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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28

KENTUCKY AND INDIANA.
PULLED AND sCouREl
Current Comment.

CoRN.-The market has ruled slow as far
as trade is concerned, but the cost to ship
from the west Is higher, snd spot prices are
advanced.
CHEEsE.-Receipts for export 3,273 boxes.
Inc market has been quiet and there are no
material changes to report. Old stock is
pretty well sold up and rules steady at quo
tations.
PoTAToEs.-The market has been well
supplied with all kinds for the past week,
and there has been no material change in
any respect. Choice Aroostook Hebrons
have had a steady sale at 43c,
HAY.-The demand for hay vet rules mod
crate, but under lighter receipts the tone is
firmer for choice grades. There is no i'm
provement to note in the lower and medium
grades of hay, values ruling weak.
BUTTER.-The market cleaned up fairly
well last week and but little fine stock was
left over. Best Vt. and N II. creamery
is selling generally at 1910. York state lots
have moderate sale at III to 1Sc.
WHOLESALERS for the week, 5,475,000
pounds. The ebb tide has set in as far as
sales are concerned. The market is dull
and uninteresting in every particular The
mills are gorged with wool and interested
only in taking up what foreign wool they
have already contracted for.
BEANs.-There is still a large supply of all
kinds on hand and the market remains dull
and unchanged. Marrow pea have to be
choice and handpicked to bring &c. There
is but little call for yellow eyes, and it takes
an extra lot to bring over S1.00. Choice red
kidneys in limited demand at S1.35.
MAPLE SUGAR AND SYRUP.-Receipts have
fallen off good deal this week. and are
now running light but there is still large
stock on hand which is closing out slowly.
Tub and pail sugar continues dull at 81 to
&c. Cake sugar sells for the most part at
Z to SC, with now and then fancy lot high
er. Choice heavy syrup rules steady at
about fifty cents with some light weight at
40 to Acc. Only fancy heavy cans bring any
thing over SOC.
FLoUR.-The sharp advance in wheat dur
ing the past few days has caused -four prices
to be marked up considerably, the general
market being anywhere from % to 40c high
er than week ago. This boom has not
been marked by much trading however, as
the sharp advance has practically taken
away buyers breath for the time being.
The feeling among buyers is that the adj
vance has been too rapid to hold and they
are now waiting for reaction.
LUMBER.-There is hardly any question
but that the market is disappointing in
Northern and Eastern lumber Sellers
thought that long before this they would
have been doing a good business. The
ward and the yards are progressing slowly
before purchasing. A feeling exists in
some quarters that prices are not going to
be any higher and this rather encourages
dealers to hold off before purchasing.
Prices on cargo stock are maintained very
steady. Good ordinary random cargoes
bring about $500 a thousand. There are
not many large cargoes offering just now
and fortunately but few poor ones.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
President Of the Vermont State
Dairymen's Association on
the De LAVAL BABY !"
Cream SeparatOrS.
MoRRIsvILLE, VI, March 5, 180

WORTHWHILE, W., March 5, 1897.
"Six years ago took a De Laval
Baby No. 2Separator to test beside my
Cabinet creamer. AT the end of two
weeks became satisfied that l could
afford to be called fool by my neighbors
and throw away my nearly new $3.50
creamer and pay 1925 for little Baby
separator. 1t has run from two to three
hours every day since then with but very
little repairs. 1t is driven by small
tread power, is situated near the stable
so that no time is lost in carrying the
milk to it, and the warm skim-milk is
only few feet from the calves stable.
What is not wanted for the calves is
conducted to the basement beneath, all
warm for the pigs. II not only saves
us hours of work each day, but we have
sold more than 5000 worth of butter
each year more than we could have
made and sold had we kept on with our
former method.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
The Right Kind OF Udder.

If one will look through the herd and
compare the udders of the COWS, he
will be surprised to find among the
very best cows-let alone the poorer
ones-a wide difference in the form of
the udders, and that perfect one
will be difficult to find, i. e., one of
ideal shape. "Udders, like the ears of
men," says Practical Farmer, "go in
all shapes and it is not the largest ones
or the most symmetrical that supply
the most or the richest milk. OF
course the udder of cow-long, wide,
deep-of largest abdominal attachment,
each division we'll proportioned and
fair-siZed teats, is the one described
in dairy literature, but, in fact, it is not
uncommon to find large producing
cows that have the back quarters more
largely developed, and while not SYM
metrical to the eye, the milk-producing
power of the cow cannot be ignored.
We think the tendency of common
breeding is to enlarge the back quarters
at the expense of the forward part, and
it should be the breeders aim to SO
breed that harmony in size of the quar-
tiers shall prevail. In passing along a
line of royalty bred Jerseys, the other
day, there were not two udders in the
line that could be said to be alike, and
in some of them the forward quarters
were quite subdivided in appearance,
and indicated that the amount of milk
given from these quarters was much
smaller in quantity than from the back
ones. We do not know that any tests
to determine the relative richness of
the smaller quarters, as compared with
the larger, have ever been made, but
the question is rather one of how to
breed cows with well-proportioned I'D
ders. That heredity plays prominent
part in these matters cannot be doubted.
We once had family in our herd
that all showed peculiar conforma-
ton, and while they were great mixers
they had this heredity of always
every relative of them-being occa-
sionally troubled with gargety condi-
ton that every now and then devel-
oped into case serious enough to
spoil the COW. And another line of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28

cows, all tracing back to odd Brock
five times out of six would possess I'D
ders with large forward and small back
teats. The facts are that these defects
in the udders of dairy cows will never
remedy themselves, and that from the
fact 40 few men are close breeders of
their cows, and so many more buy their
recruiting stock from the general
market herds and drovers gathered
here and there and sold without him
drance or warrant. This is truth and
cannot he gainsaid. 1t is one of the
unexplained mysteries how the dairy
industry has been 80 little sustained
and extended with 80 little care and at
tention TO the principles that underlie
the care and the breeding of dairy
stock. In future there must be greater
care exercised and maintained, and not
the least of these requirements will be
the developing and better proportioning
of the udders of our COWS" mirror
and Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
Commercial Fertilizers.

No one need entertain the idea that
we are hostile to the use of commercial
fertilizers because we frequently name
and urge other means of obtaining fer
tility. The commercial fertilizers have
their place, and their value to the agri-
culture of the country is very great in
the aggregate. We want all the phos-
pilates that are buried in the earth and
all the fish guano we can get out of the
sea. We want all the bone meal and
all the flesh meal that can be made
from our slaughter houses, and we
want all the ashes that can be secured
from the burning of the timber in our
forests. But we don't want to buy
these things while the manure from our
stables is thrown out under the caves
and it's valuable qualities allowed to
wash away into the neighboring stream,
or while the manure in the barn cellar
is allowed to waste by over fermenta-
ton. Neither do we want to buy these
things while the team is standing in
the barn and the farmer wasting time
that might be profitably used in grow
ing heterogeneous crops to be turned un-
der for the enrichment of the soil. We
do not wish to buy fertility in the form
of prepared fertilizers when the ele-
ments needed by the soil can be pur-
chased separately and applied without
the expense of purchasing those ele-
ments already existing to excess in the
soil. We do not want the farmers to
pay retail prices for commercial fertili-
zers when they can club with their
neighbors and buy a carload, paying
cash for the same at greatly reduced
price. To waste manures in any of the
ways we have named and then buy
commercial fertilizers to take their
place is wasteful in the extreme, and to
buy fertilizers in an expensive form or
in mixture not needed by the soil is
also extravaganza and unwarranted.
Without in any sense Directing to the
purchase and use of commercial fertil-
izers in their proper place we still in
sist that farmers should carefully con.
slider the advantages of chemicals, and
above all consider the advantages to be
derived from the purchase and feeding
of heterogeneous foods, saving and apply
ing material obtained therefrom. Mir
ror aud Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
Milk Cans.

AT convention in Minnesota, j. X.
Bennett said:
Brother buttermakers, would it not
be well in starting creamery in new
dairy section to ward off this evil be-
fore the farmers are supplied with cans
by going to the hardware men and tell
ing them how a can should be made?
Make it emphatic, and give your rea-
sons. In the care of cans, they are to
be kept clean and free from rust They
should be washed as soon as possible
after being used. Rinse first with cold
water, then scrub thoroughly with
brush both inside and outside, using
warm water-almost hot. or better, a
good soap suds, use it often anyhow.
Give particular attention to the seams
and don't forget the outsides. You
know the inside is often judged by the
outside. Finish with scalding water,
not Just warm water. Turn your cans
upside down long enough only to allow
them to drain; then leave right side
up, or on their sides in the fresh air,
and you will have clean, sweet cans.
1t is very common error to leave them
over stake, or on board. This is q
serious mistake, as invariably the cans
will sour thereby. The hot air or steam
rises and has no escape, consequently
condenses in the cans and sours.
Much milk otherwise well cared for is
often tainted from no other reason. A
rusty can should not be used, as it i'm
parts foreign flavor to milk"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
To Get a Stand Of Clover.

Hello therel you man hurrying along
so fast and grumbling to yourself Stop
a minute and take heed to what Hoard's
Dairyman has to say to you'll You say
you can't, because you are in such a
hurry? That's what's the matter with
you. You are always in such hurry
and work so hard that you don't take
any time to think and consequently you
work to no purpose.
We want to tell you how you can
have some clover and things to feed
your COWS when there isn't feed enough
for them in the pasture. You cay you
"can't get no catch of clover" We
say you can, and if you will only stop
your everlasting hurry few minutes,
we will tell you how to do it.
AS soon as the ground is in condi-
tiion to work, fit a piece nicely and SOW
it to oats, two bushels to the acre, and
five or six quarts of clover seed. Roll
the ground down after seeding and
then harrow with light, fine tooth
harrow. Soon after the oats are head
ed and before any grain has formed,
cut the oats for hay. They make ex-
cellent hay cut at that stage; or they
can be used if needed for soiling crop
Taking off the oats will give the clover
a chance and you will be almost sure to
get good stand. You don't believe it.,
eh? We can prove it to you. Don't
you remember three years ago, the last
time you tried to seed to clover and it
was very dry year and nearly every
one lost their clover seeding, it died
either just before harvest or Just afterp
Well, you know we were at your place
in the fall. You know you tried to
seed with oats that year. Ga the little
patch near the barn VIII re you cut the
oats green for your horses, there was
fine clover, all in blossom. and on the
rest of the field, where you let the oats
ripen, there was not single clover
plant.
The truth is it takes lots of water out
the ground to mature crop of oats.
They say out at the Wisconsin Expert
ment Station, that it took 512 pounds
of water for every pound of dry matter
in the oat crop. A large proportion of
grain. You see why The clover dried
up. 1t is because the oats stole the
water all away from it.
If you had not been in such an awful
hurry all the time, and had only taken
time to think, you might have taken in
that fact and profited by it. That's the
way neighbor of ours found it out
that same year, and he has profted by
it every year since by having splen-
did stand of clover and having nice oat
hay.
Dat hay is splendid if it is cut early
before any grain is formed, -Hoard's
Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
Sticking up Around the Buildings.

Spring is the well-known time for
house cleaning, and it would be grand
thing on many farms if the men folks
would do some spring cleaning up
around the house. AS one rides along
country roads he sees striking contrasts
in farm homes. One house will have a
neat-looking door.yard, no trash or lit
ter. There will be vines. flowers, shade
trees, well-kept fences. There may be
the marks of close economy, of little
meney to spend upon adornings, but
the eye for beauty reveals itself in little
touches of refinement. Unsightly things
are banished to the woodpile, the rub
bish heap or the fire. No old wagons
are standing around the front door, rot
ting down; no old trumpery disfgures
the scene. You drive on and soon see
the opposite of all this. There is a
neglected look about the premises.
You can see at a glance that no one
takes pains to keep things looking neat
and tidy. Old things are left lying
around loose to rot. On many farm a
years supply of kindling wood could
easily be secured from the old boards,
boxes, barrels, and implements which
are lying around spelling the looks of
the farm home.
1t makes vast difference with both
the jewellers in the home and the passers
by it whether it looks tidy and well
kept, or dirty, unkempt, and slovenly.
1t is easy to get into habits of neglect,
to let things go, taking no pains to
make the home look well, but it has a
bad effect on those who do it. Shift
lessness is the besetting sin of some
people, and the more they give way to
it, the more it overpOwers them. If
you are under the influence of this
spirit, break away from it right off.
Begin now to click up things around
the house and barn. If you have not
time to make kindling wood OF the
trumpery about the premises, then
draw it off and pile it where it will be
ready to work up in the fall. Tear
down the old rotten fences around the
door-yard, and either have no fence at
all, or neat-looking one. Tidy up
about the doors, dig out rank-growing
weeds-or better, put little kerosene
ON them as they start up. Watch Your
tidy neighbors and see how they do it.
You like to see well-kept places, and
other people would like to see yours
we'll kept. 1t will do you and every
member of your family good to have
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
AGRICULTURAL.
Growing Potatoes,

1t does not pay to do much hard
work with them. Not every one can
hire planter, and few can own
them; but common pillow to open
burrows, somebody to drop the seed
pieces, and a smoothing harrow, a
potato coverer, or a cultivator arranged
for the work, can be used to cover.
The best growers recommend the max
ing of the soil very fine and mellow be-
fore planting, with shallow and level
cultivation afterwards This is the
best way where only few acres are
grown, and where one cannot hire a
planter. The thing to be insisted on
especially is thorough preparation of
the soil. The harrow should be used
without stint, and mellow seed.bed
prepared. Many pillow urder the stable
manure 80 that it will not come into
contact with the potatoes. tits thought
that manure makes potatoes rot if it
touches them. But we are not at all
sure that this is so. A large part of the
fertilizer should ordinarily be manure;
the rest, fertilizer containing a large
amount of potash. This can be scat.
tered in the burrows, preferably after
the potatoes are covered. After the
potatoes have been covered about q
week or less, the ground should be har-
rowed with light harrow, or with one
having slanting teeth. This kills all
the annual weeds which have started
and levels the ground. The harrow
can be used after the plants come up,
or a weeder can be substituted.
The old-fashioned way of killing up
the plants is the worst possible way to
deal with potatoes on light dry soils, and
is not to be commended for any soil, un-
less it be very wet one, and such soil
is not fit to plant potatoes in. The
only good resulting from billing up is
the keeping of the potatoes from get
ting too wet, and possibly from grow
ing out of the ground. In dry
weather, level and shallow culture is
vastly the best. The surface soil must
be kept stirred both to keep down
weeds and to prevent evaporation of
water from the soil. This is one of the
great secrets of growing, fire.
quent and shallow cultivation. The
bugs must be attended to promptly.
Sometimes day or two will make a
great difference in the whole crop.
Paris green and plaster mixed in the
proportion of one pound of the poison
to one hundred pounds of the plaster is
better method than using water unless
the water is handy and abundant. 1t
should not be forgotten that a teaspoon
full of lime to pail of water will make
the solution of paris green harmless to
the leaves of the plants. Nobody now
knows what the season will bring forth
as to crops, prices, etc., but there is
every prospect that large acreage will
be put in.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
Live Stock Market.

PRICES Of sheep and lambs In lots, $500
TO $3.50 each; extra, $500 to $500, or from
2 to &c per Id; lambs, to &c; veal calves,
8 to sic,
BEEF CATTLE.-Receipts were liberal, but
the market is a trife frmer, owing to the
fact that quite number are being shipped
out of the country.
PRICES of market beef: A few choice,
$500 to $3.50; extra, $3.50 to 1913; first
quality, $500 to 1928; second quality 81 to
81 so; third quality, $3.50 to $3.50.
PRICES Of store cattle: Working oxen per
pair $50 to $3.50; farrow cows, $l2 to 500;
fancy cows, $50 to S6S; mich cows and
two-year-olds, S12 to 500; three-year. olds,
$40 to $50; Western fat swine, live, 4 to Al |;
Northern dressed hogs, SIC per ID.
ARRIVALS of live stock at markets for the
week. at Watertown: Cattle, $685. sheep,
$780, veals, 20SS; swine. 10, 1875; horses, -.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28

neat tidy home. Paint is not costly
and makes wonderful difference in
the looks of things. A few flower
seeds, vines and shrubs cost but little,
but bring in large income of beauty
and fragrance. Green grass is far bet
ter than unsightly weeds. If there are
any garbage heaps, draw them off. If
there are any bad odors dissolve cop
peras in water and use freely. Make
the surroundings of your home as sweet
and clean and tidy as possible. You
will be paid thousand times over for
all your work and expense.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrb 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. HALLS 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
F. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
CO Sold by Druggists, price sew
enty-fve cents per bottle.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28

IF the butter comes in the churn in
fewer than thirty minutes, it is usually
at the expense of quality. Do not be
elated when the patented machine it
warranted to bring butter in ten in
fifteen minutes. Those who make gilt
edged butter churn 80 slowly and care
fully that the butter rarely comes un-
der forty minutes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28

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, 1897-04-28
$l.oo nssa sIEhte Chased sssd H Se $1.oC


think merit durability the low;
durable
dps, uniformly
this the banks
all classes
peer vicinity Orders received from all the
Money satisfactory mail, postage paid
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

Ry--The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers for pholesale lots mot jobbins
prices unless otherwise Indicated and are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28

THAT Hoods Sarsaparilla purifies the
blood and relieves a vast amount of
suffering is not theory but we'll
known fact.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28

A GOOD dust bath will 60 far toward
keeping the fowls in good thrifty con-
ditiOn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-04-28
For Sale at a Barqain

On Northheld street; House and small Building
Lot. Ftrst-class Investment. A. j. HOWE,
Real Estate Agent
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-27
A Serious Shooting.

Early Saturday morning Frank
Robinson, bad negro, while I'M
der the..influence of liquor, walked
into his boarding house in the rear
of the Bazar store, and shot
Frank Turner, also colored, who
was sitting quietly drinking cof-
fee. One ball shot off his upper
lip and the other entered his
stomach. He is badly wounded
but may recover. DR.. Thompson
is attending him. Robinson was
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Nu-
gent, who was forced to knock
him down first with the butt of his
revolver. He is now in Jail.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1897-12-27
Consumption Positively Cured.

Mr.. r. B. Greeve, merchant of
Chilhowie, Va, certifies that he
had consumption, was given up
to die, sought all medical treat
mcnt that money could procure,
tried all cough remedies he could
hear Of, but got no relief; spent
many nights sitting up in chair;
was induced to try DR.. Kings
New Discovery, and was cured by
the use of two bottles. For the
past three years has been attend
ing to business, and says DR..
Kings New Discovery is the
grandest remedy ever made, as
it has done so much for him and
also for others in his community.
DR.. Kings New Discovery is
guaranteed for coughs, colds and
consumption. 1t don't fail. Trial
bottles free at f. G.. Alworth &
Co.'s drug store.