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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-10-28

II is hard to understand why the
question OF the Cuban debt should be
a cause OF trouble to the Peace Com
missioners at Paris. The relinquish-
ment by this country of any demand
for money indemnity from Spain
carries with it the REIMBURSEMENT by
Spain of any demand that we should
assume any pecuniary liability in
connection with any part of the
Spanish public debt. Is Spain really
under any misapprehension as to
which was the winning and which the
losing side in the war?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-10-28

THE statistics of 1895 show that in
Great Britain there was consumed
grain to the value of $165, 900, 900, and
tobacco to the value OF 5000, 900,
or only two million less than the
amount paid for bread. France con-
sumes $50 grams OF tobacco per indi-
vidual inhabitant, while England con-
sumes but $50 grams per individual,
but she also uses more bread, and pays
higher for both bread and tobacco.
These facts move Italia Ternale to re-
mark that if exact statistics could be
obtained they "would demonstrate
very clearly that bread does not stand
at the head of the actual expenses of
the civilized peoples of the Occident."
1t is said ], 800, 900 acres Of the earth's
surface are devoted to tobacco culture.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13
Nath far,MRtter.

Dor tber so Sabren f1on murbe
Wfrs. Winslptp'S SOOTHING Sprup
BON Minionen bon Wfhttern beim 3ab,
men ber &inber angetpenbet. Wtrf bn
In. S9lafe bur9 bas @1reien zines
&inbes gef6rt, ba8 TN 3abnen If unb
Dpr S9meraen peint2 Wenn 10, laKe
iofort cine Jlaf6e BON xMrs. Mtns,
Ions Soothing Sprup@ bulen. Seiu
Wertb 1T unbesablbar. gs uirb BEN
tleinen 2etbenben fofort 2tnberung pers
faaffen. 8erlabt eu9 barauf Miitter,
es III tein 3peifel bartiber. gs betlt
9pfenterp unb 9iarrbne, resalirt ben
Magen unb bie Rieren, beieitigt Wtnb,
Rolit, ertpeidt ben Gaun1en, BERLIN.
bert @ntahnbuns unb ftdrtt bas ganae
Spfiem. uMrs. Winsloips SOOTHING
SprupA fir 5abnenbe 4inber if ange,
uebm In @ef9mad unb bas Recept
Hammt BON einem ber be1ien lpeiblibeu
aer;te In ben Ser. Gtaaten. gs III BET
allen Drusgiiien In Der sanaen Welt sn
baben. preis rs Gents per JlaiGe.
aauft ni9ts anbereS, als Mrs. Winss
Ions SootbingsSprup.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13
.mabHde 6ptel Sar,
Of' Soufon ,straBe,
" NJ. N u tb, 49,. Gigentbiimer

Man fiubet bier ein bor3heli&es
8las Bier unferer beimii1en graue.
reien. gefonbere Mnertennuna Der.
bienen bic Weine, gisarren, Wbisties,
eiqu6re &C. Q gor3tigIider 5rei.
luRh bes M orgens unb ga d.
mtttags. Giefe Wirtbf6aft erfreut
F1 beS ausge3eibneteu Rufes au bem
angenebmiien gufentboItsOrte ber
Stabt su 3dbIen.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13

- aesenf6irms, Opernsldfer. 3oi'
lettetdhen, Ytrffen. Qdmme, gorte.
monnaie's, gigarren.gtuis. 6treih.
b6l3erbhffsu In Sob uub Silber nnb
tauieub anbere artitel bel Griber
BROS.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13
Gs bali idm llidlts

Wf!f 5egn 2balern in ser galde.
aoer IN tldts peniger als perouiioter
SSl''ulIa'''n9 5o9 ct Dor oen Soloaten
gebrenitrabe. w.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13
Mattbtes Bros. Tleiiher =,

No, 5O7 > fsp onf 0 n.S traBs
giur bas poraagIi6fe Rinbs, S6ai.
unb S6weinef feiid.
Spe3talitdt: Sunges 9albfeiI6.
ale arteu bon Wurf, edinfeu,
3uuse, Sdnala ,e.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13

- Bel elmer Geuersbruna, bic In
elmer groBen Wieibsfaferne In Brootlpn
aHsbrad, tamen 5 perionen ums Sc,
ben. Mebrere anbere trueen fdpers
0ranb, ,BerleBungen babon.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13
@eue tiirfii9e Babe Mnitalt.
9ritte StraBe SO. 80, einen Blod
butter Der Eoft Sffiee.

Sartifde, rui1i1e, Rafieubampf',
ytabels unb einfade 8dber tdslif ftir
0erreu uub Damen. Mafaee. Dub.
neraugen Operationen. Ofen Gag
uub Nadt.
gefoubere Babtanfalt fur Dameu.
Carl &eief, Gigentbiimer.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13

- @riBer Bros. Hab bie ton.
angebenben esumeliere In Der gtabt.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1898-12-13

= Infer meiBer Nebrasta.9 9afer nnb
bas I'm Stunt seidnitteue 6eu Rnb bas
bette pferbefutter. Nlles rein unb
noblfhmedenb.
Weriudt es einen Monat.
SnnIet 00ppo 60. Sel. 81.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
Encouraging Features.

The farmers of Vermont ought to
hold special Thanksgiving day for the
preservation of their Board of Agricul-
ture. 1t is the most amazing thing that
a man who has intelligence enough to
get elected to the Legislature of Yer.
mont, can vote to abolish such an in.
stitution as this. The writer has for
years attended every meeting of the
board he could, has gone to the meet
ings of the Dairymen's Association
and the help he has received has been
of the greatest value to him. We have
seen large halls packed with wide
awake men and women listening eager
ly TO the words OF the speaker and 60
ing out to think, to talk, and to practice.
Aud for one the writer is very glad that
the Board of Agriculture is to go on with
its good work. And we advise future
Legislatures not to waste precious time
discussing its destruction. Discuss how
to make it better, not how to destroy
it. But we expect great good will come
from all this. The board has received
lot of free advertising. The people
have been set to thinking. Only the
best men will be placed upon it, and
they will do their best. An occasional
thunder storm clears the air. We shall
look for better work from the board in
the future than ever before.
We are also very glad the Cattle
Commission is to continue its work.
We know what it is 10 hang for weeks,
yes, months, upon the ragged edge of
uncertainty, not knowing whether the
milk our children were using was from
diseased cows or not, not knowing but
that our COWS were being destroyed by
the terrible scourge. We know what
it is to have the "vet" pronounce them
all right, the feeling of relief one expe-
riences when he knows his cows are free
from tuberculosis. And we are thank
full that the work of freeing the State
from the disease is to 60 on.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
COttOnseed Meals.

Much has been said and written rela-
tive to the use of cOttonseed meal as a
cattle food. Nearly all investigators
agree in giving it a high value and urge
dairymen to use this material not only
because it is cheap source of protein
but because it also has high manurial
value. Practical feeders differ greatly
in their estimates of cottonseed meal.
Some seem to use it very satisfactorily
for while and later conclude that the
poses. Occasionally feeder observes
that the health of his animals is affect
ed by the feeding of cottonseed too
freely, and it sometimes happens that
even after animals have been fed for
months with apparent success that they
are injured by its continued use. 1t
has also happened that cows fed upon
cOttOnseed meal do well for time and
that later the milk flow is diminished
without apparent cause. There are at
present no other concentrated feeding
stuffs which vary 30 much in compost.
ton as cottonseed meals from different
sources and different mills.
This great variation in different lots
of cottonseed meal may explain the
different estimates of different practi.
cal feeders and of the same feeders at
different times. If COW is fed cot.
tonseed meal containing rs per cent
protein and is then fed an equal weight
of meal containing 50 per cent, it is evil
dent that the amount of protein which
she receives will have been doubled by
the change. If she has been fed up to
her full capacity in the first instance,
such an increase must result disastrous
ly. On the other hand, changing from
cottonseed of high protein content
would diminish the milk flow unless
the amount OF meal fed is correspond
ingly increased. Bulletin of the Maine
Agricultural Experiment Station.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
The TiresOme Churn.

Perhaps there is nothing connected
with farm work that we used to dread
more as a boy, than the cid dash churn.
1t was hard work then; it is hard work
now; and we are of the opinion that
any farmer who will keep upon his
place one of these old-fashioned dash
churns, ard expects his wife or daugh-
tiers to do the churning with it, should
be summoned before the magistrate and
fined for his inhumanity. A desire to
get rid of the laborious operation OF
churning has probably led to the pur-
chase of more worthless traps in the
form of patent churns, than any other
machine employed in domestic econo-
my, unless it is perhaps the washing
machine. Few of the patent churns,
especially where they are guaranteed
to do the work in from five TO ten min
utes, are reliable. In fact, a rapid
churn does not generally produce a
first-class quality of butter.
One of the best cburns to bring about
good results is either the swinging or
revolving churn, in which the milk is
pitched badly from one part of the
churn to the other. No effort should
be made to secure first class butter I'M
der 80 to 40 minutes. Churning at
speed that will bring butter in about 40
minutes is the proper rate to make the
best quality. At this speed the fat
globues in the cream have time to be-
come properly aggregated together, 30
as to give granular butter of the
highest class. The easiest churn to
operate, where it is to be done by
hand, is swinging churn, so poised
that it will vibra back and forth,
throwing the milk from one end of the
churn to the other, by regular motion.
Next to this comes rectangular churn
or box, which is made to revolve so
that he milk is pitched from one cor.
ner to another. A churn of this kind
can be erected by any farmer of ordi-
nary intelligence at his home, and 30
adjusted that large dog or calf can
soon be trained to save his family or
help the labor involved in the old dash
churn.-Practicsl Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
Dirt In the Dairy.

The whole science of butter making
seems to revolve around the question
Of cleanliness. The problem OF dirt ia
the one that lie hardest to solve. The
man that thinks that he is dairying in
clearly manner is almost always mis-
taken, for cleanliness requires far great
er effort than most of us suspect. The
microscopic comes along and looks
into our ''clean" utensils and finds mil
crobes there that will certainly corrupt
the product. He looks into the stables
and finds other microbes there, but in
greater numbers. He goes into the
milkhouse and he finds the dirt there,
and, mixed with it, swarms of microbes.
This is so, though to the eye all is clean.
We do not take into proper account
the smallness of the particles of dirt
nor the smallness of the minute plants
we call bacteria. We wash the pals
till they are clean to all appearance,
but time and events show that they are
not clean. We wash out the milk cans
and think we have removed all remains
of the milk and dirt and microbes. But
put in the top TO the can aud let the
can set for a day. Then open it, and
the nostrils will be saluted with the
foulest and rankest of smells. The
very air inside the can seems to have
become breeding medium for these
bacteria. Scientific dail ying requires
the scalding out of these cans by steam,
and even steam will not do the work
unless the time element be taken into
consideration.
We have an illustration of how hard
it is to keep dirt out of the dairy by the
way in which the bottling system has
come into disrepute in some sections of
the country. 1t was believed that bot
thing the milk was great improvement
over the old way of dipping milk for
each customer out of a can. This was
on the presumption that the bottles
would always be properly and thorough
ly washed, as any defect of this kind
would be made known in the uncean
appearance of the bottles. The trouble
proved to be that the bottles were not
sufficiently washed to kill any disease
germs that might have obtained a
Judgement. Thus at West Point and
scarlet fever was spread by this means.
The bottles, after being emptied of
their contents, stood open in the houses
where this disease was present. AS
the bottles were not washed by the
people that used the milk, the little
milk left in the bottles became a good
breeding medium for the germs of the
disease. When the bottles were wash
ed at the bottling establishment the
baptism of heat was not sufficient to
kill the bacteria and when the new
milk was put into them the disease
germs found new and enlarged me-
dunn for their multiplication. The
same is true of the germs that cause
milk to sour and butter to spoil. Heat
and acids are necessary to give the
cleanliness required in the dairy
Agricultural Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

valuable information gained. Most
Vermont farmers keep cows either for
milk or butter fat, and when it lie
known that among the very best cows
of this breed in the State of N, W York
one COW required al pounds of dry
matter to make 100 pounds of milk
while another required only 38 pounds,
and that one COW ate as pounds of dry
matter to make a pound Of butter fat
while another required only liz
pounds, it ought to set every farmer to
thinking, "What kind of cows have l
got?" And trying to learn. 1t is not
hard to weigh all the meal cow eats,
nor very hard to estimate the amount
of hay and silage she consumes. To
test the milk for butter fat is not 80
very hard, and to weigh the milk is a
small matter compared with the knowl-
edge to be gained by doing it. In
every herd there are some good cows
and some poor ones. What is needed
is to get rid of the poor ones, and this
is one great point in daiiying.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

There can be no doubt that butter
values will assume a stronger and
frmer tone during the coming months
than for similar period in several
years past. A variety of causes can
be adduced as operating in this direc.
ton, but two chief ones may be given
in the shortage of butter this fall by
reason of drought in large areas in our
country and the unusual demand from
army sources. Hence reports indicate
that the quantity now in cold storage
is a great deal smaller than year ago
at this time and, of course, at this date
this cannot be recouped. There is,
therefore, basis for the advancing
values and as cost of production and
transportation is not likely to increase,
the profits in dairying will be of more
substantial nature than in the past.
Those who are inclined to switch off
into grain raising as one now holding
fine inducements should make note
of these facts and at once curb their
impulse by remaining right where they
are at in dairying, rather than following
what is most apt to turn out a will'-o'-
the wisp. DAIRY World.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
Live Stock Market.

VEAL CALVES Prices ranged all the
way from A 10 6lc.
SwINE.-Best grades of western hogs
were little stronger at 81 TO 81 |. W.
Cour try hogs were offered al Al d W.
Mich Cows.-Fancy cows were quiet
but firm at $50 TO 65. or ordinary stock a
number of sales were made at $50 to 4S.
Prices Of market beef: few choice, &c.
70 to %; xira Sc 90 70 80; first quality,
So 90 TO 3 so; second qua lty, S4 90 to 400;
third qualify, $500 to $50.
BEEF CATTLE. - Western stock were
steady, but beef cattle shade weaker.
Supplies were liberal and for neither de-
scripion Of stock was the demand more
than fair.
Prices OF store cattle; Working oxen per
pair, $50 to 1870; farrow cows, S12 to %;
fancy cows, $50 10 60; mich cows and calves
500 To 4S; yearlings, $40 TO 20; 2-yoar-olds,
Sl4 to 80; 3-year.o' dis, $40 to 80; western fat
swine, live, 81 to 50 northern dressed hogs,
41c per 10.
SHEKP AND LAMBs.-The supply from
New England WAS moderate, that from
Canada heavy. Buyers were inclined to
hold off and the result was a slight decline
in prices.
We quote: In lots. SO 80 tn 3 each; extra,
So % 10 4 20; or from p IA 4fc per III; spring
lambs, AZ 70 b4c; veal calves, TO 6ic.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
An Important Question,

EDS. COUNTRY GENTLEMAN.--Instead Of
telling us farmers how to raise more prod
uce, wish you would tell us how to sell at
profit what we do raise. A. M. r..
Let us discuss the problem. We
take it you mean that you wish ways
and means provided by which you can
sell at profit whatever you may have
to spare. That is, you want the mar
ket to at your products rather than
your products to fit the demand of the
market. II this is a fair statement,
you are asking much. If manuiact
urer find that he has been turning out
goods which the public has little desire
for, he clears them out at whatever he
can get, and tries to become wiser by
his mistakes and meet the demand
more accurately next time.
If a shopkeeper in your village has
an overstock of some particular line of
goods, he does not ask you and your
neighbor to buy them at a fair profit to
him, regardless of whether you need
them or not. If he did, you would
laugh at him. His only remedy is to
put his wares on the bargain counter,
and make the price such that the pub
llC Will Ut luuuCtu W IL lis ILL.,
vestment has been 80 unfortunate as to
make him a loss, you do not feel 80
sorry for him as to feel obliged to buy
them at price that the seller thinks
he would like 10 have.
Ii the manufacturers and merchants
suffer from misfit on the market, why
should an exception be made in your
case? The manufacturers and the
merchants have many more points to
their problem than has the farmer.
Beside the cost of the article, there are
the whims of fashion, the change of
seasons aud many other vagaries
while with the farmer, the main point
OF consideration is cost of production.
The bulk OF what he has to sell is to
be eaten, and the human appetite has
never yet gone out of fashion and is
with us at all times of the year. If a
manufacturer or merchant can secure
goods ten per cent below his COMPETE
tor, he has an advantage that will make
him master of the trade. All farmers
are competitors. Are your sure none
of your competitors are producing farm
products ten per cent less than you
are? In fact, do you know what your
products are costing you? Do you
know the cost of a pound of butter or
pound of pork, bushel of potatoes
or bushel of corn or wheat? A manu-
facturer would know. AS competition
in producing farm products continues,
you will also have to know or go to the
wall. How can you have the courage
to ask that the world buy your goods at
a paying price when you cannot tell
what that price should be?
Competition in farm products has
come to be nearly as strong as compe-
tition in manufactured goods-a compe-
tition so keen that only the strongest
succeed and all the weaker fail. In
these later years, q lead pencil has be-
come very important farm imple-
ment. Not only that but a farmer
should know the principles of his BUSH
ness. Can you tell us in general way
how plant grows? With the pres
ent competition, something more than
hard work and pinching economy is re-
quired for success in farming.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
Heifers for Beef.

A great change has taken place in re-
gard to the values placed upon heifers
by purchasers of fat cattle during the
last few years. Before the dressed
beef business had been developed ship
pers Disseminated against heifers and
they could only be sold for city slaugh-
ter. Now the large firms engaged in
slaughtering cattle and shipping dress
ed beef to all the leading cities of the
country purchase heifers as readily as
steers, although they still endeavor 10
secure them at slightly lower price
than steers of equal quality. Blu a
mixed lot often commands as good
price as If all were steers, for butchers
know that heifers dress equally a. well
as steers, and the beef is undoubtedly
as good. But to secure the highest
price heiiers must be well bred and
fully finished, otherwise they will still
be Disseminated against AT sixteen
to eighteen months, the heifers would
not have arrived at maturity and would
be rather light in weight to meet the
requirements of the best trade. + ON
1900 to 1900 pounds is the desirahlc
weight, and it will usually require an
age, even with good breeding and feed
ing, OF from twenty-four to thirty
months to give weight of 1900 pounds
or over. Cattle cannot be tattened in
sixty or seventy days, but it requires
from eight months 10 year. 1t does
not pay to feed ill-bred cattle to fin
ish, and from three to four months on
full feed will usually give better re-
suits than when feeding is longer con-
tinued These are the views of prac-
teal cattle feeder recently expressed in
the columns of the Live Stock Indicator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
DIR. Humphreys

Specifies act directly upon the disease,
without exciting disorder in other parts
of the system. They Cure the Sick.
NO. CURES PRICES.
1-Fevers, COMPOSITIONS, Inhammations. rs
2-Worms, Worm Fever, Worm Colc... rs
3-Teething, Collie, Crying .Wakefulness .25
4-Diarrhea. of Children or Adults. rs
7-COughs. Colds, Bronchitis ........... .25
S-Neuraleia. Toothache, Faceache.... rs
9-Heada che. Sick Headache, Vertigo. rs
1O-Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Weak Stomach. 25
11-Suppressed or Painful Periods. rs
12-Whites. Too Profuse Periods ....... .2J
13-CrOup, Laryngitis. Hoarseness. rs
14-salt Rheum, Eryspelas. Eruptions.. rs
15-Rheumatism. Rheumatic Palms,. rs
16-Malaria. Chils, Fever and Ague..... .25
19-Catarrh. Influenza, Cold in the Head rs
O-WhOoping- Cough .................... rs
27-kidney Diseases ...................... rs
2S-Nervous Debility. ...................1.0 90
3O-Urinary Weakness. wetting Bed. rs
77-Grip, Hay Fever. ........................ .25
DR.. Humphreys Manual of all Diseases at your
Druggists or Mailed Free.
Sold by druggists, or sent on receipt OF price.
humphreys Med. Co., Cor. William & John Sts.,
New York
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14
RETAIL DEALERs' PRICES.
Boston Produce Market.

EYThe quotations given below represent prices
obtained Dy receivers nhoesaie lots joo6ins
price,J unless otherwise indicatea. intended
to represent actual sEles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill
Iousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. use.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system.
Price seventy.ive cents per bottle
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-12-14

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