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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
Raising Hogs Cheaply.

L will give a few items on the feed
question, with view of carrying on
the business and growing pigs profta-
bly,, says Joe Cunningham in American
S,oineherd. My idea of raising hogs is
to grow them as cheap as you can, so
that you will get all the gain with as
little cost az possible. l know some
breeders that feed to their hogs that
which costs more than the hogs are
worth or will bring after feeding them.
For economy and profit you cannot af-
ford to buy everything you hear of.
You must see good judgment in the
kind of feed you use. You must know
how and when to feed for the best gain
in pigs and hogs. Every hog raiser
should prepare pasture for his hogs
and good one, not just one or two
acres for 30 or more hogs to run on all
season. Get good large pasture and
plenty of range, as it is great profit
with little cost, and it will not pay to
keep hogs in dry lots the year round.
They will not make you much money
after you count up the cost of the feed :.
Brood sows should be on grass alone in
the summer after their pigs are wean-
ed. This is the way treat my sows,
and it accounts in part for the good lit
tiers in the spring. The feed that we
use we raise on our farm, and it is
mostly corn and oats. This is what
we give to our pigs and hogs, and to
our sows we give bran and shorts while
they are sucking pigs and they 20 well
on this kind of feed. With this feed
you can develop bone, muscle anG
growth. After the pig is weaned We
give him corn and oats ground togeth
err, one-third oats and two-thirds corn
with mixture of shorts and bran il
about equal parts with plenty of grass
This causes the best development ant
growth. l do not believe it is necessa
ny to buy carloads of linseed meal, HON
my hearts or 80 much prepared food o
different kinds to make ones pigs groy
if you are on to your business as
feeder. AS a successful raiser of hog
you must use judgment in raising you
own feed and preparing it 30 that 20
will get the best results. This give
the greatest profit and that is what W
are looking for.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
The Plum Crop.

The annual crop of plums would, &C
cording to statistcian, be nearly the
double yield if it were not for the black
knot. This disease seems to destroy
fully as much as the trees succeed in
ripening. The warfare against it in
some orchards seems almost hopeless,
and l have seen farmers fight it for
number of years, and then 60 through
their orchards, cut down every plum
tree, burn them up, and plant peach,
apple or pear trees in their place. l
am not sure but they did the best think.
They had demonstrated to their own
satisfaction their inability to raise
plums and to fight off the worst dis
ease that ever attacked any fruit or
chard. Yet is possible to raise good
plum trees, and to produce fruit that
pays well. Where the black knot has
become thoroughly established it 10 not
an easy matter to exterminate it, and
when it seems under the best of control
it breaks out with added virulence if
the season happens to be very favor
able to it's growth.
The good, old-fathioned Lombard
plum tree is particularly aggravating in
the way it gets attacked by the black
knot and it is 30 susceptible to the dis
| ease that it is almost hopeless UNDER
taking to carry an orchard of them
through serious attack. The Japan
ese varieties OF plums are not 30 sus-
ceptible to the disease and 1 have seen
orchards almost redeemed from des-
truction by grating these on infected
! trees after all parts of the latter touched
by the fungus had been removed. A
good deal of damage to our plum trees
is done by not properly thinning out
the fruit and we thereby weaken the
vitality of the trees. Nearly every
thrifty plum tree will set two or three
times as much fruit as it can possibly
mature, and if the full crop is allowed
to remain on the tree until late the tree
will suffer. The next year the tree
may develop unmistakable symptoms
OF plum knot. The only way is to pro-
tect the tree in good seasons as we'll as
in bad seasons and then when the fun
gus diseases are around they will be
exempt from their attacks. A little
prevention is worth everything and in
the end will save much money. Some
times when we have fought the plum
knot valiantly and have nearly succeed
ed in killing it, we spoil it all by lit.
tie greediness. An unexpected healthy
condition of the trees is followed by a
large fruit crop, and thinking to make
amends for the losses of the past few
seasons we permit too many plums to
remain on the trees. The results are
disastrous, and all of our good work is
spoiled. is. w. Chambers in Massachu-
sets Ploughman.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
Cross Bred Hogs the Best.

While the pure bred pig may be the
best for the fancy breeder and repre-
seuts the highest standard, the cross of
a thoroughbred on common stock will
give the best results in ordinary farm
Ing, says a writer in an exchange.
This is matter that leaves little room
for doub', and the most successful
farmers make the most by judicioIsy
crossing in this way. The thorough
bred does not in one case in hundred
possess all those qualities Of hardness
and power of growth essential TO gen
eral use. A good deal of the fancy
stock is anything but suited to ordin-
airy farmers needs, and it 10 mistake
for any except a professional breeder
to attempt to handle them alone.
There is, of course, difference in the
fancy breeds for crossing, and one
must certainly use good Judgment in
this work.
think, however, few will dispute
me when 1 say that q farmer will al
ways be safe in getting Berkshires and
Poland Chinas. These two breeds
seem to be the general favorites in this
country for good and sufficient reasons.
Both breeds will give good and quick
results, and when fed literally and
pushed to their utmost they will yield
very similar results. Now, to my way
of thinking, cross between these two
breeds will prove of even more value
than either breed alone. Although
somewhat similar in their manner of
developing and fattening, these two
breeds have their special qualities
which really distinguish them more
than any external mark. The tenden-
cy of young Berkshire pigs, when
turned into the clover fields and fed
only little seed through the summer
is to grow lean and lank, forming fine
carcass for fattening purposes later.
This tendency to leanness, however, is
sometimes too much emphasized to
suit the farmer, and he wishes he could
reform it. Now cross with the Po-
land-China will show just this reform
needed. The cross will hold up better
under summer feeding than the pigs of
either breed.
In crossing any breed it is always
well to know just what you are doing.
The parents may not be thoroughbred
but their ancestry should be pretty well
known. To take any kind of a hog
and TO cross it with pure. bred mate is
TO bring into existence an uncertainty.
The pigs may prove satisfactory and
again they may not The risk is al
most too great to run. 1t is not diff
ficult or expensive matter to secure
good hogs for. breeding, and often the
crosses between good breeds can be
obtained at little less expense than
crosses between common, worthless
niua
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
AGRICULTURAL.
Gait lie Feeding.

An old saying, and true one II is,
is "that the corn pays best when it is
driven to Market" and this ID not only
the profitable course, but it is one that
gives an agreeable diversity to farm
work and is besides the only one by
which the fertility of the farm can be
maintained. In feeding cattle, how
ever, number of points require con-
sideration, says the Homestead. Pre-
ferably the stock fed as well as the
corn with which the feeding is done,
should in large part be grown on the
farm. This course gives the farmer
the control of the breedings and ena-
bles him to know that his cattle have
been pushed from the time they were
calves until they reached the feeding
age without any stunting or backset.
The importance to the feeder Of this
knowledge 10 immense. II, however,
the cattle fed are to be bought, The
feeder must be sure to get the right
kind of stock and at the rignt price.
Under the most favorable market con-
ditions any other kind of cattle than
this will make less money for the feed
err, and if conditions should prove o
little unfavorable, frequently lead to
loss. The right kind of feed, too, and
fed in the right way go as to make larg-
est gains at smallest cost is another
point which the feeder must study. In
the corn belt the leading feed to be
used of course settles itself, and there is
nothing better but the corn that will be
the chief instrument in the work needs
to be supplemented both with good
forage and such supplemental concen-
trated additions as will make the corn
do the most good and be productive of
the greatest economy. Lastly the meth
DDS Of getting the cattle to market in
good shape and at the most favorable
time are important. Often the pur-
pose with which one began the feed
ing is obstructed by subsequently &C.
CuIItuE ODSldClOS IudI WClO ublOlpOOu'
The price of feed, for example, may be-
come unexpectedly high, and then it
becomes question whether it is bet
ter to continue to feed high-priced
corn or cut down the feeding period
and take what advantage there may be
in the immediate market conditions.
To some extent this is the case at the
present time. All these points are i'm
portant and they require the farmer to
be good cattle grower or good judge
of cattle and good trader if he pur-
chases, good feeder and a good bust
ness man. Accordingly as one excels in
these points his success will be greater
or less. The business of feeding cat
tie affords splendid opportunity for
the development of the farmer as q
good, all round man.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
Manuring Rough Pasture.

Having been in progress for three
years, the experiments in the manur-
ing of mountain and other rough pas
ture planned and carried out by the
staff OF the North Wales College, Ban
gor, are now capable of useful inter-
probation. OF course, for the full and
precise results it may be cesssry to
wait longer, rs the process Of anchor
ating rough hill land is of necessity
slow one, but already il is possible to
draw some practical lessons from the
particulars and observations furnished
in the report recently published from
the college. Perhaps the most import
ant point in the official evidence is the
fact that the substantial improvement
of all kinds of hill pasture which rests
on any considerable body of soil is
readily achievable by means of artific-
ial manures alone. What the precise
materials may be that will best effect
the purpose local circumstances must
be left to determine, but it is proved
beyond doubt that the acruing benefits
of intelligent manural treatment are
sufficient to command the subject to
the favorable notice of owners of hill
pasture land.
Another vital lesson forcibly exem-
plifed is that the requirements of hill
pasture vary as widely and in as puzzl-
ing q manner as do those of inclosed or
temporary grass land. The same ma
nures differ in their effects even on
soils which appear very similar In tex
ture and body, so that in order that he
may manure effectually and to his pro-
fit the owner of mountain ranges must,
in common with the occupier of arabic
holdings, precede extensive operations
by searching trials on a small scale. In
these w elsh experiments the substances
that generally produced the best results
were basic Stag and superphosphate.
These seldom failed to improve the
quality of the heritage, as was indicat-
ed by the attention bestowed on the
plots by grazing animals, while in sew
eral instances the change was clearly
visible from distance. The first years.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08

dressings consisted, respectively, of ak
hundredweight OF basic Stag and four
hundredweight of superphosphate an
acre, and in each of the subs, quent
years half these quantities were given.
Kainit, either alone or in combination
with basic Stag, was of little avail, and
seemed in some caees to hamper the
action of the phosphate manure, whie
ground rock salt and limestone duet
were seldom beneficial, especially the
salt.-Nondon Daily Post.)
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
Live Stock Market.

The live stock on the market at Brighton
last Thursday aggregated: Cattle, 1882;
sheep and lambs, 274; swine, 1863; veal
calves, sol; horses, 100; poultry, 200 lbs.
In the case OF Northern and Eastern beef
cattle the bulk OF the supplies consisted of
beef cows, for which there was a good de-
mand. The few choice cattle offered sold
slowly. Spectators and small butchers
seem anxious to secure good beef cows, but
the butchers who usually handle the heavy
cattle are getting all they require from the
West, and are refusing to do business ex-
cept at very low prices. Sales, beef COWS,
average 918 lbs, Sc; / beef cow, weighing
$40 lbs. 81 lbs / beef COW, weighing $50
lbs, Sc; 3 beef cows, AVERAGE 645 lbs, lie; 2
cattle, average 1345 lbs 44c; 2 cattle, aver
age 1920 lbs, 81; beef cows, average 800
lbs, BIC.
AS to milch cows and sprir gers the sup
ply continues moderate, and with a con-
tinued good demand prices are firm. Milk
men report scarcity OF milk, which COM
pels them to buy more cows. Drovers.
however, are not deriving much benefit
from the improved demand, owing to the
short supply and consequent high prices in
the country.
The market for veal calves was dull, and
drovers found it difficult to dispose OF the
moderate supply they had on offer. Owing
no doubt to the heat butchers bought very
carefully and moderately and at prices con-
sideIably below those Of last week. Sales:
2 calves, average ITO lbs, 54o; Is calves.
average 1852 lbs, 5hc; 3 calves, average 1l6
lbs, &c; 20 calves, 1l9 lbs, bfc; Al calves,
average 134 lbs, 5Ac.
There was a very poor demand for the
few small lots Of sheep and lambs offered.
One mixed lot, averaging about So lbs, sold
al 4c, and few lots of nice lambs, averag-
ing about 80 lbs, which we're ffered at 5Ac.
we're unsold at late hour. The one Car re-
ctived from Canada was for export.
Receipts OF western beef cattle were
heavy. Swine were held in small lots at
bic per h.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
We Will Positively Pay You.

One dollar if one bottle of Smith g
Green Mountain Renovation does not
benefit you in case you are troubled
with any blood disorder, chronic rheu-
matism or neugalgia affections. 1t is
endorsed by the best physicians in the
country and is warranted to do what is
claimed for il. G. Blakely, w. e. Ter.
rill & Co.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08

KOdOl Dyspepsia Cure
s'Dlgests what you eat"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
Story of a Slave.

To be bound hand and foot for years by
the chains of disease is the worst form Of
slavery. George d. Williams OF Msnches.
ter, Mich, says: "My wife has been 30
helpless for five years that she could not
turn over in bed alone After using two
bottles of Electric Bitters she is wonder
fully improved and able to do her own
work" This supreme remedy for female
lessness, melancholy, headache, backache,
fsinting and dizzy spells. 1t is godsend
to W eak, sickly, rundown people. Cure
guaranteed. Only SOC. Sold by g. Blakely,
druggist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
Get Acquainted with Sheep,

1t is not enough to 60 into the sheep
barn two or three times day, throw
down little hay, give them mouth
full of grain and let it go at that. The
successful man gets acquainted with
his hock-many of them individually
during the winter and in Landing time
almost lives with them. No two sheep
look alike. Their faces and voices are
different. The reference in the Bible
to calling sheep by name is no exagger-
alton. Several winters experience
taught me that they have more intelli-
gence than most people think. They
learn to know person who uses item
we'll. A pocketful of corn given as o
treat at odd times will get their good
will. They crowd around one of their
human friends in such cases as office
seekers besiege candidate who has
promised them fat positions.
OF coarse there are sheep with such
strains of wild blood that it is difficult to
bhibO thChs hCh w uOt WISH
them tame because they get in the way,
but prefer this to having them scurry
to one corner of the yard as though a
wild beast was after them, as they will
do after few courses of the kick and
yell treatment given by some farmers.
They learn to get out of the way if i'll
used, and will teach the owner such
practical pocketbook satisfaction that
he will conclude that there is no
money in them. So much for the sem
timental side of the sheep business,
but sentiment that arouses an interest
in the welfare of men and animals is
connected with common sense, and q
good plank tor farmer to have in his
platform If he cares for the goodwill of
his family and nelghbors and his inan-
cial success Rural New Yorker.
kOdOl Dyspepsia Cure
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-08-08
The Annntita of a Cont

Is envied by all whose Stomach and Liver
are out Of order. But such should know
that DR.. Kings New Life Pills, give a
splendid appetite, sound digestion and n
regular bod ly habit that insures pc feet
health and great energy. Only 25c at @.
BlakelY Drug Store.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-29
Car Riding for Insomnia.

Some persons believe that only
FOUNDERS and persons who are com
PEELED to stay down town late use the
all-night cars" said a conductor to tho
Baltimore sun the other night, but
you would be surprised 10 know that
one night during the recent hot spell
! carried twenty passengers with mo
during my four trips. They got on at
different points along the line, prin-
cipally In the southeastern section,
and made the trips from Highland
town to Roland Park. 1t was comlcal
to see them pcrChcd in the corner OF
a seat, snOoAing away One fellow
told me il was the first real sleep no
had had for week We get rs nice,
cool morning air as anybody, and this
was the reason that twenty rode all
night That was the first time / ever
noticed anybody ride for four hours,
but We often have passenger who
makes round trip out TO Roland
Park and back. One man said he al
ways could sleep better after ear
ride" Reputable physicians agree
that late street car rides for Insomnia
sufferers are excellent.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-29
WOODEN SHOES.
Foreign Footwear II Much In Demand
for Certain Vacations.
'emani

The person who limits the use OF
the wooden shoe. in his mind, to the
native of Holland and the Dutch
comedian would be greatly surprised IL
he could appreciate to what extent the
foreign footwear is used in the United
states. Especially Is this the case
when the larger cities are considered.
Surrounding Chicago. for instance. are
many farms which are worked by inn
migrants from the Netherlands. where
the shoes are immensely popular In
the wet and swampy parts of the coun-
try, owing to their imperviousness
To water. Both men and women find
employment filling the soil. planting.
wedding and doing all the other little
stunts which I'LL the markets with po-
tstoes and cabbages and such things.
They have been used to wearing wood
en- shoes in the old country. They
cannot get accustomed to the leather
shoes. They don't want to get accus-
toned to them, in fact. They would
rather slip on the sabots. in which
they can splash through mud and
water II need be without danger OF
wet feet Not all wearers OF the wood
en- shoe are to be found In the fields.
however. Men In few odd vocatons
have discovered that the old wooden
shoes are better for some purposes
than their more pretentious cousins OF
calf or cowhide. In work which keeps
man in very hot place, such as
stocking in big furnace room, the
wooden shoes are said to be far pref
cradle to leather foot coverings. Not
only are they easier on the feet. but
they do not dry up and crack and
wither away in the heat as the shoes
from the American factories do. Wood
is a slow conductor OF heat. compared
with leather, and the excessive thick
ness OF the wooden solcs allows the
stokers who wear them to stand and
walk for hours on floor so hot the
hand could scarce be borne upon It,
and yet their feet do not feel the eS'
Ccssivc heat In slaughter houses. toe
where the iloOrsarc slippery and Shiny
with blood, the wooden shoes are ap.
prcciated. Leather shoes rot very
rapidly and in n day or so the blood
and moisture sceps through their
seams and makes things unpleasant
and unhealthy. The wooden shoes are
so heavy and thick that 1t would take
a year for the stuff to wet them
through and so the wise butchers
wear them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-29
The Election Of .SenaforI.

F. NJ. simmons, Democrat, will sue
coed Marion Butler. the PopuliSt. in
the senate from North Carolina. The
legislature chosen Nov. will practi-
cally have nothing TO do but register
the choice OF the people This is be-
cause at the state primaries held by
the Democrats of North Carolina last
April the voters recommended" the
selection of Mr.. Simmons. In the same
way the Democrats at the primaries in
Arkansas last spring recorded their
preference for the reelection of Sena-
tor Berry over ex-senator Jones. These
methods of nominating a senator are
not recognized by federal or state laws.
Yet members are frequently nominated
pledged in advance after a contest in
the primaries. In Montana and in
Pennsylvania the fitness of legislative
candidates was entirely lost sight of in
the struggle for the Legislature. In
these states rival candidates OF the
same party contonded in many dis
tricts, he division being on the sena-
torship. In this indirect way Clark's
election from Montana seems assured
and Quay's from Pennsylvania is pos
sible. These are facts which seem to
show that there Is much merit in the
North Carolina plan. At all events 1t
enables the Legislature to get down to
business at once without a prolonged
struggle over the senatorship, which
sometimes, as in Pennsylvania last
year
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1900-11-29
CucSfI Didnf Come.

Governor General and Lady Mimic
Of Canada have been the victims OF an
awkward contretemps. They ordered
the A. d. c. in waiting to send out 100
ten and on the afternoon appointed
the vice regal host and hostess were
ready TO receive their guests, The
band played. the tea and coffee steam
ed away in the urns on the refresh
ment table, but nobody came, BY four
o'clock something was known to be
wrong; then the A. d. C.'s were in
terrogated and 1t dawned upon one OF
them that he had forgotten to send out
the cards.