this per-
nicious customl
81 drove by dozen farms the other
day, and saw swine mingling with the
cows and young stock in every barn
yard. This is knife that cuts both
ways (the razor back of the hog), for
the cattle are damaged as much by in.
termingling with the swine as the swine
are by intermingling with the cattle.
"Keep the hog pen and the dairy al
least barns length apart. Cold
weather will not hurt hogs if they have
a warm retreat under cover TO which
they can repair when they wish. A
dry, sunny yard will give them all the
exercise they need, and it should be &c
tightly enclosed that they cannot min
gle with any other of the farm stock
No animal of any kind should be main
tanned on the farm unless it can in some
way be made profitable to its owner
Pig raising is almost a dead loss OF
those premises where pigs are raised ID
haphazard way"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Cheap Grain RatiOns for Sheep.

To determine the relative value of
different food stuffs raised upon the
South Dakota farms, the experiment
station conducted a number of sheep
feeding tests. One lot was fed shelled
corn, oats, shorts and oil meal, an
other, equal weights of corn and oats, a
third equal weights of wheat and oats,
the fourth equal weights of barley and
oats and fifth equal weights of barley
and wheat. Good healthy lambs were
selected weighing about tlfty-four
pounds per head. They had not been
well cared for and consequently were
in rather an unthrifty condition.
In summarizing the results, the sta
ton authorities conclude that the ami
mails fed corn and oats produced the
cheapest gain and those fed wheat and
oats the most costly. The mutton
from the sheep fed corn and oats
was produced at cost Of So. As, while
that from barley and oats cost So so
per hundred. The best and cheapest
gains were made when feeding the
sheep up to or near their full capacity,
after they had become accustomed to
the ration. The heaviest feeding should
be done during the last four or six
weeks of the feeding period.
1t was also demonstrated during the
test feeding experiment that the sheep
should be dipped if good results are TO
be expected while fattening. Of course
the price of food stuffs has much to do
with the profits. For example, by re-
placing in the rations of lot three the
us pounds of wheat worth ninety cents
per 100 pounds by barley worth twenty
five cents per 100 pounds, the cost is
reduced from S. 33 per 100 pounds TO
$3.50 per 100 pounds. By substituting
in ration for lot five, for the us pounds
of wheat, oats worth thirty-seven and
one-half cents per 100 pounds, the cost
is reduced from 81 AZ to $3.50. From
the above figures it is seen that the
farmers in Dakota have an immense
advantage over eastern feeders and
that the northwest can feed grain at q
profit while other stockmen may be
feeding at loss. Immense numbers
of sheep can be raised and fed in the
Dakotas and Minnesota and with care
and intelligence this industry will be
come source of large profit to those
who develop it.-New England Home
stead.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
A FARMERS OPINION.
This Information to Farmers Around
Montpelier is Worth More than
the Present Value of a Bin Full
nf Grain

This information 10 Farmers AROUND
Montpelier is Worth More than
the Present Value of Bin Full
of Grain.
In East Barre, about FIVE miles from Barre
post-office, there lives good honest, hard
working tiller of the soil named WATSON E.
Dow. Like every sensible farmer, Mr..
Dow subscribes for papers and one evening
az he was looking over his Barre weekly,
his eye CHANGED to catch a reading notice
which proved a bonanza for him and bright
ened up his tagging spirits over the low
price of grain and farm produce, and the
high price Of commodities which are neces-
sary for farmers existence farmer
reasons in his own peculiar way and he
calls a spade a spade, so Mr.. Dow says
quietly to hmsef 81 want Just such a
remedy as Doan's Kidney Pills. II it carries
out faithfully half what it claims, it will
cure my lame back. However much good
may result from one box, little or no harm
can ensue." When Mr.. Dow visited Barre
he made some inquiries at drug store,
about the preparation, and was informed
that scores OF people in Barre and the sur
rounding country had thoroughly tested
DOan's Kidney Pills and some had pub
lished their experience in Barre papers
This was enough for Mr.. Dow. He pur-
chased a supply and what follows is his ex-
perience: "My kidneys troubled me for some
years off aud on. l tried many different
remedies but without obtaining any perma-
nent relief. In the fall of 1896 l was in
pretty bad shape and suffered constantly
from sharp pains across my back which
were at times terrible, when | " ould apply
a mustard plaster over my kidneys only to
get relief for the time being. A weakness
OF the kidney secretions was very annoying,
especially at night as it disturbed my rest.
The secretons were also very highly col
ored. read OF Doan's Kidney Pills and as
they were highly recommended | got box
from the drug store After using them the
weakness was relieved and the secretions
became normal. l got second box and
when had finished it l was cured. an so
greatly pleased with the prompt and thor
ough IN amer in which Doan's Kidney Pills
cured me tlat am always glad to recon-
mend them personally TO anyone should
they call on me-" There can be published
in MONTPELIER from outside places over
three thousand sta ements similar to the
above Now the question is, would 5000
from unknown people be half az convincing
as one statement from a Montpelier citizen?
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by all deal
ers. Price 30 cents Mailed by Foster
Milburn Co.. Buffalo, n. Y sole agents for
the United States.
REMEMBER THE NAME DOAN'S AND
TAKE NO OTHER
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Thunder and Fertility.

How many times we have heard it
stated that fertile eggs had failed to
hatch because exposed 10 thunder dur
ing incubation.
Now this is farce and burlesque
in fact, scapegoat," of breeders
selling eggs that cannot be depended
on for Matching. The thunder has no
effect upon them, and it takes a great
deal of shaking TO destroy or interfere
with the germ of fertile egg. The
thing that should be avoided is the eff
feet of hammering. Some sellers pack
their eggs in boxes, and nail the covers
down. These sharp quick blows some
times spoil the eggs. When a box is
used the cover should always be screw
ed on.
In 1895, on July 10, severe storm
passed over my place on Long Island.
1t not only took the roof off my dwell
ing, but also lifted one of my poultry
houses entire. There was a kind of
cellar under this house, and in it were
two incubators, one full of eggs that
had been set six days, the other full of
eggs that had been there for ten days.
Both were shifted ten to twelve feet,
and thrown against the side foundation,
80 that about one-third of the eggs were
broken. l Immediately separated the
broken eggs from the others, washed
the good ones, and filled the trays, re-
placing the eggs in one drawer OF the
incubator set last with eggs from the
machine that had been running ten
days. This left two empty drawers in
the latter incubator. These refilled
with eggs that had been kept in that
cellar and had been exposed for hours
to the shocks of electricity which con-
tinued through the storm.
Of the one hundred and thirty-two
eggs saved from the first incubator,
one hundred and twenty-three Matched.
The second lot of eggs now numbered
one hundred and twenty-nine-a part
being in each incubator. One hundred
and seven of this lot Matched. The
two compartments filled with eggs ex-
posed to thunder before incubation
contained one hundred and thirty-nine
! eggs, from which were Matched one
hundred and twenty-three chicks. Is
not this positive proof that the thunder
had little effect on the eggs?
Some people who fear the effects of
electricity might use the old folks pre-
caution and put one or two nails or an
old key under the eggs. This is very
old practice, but still in use.-Farm
| Poultry.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08

A bunch of hungry hogs will do a
good job turning and 6ning coarse,
straw manure if grain is sown upon it.
Occasionally. their roofing prooensities
may be utilized in other ways. A
Maine farmer is said to remove stumps
by fencing them in, making holes under
them with crowbar, placing grain in
holes ana turning hogs into the enclo-
sure. In roofing among the roots, the
hogs are said to root the stumps out by
the roots.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Creamery Reports.

COOPERATIVE CREAMERY AssoCIA-
TON, PEARL, GRAND ISLE COUNTY,
Statement for October. Milk received,
169, 062 pounds; butter made from same,
1886 pounds; average price of milk per
one hundred pounds, ninety cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08

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, 1897-12-08

No HEART TOO BAD TO BE CURED,-Testi-
mony could be piled high in commentator
news Cure for the Heart. No case stands
against this great remedy where it did not
relieve the most acute heart sufferings in
side of thirty minutes II attacks the dis
ease in an instant after being taken.-29.
Sold by w. e. Terrill & Co. and Collins
Blakely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08

The secret of winter eggs is: Hatch
the pullets early and keep them grow
ing; have warm quarters; do not crowd
too many in small place; keep them
exercising, and feed properly.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08

Professor Plumb hit the nail fairly on
the head when he wrote that the farm
ers of Indiana ought not to allow a
pound of skim milk to go to waste from
the creameries or farm diaries. 1t can
be fed to great profit to growing pigs,
for it will assist in rapid flesh develop
ment. What is true of skim milk in
Indiana is equally true of it elsewhere.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
HOw's This Z?

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
+. 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.
WALDNG, KINNAN & MARVIN,
wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall's 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
Fl -.
" Family Pills ave the beet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
Dr.J.FraSer BarbriCk
The Boston Specialist,

will be in Montpelier at the Montpelier
House, for two days only, Monday and
Tuesday, December 20 and 81
The marvellous cures made by this won
derful Physician and healer have attracted
the attention OF thousands of people in
every walk of life, and have given to the
sick and suffering new life and hope. The
immense amount of work done in the State
of Vermont alone during the past season
and the stories OF wonderful cures told by
his patients and heard on every side are
evidence Of the great success he has met
with. DIR Blrbrick in speaking OF his sys-
tenn of treatment says
"By method original with me and pc
culiarly my own, | treat all forms of chronic,
long-standing, obscure and difficult diseas-
es, and have successfully treated cases in
which others have failed and cured cases
that have been given up as incurable by
other specialists and reputable physicians.
This method consists of systematic appli'
cation of the true elements of Psyche
NeuriC healing in combination with the
Rational Methods Of Medicine and Surgery
as practised by me and which | claim to be
the true aud natural manner of applying
the healing art. In my use of this mode OF
treatment aud the application of it to this
class of diseases l claim originality, and al
though my success has led to crude imita-
tons / believe that today l am the only
regularly educated Physician and Surgeon
in the world using these methods in their
entirety. This treatment is at once sci
entific, sensible and progressive; safe in its
application and positive in its results"
The many patients of the Doctor in Mont
peler and vicinity will be pleased to know
of his visit as it will give them and others
wishing to see him an opportunity to do so
near their own homes, thus avoiding the
expense and loss of time a visit to bis Bos-
ton Office would necessitate. He will be at
the Montpelier House for two days only,
December 20 and 81. Hours "a. M. to 8 p. M.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

ER-- The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers rh0eiaIe lots mot ,ob6tne
prtcesJ otherwise indicated. and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-12-08

One Minute Cough Cure, cures
That Is what II was made for.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1897-09-24
g 2 r =

This is tie complaint Of go a
thousands al this season. PA 2 W
They have no appetite; food ssszS 80 IS
does not relish. They need the toning upof
the stomach and digestive organs, which
a course of Hoods Sarsaparilla will give
them. II also purifles and enriches the
blood, cures that distress after eating and
internal misery only dyspeptic can
know, creates an appetite, overcomes that
tired feeling and builds up and sustains
the whole physical system. 1t so prompt
ly and efficiently relieves dyspeptic symp-
toms and cures nervous headaches, that it
seems to have almost ga magic touch"