Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-03-01
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY, MAR. /, 1899.
Vermont News.

The proposition of Wells & Richardson
company TO the postoffice department to rent
room in their building now nsed for mail
ing purposes at Burlington at $500 per annum
including elevator service, heat, light, haul
ing of mail matter to the railroad station,
placing the same on cars and the hauling
back of empty sacks from station, etc, has
been accepted from July l, 1899.
There has been much speculation and some
controversy over the question of whether ma
pie cap flows up or down in the tree during
the sugar season. Prof. s, X. Jones, botanist
| of the Vermont experiment station, seems to
have settled the dispute. He injected into a
tree lithium chloride, a chemical readily de-
tected in the minutest qnantitiesits presenc e
In the san being determined by the spectre.
scope. The results showed copc'usively that
| IN the ordinary conditions CT sap flow there is
an almost equally rapid movement of the sap
current both upwards and downwards in the
| vicinity of the sap sprout Similar methods
| were used to determine the existence or non
existence of lateral flow, but the results were
entirely negative. These experiments will
be repeated another spring, but the conclu-
sion seems clear that the sap moves freely in
both directions with the grain of the wood,
but very slowly across the grain.
Senator Proctor has returned from Cuba,
looking to be in perfect health, and it is ex-
pected that the senate will soon hear from
him regarding the present condition there
and the need OF large army of occupation.
Senator Proctor will, it is understood, make
a Philippine tour this summer, leaving in
May, and will be accompanied by several
| friends. Quite a number of senators are go
ing to tour through Europe this summer,
leaving as soon as congress adjourns. The
senate and house military committees will
iunket to Cuba and Porto Rico for couple
| of months with several brother statesmen
and army and-navy officers as invited guests.
The Vermont Bee-Keepers' convention
closed Friday in Middleburv after an interest
session: The following officers were chosen
President, X H. Holmes of Shoreham; vice
presidents for Addison county, j. e Crane
| If Middleburv; for Chittendeu county, 0 j.
Lowry of Jericho; for Lamoille county.
George Fl. Terrill IF Morrisville; for Orange
land county, n Forbes of West Haven
secretary, M F. Cram OF West Brookfie'd l.;
treasurer, H L. Leonard of Brandon. The
committee reported Prof. Perkins of Burling-
ton for one of the vice presidents but he was
not member of the association and there
fore ineligible.
The Winooski mills have been sold at auc-
tion under the provisions of the order
appointing receivers made bv the courts one
year ago. The mills we're pu' chased by the
Burlington, Winooski and Colchester Mill
company, a corporation organized under the
avs of Maine and made up Of the former
ockh'lders of the company with some addi-
flows The Burlington wooden mil hrought
Sl25 600, the Colchester mills 1920 600 and
the pr perty of the Winooski v orsted COM
pay brought $3.50 600 There will be little
if any change in the operation of the mills.