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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
Live Stock Market.

Receipts at Brighton last Tuesday ag--
gregated 2764 head Of CATTLE 445 sheep and
lambs AGO swine and S03 calves
The supply of Northern and Eastern cat
tie was of large size and medium quality.
Business was Of fair volume early in the
day but slow in the afternoon, when prices
sagged little. Sales were as follows:
steer, 100 lbs, 3ac; cattle. average 9l7 lbs,
3ac; beef COWS, average S1S lbs, &c; 10 beef
COWS. average 804 lbs, 2fc; 2 cattle, average
1868 lbs, 5ac; 2 cattle, average l455 lbs, bac;
8 beef COWS, average 9O1 lbs, Sfci Dull,
weighing 100 lbs, 2Ac; beef cows, average
S48 lbs, &c.
For mich cows and springers the demand
was better than last week, and the indica-
lions are for a continuance of the improve
ment.
VEAL CALvEs were in good demand and
sold without much pickering as to price.
The sales were calves, average 1877 lbs,
65c; IL calves, average Ill lbs. 53c; II calves,
average 139 lbs, &c; 20 calves, average 124
lbs. &C., 48 calves, average 100 lbs, 5fc.
Receipts of sheep and lambs were lighter
because of the slow demand last week.
The offerings this week went readily
enough. Sales: % sheep, average n lbs,
3bc; Al lambs, average 81 lbs, 5ac 166
lambs, average so lbs, 5sc; II lambs, aver
| age "a lbs. 54c.
In Western cattle business Is little more
| satisfactory to shippers because of slightly
| lower prices for good stock in the West
In swine fair trade was put through at
| Al to 4fc.
At Watertown the trading in beef attic
was unimportant but for veal calves there
was a good demand. Sales effected there
were:
| Sales, 90 calves. average ll9 lbs, 5ac AZ
| calves, average 115 lbs, 5Ac; ID calves, aver
age 1l9 lbs, DC: 20 calves, average llS lbs
| 54c.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
AGRICULTURAL.
PIGS ON PASTURE.
Important Extracts from the Annual
Report of the Oklahoma Ex-
pertinent station.

April 81, 1899, eight pigs were divid-
cd into two lots, one weighing $50
pounds, the other 30 pounds. They
were placed in alfalfa plats of about
one-half acre each, one lot receiving no
other food, the other full feed of Kafir
meal or shelled corn.
During five weeks the pigs with no
food but alfalfa made gain of 81 pounds,
or 1926 pounds each. For next three
weeks, to June 20, they gained only
seven pounds, less than two pounds
each. While there was a good stand
of alfalfa and the season was favor
able for its growth, the four pigs, aver
aging about so pounds, each kept 1t
well eaten off.
The four pigs full fed grain with the
alfalfa gained 1919 pounds in five weeks,
or practically so pounds each in 35 days.
In next three weeks they gained 1928
pounds, or nearly one and one-half
pounds per day.
With this last was a SOW with litter
of pigs. She gained 81 pounds in first
five weeks, when she was removed, her
Ave pigs gained LAG pounds in first five
weeks and 96 pounds in next three
weeks. A young boar in same lot
gained 46 pounds in 26 days and 20
pounds in next three weeks.
There was fed to all the pigs in this
plat l ,6ss pounds corn and Katir. They
made total gain in eight weeks of 1874
pounds, using only 2.21 pounds grain,
In addition to the alfalfa for each pound
of gain. Counting the small pigs with
the others the grain eaten was less
than three pounds per day each.
Obviously the grain feeding was
profitable. Possible equal or greater
profit might have resulted if only par
tial feed of grain had been given The
plat pasturing the pigs with grain feed
carried at least one-half more stock
than the other, but alfalfa remained
green and fresh.
Six young brood sows, with pigs, were
kept during same period on small
native grass pasture with access to
very small quantity of the droppings
and waste from feeding the work
teams They gained so pounds in five
weeks and 90 pounds in next three
weeks. The SOW which had been full
fed grain on alfalfa pasture during
May was put in this pasture June 1
and lost II pounds in three weeks. This
trial illustrates the fact that our ma
tive grasses will enable pigs to make
some gain during the early part of the
season, They become less palatable as
the season advances. a.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
DISEASES OF CORN.
They Are Not Only More Numerous
But Also More Destructive Than
Is Generally Supposed.

The corn plant is subject to rust that
Is similar to the red rust that affects
wheat and oats. Usually it's presence
may be noted about the middle of sum-
mer, by the appearance of blotches on
the leaf of the plant. These blotches
are dust-like, and contain the spores of
the disease. Near the end of the sum-
mer the blotches become blackish. For
tunately the disease does not attack
corn until the plant has arrived at
stage of growth when it will not suffer
as much injury as it would if it were at
tackled in the earlier stages. 1t has
never been regarded as economically i'm
portant, yet healthy plant is always
better than diseased one.
Prof. Burrell's bacterial disease of
corn is more serious matter. 1t causes
q dwarfed condition of young plants on
areas of u few yards to an acre or more,
and more usually than otherwise upon
the richest soil of the field. The plants
that are attacked are sickly in appear
ance, being more yellow than healthy
plant. Especially is this the appearance
of the lower leaves. The lower and old
er roots are badly affected as is also the
lowest portion of the stalk which often
dies. On the surface of these diseased
stalks may be found spots that are of a
brownish color and are corroded. After
the middle of the summer the sheath
leaves of the stalk will be found to be
spotted on the outside. But on the in
side they are much more affected.
Sometimes the ears become diseased.
In bad cases everything connected with
the ear, husks, cob kernel and silk are
reduced to a condition that may be
called nothingness, and such ears often
become moldy through and through,
the fungus being very white. The juices
the ear, husks, cob, kernel and silk, are
shown by the microscope to be alive
with bacteria. 1t was at one time
thought that cattle feeding upon such
diseased corn would be poisoned, but
like smut, it has more recently been
shown to be harmless.
Like smut in wheat the remedy for
the disease is probably rotation, though
we are not prepared to say just what
the rotation should be. However, If the
disease is bad on any part of the farm
it would prove profitable to experiment
as to the proper rotation. II is not often
| that diseases of this character will at
tack crops that are dissimilar in charac
ter.-Agricultural Epitomist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
FEEDING FARM HORSES.
A Canadian Farmer Tells of system
Which Has Produced Very Sat-
isfactory Results

l have always believed that we farm
ers feed too much hay to our horses.
Certainly we feed fully twice as much
as our friends in the city, and only about
half as much grain as horse-owners in
the city feed. Since June /, ! have been
feeding my horses by a novel method,
which | find eminently satisfactory. At
the end of May, this year, found my
self without hay for my horses, and a
large amount of work to do. | could
procure hay from some of my neigh
bors, but of very poor quality. This
kind of hay did not want
Up to this time the grass pasture was
very poor, but along toward June it be-
gan to be fair. / therefore decided to
get along without hay, and depend en-
tirely on pasture and grain. On the
evening of June l, | turned my work
horses TO pasture. In the morning
took them up and gave them feed of
oats and bran, about five quarts per
horse. That is all they got for break
fast, in addition to what grass they had
eaten. AT noon they were fed no hay,
only q feed of oats and bran six
quarts per animal, and nothing else. At
four o'clock, as is usual with us, we took
them up for tea, watered them and fed
another feed of oats. At shutdown, when
we knock off work, the horses were
turned out to pasture. This has been
and is still the bill of fare" for my
horses-grass during the night, and
grain (about a half-bushel of oats, in
three feeds) during the day. AS "A re-
suit, my horses are doing splendidly
and gaining all the time.
am greatly pleased with this method
of feeding horses-hay or pasture at
night, and grain during the day. A.
Macdonald, in County Gentleman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
The Right Kind of Beef.

In regard to the kinds of beef which
the killer and eater demand writer in
the Southern Planter says: Give spe-
cial attention to well-deyeloped loins,
backs and hips, for it is upon these Of
a fat steer the buyer puts the value Of
the steer when he stands in the mar
ket as beef, 1t is not simply the fat
ness of steer that puts the highest
price upon him in the market, but it is
the steer that is fat at the right places
on his carcass that makes him top the
market / once sold a car load of Short
horn grades in the Philadelphia market
which topped the market that day OF
10000 beeyes, and the buyer took as
much pains in examining those cattle
as many people would do in buying Q
horse"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
A CHEAP CIsTERN.

first, cutting it down two feet in depth,
as shown in illustration, which forms
shoulder upon which to build the brick
top This top is necessary in order to
guard against frost chipping the ce-
ment, and also TO allow smaller focus
at top, which allows the cistern to be
kept in better sanitary condition.
After the clay wall has become some
what dry, take a mallet and chisel and
chip numerous crevices into the clay.
1t is now ready to trowel on the cement.
After the walls are we'll troweled down,
erect the brick top, laying each brick
with good cement mortar, cementing
and troweling down both inside and out
side of wall until top is reached, then
erect sewer tile as shown In illustration,
cementing it well. Fill excavation,
mounding up slightly, and you have a
cistern that is pure, clean and sanitary
and will undoubtedly give you nc
trouble as long as you live. Make it
large enough to hold bountiful supply
Of water.-George w. Brown, in Ohio
Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
WHERE TO STRIKE THE BLOW.

side and little in front of it, and aims
his blow at a spot in the middle of a
line drawn across the forehead about
one and one-half inches below the base
of the horns, or, perhaps better, at
spot where two diagonal lines inter
sect, drawn from the eyes to the base
of the horns, as illustrated. In most
cases, if the blow is heavy and proper
ly directed, the animal falls instantly;
but it is better even then to repeat the
blow, and to follow it by immediate
bleeding. This is accomplished either
by drawing back the head and cutting
deeply across the neck at the upper
portion of the windpipe, severing all
the blood-vessels, or by plunging long
and sharp-pointed knife into the heart
and large blood-yessels at point cor
responding to the upper portion of the
brisket, and just above the breast bone.
Failure to fell the animal at the first
blow cannot be attributed to any differ
ence in the anatomical structure of the
part, but rather the fact that the blow
was ill-directed, almost invariably too
low, that ii was not sufficiently power
full, or that both of these faults were
combined Farm and Home.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
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4EfII 5:5'97s~S7F0CLK
BARN OF DRIFTWOOD.
Total Cash Expense of Just
Twelve Dollars.

Some of our western friends, who To-
Gated on the treeless prairies and built
house and barn of sods, are sometimes
fond of telling their descendants of the
low cost of their first dwelling. 1t is
material, and, in many cases, gives a
comfortable house. But at the other
end of the country there are even
cheaper building materials than sods.
The little barn shown in the cut is
found in Suffolk county, L. l. Mr..
Stephen Austin, the owner, lives on the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
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FARfl&4GARDELNI.
=, ~ + /. ~ ID hay3i;<I;Sss ' VS.
CHEAP FARM CISTERN.
Description of One That Is Peculiar
ly Adapted for Regions Where
Hay Subsoil Prevails.

Where clay subsoil prevails, and this
Is found on nearly all Ohio farms, there
is good opportunity to build cement
cisterns very cheap and durable. In
starting the excavation a circle should
be struck the desired size, and after
thrown open several feet in depth the
circumference should be lessened one
spading each time until an abrupt bot
tom is REACHED, when you will have a
jug-shaped figure. Now inscribe a Sec
ond circle five inches larger than the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
PIG-PEN POINTERS.

For hog-pasture nothing equals
clover field,
Pigs need little or no bedding in
summer; a dry, shady knoll is far bet
ter than a boarS straw bed.
1t is quite a remarkable fact that the
bite of a pig is dangerous; although
comparatively rare, it takes much
longer time for such injuries to heal,
than those of the horse or dog. Keep a
safe distance between yourself and a
cross hog.
Did you ever notice the little knots
of worms in hogs intestines at
slaughtering time? Well, IS drops Of
turpentine would rid the hog of the
long stringy worms, and two ounces of
quassia-chips in pint of boiling water,
injected, when cool, would XIII the
shorter ones.-Midland Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
HOW TO KILL CATTLE.
~-a@4--' "a a "a
Failure to Fell the Animal at tho
p, First blow with the AK Means
st3r Terrible Torture.
'gsEH
as.a-.a

Cattle are most readily and fopven.-
.ently destroyed by blows on the head
with heavy AK or hammer, followed
by immediate blood-letting. The ami
NAL which is to be killed should be Sc
cured by means of rope passed round
the horns and fastened to a post, or,
If practicable, carried through ring
in the floor, and held or made fast by
an assistant. The animal being blind
folded, the operator, armed with a
heavy AK or hammer, stands at the
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

acknowledged the leading National Family
publisher THE our fayor home paper has
New Weekly which enables
him furnish both the rihing coat of 100 per year
vlger himself family to
which lives cordial of his local newspaper
his
of his
home markets.
be found awake
o O.
all sub t. WATCHMAN, Montpelier VT
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11
m II ARL<
Fiftv- EIGHT Years OId!!

Tvs long life, bit devotion to the true
interests and prospe; ty of the American
People has won for it new friends as the
years rolled by and the original members
of it's family passed to their reward, and
these admirers are loyal and steadfast
to. day, with faith in its teachings, and
confidence in the information which il
brings to their homes and tresides.
AS natural consequence it enjoys in
IFS old age all the vitality and vigor of it's
youth, strengthened and ripened by the
experiences of over half century.
1t has lived on its merits, and on the
cordial support of progressive Americans.
II is .Tne New York Weekly Tribune"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

On a very much travelled road there
is a great deal of excrement dropped
from the horses used in drawing vehi-
Giles and from other animals driven
thereon. Most of the soluble parts of
this excrement are washed into the
bitches on either side of the roadway.
They accumulate in all the depressions
and make a strata of rich soil, which is
well worth the labor of drawing into
adjoining fields as a fertilizer. 1t is
best to do this while the field is plowed,
and the roadside should also be plowed
and cultivated, so that the rich soil can
be evenly distributed over the surface
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

Great South bay, and his occupation
frequently takes him along the shores.
Last winter, while making these trips,
he began a collection of barrels and
other timber which had foated to the
shore as driftwood AS this timber
gathered, the idea of building a barn
occurred to him. and the result is
shown in the picture. A barn of this
size, 20 by ~ feet, would have cost, at
the regular price for new material
about $175; but Mr.. Austin gives the
actual cost in cash as follows:
Paint ...,........ ......................... ~ W
shingIe ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2iS
Floor and doors, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4 90
Total cash cost..................... .s12 90
The barn is built entirely of drift
wood. The barrel slaves were cut in
two and nailed on just as shingles are
used In all, Mr.. Austin used 720 bar
rels in covering the barn. 1t serves his
purpose for stabling a horse and his
fodder, implements, etc, as well as
more expensive barn. Many of our
western readers, who never saw the
ocean or listened to the roar of its
breakers, will be interested to know
how this driftwood has been utilized
for building purposes: The waves
throw ashore each year vast quantities
of wood sometimes taken from the
wrecks of vessels, and sometimes
washed or thrown overheard from pass
ing ships. If anyone can tell of cheap
err barn than this, with the timber or
other material thrown up into ones
dooryard, we shall be pleased to report
it.-Rural New Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-10-11

One Minute Cough Cure. cures
That 10 what Il was made for.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-25

Washington, D. c., May IS
Letters received in this city indicate
that Senator James K. Jones of Ar.
kansas, chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, had a pleasant
voyage across the Atlantic and that
his health is much improved. Tbs
Senator himself says that he has not
felt better at any time during the
past ten years 1t is likely that
Senator JONES' and party will soiourn
on the Isle of Wight for several
weeks.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-25

Uncle SANS uniform and went 10
the front.
Wheeler was a guest at the
Charleston reunion and was the hero
of the gathering. Fitz Lee couldnt
attend because his military duties
kept him in Cuba, but he wrote an
appreciative letter. The Charleston
reunion of Confederate Veterans in
historic in its significance. Hereafter
1t might be q good plan for Feds
and johnny Rebs to hold their re-
unions together.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-25
Were In Love 40 Years Arn

Cameron, No, May 19-Mrs. J.
F. Reynolds of Cameron, No, and
Col E. Y. Warren Of WASHINGTON
were marrsd at Cleveland, O., yes.
serday- Forty years ago they were
sweethearts at Akron, O., but he
came separated and did not know OF
each others whereabouts. Both
married, but their companions die.
Through member OF congress thew
met and the wedding was arranged
for at ence.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-25
Order Of Publication
STATE OE MISSOURI,
County Of Bates -

STATE OF MISSOURI
County Of Bates,
In the Circuit Court Of Bates County. Missouri
IN AacaIl0n April iIth, 1-.s, Jesse ". HO-r,
plaintiff, ". George W. Norman and -arah
r. Norman, defendants.
NOW at this day comes the plaintiff herein by
his attorney and files his petition and aGdayit.
alleging among other things, thar defendants
Geo, W. Norman and sarah X. Norman are moi
residents 81 The state Of Missouri. Wnereurgu
II - = ordered BY the clerk in vacation that
sara defendants be notified by publication tia
ptiaalhtII mas commenced suit against them in
this court, the object and general nature Of
which II 10 obtain from the court an order and
,ttcF5e correcting the description Of property
y, ~ d zee! from defendants 70 J Grubb- and
d Morris dated April Gth, I--J. Re-
corded IN book No. %, page 4lI, ia the
oIhce Of the recorder of deeds in PAT
county, missouri which property il now
owned IN fee simple by, and IN p9--rzsion ~
the plaintiff III the village OF HurUe RAT
county missouri, 20 that said description when
corrected shall read as follows. ~ foIio,,-il,
Lt-cIinri lots, tracts or parcels If land. Wing
Det1@ anu situate IN the county Of Bates state
o. missouri, to-Wit. Twenty-Five and Oue-bslf
= - feet. p1 Of the west side o. lot three IA
IN biock LN- % running back north 70 M rail-
"a < ~ ~ Nas IA Little Ada ton 10 the
village OF Hume, Bates county, Missouri a M
e.at lAle77 the SAID defendants BE- and appear
a. LIS court, az the next term thereof, ~ b.
begun and holden a. the court house In d..
cry Of Butler IN said county, on the 18Th day on
} une next, and On or before the tb5~d Say ~
SAID term. II the term shall 80 long rontirra
ana Il not, then On Or before the last dav N -sId
term, answer or plead 70 the refftiaTI in 49,
cai-es TIE same viii BE- taken z con fr=zed and
Judgment viii be rendered accordingly.
- ~ ge ~ further ordered that copy hereof
Dc published, according % law in tte gT-Tr -,
" EEALF iIMK-' weekly newspaper printed
aI1 punished IN Bates county, Mo fjr fguT
!" eek- success ely, the last insertion 10 b. a.
ies7t thlTty days before tins FIRST DAY Of the ucxt
erTn OF the circuit court -
}. r. THURMAN, Circuit Clerk.
\ true copy 81 the record Wftre--
t-EAL. NV hand and the seal of The cfrlr-5,
-, court q Bates county. this I-th dsy or
. Pr ~ J. +. IN RMAS
Circuit Clerk. I
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-25

VIII stand at our barn for service for I-gg
KGad hifi at > for living COLI, payable when
cor comes, and Dexter Jr., at =. for living
colt. This fine Jack made the season near
NNhart station where he proved 10 be very Enc
bTerueF, which can De proven by those who had
colts hy him. We boight This IN. TarI 60
b. =. COIyer X 90. 90
JOHN ALAS. =. WARNOCK.
FediSree o. Doth given II barn, Butler. no.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-05-25
AgulnRldO In Tears

Manila, May Is, 4:50 p. m Two
Spanish prisoners, who have just ar
rived here from Neuva Ecika say
Aguinaldo has lost prestige with the
rebel army. His troops are describ
ed as completely demoralized, short
of food, suffering from disease and
afraid of the Americans and rapidly
dissolVing into bands of pillagers.
The prisoners add that Generals
Pillar and Luna are the only infusn
tial Filipinos who are continuing
resistance to the Americans.
Aguinaldo's personal retinue was
recently robbed of it's baggage and
money while on the way from San
lsidro to Csbanatau by marauders.
Buencamino, q leading Filipino
leader, who was friendly to Spain
and joined il the compromise ar
rangement whereby the Spaniards
hoped to conciIiate the rebel leaders
is reported as saying that Aguinaldo
sits indoors and weeps. He blames
himself for the miserable condition
OF the country and is afraid to sur
render