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that calves will not recoup the owner
for liberal feeding or thoughtful over
sight, but in Mr.. Cunningham's long
experience we have complete refuta-
ton OF that convenient contention.
Mr.. Cunningham breeds and rears as
many calves for fattehing purposes as
possible, and his custom is to let the
youngsters suckle. Each COW has to
rear three calves in the year. From
the spring until August she nurses two
calves--her own and bought one
and from August, when the spring
calves are weaned, third young calf is
placed under her care until about
Christmas.
By this method good calves are rear
ed, and there is the substantial advan-
tage in favor of the sucking process,
compared with hand or pail feeding,
that it involves less labor. After wean'
ing the calves are very methodically
treated. They are turned on for the
ooJ w q AAOoh pnobUAO bhhb huQ pOOh
specially reserved for them, and each
night removed to comfortable shed or
covered court, where they receive a
good supply of cut clover, tares, cab
bages, or such like, along with one and
one-half pounds of good linseed cakes.
They are similarly fed before being
turned out in the morning. With this
liberal treatment it is not surprising
that Mr.. Cunningham's cattle usually
top the market, but if we judge by
their careless methods there must be
many who will learn with astonishment
that the system is profitable one.
The animals are fed and tended with
similar indulgence until they leave the
farm fat at the age OF about two years,
Mr.. Cunningham finding it unpro6t-
able to keep them beyond that age
London Post.
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Tempering the Cream.

In tempering the cream for churnlng
we must be governed largely by the
condition of the cream to be churned,
and this knowledge must be gained by
the one who is making the butter,
The rules laid down for tempering
cream will not hold good in all cases.
The buttermilk should be tested 80 as
to learn the per cent of fat remaining,
and if it is found that there is loss of
butter in this way, the temperature of
the cream should be changed until the
degree is found that leaves the least
butter fat in the buttermilk. This
knowledge is best gained when the
work is done, as the cream from differ
emit creameries and diaries may vary
considerably and churn best at differ
ent temperatures.
Mistakes are often made in getting
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the desired temperature of cream, both
in warming up and cooling down, from
the fact that the thin or watery part is
affected by heat and cold very quickly,
while on the cream contrary, the glo-
bules or fat in the cream are not so
sensitive to the different degrees of
temperature. 1t is not unfrequent that
the temperature is changed from five to
eight degrees while the butter globules
are absorbir g the heat or cold. Cream
may be cooled very rapidly to the re-
quired temperature, yet the butter will
come soft, which clearly demonstrates
that the globules were not thoroughly
cooled before the churning commenced.
So to be on the safe side it is we'll to
make some allowance when we temper
the creamy. M, Couch in Michigan
Farmer.
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RETAIL DRALERs PRIcRs.
500 Reward. 800.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing it's work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send for
list of testimonials.
Address, f. j. CHENEY & Co., To-
ledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, rs cents.
Halls Family Pills are the best,
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GOuldavfIIa

Mrs. Baker is in West Berlin caring for
Mrs. Clarence Hill, who is ill.
Mrs. Mary Gould and George and Frank
Legier started for Boston on Tuesday.
Mrs. Harriet Glazer OF South Mortified
Is visiting Lucy Gross.
Mrs. Marysnn Thresher, who has been
stopping with her daughter in Montpelier,
has returned.
G. M. Davis mill started mp Thursday
morning
r. N. Cook and Frank Sulham have ex-
changed houses. Mr.. Cook has moved to
his new home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Hayward Of Barre
visited at Will Greenwood's the past week
Tho Methodist ladies and congregation
will give reception to Rev. e. w. SHARP
and family at the church on Friday from
FIVE to eight o'clock.
Mrs. Jennie Clark of Montpelier was re-
Gently guest of George Thresher.
e. w. Cochrane has improved the appear
ance OF his home by the addition of d hand
some piazza.
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Why Butter is Slow in Coming.

We frequently are asked why it takes
so long to churn at times. The most
recent query of this nature is from a
farmer boy of twelve summers. He
does the churning at home, and as he
has to manipulate the machine for
hours at time without bringing the
butter, he wants to know what mea-
sure he should adopt to put an end to
such an exasperating task. Our young
dairyman is one among hundreds who
have the churning to do, and to all of
them we offer few suggestions which
we here they will test and report on:
One OF the most common causes Of
slow churning is in having the cream
too cold. To know whether it is too
cold or too warm one should provide
himself with dairy thermometer,
which will cost about twenty-five cents.
Ordinarily, the maximum temperature
of cream for churning is from So to so
degrees, the former in warm and the
latter in cold weather. These temper
atures, however, must be modified to
suit other conditions. In a cold room
the cream must be warmer than other
wise.
Cream from different COWS and diff
ferent breeds varies with respect to
the churning temperature. Jersey
cream, as a rule, requires compare
lively high temperature. The char
acter of the feed will modify the prop
er churning temperature. 1t is said
that excessive feeding Of cotton seed in
the South makes very high churning
temperature necessary--70 to 70 de-
grees being not uncommon. Sweet
cream must be churned at lower tenn
perature than that we'll ripened, and a
rich, heavy cream lower than a thin
cream, other things being equal. Then
the construction of the churn, speed
and amount of cream are all factors in
determining the churning temperature.
Another important factor is the length
OF time the COW has been in milk.
Cream from farrow COW is harder to
churn than that from fresh one, and
must have higher temperature.
Thus it is seen how important.it is to
know the temperature of the cream
when it is put into the churn, and one
must know many things about the
cream to be able to intelligently mod.
ify the temperature to suit the condi
tion.-Farmer's Voice.
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Importance of Clean Cream.

"Ripening," for want OF a better
word, expresses the whole series Of
changes that take place in the cream
caused by the growth, nutrition and
death of bacteria. The flavor they
produce is the substance of things
sought for. The changes they produce
in the cream are certainly the evidence
of things unseen, but evidently the
result in producing successfully the
first or last condition depends on to
what extent cooperation exists be-
tween the dairyman and butter maker,
No dairyman is doing his whole duty
when the cream made from his milk is
tainted by the presence of dirt pro-
duced bacteria; no butter maker can do
his duty when he is compelled to re-
ceive such cream and, although the
butter maker may receive many hard
words for not producing "extras," the
loss ultimately falls where it belongs
on the milk producer. The only in
justice is that the loss does not fall on
the dirty one alone, but on his neigh
bors as well, on the just as well as the
unjust.-Hoard's Dairyman.
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AGRICULTURAL.
Potato Scab and Potato Bug.

G. B. A., Chatham, N. Y, asks: "a
Will you tell me what you can about
soaking potatoes in corrosive sublimate
for scab, (2) and about spraying for
bugs2
~ We can do no better than to re-
peat portion of an article reprinted
last week from "The Massachusetts
Ploughman:" "To treat potatoes with
corrosive sublimate make up solution
OF one ounce of the chemical in seven
gallons of water, and soak the seed po-
tatoes one and half hours in this.
This solution is more poisonous than
town agency whiskey, and must be
handled with care, 1t is best to put the
potatoes in loose gunny sack and let
them down into the solution by this
.means. Take the potatoes out of the
solution, dry them and plant as usual.
The solution kills the germs OF the scab
disease, and practically prevents its &C.
currence unless fresh germs should
happen to be present in the soil from
the scabby potatoes formerly grown on
the same ground" (2) The following
is from the Baltimore American: "For
the potato bug apply one pound of pa
ris green mixed with one bushel of dry
plaster to the acre. Dust the green
out with powder gun. When the
vines are six inches in height, apply
the powder to the heart of the vine.
One-half pound will answer for the
first application; second may be given
when vines are half grown. Apply
early in the morning, when dew is on
the vines"
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Level Cultivation and Dust Mulch.

Farmers are following the lead of
their agricultural papers now more
than ever before, but if man has no
practice his theory is not worth much,
and if he has no theory his practice is
of no value. Farmers boast of the big
crops of corn they used to raise, and
say they can't do as we'll now. Why
don't some of the agricultural writers
tell them why? II a man would only
think, or if be IS determined not to
think, if he will only observe, he will
know why. The farmer who lays off
his corn ground with marker will not
raise more than half crop, no matter
what he does before or afterward. If
we make afurrow with single shovel
plough with good long shovel, not too
wide, and will stick the hand planter
down little in one side and pref
ty close to the bottom of the fur
row, and will place the seed six or
eight inches below the surface, we
have done the most important thing
there is about raising crop of corn.
Then, as we cultivate the burrows will
fill up, the corn roots will be down
where the moisture is. AS we make
the surface level we will keep the roots
| we'll buried. 1t is the drouth that we
have to contend with in raising corn.
1t is always dry enough about the time
the corn is caring; but when it rains
the corn gets it and keeps it until it
is all used up. The ordinary method
is to use the marker, and put the seed
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Calf Rearing in England.

The system of calf rearing pursued
by D. Cunningham on his Fifeshire
farm, and described by himself in a
paper read to the members of neigh
boring farmers club, is worthy of no.
tice by reason of the generosity and
consideration revealed in the feeding
and management of the animals. 1t is
commonly urged in defence of the
faulty methods met with in all parts
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-05-29
HOW TO GAIN FLESH

ersons have been known to
a pound a day by taking
1 ounce of SCOTS emulsion.
II is strange, but it often
opens.
Somehow the ounce pro-
uces the pound it seems to
tart the digestive machinery
going properly, 50 that the
patient is able to digest and
absorb his ordinary food, which
he could not do before, and
that is the way the gain is made.
A certain amount of flesh is
necessary for health; if you
have not got it you can get it
by taking SCOTS Emulsion.
You will find 1t just as use
full in summer as in winter, and
if you are thriving upon it don't
stop because the weather is
warm.
If you have not tried it, send for free sample
its agreeable taste will surprise you.
SCOTT < BOVINE, Chemists,
4o9-4is Pearl Street, New York.
Soc and sI.oo all druggists,
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dity was decreased about alike in

acidity was decreased about alike in
each.
This seems to dispose Of the obiec-
tons that feeding silage or having the
silo connected with the barn will cause
the milk to sour more readily, also that
it will impart a. disagreeable odor to
milk and flavor to the butter when it ia
fed, as it does not when fed after milk
ing .-Massachusetts Ploughman.
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Tortured a Witness.

Intense suffering was endured by wit
ness T. L. Martin, OF Dixie, KY, before he
gave this evidence: II coughed every
night until nv throat was nearly raw; then
tried DR.. Kings New Discovery, which
gave instant relief. have used 1t in my
family for four years and recommend it as
the greatest remedy for Coughs, Colds and
al Throat, Chest and Lung Troubles. 1t
will stop the worst cough, and not only
prevents but absolutely cures Consump-
ton. Price 80 cents snd $100. Every bot
tie guaranteed. Trial bottles free at @.
Blakely's Drug Store.
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"There is only one chance to save your
life and that Is through operaiion," were
the startling words heard by Mrs 1. b.
Hunt of Lime Ridg-, Wis, from her doctor
after he had vainly tried to cure her of q
frightful case OF stomach trouble and yell
low jaundice. Gall ones had formed and
she constantly grew worse. Then she be-.
gan TO use Electric Bitters, which wholly
cured her. It's a wonderful stomach, liver
and kidney remedy. Cures Dyspepsia
l. SO of Appetite. Try it. Only 80 cents
Guaranteed, For sale by 9. Blakely, drug
pist
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Current Comment.

DRESSED PoULrRY,-There was a steady
mar ket for choice western iced fowls at 10l
to lie following our last weekly report un'
I'll Monday, when prices eased off u half 6
cent. There was a slow trade Tuesday
Yesterday the weather turned hot and
muggy and few sales were made AT 10o
AT the close the market is dull at 10c tOI
best marks and some fair lots are cleaning
up at SIC Small sales of turkeys continue
at about Sc for toms and loo for best hens
Small sales OF spring chickens at 20 TO Doc
per pound.
Frozen poultry continues in moderate de-
mand.
OATs.-The market shows a steady tone
to prices, with quiet demand in progress
Receipts have fallen off but are yet liberal
for the local demand. Fancy clipped white
range at 81 to S74c as TO quality, with No. .
clipped white at 35i to 500. For lower
grades the market is dull, with the range
down as to quality.
CoRN.-The market is quiet but prices
hold about steady as supplies are needed,
Arrivals are largely for export, the local
call being small. At the close steamer yell
low and No. 2 yellow on track:Iare quoted
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Ladies Can Wear Shoes

one size smaller after using Aliens Foot.
Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes.
1t makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives
instant relief to corns and bunions. It'a
the greatest comfort discovery of the age
Cures and prevents swollen feet, blisters,
calious and sore spots. Aliens Foot-Ease
Is certain cure for sweating, hot aching
feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25o
Trial package free by mail. Address
Allen 8. Olmstead. LIE Roy, N. Y.
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A Fast Bicycle Rider,

Will often receive painful cuts, sprains,
or bruises from accidents. Buckleu's Ar
Mica Salve will kill the pain and heal the
injury. It's the cyclists friend. Cures
Chatting. Chspped Hands, Sore Lips, Burns,
Ulcers and Piles, Cure guaranteed Only
25c. Try 1t. Sold by g. Blakely, druggist.
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Ever Since l Was a Girl,D

says Mrs. e. P. Watkins of Brooklyn, 81
suffered from bilious headaches and vomit-
ing after meals. At forty began to have
rheumatism. Two years ago 1 was cured
entirely by new medicine called Calcura
Solvent discovered by DR.. David Kennedy,
OF Kennedy Row, Kingston, N. Y Write
to DR.. X. for free sample.
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about two inches below the surface.
When the corn is foot or two high a
light wind blows it all down. Then
the dirt is scooped out of the middle
and put up to the row. Then, when it
rains the water runs both ways from
the corn.-John E. Roach, Athens,
Ohio.
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WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.
Boston Produce Market.

E<-The quotations given below represent prices
obtained by receivers pAossas lots tnot ,oobino
prieesj uness otherwise indicated, intended
to represent actual "a ies.
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All the healing, balssmic virtues OF the
Norway pine are concentrated in DR..
Woods Pine Syrup, natures own remedy
for coughs and colds.
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It's folly to suffer from that horrible
plague of the night, itching piles. Doan's
Ointment cures quickly and permanently.
At any drug store, so cents,
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ut was almost a miracle. Burdock Blood
Bitters cured me OF terrible breaking out
all over my body. L am very grateful"
Miss Julia Filbridge, West Cornwall, Conn.
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Monarch over pain. Burns, cuts. sprsins,
stings. Instant relief. DR.. Thomas Elec-
trio Oil. At any drug store.
Evening star., 1901-07-13
Not Taking Any Chances.

Aiohi 'ut i~tTot ffeSS.
1T was exciting while It lasted" said the
commercial traveller who Is home for few
days Now, what people may say never
causes me any uneasiness: so when l saw
a good thing in the new shirt waist that Is
all the go l Immediately fitted myself out
with yellow affair that rivaled the IA
NOUS sunsets that we had number of
years ago. AS l look back at it now ! an
satisfied that / must have left a yellow
streak through all the towns that l Wis
tied, and l doubt if the excitement created
has subsided yet. The candid and open
comments / heard would have caused a
man with less nerve than | have to blush
and give way to public opinion. But | am
made of sterner stuff and the frank COM
mentS that l heard only made ME the more
determined to see the thing out.
''It remained for a hotelkeeper in a little
town that l visited TO take a fall out Of
glory of my shirt waist, seized the regis
ter dashed down my name and demanded
the best room in the house
Two dollars down. said the old man
calmly. looking at me without d quiver OF
his eye.
What's that? ] shouted
Two dollars down. he answered. as he
rescued fly out of the ink.
See here l stormed, what do you
mean by demanding money in advance OF
a man who has two trunks and a grip?
Haven't l been here a dozen times and
always paid my bills?
Cant help that, he answered. It's s.
down or git
"He runs the only hotel that the town
Affords or l wouldn't have argued with
him as long as l did. There was no train
out that night, and l had to stay where
was; so l returned to the attack once
more.
Perhaps you think I am a deadbeat?
said l. mad as a wet hen.
PprhanS an DerhaDS Amt
he answered with eXasperating Sowness.
But if a man is so ali-fred hard mp that he
has to wear his wfe's shirt waist it is jes'
ez we'll not to take any chances Two
dollars down please.
Il came down, so did the shirt waist as
soon as | could open my trunk"
Evening star., 1901-07-13
senses of Fishes,

From the New York sun
Inc opinion expressed by the German
naturalist, DR.. Ednger, that fishes have no
memory and few of the senses possessed
by creatures of a higher organism and
none OF these in an acute degree ouens an
interesting subject. as to which th-r. are
many curious theories both professional
ana from the standpoint of the layman
FOR instance. Matthias Dunn, the Cornish
naturalist. after lifelong study of fishes de-
ciares that they possess not only the five
senses belonging to man, but two addi-
,ioha! ones without which even man, al
thoush ne We're equipped otherwise for
ilie III lhe Getp sea, could not llndertak ke
tnose mysterious migrations which MANY
KINDS or hShes annually accomplish as a
necessary part of their life plan and which
they would still accomplish if they we're
llueeu ptfeft OF sight, hearing feeling
smell or touch e
Fish have the homing instinct &c ,,.u os
man, says DR. Dunn, "and bava thair
summer ana winter homes often far arart
IT man mad no better mental activities or
senses than he now has the worry conse-
4ufnt on following these weak sensations
would be a thousand times more ,,nrnlaxo
ing in the than on the land +" ,pd H.
ihtricacies and difficulties and obstacles ~ 2
tle sea depths would make the nei,-hhor-
ii'ou VI the nome at times a most .m-
oarrasslng place TO find" But the miprat
ihs iish goes 10 1t as unSwervingly as IN.
needle points to the pole and 1t is ytrt,aIl,
a needle pointing to the pole that $50,
tne one sense which DR.. Dunn declar rae ana
pies the flsh to locate its destination an,
proceed onward to 1t with steadin4sa nnd
persistency. This sense DR.. Dunn calls the
r s,ias helie uermai sense, as distinguished
from ITS other alleged additional sense the
electric derma 'iie
Evening star., 1901-07-13
U. S. Mules Have Been a Powerful
Agency.
MORE THAN 100000 WERE SHIPPED
The Live Stock Quality Improves,
but Not the Tenders.
LIFE OF THE MULETEER
Written rnr The E.veninE Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
BY stroke of the pen declaring live
stock contraband Of war this country could
have added. at a moderate estimate. year
to the war in South Africa We have
mounted and remounted the British caval-
ry. supplied and reSuppl-d the muscle to
move their artillery and furnished and
furnished them with pack trains. Texas
has been drained OF mules and Kansas.
Wyoming Missouri and the other stock
raising states Of the west have been SO
nearly depleted that the $40 animals of
1s.r, bring S0 today. More than half
many mules and horses men have gone
To the English army One hundred and
one thousand have been shipped from this
country alone. And still a transport week
with a thousand or more head leaves New
Orleans.
This is by far the largest expectation of
livestock for military purposes the world
has ever known 1t has turned not only
the great commercial eye Of all nations to-
ward this country. but also attracted gen
erai diplomatic notice. Along with the gi-
gautic purchases Of livestock millions of
dollars have been spent in fodder and Ium-
Der. in eqUipping large stockyards. hiring
al army OF Iabor-rs. veterinary surge ons,
carpenters and machnists and in maintain
in-; an official staff here.
Gen. Samuel Pearson of the Boer army
has been in this country since November
last working diligently To put an end to
this mule supply. The English drove him
her, themselves They cut off a small