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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

1t may often happen that the amount
of work in community is sufficient to
induce one or more persons to under
take the treatment of plants>at given
charge per tree or per gallon of the in
sectcide employed. Where this is the
case and the contracting parties are
evidently experienced and capable it is
frequently more economical in the end
to employ such experienced persons
especially when a guarantee is given
rather than attempt to do the work
oneself with the attending difficulty of
preparing insecticides and securing
apparatus for work on a comparatively
small scale. In California this is q
common practice and also in some of
our eastern cities, and it has worked
eXcellently, according to Professor
Marlatt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
Agricultural Brevitfes,

Unfortunately for themselves, many
consumers look with suspicion upon
the light shades of maple sugar and
strip.
Soy bean was one of the best pre-
paratory crops for barley at one Of the
Canadian experimental farms.
The ravages Of the forest worm In
Vermont seem to have reached an end
after inflicting much injury in nearly
all parts of the state.
Meehan recommends Troths Early
and Hale's Early as desirable early
peaches for small garden.
Alfalfa will largely replace clover in
New Jersey this year, says an exchange,
a considerable acreage that would have
been sown with clover and timothy
last fall having been left for it.
The tide of agriculture is now re-
ported as setting back to New Eng
land, and 1t is claimed that abandoned
farms in that section can no longer be
found.
Onion growing is said to have given
very pleasing returns last year to
growers in northeastern Ohio, where
fine onions OF good keeping quality are
grown.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
A Commercial PHI.

Advertising is not yet an exact SCI
ence and may possibly never be. Mel
Their is medicine. 1t is not always pos
sible to directly trace the effect or ben
eft of an advertisement, and some
there are who do not favor advertising
for that reason, although they do not
deny its power to do them good. These
same fellows will willingly take pill
for torpid liver when no man on earth
can tell them why that pill will act.
They know 1t is a regulator and take
it. They know the advertisement is a
regulator and they won't take it. Great
reasoning. Perhaps they can see the
difference in physical and commercial
sickness. We confess we can't.-Mu-
sic Trade Review.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

usual lines and basic 1t and try it on,
and then draw the front into position
according to the diagram and pin 1t
into the proper shape. The lining
should be wrong side out, to allow the
dressmaker to draw In the seams. The
seam should come just half way the
length Of the shoulder and end an inch
and a half from the front. The seam,
to keep it smooth, must have line Of
featherbone all the length, and even on
the outside it Is an addition to have q
row Of the same kind Of cable cording,
and this makes a handsome trimming
to go all around the whole garment.
Buttons close it. The back is cut in
four pieces and is a shape familiar to
us all, for 1t never goes altogether out
of fashion, but the fronts are new. The
seams are sewed very neatly and press
ed fiat, and the short position is fin
ished In the most mannish fashion pos
sible. The featherbone cording should
not be put on the ends of the position.
All the inside seams are bound with
narrow lustring ribbon in the approved
way. The ease belt is absolutely nee
essary. The collar can be whatever
kind the wearer desires, but the best
taste would suggest that 1t should be
of the material and trimmed like the
rest Of the basque.
The two centerpieces in the back are
cut with Jog" one inch deep, and
this Is sewed along with the other
piece, which forms the back side piece.
When done, these are folded over and
pressed firmly and finished off with
buttons. The position can be made
larger If so desired. The sleeves to
basques should be in tailor shape, mas
much as nearly all basques are to be
worn with tailor made skirts. Those
in the model are not trimmed other
wise than by having flaring cuffs, and
they are stitched in several rows, both
at the joining and at the bottom. All
tailor sleeves are slightly fulled at the
shoulders. In sewing them in great
care must be taken to get the top
shoulder seam so that it comes directly
in the middle of slope in the back at
the shoulder, where the cross Is. Ev-
cry seam must be firmly basted all
around the edges and then all the diff
ferent parts of the waist basted to-
gether. Blasting has a great deal to do
with the proper finish of any tailor
made garment. 1t is in just these
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
A SOURCE OF WASTE.
Enormous Quantities of Raw Flax
Burned Up Ench Yenr.

In 1898 the United States produced
17.217,OO0 bushels of flaxseed, but did
not utilize million pounds OF fiber,
according to New York correspondent
of The Prairie Farmer, who estimates
that at the same ratio of fiber to seed
production as prevailed in Russia that
year we should have marketed 929, 49,
600 pounds of fiber. He further says:
Il am told by the owner OF towel
and napkin mill in this city that he is
now paying from 10 to 10 cents per
pound for coarse linen yarn for use in
his mill, all of which is imported, and
that he is troubled to get enough even
at the price paid. OF course l know
that where flax is grown, as in this
country, for the seed it is not sown as
thickly as when grown for the fiber
alone, but still in Russia it is grown
for the dual purpose of seed and lint,
and the proportion is 81 pounds of
fiber to every bushel of seed. 1t is
also true that the plants when sown
thinly for seed production grow larger
and branch very much more than when
sown thickly and that the fiber is much
shorter and coarser and not as soft and
silky. But for the purpose of max
ing towels and napkins and many other
uses the finest fiber is not used and
that, like the Russian fiber, grown on
seed fax, can be cleansed and prepared
so as to be equal to the bulk of the
imported yarn.
"Of course I know that some fax
straw is piled up and that the cattle eat
little but by far the greatest bulk is
burned, and that eaten has but little
value, but if it could be so treated as to
make the fiber available it would dou-
BILE the amount of money derived from
the fax culture. The 100000 BUSH
els of seed at the average price for
five years in Chicago markets would
bring about S2OO0O,OOO. Now, if no
larger proportion of fiber be utilized
than in Russia and it could be made to
be worth only cents per pound, very
low price, it would sell for no less than
S27 100000, or over third more than
the seed"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
VALUE OF COOPERATION.
Best Results Can Come only with
United Effort

No community can reach the highest
development of its resources until all
interests are united in that effort. In
a recent editorial the Atlanta Consti-
tuition cites a case in point. 1t says:
Nhe chamber of commerce, desiring an
intimation as to how it may best serve
the city, might take a hint from a let
ter Just received from the island of
Trinidad by a leading boot and shoe
house of this city.
The firm writing is one engaged in
the general supply business on that
island. I'VE carry on" says the writ
er, "a general business"
Accompanying the letter is a $4,000
order for Atlanta goods, to be shipped
via New York
Here, then, we have a practical proof
that there is a foreign as well as
home market which Atlanta can reach
We have the geographical location and
the goods to sell, but we Lash the mer-
camille organization necessary to ex-
plot these alluring fields. Every month
or two some merchant or manufacturer
receives just sucl letter as above, af-
fording the opportunity to open trade
relations, but the same difficulties stand
in the way, which can only be removed
by cooperation.
| That opportunity will not be taken
up for the simple reason that there is
no agency for the overlooking and ex-
plotting of our business at large. Sup
pose, for instance, that the chamber Of
commerce would address itself to the
The island of Trinidad is willing to
trade with us. Send there a wide awake
agent to work up the trade and be-
come acquainted with the people. Not
one order alone, but 40 or 80 at time,
would come in. Merchants would be
one quoted as tips upon which to pro-
coed.
The character of commerce has new
er yet reached what it's true relation Is
to the city. There is too much of an
idea that each mans business stands
by itself and that it cannot be helped
by an interchange of ideas. Such q
feeling must give way to one having
at least the welfare of the whole COM
munity. Now that the city has recog-
nized the work of the chamber it is
time for the members to devote little
time to it and make it effective. We
must build up public commercial
spirit If we would go much further in
the development of our resources.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
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 undigested
food, regulate the action of the liver
stimulate the nervous and organic action
of the system, and that is all they took
when feeling dull and bad with head
aches and other aches. You only need 2
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, 1901-06-07
FADS IN EDUCATION.
Teaching Local History In Schools
Productive of Little Good.

Discussing prevailing fad in the ed
ucation of children, the Atlanta Constl-
tuition rather hotly remarks:
The provincial idea of teaching local
history in schools is again agitating
educational circles in certain parts of
the country, and pupils are being cram
med by such stuff as to who is the or
binary of a certain county or who is
bailff for the - militia district.
In one city the pupils are queried
daily as to the news developments OF
the day. Who presided at the mothers
meeting at Mrs. jerks? Was the Thir-
teenth ward counciman's father born
north or south of the river? How long
has the president of the Society For
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
to serve? What are the present limits
of Jumbo county? What We're they 40
years ago? What are they likely to be
40 years hence? Who is the sister-in-
law of the chief directors wife's aunt's
cousin? Questions fully as local and
useful as these are injected not only in
to the school curriculum, but into ex-
animation papers, to test the knowl-
edge of teachers. There Is on record
an examination paper sent out in a GER
tain state in which the question is
gravely propounded WAS George
Washington a really fine looking man."
There Is too much apprenticeship
in bookmaking and in schoolteaching.
The local affairs of a municipality do
not belong to the domain of history,
and there is very little in the history
of any of the states even up to that
standard. The merely personal fads or
quips of the day should not be forced
into history, which is supposed to treat
Of worldwide events.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
FARM AND GARDEN.
A Lesson In Ventilation of Cow

A Lesson In Ventilation of Cow Barns.
The other day State Veterinarian
Roberts of this state was requested by a
farmer living in this county to call and
examine his herd of cows. Something
was the matter with them. Several cows
had died and the farmer was puzzled.
DIR. Roberts took In the situation at
glance. Here was a fine herd of cows,
every one of them of high order OF ex-
cellence, and a stable shut up tight, full
of foul odors and faint, badly lighted,
never whitewashed, and disease rampant.
The tuberculine test was applied and
81 out of 30 of the cows reacted to the
test They were killed and in every in
stance the test proved correct. The man
who owned the cows and many of the
neighbors were finally convinced by this
costly experience, but The Dairyman had
been talking hard along this line for
years. A little willingness to read, and
learn from what is read,l might have
saved this costly lesson. This herd was
located only five miles from this city and
in the same township. Dairy farmers
have been altogether too conservative on
this question of constructing healthy,
well ventilated, well lighted stables.
After all that has been said barns in this
country were built last summer with one
window, where there should have been
five or six, and no heed at all to ventila-
ton. Crowd stable like that full OF
cows, keep it warm as you must If they
give milk in winter, and you have Just
the finest seed bed for tuberculosis, if,
by chance, an infected animal is intro.
duced into the herd.
Professor King, the inventor of the
best system of ventilation we know of,
tells of an instance of this kind of'policy
he saw in Canada. A man had brought
40 big steers into one big room. His
plan was to feed and water them without
letting them out, and the managers were
to be raised as fast as the manure and
bedding accumulated. He had closed
the barn up as well as he could, for
steers, like cows, do their work better In
warm than in cold. There came a very
cold spell and the breath of the animals
froze on the walls and sealed that room
up almost Theoretically. The result was
he came near loosing the " hole herd. 1t
HAS seeueu 10 US as we nave Oeen III
many cow stables that the owner had no
idea whatever of the amount of air a COW
needs; further, that he has no idea of fur
nishing her with pure air.
The result of such lack of knowledge
and good thinking is that tuberculosis,
abortion and host of other germ dis
eases have all the encouragement they
need In great many COW barnes
Hoard's Dairyman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
The Terrible Melon Might

The melon leaf blight is getting to
be a serious matter. Practically all
the melons in northern New Jersey. in
GLIDING an excellent stand on the Rural
grounds, were badly injured or de-
stroyed by this subtle disease last year.
Most of the growers attribute it to
atmospheric and temperature changes,
and it cannot be denied that hot, moist
weather interspersed with sudden cool
showers favors the rapid spread of the
trouble, but the general appearance of
the dying foliage impresses one with
the idea that it is really of bacterial
origin. Our vegetable Psychologists
have thrown very little light on this
troublesome and widespread affection;
at least no specially useful informa-
ton concerning it has come to us.
1t is evident that until some way of
controlling or avoiding the blight is de-
veloped it will be we'll to confine our
planting to quick growing and early
maturing varieties, as the disease is
plainly more destructive to the later
kinds. We regret to say that neither
cause nor cure is known to us.-Rural
New Yorker.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

Editor E. r. Root said at the Wis
consin convention that adding an equal
amount of wood alcohol to honey, STIR
ring we'll and then letting it stand,
say, ten minutes is good test for glu-
cose in honey. If adulterated the COM
pound would show milky appearance
and remain clear if pure. This is a
simple test, but we presume the wood
alcohol must be absolutely pure it.
self to start with.-American Bee Jour-
nal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
What to Do For Dampinr on.

Damping off, which is caused by a
number of fungi, may be treated more
or less successfully by making lib
eral application of slaked lime. 1t is
especially useful in treating damping
off in tobacco seed beds, radish beds,
cabbage seed beds and cauliflower seed
beds. Apply the slaked lime to the soil
and work in lightly. Just enough lime
should be used to give the bed light
covering.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

You find 16 page newspaper beside
your breakfast plate and open it with
the certainty of finding accounts of all
happenings worthy of note in every
line of human activity which the pre-
vious "a hours have brought forth, and
this at the cost of a penny or so, a sum
for which the Veriest beggar in the
street would scarcely thank one
Morses Agate Rule.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
A BLACKSMITH AND WHeELwR,oHT.

Of Northampton, \. 7. (Mr. Thomas
Wallin), says that Calcura Solvent, a
neoc medicine discovered by DR.. David
Kennedy, Kennedy Row, Kingston, n.
Y, has done wonders for him in a case
Of bladder complaint. Better than all
the rest put together" he says. He is
over Ga now, and was soldier In the
war. Send for free trial bottle.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

"a few months ago, food which | ate
for breakfast would not remain on my
stomach for half an hour. | used one
bottle of your kodnl Dyspepsia Cure and
can now eat my breakfast and other
meals with relish and my food is
thoroughly digested. Nothing equals
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for stomach
troubles" H. S. Pitts, Arlington, Tex.
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you
eat. ID. A. Bisbee's drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
The Growth of Grass.

1t takes about 40 days to produce a
crop of grass at an average growth of
an inch or more day. Under proper
conditions it will grow ten inches or
more in a week, yielding 300 pounds of
hay per day to the acre. One may Of
ten find spots that fail TO get their
share of the fertilizer. Such spots will
be off color and look puny. Give them
their full share, and in ten days they
will often be ahead, says G. NJ. Clark,
the grass specialist, in American Guilt
vator.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

From examination at the North Da-
kota station of the roots of sugar beets
it was found that this crop does not de-
velop lateral roots near the surface of
the ground. The greatest amount Of
branching and fibrous growth of beet
roots takes place in the space between
6 and IA inches in depth.
The effect of subsoiling on root
growth and development Of sugar beets
was investigated, with the result that
on the SUBSIDIZED plats there was found
a considerably better development of
feeding roots, and the main root was
more symmetrically deyeloped.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

Eczema, salt rheum, letter, chatting, ivy
poisoning and all skin tortures are quick
ly cured by DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
The certain pile cure. d. A. Bisbee's
drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
Value of n Home Paper.

We believe it was Marshall Field,
the great Chicago merchant, who re-
marked that he would rather have his
in one paper reaching
the home than in 40 sold on the street
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

iOM lOuCutS DuL
Ii t tie of t b e
gro u n d n S / t
passes over 1t
The cut, from
The Farm Jour-
nal, shows q
plan or a frame
that gives great
fexibility and is
specially advan-
on -A-.l~
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

~" nv VII LAND tdSeouS Ou rough
and uneven land. The harrow is hinged
together with bolts that are linked to-
gether with eye heads. This device
commends itself for lands that are diff
fcult to level and is easily and mex
pensively made
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

Aguinaldo, in an interview, said that
he thought American rule in the Philip
pines, to be satisfactory, should conform
strictly to the Constitution.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
And No More.

Economy In space buying is attained
when an advertiser buys space just
large enough to completely tell his sto-
ry.-Man Order Journal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

Tax assessors at San Juan, Porto Rico
have increased the valuation of property
there from S9,0O0,00O to sl5, 100000 and
owners are bowling.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
HOMEMADE DRESSES.
SOME FACTS ABOUT CUTTING AND
MAKING A BASQUE.

The Circular skirt Preferred to
Wear with This style of Waist and
How II Is Made-suggestionsA About
Measuring.
copyright. 1901, by American Press Association
AS the basque Is to be one of the
great favorites Of this season, it will
be we'll to know how to make the new
style of that garment. The newest of
them has no CARTS or forms in front
and gains its graceful shape by means
Of one seam up the front, reaching to
the shoulder, and in that way conform
ing it to the figure. The way in which
this is done Is to cut a lining on the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

A dispatch from Gen. Gaselee was
made public 10 London. The British
commander highly praises the American
officers with whom he co-operated in
China.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

A surgical operation is not necessary
to cure piles. DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve saves all that expense and never
fails. Beware of counterfeits. D. A.
Bisbee's drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

James r. Garfield, son of the former
president, was admitted to practice be-
fore the United States Supreme court.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

1t often happens where land is rough
and uneven that the ordinary rigid har-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07
Valuable Book rec

For the long list of fatal accidents
daily reported there can be no excuse
but this wholly unnecessary criminal
ignorance. Had some friend known how
to give the simple treatment necessary
while awaiting the arrival of a doctor
the life might have been saved. The
Emergency Book gives all this in detail
treating over 100 accidents, emergencies,
burns, poisons, etc. Send stamps and
this cupon and get the book FREE.
That it will save your life denotes the
great l9w7
VALUE OF THIS CUPON
EMERGENCY CASE Co.,
Burlington, VT.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1901-06-07

Gentlemen ;-Plesse send me copy of
The Emergency Book at once. Enclosed
find ? stamps. Yours truly,
Evening journal., 1901-02-06
Visitors in Bridgeville

Special 10 the Evening Journal.
Bridgeyille, Feb 5.-Miss Bessie
Cook, of Baltimore who has been Wis
iting parents here. has returned home
Misses Fannie Carter. Edith Boone
and Bessie Cook spent Sunday with
Greenwood friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Clark, Of Elkton,
who have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. c.
II. Adams. have returned home.
Mrs Harry c. Adams Is visiting Iron
Hill relatives.
Wilbur Layton is seriously FL with
the grip.
Uncle josh" the comedy-drama.
which was SO successfully rendered by
the Bridgeville Dramatic Club on
Thursday and Friday evenings, will be
played in Harrington's Opera House
Friday evening, at the request of citi-
zens OF that town. The play Will also
be rendered at Laurel in the near fu-
ture
The Sussex Club Minstrels win fll a
one night engagement in the Opera
House on February a.