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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
Buying Pure. Bred Fowls.

The farmer who buys trio or more
of fowls in the fall will make no mis-
take, and if he prefers to get the eggs
in the spring all will be well, but he
must expect TO be ridiculed by some of
his neighbors for paying 81 or so for a
male or hen. Nevertheless, the same
farmers and neighbors will promptly
come forward and rtquest TO "change
hatch chicks in the spring. If farm
er buys eggs of the pure breeds he
buys "stock," the eggs being simply
the embryo chicks. The farmer who
desires to improve also goes too far,
sometimes. Instead of depending on
one breed he begins with two or more.
His interest will be sufficiently strong
for year or more to keep his birds
separate, but in the course of time he
will undertake to save labor by turning
all the breeds out together. Then the
down grade begins, and in season or
two his fowls will be all crossbred and
mongrels, with no uniformity or fixed
characteristics. If the farmer desires
to improve, let him begin with pure
bred males if he does not wish to pur-
chase trio, but he should stick to one
breed. If he gets male every year,
let it be of the breed he originally Sc
lected. In two or three years he will
have the hocks uniform, and they will
be better and better every season, and
at a cost that is almost insignificant.
If his neighbors desire TO improve let
them cooperate with him in purchas-
ing pure breeds, and if they refuse then
he should compel them to pay him for
his enterprise when they call with set
ting of eggs from mongrel hens to be
exchanged for something better. A
dollar or two invested in pure breeds
will make difference in the quality of
the stock and the number of eggs laid
of more than ten times the cost of the
birds purchased. Farm and Fireside.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
A Source OF Tainted Milk,

In this locality and doubtless in
every other one where there has been
heavy rain the COWS are seeking every
slough for cooling purposes as we'll as
to rid themselves of the flies. This
means that the udder and stomach of
the animal become plastered with
layer of slough mud, containing an i'm
mense number of putrefactive bacteria.
AS soon as the mud becomes dry, il is
in the best possible condition for SOW
ing the milk with putrefactive germs,
and thus preparing it for all kind of
taints, gassy curd and off flavor butter
The best we can do in this moist, warm
weather we cannot prevent large ex-
cess of the normal bacteria from grow
ing in the milk, but there is no neces.
sity for adding to this number by al
lowing the cow to carry them from the
stagnant pond or slough to the milk
pail on her udder. The butter maker
has troubles enough of his own without
the farmer adding to them by means of
slough mud or dirty drinking water.
The farmer may not see it, he evident
ly does not, but every mess of dirty or
tainted milk he carries to the factory is
80 much money out of his pocket. The
tainted milk may be accepted, through
the negligence or friendship of the but
ter maker, but the butter buyer is not
apt to show any such weakness, and
the price of that butter is put about
where it belongs, and the farmers
pocketboOk suffers accordingly. -
Hoard's Dairyman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
Poultry Raising for Women.

"Can O woman do her own work and
take care of dozen fowls, toO?" is the
question that comes so often to my desk.
Thele are many who can and do, not
only of dozen, but hundred, many
who cannot and will not, many who
would like to, but do not know how.
L know of no other line of work the
average farmers wife can engage in
that is more healthful, and can be
made as profitable, as raising chicks for
layers and for market.
Select the breed you like best /;
thoroughly inform yourself as to their
special peculisrities and govern your
self accordingly. A building 6 feet
high, 30 feet long and 20 feet wide,
the space for laying and roosting being
separated from the feeding room by
lath or wire netting, is room enough
for fifty hens. The nest boxes and
perches should be movable. A broom,
hoe, large tin pail or old dishpan are all
the utensils necessary to keep the
building clean. If swept out three
times week it is not long or difficult
task.
Always set two hens at the same
time, and give all the chicks to one
hen. If she has a roomy rainproOf
coop with broad floor she can easily
care for twenty or twenty-five chicks.
Place the other hen in pen, feed her
for a week, then return to the balance
of the flock and she will soon be laying
again. If you have garden, place the
coops near it, and the chicks will soon
CLEAN the greater and the most import
ant part of their living, at the same
time keeping the garden free from
bugs, worms and other insects that
would injure garden truck. A morn
ing and night feed of rolled oats I'M
cooked and dry and millet seed, when
they have free range, will keep them
growing and plump as quails. Give
the laying hens scraps from the table,
wheat, buckwheat, millet or excelsior
meal, but feed corn sparingly. Hens
relish variety and convert their food
into eggs or flesh for the sole benefit
of their owner. Never neglect to give
plenty of water and sharp grit to both
hens and chicks, and green cut bone
three times week during the winter
months.
A woman of my acquaintance does
all the Homework, sewing and dress
making, mending and knitting for a
family of four, cooking for hired help
during the summer. Besides, she not
only takes all the care of seventy. five
hens, but she raises more than one
hundred chicks every year. She also
discharges such social obligations as
fall to the lot of a geDtlewoman who
has many friends, and aids others in
sickness or sorrow, although she is not
rs strong as the average woman
Alma G. Pickering in American Agri.
culturst.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
Good Help.

1t is not economy on the part of the
farmer TO hire cheap labor on the farm,
during the busy season at least. In
and push from start to finish, and each
man should be competent to do his
duty without having TO be watched or
directed too frequently. 1t is some
times hard 10 get the best when farm
help is hired by the year. Good help
can't be picked up just any day we need
it, and it seems that it is getting scarcer
every year, partly, we suppose, because
the requirements of the farm are
greater than they used to be. Muscular
strength counts for much less than it
formerly did; skill and the technical
nowledge needed to do things easily
count for much more than ever before.
A man awkward with tools may do
more damage in an hour than his
wages will come to in a week. The
most of the help we pick up that is
roaming around is worth little or moth
ing when we put it to operating any sort
of complicated machinery on the farm
In fact, man must possess some de-
gree of intellectual skill to do good
blowing, especially at this season,
when the ground is hard and dry. If
the help is to be boarded in the farmers
family its moral character deserves
some care. Tramps or strangers who
roam the country, getting in one or two
days work here and there where good,
soft job presents itself, or when driven
by hunger or poor clothes to get down
to hard labor, cannot be depended
upon in any sort of emergency. Just
when you need them most such fellows
will find some excuse to leave you. We
think that, so far as possible, farms
should have help hired by the year OF
season and depend very little upon ex'
ira help. The profits of the farm de.
pend greatly upon doing work well and
at the proper season, and without good
help the farmer is apt to drop behind
with his work or neglect something
Farmers Guide.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
Summer Visitors.

If ever farmers wife is taxed be-
You'd her strength, it is in the hot days
of summer, when, in addition to cook
ing for extra hired hands, and lending
hand to the men once in while when
they are almost tired to death, great
raft of city cousins pile down on her,
spread themselves over her house,
cluttering up the rooms leaving doors
open TO entice in the flies and mo- quiz
toes, and gushing over coming to the
county to get chicken and corn fritters
every day.
Go into the kitchen on hot, swelter-
ing day, and there lie poor Mrs. B
standing over hot stove, tut ming over
and taking out fiitttrs in great dish,
willie her visitors, in freshly-starched
linens and lawns, and with fans, are out
in the hammocks or ltlling back in
rocking-chails on the porches or under
the trees. Nothing selfish about that,
is thert2
Sometimes poor Mrs. B. may
break down with a sick headache or,
perchance, lie awake all night because
her back or limbs ache so badly she
cannot sleep.
Now, say it is cruel imposition for
city folk to sponge on their country
relatives, especially in the summer
time, when there is so much to do, and
nine times in ten the farmers wife has
all her own work to do. For PHYS
sake, why don't they visit during the
cooler days of spring or autumn or win
ter, when it wouldn't tire folks to death
TO entertain them?
Occasionally there is city visitor the
poor tired farmers wife is glad to see. 1t
is the one who thinks about something
else than her own comfort. 1t is the
one who puts on cool wrapper in the
morning, who sets the table, dries the
dishes, makes the beds, and uses the
broom and dust brush, shells peas and
pares pototoes and works beside the
farmers wife, cheering her with pleas.
ant conversation, until everything is
done, when they can both sit down tC
rest or sew, happy in each others COM
pany.
"Ah," but l hear some city woman
say, "when l go TO the country, l go to
rest and not to work. don't go 10 be
some ones servant"
'Oh, no indeed" but what else are
you making of poor Mrs. B--P II
she isn't a servant waiting on you all
then I'll give up.
"But 1 never ask country people t
work when they come TO the city, yor
say.
Perhaps not, for they generally turf
TO the dishpan or carpet sweeper with
out asking; and, again, it is colo
weather, when you do not feel worl
such strain.
Neither does the farmers wife ash
your assistance, nevertheless she feels
very grateful, and loves The summer
visitor that helps her much more thar
the one that folds her hands and ex
poets all the comforts and luxuries Il
come as a matter of course.
1t is enough for you 10 get your boart
for nothing without monopolizing al
the best places in the house, and ex
pecting somebody to wait on you tina
has one thousand and one other things
to do.
The farmer and his wife may give
you the sweetest kind of welcome, fol
that is their style, but smiles ofttimei
hide aching heads, backs and limbs.
Let summer visitors help, and they
will be more welcome.-New Yorl
Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
Use for ORLEANS.

There are probably in the rural parts
of New England more OK teams used
for farm work than in any other part of
the country. The oxen here are bet
ter than elsewhere, especially those
grown on rolling or billy land, and
which get abundant exercise tramping
up and down hills for pasture. Such
oxen will be quick, and for rough farm
work will accomplish more with less
risk of breakage than horses will. But
of course the OK team is unfit for road
service after the highways have been
made hard by underlying them with
stone. If it is necessary to use OK
teams on hard roads their feet should
be shod, as the OK on hard roads needs
shoes more than the horse. The hoof
of the OK is tender-less 80, however,
when it is kept on high and dry ground.
The OK team is always best for pulling
out stumps and stones in newly cleared
land. So the early settlers always used
them, as they generally do to this day
where much land is to be cleared.
Young America wants to 60 faster. and
it is right that he should. So the OK
team will become less common, and is
even now almost a curiosity, where
fifty or sixty years ago it was the farm
er's main reliance for getting work
done.-American Cultivator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
House Ants.

In Circular No. "a, Division of Ento-
mology, U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, this insect is treated. Ants are
great pest in very many homes both
in the city and country. 1t seems that
there is species which makes it's home
under the pavement in cities, and then
visits neighboring houses in search for
food. In many farmers homes the
ants live in the chips which are rotling
in the yard or in the wood shed, and in
old houses where the stills are decaying,
the ants are often found living in the
decaying wood. Where maple sugar
is used, the ants are very sure to learn
where the article is stored, and if pos
sible, they will share it with the family.
1t is very trying experience to say the
least to go to the sugar tub and find it
tenanted by hundreds of ants. Often
they will get into cakes, pies, and pre-
serves, and in many cases render them
unfit for use. When they are very
PANhtJ ehNJ uAO q SASolCA huloahCC lldu
the flies, for no amount of covering up
will avail. The only practical way to
keep them out of victuals is to place
the food on table or similar article,
the legs of which stand in dishes which
are kept filled with water. The dishes
need not be very large, as the ants do
not care to cross even narrow bit of
water TO get to stolen sweets. In the
fields the ants chiefly do harm by max
ing high mounds which dull the knives
of the moving machine. On our Yer
mont farm there were thousands of
these tiny creatures. 1t was almost
impossible to raise stone (and the
farm was very stony one), without
disturbing vast numbers of these
workers. We always hated to disturb
their homes, and admired the intelli-
gence with which they speedily set
about repairing the mischief.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
JOB PRINTING!
NEW AND FAST PRESSES.

The WATERMAN COMPANY has recently
placed in its press room two new job print
ing presses, OF the latest improved make,
securing quick action and perfect execution
in printing commercial work and the small
OF articles of job printing.
The COMPANY will thus be enabled both
to fill all orders with despatch and to fur
nish the best quality of work at the lowest
prices.
For business or calling cards, wedding
stationery, envelopes. letter or bill heads
statements, circulars, flyers, hand bills,
dance orders, programs, lawyers BRIEFS
forms or blanks-any printed article of any
kind, large or small, common or special,
come to the Office Of the WATcHMAN Com
PANY.
With three quick acting cylinder presses
the CoMPANy's facilities for book and
pamphlet work, for poster and the larger
articles Of printing are unrivalled.
The CoMPANY's fine equipment in the
matter Of Presses is supplemented by line
of Type and material adequate in extent
and variety to the largest demands, and by
the best skilled workmen.
Orders solicited. Estimates furnished.
VERMONT wATCHMAN CO.,
Montpelier, VT.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
Live Stock Market.

swINE-Western fat hogs are quoted at
4 to Ate per Id.
SHEEP AND LAMBs.-The demand was fair
and prices ruled about steady.
VEAL CALvEs-There was a really brisk
demand, and prices were firm at range Of
6 to 64c.
Prices OF market beef: A few choice, S6.75
to 80: extra, 5000 TO 600; first quality,
$500 TO 5.50; second quality, $500 to 4.50;
third quality, So 90 to $50.
Mich Cows.-The supply is fully up to
perhaps a little in excess of requirements,
but values are the same, nevertheless,
choice bringing rs much as $50.
BEEF CATTLE.-For western cattle the
market is firm at Al TO 54c. For home con-
sumption the demand ID fair. Exporters
are very particular AS 10 quality.
Prices of store cattle; Working oxen per
pair, $50 to $780, farrow cows, S12 to "A;
fancy cows, $50 to 60; milch cows and
calves, $50 10 40; yearlings, SIS to IS; two
year-olds, Sl2 to %; three-y ear olds, $40 to
30; Western fat swine, live, to Ate; North
ern dressed hogs, 5Ac per lb.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
AGRICULTURAL.
House Flies.


AS the cool days of fall come on, we
anticipate with more or less dread the
cold winter which we know is surely
coming, but there is always one conso-
lation which everybody can appreciate,
with the coming of the cold the house
fly will &c. We do not remember of
ever hearing anybody regret the depar-
ture of the fly, he is most unwelcome
visitor, but a visitor who calls and
takes up his abode in every home un-
less kept out by screens and killed by
various devices. A great fortune awaits
the person who invents some way of
disposing of this pest. 1t has been
shown that contagious diseases are car
ried by means of the house fly, and
probably this to great degree offsets
the good which the fly does. So great
is the interest attaching to him that
the government has lately issued bull
letin on House Flies division of Ento-
mology, Circular No. 35.) Nothing is
said in this bulletin of the benefit of
house fly, but it has been often assert;
ed that he does much good by eating
things which would otherwise decay
and poison the air. He is found in all
parts of the world nearly, breeding in
manure and dooryard filth. In Geld
climates he is bad enough, but in warm
ones he comes early and stays late.
In Vermont he is not usually trouble
some until July, while in northern
Georgia he appears in full force in May.
Many people keep flies out of their
houses by means of window and door
screens, and where there are Only ell
derby people this can be done, but in
home where there are half dozen
children to keep running out and in,
the screens are of very little use. And
we believe it is really better to abolish
the screens and let the flies in than
to be always watching the child.
rem and telling them to "Shut that
screen door," or "You are letting in
the flies" The Bulletin records vari-
Gus experiments made to learn how to
destroy the breeding places of the flies.
1t was found that they nearly always
bred in horse manure, and after this
was carefully taken up and put into a
close closet and sprinkled over with a
small amount of chloride of lime each
day, the flies were very perceptibly di-
minished. We suggest that when the
hens have free access TO the manure
they will take care Of immense quanti-
ties of the eggs and larvae. But it is
doubtful if the total abolition of horses
from large area of territory would do
away with the flies. For instance, the
writer lives in place where there is
not horse or mule kept within half a
mile, and yet there are plenty of flies,
but not near 30 many as there were
when from two to five horses were kept
within the usual distance of the house
from the barn. Where the present sup
ply of flies comes from, We do not
know, but they certainly are not bred
in horse manure. The Bulletin is sent
free to all applicants. Apply to Secre-
tary of Agriculture, Washington, d, G.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

SHELL THE ENEMY OF HEALTH AND HAP
rINEss;-ls the Stomach Soarp Is there dis,
DO you get Dizzyp Have you Nausea? FREE
quent Sick acknowledgements of gen
eral break up. Dr. Won STAINS Pineapple
Tablets dispel all these distressing symptoms.
They aid the digestive organs, cure the incip-
lent or chronic cases. 30 eents-l5. Sold by
w. Z. Terrill q Co. and Collins Blakely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

BUoKLEN'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, 1898-10-05

HER MOTHERS CAsE.--"My mother
was all run down in health and had no
appetite. She began taking Hoods
Sarsaparilla and two bottles gave her
good appetite and she began gaining
strength. We believe her improve
ment is due wholly to Hoods Sarsa-
parilla." Blanche l.. Dunsmore, Box
256, Mortified, Vt.
HOODS PILLS cure nausea, sick head
ache, biliousness, indigestion. Price
25 cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

"Bridget, / told you twice to have
mullins for bre akfast. Have you no
intellectp" mo, mum; there's none
in the house."
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 90
LUCAS COUNTY, 90

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of +. J..
CHENEY & Co., doing business in the
city of Toledo, county and state afore-
said, and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of CATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use of
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
~ my presence, this 9th day of
!, I December, A. D., 1886
A. w. GLEASON,
w. Notary Public.
HALLS Catarrh Cure is taken internally
and acts directly on the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Send for
testimonials, free.
+. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
ca Sold by druggists at seventy
five cents.
HALLS Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

Scald head is an eczema of the scalp-very
severe sometimes, but it can be cured Doan's
Ointment, quick and permanent in its results.
AT any drug store, 30 cents,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05
RETAIL DEALERS PRICKs.
Boston Produce Market.

KE The quotations given below represent prices
obtained receivers Tor phoesaie lots (not ioo6ne
pricesJ otherwise aud intended
to represent actual, sales.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-10-05

No one would ever be bothered with consti-
patton if everyone knew how naturally and
quickly Burdock Blood Btters regulates the
stomach and bowels.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-07
At the Hotels.

At the Claire: Joseph Orodin, Denver;
Patrick Lynch. Elizabethtown; M. 0.
Cyler, Alamosa; w. Walton, w. G. Nc
Afee, Silver City; w. b. Childers, Albn-
querque; J. M. Scott. Cincinnati.
At the Exchange: J. H. Coons, El
Paso; j. F. Shelton, Albuquerque; j. r.
Torres, L. Baca, Socorro.
At the Palace: WILDER +. Stone, Den.
yer; James H. Reeder, Hays, Kan; G. y.
VIM. wife and child, Durango; I. L.
Hathaway, st. Louis; j. c. Fox and
wife, Atchison, Kan; Fl. E. Fox and
wife, Albuquerque; L. H. Fox, Des
Moines; P. Lynch, Elizabethtown; TIC
Fuller, North Carolina; M. Q. Clyde,
Alamosa; w. P. Echlenacher, Fort
| Worth; c. l.. Brown, Oakland; r,
Chandler, Chicago; Jesus H. Sanchez
and wife, Valencia; Eusebio Chacon
Trinidad; w. B. Childers, Albuquerque
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-07
Court Happenings.

In the District court, sitting within
and for the county of Bernalillo and
during the absence Of Associate Justice
Crumpacker, Judge McFie this morning
granted an appeal in the case
of the Mountain Electric company
VS.. George H. Miles ct al, from the low
err court to the Territorial Supreme
| court. johnson & Ffnical, attorneys
for plaintiffs.
In the United States District court,
the jury in the case against Malquides
Aragon, charged with adultry, on trial
yesterday, the jury last evening brought
In a verdict Of not guilty, and the de-
PENDANT was discharged.
The case against Atanacio Martinez
and vicentita Brito, indicted for adultry,
is on trial this afternoon In the United
| States court.