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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02

Some Things Animals Teach Us.
The woOdpecker has powerful little
trip hammer.
The jaws Of the tortoise and turtle
are natural scissors.
The framework Of ship resembles
the skeleton Of herring.
The squirrel carries a chisel in his
mouth, and the bee the carpenters
plane.
The gnat fashions its eggs in the
shape of a lifeboat. You cannot sink
them without tearing them to pieces.
A porcupine's bill is strengthened by
ribs In the same way that the iron
masts Of modern ships are strength
ened.
The diving bell initiates the water
spider. 1t constructs a small cell under
the water, clasps a bubble Of air be-
tween its legs, dives down into its sub
marine chamber with the bubble, dis
placing the water gradually. until its
abode contains a large. airy room sur
rounded by water.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
THE OANDEllON AND DAISY
Some Facts About the Children's Fa-
yorftc Flowers.

The big yellow dandelion is Il cousin
of the little daisy-such near cousin
too. Both dandelions and daisies are
brave plants and make their appear
ance long before the buttercups do.
Pick a dandelion and look at it care
fully. The beautiful yellow top is
made up Of little flowers, each COM
plete in itself Pull off some of the yell
low rays that look like petals, ask
mother to lend you magnifying glass,
and you will see, if you look at the ray,
that the petal isn't IA petal at all, but Il
perfect little flower.
Flowers It are made up in this way
of lots of lii le flowers are called com
pound" flowers. Ask mother to tell
you just what compound" means if
you don't understand. The dandelion
shuts up tight on a wet or cloudy day,
but directly the sun comes it spreads
its rays wide open and looks like bit
of sunshine itself Indeed, the dande-
lion has been called the ''sunhower of
spring" The dandelion grows white
headed when it has done Towering, for
its seeds have the prettiest white feath-
ers, so that when they are ripe the
wind carries them far away to a place
where perhaps there We're no dande-
lions before.
All children know the white head
dandelions as dandelion clocks and
blow the seeds to see what time it is.
The dandelion clock is a weather
glass, too, for if the down tieth off a
dandelton when there is no wind it is
a sure sign of rain"
The leaves of the dandelion have
great big nOtches in them and are used
to make salads. The roots are roasted
and ground and made into medicine. SO
you see it is a very useful plant.
The stalk is quite hollow. like a tube,
and filed with a white milk Juice.
The daisy is a cousin Of the dande-
lion. All the pretty yellow center is
made up Of tiny flowers, and each Of
the petals is also a flower. so a daisy
is made up Of two kinds of flowers In
stead of one.
The name daisy means eye of day,
and, like th> dandelion, it grows and
thrives when few other plants do and
grows very quickly.
If the lawn Is mown and all the little
daisy heads cut off, next day or the
next the grass is quite white with them
again. II. c.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
HARD on THE MULE.

and draw it into the center and place
the roadbed in the proper form for con-
veying the water to the bitches and
building a solid foundation for the
wheels. This work cannot be well done
when the ground Is wet or very hard
and dry, hence the necessity of having
man for this work who makes it his
business and will give it timely atten.
ton.
All taxes for the highways must be
paid in money. We have a law in To-
wa that permits the placing of town
ship in a supervisor district and, if the
trustees so elect, of making all the
taxes payable in money. Township
trustees have In some instances made
the township single district under
one supervisor, but have rarely if ever
required the entire road tax to be paid
In money. 1t might be better to give
the care and the expenditure of the
highway funds to the county board Of
supervisors, permitting them to expend
In the several townships all the taxes
raised In the township by contract for
new grades and the maintaining in
good order all grades already made.
contracting for graveling the grades
wherever that Is available.
Old methods Of making and caring
for the roads have followed US from
primitive times in the older eastern
states, and must be relegated to the
dead past before we can hope for very
much better highways. A more Just
method Of taxation whereby the prop
erty Of all the people, bondholders and
railroads. telegraph, telephone and all
other public utilities, are made to pay
their Just proportion Of the taxes by an
assessment Of their properties accord
ing to their cash or selling value, the
same as a farm or the merchants
stock Of goods or the capital Of a bank,
will aid materially in eQualizing the
burdens Of making and maintaining
better roads.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
ON THEIR SEA LEGS.
Cattle and Hoses Do Not Get Fright
ened In Rough Weather.


"Do the horses and cattle get fright
ened and make much disturbance in
rough weather" asked the writer of
n New York dealer who ships cattle
abroad.
BLESS you, no. They've got sea legs
that would put an old salt to shame
Occasionally horse will lose his bal
lance, but bullock is the greatest bal
ANGER you ever saw. They are knowing
brutes too. You know, we put them
four in pen. Well, you'll never find
all four standing up or lying down at
one time. They figure the thing out
and decide how they'll get the most
room and most comfort. So two Of
them stand up while two lie down.
When they get tired, they Shift the
watch.
THE horses like to be talked to when
there's a big sea on and things are
pretty lively. They always like GER
tain men better than others. So do
the cattle. We have one man who can
do anything with them. Every bull
lock and horse on the boat knows him
W thC tlAlc we We Dtta Out lWO udy 3.
He comes in handy when there's an
accident. .
TITS mighty seldom that serious
accident happens nowadays, but once
in awhile horse or a bullock does
get thrown and breaks a leg or does
some bad damage. We don't carry a
veterinary. The men know as much
about ordinary cattle and horse all
ments as any vet, and II one Of the
brutes breaks his leg there's nothing
for 1t but to kill him. A veterinary
couldn't do anything for him.
1.-The company charges from SO to
500 a head for carrying cattle and
from $27 to $3.50 a head for horses.
When the government inspectors stop
ped overcrowding. they cut down the
carrying capacity Of some boats 70
head. That made a pretty big hole In
the ships profits in the course Of a
year."-Exchange. .
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
PRAIRIE HIGHWAYS.
DIFFICULTIES OF RoADMAkINo IN
IOWA AND ILLINOIS.

Methods by Which the Desired Re-
suits May be Obtained-Tnxes Must
be Paid In Money All Property
Must Contribute.
In an article In The Prairie Farmer
Mr.. III. FL. Fitch of Iowa discusses the
problem How Shall We Improve
HighwaysT He says:
Not by running In debt and issuing
bonds which will remain a mortgage
on our farms until paid by increased
taxation. Such measures would drive
more people to the towns and make
our boys and girls less willing to re-
main on the farms and follow the oc-
cupation of tillers Of the soil. Yet we
want and must have better roads. The
demand for rural free mail delivery is
urgent and pressing the general gov
eminent from every quarter. This de-
mand cannot be met without roads
suitable for light vehicles at all sea-
sons of the year, under all conditions
Of the weather.
How shall we make the roads better :?
We must make them, for the most
part of the soil and near by where the
road Is located. The alluvial soil of the
greater portion of Iowa, Illinois and a
considerable portion of other adjoining
states is rich in humus and all the con-
stitucnts that are needed to enable it
to produce bountiful crops. But these
materials are not the best for making
a solid roadbed impervious to water
and free from mud and water in rainy
weather. But roads of this material
may be made possible even in wet
weather if properly drained and the
grade maintained in an oval form, so
that the water which falls thereon
shall find its way quickly to the bitches
beside the road and on to the sea.
A very large number of good and
sufficient grades have been built by the
townships and counties of Iowa and
other states, which, for want of proper
care, are quagmires and almost, If not
altogether, impossible in rainy sea-
son or in the annual break up of the
springtime. To put these in order and
keep them so we must have some man
or men who can do it when the ground
is in condition for such work and the
farmers are busy in their fields plant
ing and sowing. The road supervisor
must not be farmer, and here in To-
wa he should work under the direction
of the township trustees.
We have machines in almost every
township for grading and ditching
which, if properly handled, will take
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
QUESTION ANSWERED,

Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the civil
lied world. Your mothers and grand
mothers never thought of using any
thing else for Indigestion or Biliousness
Doctors were scarce, and they seldom
heard of Appendicitis, Nervous Pros
tration or Heart failure, etc. They USED
August Flower to clean out the system
and stop fermentation of undigesteG
food. regulate the action of the liver
stimulate the nervous and organic actor
of the system, and that is all they tool
when feeling dull and bad with head
aches and other aches. You only need 6
few doses of Green's August Flower, il
liquid form, TO make you satisfied there
Is nothing serious the matter with you
Get Green's Prize Almanac. For sale by
DR.. d. A. Bisbee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
BlUNDERS IN FICTION.
The Queer Mistakes Tint Arc Some
times Mnde by Authors.

times Mnde by Authors.
We smile as we read and pass swiftly
by the stories of maidens that wander
in lonely woods" at unearthly hours
of night, always clad in "a soft white
clinging gown" Now, every girl knows
that the average maiden is too much
afraid of tramps and snakes to wander
in lonely woods" The weather, too,
appears to perpleX our novelists, for
not infrequently they begin a chap
ter at dawn, there are a few mo-
ments' conversation, and then the ''sun
sets in lurid banks behind the distant
empurpled mountains"
| am reminded at the outset of an
English story written by an author Of
repute where the heroine in one scene
was made on one page to stoop down
and tie her shoestring, while three
pages farther on, directly following, it
was said of the same girl that she had
remained barefooted the entire day. In
another story blind woman is made
to view the hero through spectacles be-
fore the tale Is ended.
In a French novel-and we generally
consider French such literary masters
a heroine is clearly made to go direct
from her bed to the breakfast table,
out shopping, to an afternoon tea and
to dinner in her robe de mutt Cousins
suddenly transformed into brothers
without a moments warning are nu-
merous in this detectives library. Thus
one is amused to find the most mar
velous mistakes in books which we
think we have carefully read.-Modern
Culture.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
SIGNALING TO MARS.
The Dinculty Of Doing So By Means
of Light.

The Dinculty OF Doing So By Means
of Light.
The very fargest city that this earth
has ever known would be altogether
too small to be visible to q being
dwelling on the planet Mars, even II
that being were endeavoring to see II
with a telescope as powerful as tho
greatest and most perfect instrument
In any observatory on this globe.
If the whole extent of Lake Superior
was covered with petroleum and If that
petroleum WINS set on fire, then, think,
we may admit that an inhabitant of
Mars who WINS furnished with a tele-
scope as good as that which Percival
Lowell uses at Flagstaff might be able
to see that something had happened.
But we must not suppose that the
mighty confagratlon would appear to
the Marian as a very conspicuous OBJ
/ject. 1t would. rather be a very small
feature, but still l think 1t would not
be beyond the reach of n practiced OBJ
server in that planet.
On the other hand IL an area the size
of Lake Superior on Mars was to be
flooded with petroleum and that petro-
leum was to be kindled, we should ex-
pect to witness the event from here not
as great and striking confagration,
but as tiny little point of just dis
cernible ligN. The disk of Mars is
not a large object, and the confagra-
ton would not extend over the three
hundredth part of that disk.
1t is sufficient to state these facts to
show that the possibility of signaling
to Mars is entirely beyond the power of
human resources.-Sir Robert S. Ball
In Independent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
SPECIMENS OF TOMATOES.


IL. Early Acme. IL Beauty. As. Bonds Early
Minnesota. 81. Ignotum. Al Fordhook First. IS.
New Liberty Bell.
one exception, on the ground. All of
the plants used were started early, so
that they were of good size when trans
planted into permanent positions. By
so doing earlier maturity and conse-
quent greater profit were gained. Mr..
Rane says:
From tomato plants the seed of
which was sown on March 10 and the
plants set into the ground beds be-
tween lettuce on April 8 we began pick
ing fruit on July 10. The plants were
set IS inches apart each way and train
ed to one stem. The varieties used
were Early Acme, Beauty, New Liber-
ty Bell, Ignotum, Fordhook First and
Bonds Early Minnesota. These varie-
ties from past experience had proved
very valuable for forcing.
On examination of data a. hand 1t
vas found that Aug. 10 could safely be
counted upon as about the ripening
period Of the outdoor crop in New
Hampshire. Figuring the yield per
average plant for each variety to Aug.
10 and then taking the average Of the
whole the yield figured pounds 615
ounces per square foot The average
price which tomatoes have brought be-
tween July 10 and Aug. 10 has been
at least cents per pound. Two
pounds 61a ounces at cents q pound
equal nearly 16.S cents, the income
from one square foot. Multiplying this
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
A YOUNG LADY'S LIFE SAVED,


AT Panama, Colombia, by Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
DR.. Chas. II. Utter. prominent ply
ician, of Panama, Colombia, in recen
letter states: Last March | had as
patient young lady sixteen years o.
age, who had very bad attack of dys
EMERY. Everything | prescribed for lie
proved Intellectual and she was GROWN,
worse every hour. Her parents wer
sure she would die. She had become :,
weak that she could not turn over II
bed. What to do at this critical momen
was a study for me, but | thought o
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar
rhoea Remedy and as last resort pre-
scribed it. The most wonderful resul
was effected. Within eight hours sh
was feeling much better; inside of tire
days she was upon her feet and at tn,
end of one week was entirely we'll.
For sale by DR.. ID. A. Bisbee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
Original idea About Asparaeus.

A consensus Of opinion in regard ID
cutting asparagus. as noted In Nee
hans Monthly. seems to be that from
the first starting Of the plant In spring
the weaker shoots should not be cut.
but left to produce the LEAKAGE 80 neces.
sary for the production Of strong roots.
One gardener makes the novel sugges.
tion that the very best success In get.
ting first class asparagus is to select
the plants all Of one sex. His plan has
been to set 1.year-old plants in bed
rather closely together aud mark the
berry bearing or female plants for the
permanent bed. These, he says. have
always borne strong shoots far supe.
rior to the beds Of the usually mixe0
Sexes --S
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02

One day at table the talk turned on
the new wing that was being added to
the Pennsylvania hospital in Philadel'
phia, which those who have seen 1t will
remember has large statue Of Will
liam Penn in front Of It. An older
brother said, III they build another
wing to the hospital. 1t will fly away.
because it will have two" mo" said
his brother, lit won't. Don't you know
IT'S Penned DOWN. - Philadelphia
Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
FARM AND GARDEN.
Cara Of sheen During Wet Weather.

Care Of sheep During Wet Weather.
Rainy seasons are very unfavorable
for sheep. 1t Is the very general belief
that 1t is so on account of the excessive
number OF stomach and Intestinal
worms that invade the flOcks In such
seasons. | am convinced this is not the
explanation. The internal parasites are
no more numerous in wet years than
dry. Sheep suffer worse from them be-
cause there are other unfavorable con-
ditions. The frequent wetting and the
less nutritious grass lowers the vitality
of the animals so they are not able to
Withstand the ravages of the parasites so
we'll. IL the wet weather continues
much longer in Ohio, there will be heavy
losses in flocks unless some precautions
are taken Sheltering from rains in we'll
ventilated stables and grain feeding will
be found an almost sure preventive of
loss. Bat these will not prevent an in
vasion of parasites that interfere with
the thrift of the flock whenever they are
present in large numbers. Keeping
sheep in small focks, and in large fields,
so that they are not compelled TO Craze
over the same ground frequently lessons
the danger of destructive invasion.
1t has been very widely taught that
old pastures become such hotbeds of
these parasites that it is unsafe to Craze
them with sheep. | do not think this Is
true. Some of the parasites may be
carried through the winter in earth
worms, but far greater numbers are
N in
spread oyer the pastures in the spring.
1t makes no difference whether they are
newly seeded fields or native sods. The
best safeguard against invasion in the
lambs is to keep them from following
their mothers upon the pastures. This
may be done by having the lambs born
early enough so they may be weaned
before turning out to Craze in the spring /;
or with later born lambs by separating
them from their mothers each day as
they go out to the pastures. This can
easily be done by feeding the lambs in
an apartment separated from the old
sheep by a creep, and turning the old
sheep out while the lambs are eating.
AT the Ohio expert station the lambs
have been kept in the stable all the
time. This is not necessary if they can
have pasture to themselves.
Where none of these precautions can
be taken it will be necessary to give
some worm medicines to prevent losses.
Pour turpentDe upon salt in the pro-
portion of one pint to a gallan. Keep
this before the sheep for a week. The
next week substitute gentan for the
turpentine and the following week
pound of dried sulphate of iron mixed
with a gallon of bran and a quart of
this mixture given daily to 100 head for
week. The turpentine should then be
repeated. Tartar emetic and santoine
are each effective vermifuges and should
be given in daily doses of - grains for a
week when one of them is employed.
Remember that one treatment is not
proof against an after invasion. But if
the flock is once entirely freed from
them and placed upon fresh pasture
where no sheep have been the present
season, there will be no further trouble.
DIR. II. p. Miller, New England Home
stead.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
AZURE For CHOLERA INFAnrum.

LAST May" says Mrs. Curtis Baker
OF BrOOkwater, Ohio, ian infant child Of
our neighbours was suffering from
cholera Infantum. The doctor had
given up all hopes of recovery. | took
a bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Choler a
and DiarrhOea Remedy to the house,
telling them felt sure it would do good
IL used according to directions. In two
days time the child had fully recovered
and is now (nearly year since) a vigor-
Gus, healthy girl. / have recommended
this remedy frequently and have never
known it to fail In any single instance"
For sale by DR.. D. A. Bisbee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
For the Highways.

The good roads officials Of the gov.
eminent are facilitating themselves
over the fact that although congress
failed to pass the river and harbor bill,
it did appropriate $4,000 for the cause
Of good roads. Even though this was
$4,000 less than the amount asked
for. the beautifiers Of the public high
ways are thoroughly satisfied with the
treatment accorded them by congress,
all things and all appropriations con-
sidered.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
SUM MER FORCING.
Empty Greenhouse Utilised with
YeRetables That Like Heat.

Greenhouses, more particularly fore
ing houses, are rapidly increasing in
number throughout the northern states.
This may be overdone in time, but at
present 1t is valuable source Of in
come. During the summer months 1t IL
the prevailing custom to clean out the
forcing houses, allowing them to lie
idle until time to prepare for the fall
campaign.
Some time ago 1t occurred to Frank
w. Rane of New Hampshire that there
should be some tropical or other plants
OF economic Importance that would
adapt themselves to the utilization of
the empty houses. Elephants, peppers,
sweet potatoes and tomatoes were Sc
lected for trial. The house is an even
span, % by 100 feet, and the beds, with
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02

Hundreds of farmers have been to
visit my grass field this year. The gen.
eral conclusion has been that care and
a good stand with correct fertilizers will
win. There also has been a great many
inquiries about my hay crop this year by
mall, more particularly because it has
been so very wet and cloudy nearly all
the time, with not full week of clear
sunshine while the crop was growing.
1t has demonstrated one fact-grass
must have something more than water.
The old fields are light this year and
gave little more than last year. Grass
sown early in September that was we'll
cared for made large growth, but has
inclined to be weak.
| used 800 lbs of one-third each of
ground bone, muriate of potash and nit
rate Of soda, at cost of &c per 10, SIG
per acre, or less than SO per ton of hay,
and with that kept the grass up very
we'll, especially the old fields. They
never stood up better. The new grass by
growing IN the shade was not only weak,
but very light. | had seven acres, the
same as last year, half new sown. This
81 acres of new field produced 80, 4l5 lbs
hay, or l0,llS lbs to the acre. Last year
In the drouth my best acre Of new grass
was 1888 lbs, falling off this year Of
22l5 lbs to the acre. My total crop from
seven acres this year was the largest, viz !:
nrNx
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02

NEW YORK IMPROVED EGGPLANT.
by the number Of square feet available
for tomatoes. or LAO square feet, the
area of our center bed. we have o re-
turn Of S241.92. .s:-.~.~
Elephants and peppers find ideal
conditions in the summer greenhouse.
Possibly this may not apply with equal
force to states farther south, but it IL
q subject worthy Of consideration in
the more temperate sections and In
New England.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
| SUFFERED From

acute liver complaint with dizziness
numbness, weakness, and excltabillty OF
the nerves. Nothing helped me until |
began using the neio medicine, Cdlcurd
.Solvent, and that made me entirely well
in few weeks" Loretta j. Vail, Hope.
we'll Junction, n. IA medicine you
can rely upon. Send for free trial
sample bottle. DR.. David Kennedy,
Kennedy Row, Kingston. n. Y.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-08-02
Maintenance of Dirt Ro.s..

The maintenance Of dirt roads after
being properly constructed is usually
left to the elements; consequently the
roadmaker is compelled to rebuild his
road annually, while the employment
of a caretaker or overseer at all times
on all roads would maintain our dirt
roads in fair condition with present
taxation. y