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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
Current Comment.

CoRN.-The market has shown weaker
tone during the week with prices quoted
about &c lower at the close.
BEANs.--Receipts have been moderate but
trade has been very quiet. There has been
80 little demand that prices have been bare
ly sustained.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF old potatoes have
been heavy again this week, demand has
been slack and the market has DEVELOPED a
weak and unsettled tone.
CHEEsE.-There has been no material
change during the past week. Fine old
cheese has been in steady demand at full
former prices, some Of the best marks ex-
ceeding quotations.
EGGs.-The market cleaned up pretty
well last week and on Monday under rather
light offerings and strong advices from
western and other leading markets, took a
sharp upward turn and since then has
ruled firm at the advance.
BUTTER. - There has been a marked
change in the condition Of the market since
our last weekly report. Quality is now
generally fine and quite an active specula-
tive demand has sprung up in all the lead
ing markets, causing general advance in
prices.
FLoUR.--The demand for flour continues
dull, most of the business done of late be-
| ing by re-sellers who are willing to dispose
Of goods much below the present market
| Operators look for the wheat market to not
hold up long, and when the break comes
-four will quickly follow.
Wool. = Sales for the week, 2,754, 00(
pounds. The week has brought an increase
in activity TO the market in addition to the
Government business This too, has in.
creased in proportions since the call fol
$4,000 more troops and altogether the tota
sales make quite respectable showing.
LUMBER.-The yard people are not evinc.
ing any more interest in lumber this week
than they were last. Their purchases il
the aggregate have been fully as light anC
distrust seems to be the general condition
of the market. The retailers are not doing
much and consequently they are not dis
posed to purchase
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

able thousands more to pay off their
mortgages, provided it does well.
Meanwhile let us who do not grow our
own wheat learn to eat more "Johnny
cake" There is nothing better than
corn products for the farmers table.
We have often wondered when we
have been eating at Vermont farmers
tables why they were almost always
destitute of corn bread, etc. The old
fashioned "brown Bread" made of corn
and rye or wheat meal, was favorite
food with our forefathers. But some
how, now days all corn products have
gone quite out of fashion, unless they
are put up in some fancy shape with a
high sounding name and sold for a
high price. If the present high price
of flour shall lead farmers in the North
to use more corn products as food, it
will be a good thing. In the South
corn bread is found on almost every Ia
BILE. The poorer people just stir up
meal and water and bake it into "corn
pone." 1t would not be bad thing to
have a maize propaganda among the
farmers of the North to induce them to
eat more corn.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

sucking her brood is very easily and
cheaply kept. Most of the pigs-say,
some fifteen year-are fattened on
six or eight months old and then dis
posed of. The idea is to have them in
condition for market at almost any
age. But to secure this they must be
well fed and cared for from the first.
They have the skim milk from the
dairy with proper proportion of grain,
beginning lightly soon after being
weaned from the SOW and increasing
gradually up to proper limit. The
idea is by care and proper quality and
amount of feed to keep these young
animals healthy, hearty and thrifty.
This, think, is following Mr.. Louis
idea in the matter, and is one that,
when followed up, will result in pro-
ducing pigs that at six or seven months
old will be properly grown and fatten-
ed, and such as our butchers like to
get.
From our small dairy we dispose an
nually Of 800 worth of pig products,
besides reserving @ supply for large
family. True, this is not large
amount, DuI sIlll IL is quite III duulllOH
to the receipts from the dairy and we
feel pretty well satisfied with the re-
suits thus far. But this is not quite
all Since following this plan we are
making a large amount of good manure,
the actual value of which cannot yet be
determined, but suffice to say it is hav-
ing decided beneficial effect on the
farm and crops.
In closing l will add that to be sue
cessful in the business here at the
North, the conditions must be favor
able, otherwise there will often be fail
ure and disappointment. Farmers will
not find it profitable to grow and fatten
pigs at this age on skim milk alone.
To be more successful there should be
proper portion of grain, and of
kind most wanted, to make up for the
deficiency in the milk. We are now
feeding to pigs fourimonths old mix
ture of middlings, bran and corn meal,
and this appears TO make with the milk
a good ration.
have tried here to give, verified by
experience, what consider practical
method for disposing of the skim milk
from the dairy, 30 as to render it reas-
onably satisfactory when compared
with the cheaper methods that can be
pursued at the west and south.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
The White ScOurs in Calves.

/ have Just lost three young calves from
white scours. Do you consider it a contagious
disease, or is it wholly contracted from feeding
the calf? When the calf is sucking its dam,
is the feed of the COW a cause of it? Can en-
slage fed to the cows cause it, if not fed more
than once day, and not more than twenty
five pounds to feed? Will the feeding of en-
slage an hour before milking cause any bad
effects? What can you recommend for the
calves, and is there any use trying to save
them after the disease has got firm hold?
II. II. W.
The white scours in young calves is,
undoubtedly, due to specific germ or
organism. The disease frequently be-
comes epidemic. The feeding of the
dam has very little, if anything, to do
with causing the disease. The feeding
of ensilage in reasonable quantity will
not cause the trouble. The disease
can, usually, be cured if treated from
the outset. AS soon as the calf shows
the first symptoms, give as a drench
two tablespoonfuls of castor oil, to
which add one teaspoonful each of lau-
danum and tincture of Jamaica ginger.
Then give one-half teaspoonful of lau-
danum with one teaspoonful of the
tincture of ginger every four hours un-
til the diarrhea is checked. If the
calf becomes weak, give two teaspoon
fuls of whisky in little hot water every
four hours. If the calf is being raised
by hand, add one-fourth or one-6fth
part lime-water to the milk. Do not
feed more than one pint of milk at
once, but repeat the quantity every
four hours. If the calf is on the COW,
do not allow it to suck but few min
utes at time. Whitewash the sides of
the calf pen, or anything with which
the calves have been in contact, and
dust the floor and droppings with dry,
air-slacked quicklime. - Rural New
Yorker
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
Live Stock Market.

SwNE.-Only a small business was trans
acted at prices in the vicinity Of 4c.
Mich Cows.-Sales not heavy and prices
steady at $50 to S48; fancy, $50 to 500
Prices of market beef; A few choice, So to
$685. extra, 1925 to $780, first quality,
S475 to So second quality, 81 to $3.50;
third quality, So to $3.50.
VEAL CALvEs.-Market &c stronger. Mar
ket not heavily supplied and demand fair.
Sales included "a calves, $3.50 pounds at 54c;
90 calves, $500 pounds at sc, 8 calves, ago
pounds, at SC.
BEEF CATTLE.-The demand was not SO
brisk as last week and prices in consequence
declined little. Receipts from the North
were, fortunately under the circumstances,
not so heavy as usual.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The market for ex-
port sheep being unsatisfactory at present,
supplies were light and the general tone
easy. We auote In lots, S2.75 to So each;
extra, S3.25 to So or from q to sc per
pound; Spring lambs, A to 54c; veal calves,
8 to she,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
The Vegetable Grower.
LIMA BEANS.

These may be planted at any time
after this date, providing the ground is
warm and moderately dry. Under no
other conditions is it advisable to plant,
it would be simply case OF putting
seed in the ground to rot. The varie-
ties of these are not so numerous as in
other classes OF beans, the selection,
therefore, being much easier. The
Large White lima is by far the most
popular and most extensively grown of
any of the varieties, and too well known
to need description. Dreer's Improved
lima is another very desirable variety,
and one of which we always plant a
good deal. The pods are not 80 long
as those of most of the other varieties,
but are always we'll filed with round
thick beans of delicious flavor, and gen.
eral good quality. 1t is very heavy
yielder, and natures about ten days
earlier than the Large White. King of
the Garden is also desirable variety,
being larger in pod and bean than
either of the foregoing; of good quail
ity, and heavy yielder
PEAS.
The last sowing, if not already done,
should be got in at once. Some delay
this till the beginning of June, but we
have never had satisfactory results
from sowings made much after the mid
die of May; they either get dried out
before maturing, or are rendered use
less by the attacks of mildew.
CELERY.
AS soon as the plants are fit to handle,
pricking over should commence. Some
merely thin the plants out in the seed
bed, but pricking over will more than
repay the trouble, as it gives firmer
growth, more stocky and better bal
anced plants. We prefer pricking into
a cold frame where they can be more
conveniently taken care of in regard to
shading, ETC., until the plants have
taken fresh hold. About an inch and
a half of thoroughly rotted manure in
the bottom with about the same guam
tity of soil placed over 1t is a good way
to prepare the frame. When planting
time comes the roots will be found to be
matted through the manure and soil,
and the plants can be cut out individ-
ually into little squares and trans.
planted with little or no check.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
A Talk on Calves.

One is forcibly reminded that this is
the time of year for calves, and as
calves are very important factor in
the making up of the dairy herd, one
cannot be too careful in selecting the
best ones to raise.
A calf should have good vitality.
Choose one with the following points
and you will not be far out of the way,
its pedigree being all right. 1t should
have, when dropped, four good teats
we'll placed, with two extra small ones;
it should have four teeth, six are bet
ter. l have known them to have eight.
Having selected your calf, you must
bring it up in the way it should go, to
make good mich COW. always let
the calf suck once, sometimes twice,
according to circumstances, then teach
it to drink whole milk, gradually wean
it off to skim milk replacing the cream
with one part oil meal and two parts
wheat middlings we'll scalded. Give it
hay as soon as it will eat it. Nail a
small box in one corner of the pen,
and give it some middlings to lick, then
watch it grow.
Heifers should drop their first calf at
twenty or twenty-five months old and
be MIXED up to within four weeks of
dropping the next. - The Practical
Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
The Keeping of Swine on the Farm
as an Adjunct of Dairying.

E. r. Towle, of Franklin county,
VT, gives in Hoard'S DairVman his
experience in the matter indicated by
the subject of his communication:
l have twice read with interest
Mr.. Theo. Louis excellent article on
"The Reflections of Hog Man." in
Doiryman for April Is. would like
to say something on part of the sug-
gestions made in this article. AS the
profits from the dairy proper are not
large, as a general thing, and always
in accordance with the zeal, energy
and skill put into the business, it GER
tainly will be for the interest OF the
farmer to try to make the best possible
disposition of the skim milk as an aid
in this matter. But how to do this in
satisfactory manner when prices for
hog products are fully as low in proper
ton as are those of butter and cheese
is the question. Here at the East we
have the West in sharp competition in
both pork and dairy products. Were it
not that the dairymen here have this
allow to 60 to waste, it would not Or
dinarily pay to raise and fatten swine as
business.
But we cannot afford to lose this by
product from our large diaries, that pos
sesses considerable feeding value, and
so must manage in some way to use it to
the best advantage. Perhaps cannot
better illustrate my meaning than by
giving some personal experience of what
may be done along this line in section
of the country not the most favorable
for the purpose. We keep dairy of
some eighteen cows, make our own
butter and calculate to have milk the
year round. We raise calves enough
for the supply of the dairy, and the
milk not needed by them goes to the
pigs. We keep good brood SOW for
the sole purpose of raising pigs, and
keep her at it as long as profitable.
Raise two broods year, one in winter
and one in summer. Have been sue
cessful in securing sows that were of
good size, quiet, easily managed and
excellent mothers. Much of the sue
cess will depend on this, and when
such an animal is secured we find it
much better to keep her several years,
rather than change every year and run
the risk of getting some that are not
adapted to the purpose. Have had ex-
cellent success in this particular branch
of dairying, but find that it requires
method and careful attention, as we'll
as everything else on the farm.
In winter the conditions must be
made as nearly as possible like those
of the summer, by having warm quar-
tiers, and dry, comfortable beds, with
the feed at a proper temperature, as
Mr.. Louis speaks of. With these re-
quisites, our pigs will do as we'll as in
summer. Although the SOW and pigs
have only pens with small yards in
warm weather, have thus far had no
loss from disease. The SOW when not
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

THERE Is more catarrh is this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable.
For great many years doctors pro-
nounced it local disease, and pre-
scribed local remedies, and, by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treat
ment, pronounced it incurable. Sci
ence has proven catarrh to be consti-
tutional disease, and it therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment, Halls
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses of from
ten drops to a teaspoonful. 1t acts di-
rectly on the blood and mucus sur
faces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimo-
malls. Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
c. Sold by druggists at rs cents.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

The roots OF corn or potatoes may
run all over the field, and bring moist
ure and food from four or FIVE feet
away. The strawberry cannot 90 this.
1t must have its food and drink close
by-within foot of the plant. The
strawberry must mature its fruit in a
comparatively few days. We see from
this why the strawberry plant is 30 sus-
ceptible to drought, and responds 80
quickly to soluble fertilizers. Rural
New Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

The more experience man has in
squash raising generally, the more lib
orally he manures. The man that be-
gins with FIVE cords per acre will often
increase to from II to 20 cords.-J. j.
III. Gregory.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

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 satisfactio
or money refunded. Price twenty-five
cents per box. For sale by c. Bskely,
Montpelier, vt.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

The Judge So you were getting
money by calling yourself a survivor Of
the Maine, eh? The culprit-Weil,
amt 1? I've been livin' ever since it
happened.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
RETAIL DEALERS PRICEf
Boston Produce Market.

Ey~T The quotations given below represent prices
obtained py receivers uhoesase lots mot ,oobine
priceJJ otherwise indicated. aud are intended
to represent actual sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

HOODS PILLS cure Liver Ills, Bill
lousness, Indigestion, headache.
Easy to take, easy to operate. 2bc.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01

One Minute Cough Cure, cures
Thss 10 Whist u was made for.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
THE BEST FOOD IN SUMMER.

Considering the fact that there is
usually an abundance of food on the
grass plots and in the fields in summer,
there is really no necessity for feeding
at all in warm weather, but as some
will prefer to allow food, the best sub
stance is raw meat, using only that
which is lean, giving none of the fat
portions. The meat must be fresh, or
it will prove injurious, and the cheaper
kinds, such as the neck, liver, and
other undesirable portions, will serve
the purpose as well as the best. Blood
is excellent, as it may be mixed with
corn meal and cooked in bag. 1t is
highly heterogeneous, and gives excellent
results. Grain is not necessary in sum-
mer, as the hens find substitutes there
for in the form of seeds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
The Poultry Yard.

SITTING HENS WITH YOUNG CHICKS.
There is quite a different method of
management for the hen that has just
brought off brood OF chicks and one
that has been lowering them for week
or more. When very young the chicks
are weak and require warmth. If the
hen is not confined, and is allowed to
move from place to place, the chicks
will not only become exhausted from
constant exercise for which they are
not prepared, but will become chilled,
even in mild weather, and it has been
frequently the case that they have been
found nearly dead, because the hen
would not remain quiet and cover
them. After they are week old they
can battle with life to better advantage,
but during the first week the hen
should be kept closely confined in a
box that is we'll lighted, the chicks be-
ing allowed to pass in and out at will.
HARDNESS AND COLOR.
There are certain peculiar claims re-
gsrding the different breeds of fowls
which are based upon no foundation
whatever, among them being that white
fowls are not hardy. This claim is sup
ported by the fact that the Black Minor
cas- and Black Langshans have forced
the white varieties aside, and are more
extensively used. Oh the contrary,
the white Wyandottes, White Leg
horns, and the white breeds of ducks
are greater favorites that the blacks,
and the white Plymouth Rock is known
where its opposite (Black java is
| never seen, The fact is, that when
breed is rare it becomes inbred, and
for that reason is not as hardy and Wig
orous as the breed that is a favorite
There is nothing in color except par
TALLY on the part of some for certain
shades of plumage, and it does not in
fluence hardness, prolificacy, or mar
ket qualities in any respect.
THE REST FOOD IN SIMMER
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-01
A WEEKLY RECORD.

"A w EEhh1 hEOOhO'
Once a month count the chicks and
you will be surprised to find that some
are missing though you will not have
seen a single dead chick. By doing
this every week, and keeping record,
it will be found that less than one-half
Matched will be in the flock at the end
of the year. This is due to the fact
that dogs, cats and rats get a large pro-
portion, and the gentle family cat, that
eats out of the same dish with the
chicks will be one of the guilty parties
to their depletion, the greatest enemy,
however, being the rat, which carries
the chicks away to their holes in the
ground or under sheltered places.
WHEN TO SELL DUCKLINGs.
May and June are the months when
ducklings bring the highest prices,
broilers being highest in April and
May. The ducklings that come into
market at this season are usually of the
Pekin variety, and are raised without
ponds, reaching a marketable age at
eight weeks from date of Matching.
About seven pounds per pair is the
preferred weight in market and they
may bring as much as twenty-five cents
per pound if very fat and in good con-
dition. Where one has clover field
or pasture, ducks of the Pekin variety
can be kept without feeding them
during the summer, and they will re-
quire no water other than that neces-
sary for drinking purposes. They are
hardy and are subject to no diseases.
THE crrPpJIrs OE COCKERRTS
1t may be safely claimed that there
are yearly Matched as many cockerels
as pullets, and they consume just as
much food. The pullets may be re-
tanned for future service, but the cock
erels are worthless except for the mar
ket. They are profitable or cause loss
according to the age at which they are
marketed. The early ones should be so
when they weigh one and one-half
pounds each, and the later ones when
they weigh five pounds per pair. They
then bring good prices because they
have not developed their combs and wat
ties, but just as soon as they approach
maturity, they 60 in the class of "old
roosters" and sell at five cents per
pound, whether old or young, causing
loss, as they do not then pay for their
food. Sell them and give the room in
the poultry houses to the pullets, as
profit can only be made by reducing
expenses in every department.-Amer-
lean Gardening.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1898-02-03
MANCHESTER CEsTRR

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