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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-13
BURLINGTON
=. BANK.
INCORPORATED Is45.


Deposits made on either of the first four
business day OF any month draw interest
from the LIST. II made afterward interest
Will commence th' first Ct the following
month.
Interest will be credited to depositors Jan.
uary lst ana July lst compouding twice a
year. There are no stockholders in this bans.
All earnings, less expenses, belong TO de.
positors. The rate of interest depends on the
earnings but the law fixes the rate that any
savings bank in the state can pay at not to
exceed three and one halt per cent per annum,
until its surplus reaches ten per cent of its
deposit, when special dividend is provided
for.
All taxes in this State are paid by the bank
on deposits of $500 or less. Deposits are
received in sums from 81 to $4,000, and no in.
terest will be paid on any sum in excess OF
this amount, except on deposits by widows,
orphans, administrators, executors, guar.
dams charitable or religious Institutions OF
on trust funds deposited by order of court.
Funds may be sent by oank check or draft
or postal money order and deposit book will
be returned by next mail.
Applications for loans or for information a.
to standing of the bank may be made to Rufus
Wainwright, Middlebury, or K. c. Dixie.
Bristol.
CHARLES p. SMITH. President
FREDERICK W. WARD Treasurer.
: = F~HAM, ASST Treas.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events Of the Week Briefly
and TerseIy Told.

The centennial exercises ut West
Point Military academy were begun by
reception to visiting alumni.
Three American scientists made an
other ascent of La Soufrierc. st. Vim
gent, but fog impeded the view.
The pope formally bestowed red hats
on three cardinals, including Mgr Mar
tineli. and appointed two American
bishops.
In the second game for the polo
championship at birmingham the Eng
lish team defeated the Americans. 6
goals to 1.
The Jersey supreme court denied the
application of Thomas G.. Barker. who
shot Rev. John Keller at Arlington, for
a new trial.
Monday, June ..
Nine men were drowned in n collision
on the lake near Duluth, MINI.
Floods in the vicinity of Emporia
Kan, have done more than 81 10000
damage.
Floods did great damage in the
southwestern portion of Chicago. There
were llldny hiIlOW ESCAPES from
drowning.
The bill granting amnesty to all
Americans now in Jail or awaiting trial
in Cuba was passed unanimously by
the senate.
TWO boys were killed and man bad
ly hurt at Reading. Mass. in "A run
away caused by automobiles driven at
Ill, 1,,-I To o,.1
1t was stated that the price paid by
J. Pierpont Morgan for the famous
Consul Gutmann collection of antique
silver and bronzcs in Berlin was $780,
600
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-13
Friday, June q.

American Jockeys won several races
at Epson Downs ard all at the Bois de
BoulOgne.
New York university conferred the
degree of bachelor of letters upon Hell
en- Miller Gould,
Sir Thomas Upton has announced
that he will challenge for the Ameri-
cas- cup next year.
The house of commons by vote Of
$50 20 A granted 100000 to Lord
Kitchener after bitter Irish opposition
one Of the boilers of the Wilson line
, steamer Consuclo burst on her voyage
from New York to Hull. Nobody was
hIrt
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-13

sceptre won the Oaks at Epson.

SCtpITt WOO IIt OHkS III EpSOln.
The Tehuantcpec railway across
Mexico is expected to be ready a year
hence to compete for Pacific coast traf-
fic
The strike of the blast furnace work
ers has been settled. the men receiving
an increase of 10 per cent for twelve
hours work.
At Giion, Spain. a boat containing
eight Spanish artillery officers was run
down by steamer, and five of the otii-
GERS were drowned.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-06-13
Thursdny. June :.

Oriental adViccs reported fears in
China of another Boxer uprising.
Yaqui Indians ambushcd Mexican
troops near Hermosillo. killing thirty
\ general uprising is reported.
Eight miners were burned to death
by an explosion of gas ut n colliery at
DOWais. Glamorganshire, Wales.
/ -Four prisoners in the Somervile On.
j. county Jail 10y cleverly manipulate
ing the lever locking their cells effected
their escape.
The Gusyran. a mud volcano in eau
casia. was reported in eruption. The
country adjacent is envelOped in
flames, and hocks of sheep were de-
stroyed.
Wednesday,. June 4.
Activity was reported in a volcanic
crater near Grant, \. NJ.
\ tornado struck several Wisconsin
towns, doing much damage.
/ Several children We're reported killed
by troops in a charge upon Il riotous
mob ut Lemberg. Galicia.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach announced
that the tax on grain will not be re-
moved from the British budget.
The formal resignation of the French
cabinet was presented 10 President
Loubet by the premier, NJ. Waldeck-
Rousseau.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
NEW KIND OF ROAD.
New York State Experiment Which
Will Be Watched with Interest
All Over the Country.

The village of Blasdell, Erie county,
is to have a new kind of road on which
it is claimed greater load can be
hauled with less power than on any
other. form except steel rails. 1t con-
sists of two-wheel tracks made of
paving bricks. In the Blasdell road,
on account of the immense traffic pass
ing over it, these brick tracks will be
placed in the center of a bed of clay
or broken stone, 12 feet wide, making
a complete roadway at cost of only
one-third that of the roads on each end
OF it which were constructed year
ago by the state under the Higbie-
Armstrong law. The principle of the
brick road is based on the fact that
the weight of loads through wheel
contact is always concentrated on very
narrow portions of al roads, and it
naturally follows that if such mar
row parts of roads can be cheaply and
properly adapted to carry such weight
and resist the consequent wear, such
materials as cheap clay or soft stone
nav be used for the rest of the road
service. The cost, where brick can be
had at s15 a thousand, should not ex-
ceed 81 200 to 81, 500 mile, exclusive of
grading, whereas macadam costs from
g 900 to $40, ooo.-Troy IN. W Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
PASTUR1NG WHEAT.
A Word Of Warning Which Should
BE Needed by All Who Want q
Good Grain Crop.


The scarcity of feed will induce
farmers to pasture wheat fields as
early as possible in the spring. If the
wheat were sown only for pasture,
and the field is to be plowed and some
other crop grown, it may be profitable
to pasture wheat, even if by so doing
it is killed out. But if the crop is to
be harvested for grain, care must be
taken to avoid too much pasturing.
If there is a thrifty growth and late
winter and early spring conditions are
favorable, then wheat may be pas
tured without injury. But don't pas
ture it when conditions are adverse
and then expect an abundant grain
crop. It will pay to care for the wheat
fields this season. The markets have
been much depleted of grain because
of farmers in many sections keeping
the wheat on the farm for feeding in
lieu of corn, which was cut so short by
the drought.
In some instances it may pay to buy
feed and save the wheat fields from
being pastured to their injury. The
wheat and oats crop will yield the
farmer his first large revenue the
coming season, and as most farmers
have felt the pressure caused by the
drought they will need to consider well
all means of recuperation. So it may
be profitable to get information from
grain dealers in your section before
recklessly pasturing wheat fields to
relieve present necessities for feed
Colman's Rural World.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
ROADS IN GERMANY.
How They Are Kept in Repair With.
out AnyAppreciable Cost to
the Taxpayers.

Americans concede that roadmaking
in Germany is a fine art. Few, how
ever, realize that road repairing has
been reduced to a comparatively cheap
art as well. wish devotedly that local
societies could be former in order to
study it, and apply the results of the
study to country roads in America.
ence of leading citizens in Ulster coun-
ty in New York, an ideal county to ex-
pertinent in, having all the three chief
things for success. I mean stones.
paupers and fruit trees. Germans,
namely, find that it pays to encourage
peasants to free their fields of stones;
the property rises in Withdrawing
value. The stones thrown into heaps
by the roadside are purchased by the
district road-repairing commission.
Poor men, who otherwise would have
to- be supported in almshouses, are
hired to break these stones, and then
are trained to the work of repairing
the roadbeds. The money to pay the
men is made by auctioning off to
the highest bidder the crops of the
fruit trees that were planted on both
sides of the highway when it was built.
and which are nourished well by the
manure that falls along the road and
is pushed at intervals by road tender
upon their roots. The purchaser of
the crop sees to it that his fruit is not
stolen. The road commissioners have
no bother about that. And although
the sale is by auction, it brings in con-
siderable. Every burgher knows how
much, because the sales of highway
fruit crops are published in the local
newspapers.-Countess Won Krockow,
in Chica 90 Tribune
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
The Cow and Her Milk,

Prof. Clinton D. Smith, after five
years. investigation of the milk ques-
ton, publishes the following conclu-
sions: 81. A COW yieds as much rich
milk as heifer as she will as ma
ture cow. 2. The milk is as rich in the
first month Of the period of lactation
as it will be later, except perhaps dur
ing the last few weeks of the milk flow
when the COW is rapidly drying off. 8.
There is little difference in seasons as
to the quality of the milk. While the
cows are at pasture the milk is neither
richer nor poorer, on the average, than
the milk yieldedwhen the cows were on
winter feed. 4. The milk of fair-sized
dairy herd varies little in composition
from day to day, and radical variations
in this respect should be viewed with
suspicion"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
PURE MILK SUPPLY.
Cp0n 1t, Say Sanitary AuthOritiea
Depends the Health of Entire
Communities.

In nothing that is bought for human
food is the necessity of cleanliness and
purity more manifest than in milk.
Meats and vegetables are for the most
part thoroughly cooked before they
are eaten, fruits are peeled and nuts
are shelled; but milk is more or less
injured in flavor and in nutritive prop
critics by boiling, and has no protec.
tive cover to keep it clean. 1t is there
fore essential for the consumer tc
know the history of the milk he gets.
In view of the Importance of this
question the provider for the family
should if possible himself inspect
the dairy his milk comes from.
and should satisfy himself that
perfect cleanliness is the rule
in every stage. The cow barn
should be well ventilated and sunny,
the cows should be healthy and clean.
the mixer should have well-washed
hands, and the udder should be washed
before each milking.
In many dairies and farms all these
essentials are now strictly observed
and if the milk is then bottled at once
and the bottle is kept sealed until de-
livered, one may feel reasonably GER
tain that the milk is fit to drink II
this certainty is denied one, especially
if there are young children in the
family, the only recourse is steriliza-
ton. Boiling for a few minutes will
kill all germs, but at the same time it
kills the milk, which becomes a diff
ferent fluid and, as many physicians
believe, less nutritive than raw milk.
Another and less Objectionable pro-
cess is what is called "Pasteurization,"
by which is meant keeping the milk at
a temperature of about ITO degrees
for 20 minutes, but never letting it
come to a boil.
Either boiling or Pasteurization will
destroy the germs which cause acid
fermentatio or putreaction, as well
as the germs of tuberculosis; but if
these changes have occurred, boiling
will not annihilate the poisonous prod
ucts already formed; it will not make
bad milk good.
The addition of any of the various
representatives" to milk is only an ex-
change of one poison for another, and
should be Internationally Com
DO Mon.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Culture of Strawberries.

There are three methods now fol
lowed by the best growers, known as
bill culture, the hedge row and the
ha1f-matted row. By the first, plants
are set from IL to IS inches apart in
The row, and all runners kept off SO
hot no other plants can form. The
hedge row method consists in having
n1ants from to II inches in the
Pow with runners kept off; and the
h.lf.matted row method is to plant
- the usual manner with plants IS
to to &c inches in the row. the first run
n W that appear just where wanted
until there is row about Il inches
vide with plants not more than SIX
inches apart. After the row is Tiled
- this manner, keep the runners on
as in the hill and hedge row method
World.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Beans for the Dairy Cows.

Beans have not been much used for
COW feed, but where they have been
used they have appeared to give very
excellent satisfaction. They carry
about % per cent. of digestible protein,
5oper cent. of digestible carbohydrates
and Ia per cent. of digestible fat.
Just how much of these steamed
beans could be fed without injuriously
affecting the product is perhaps prob
lem, but commencing. in moderate
way one might increase gradually I'M
til the daily allowance reached nearly
or quite four pounds. We think it
would be good plan to mix some
wheat bran with the beans. We do
not think it advisable to get along
with only silage for roughage. The
COW seems to crave more or less dry
forage in connection with silage or
wen with Observation-Disclosures Farmer
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
bitches AND DRAINS.
simple Apparatus by Which Any
might Farmer Can Easily OBJ
tain q Proper Grade.

A device for assisting in getting the
grade while digging drains is described
ny II. w. Smith, Somerset county, Me.
l TOOK piece of board a, a, eight feet
long, seven inches wide, and nailed on
Two three-cornered pieces, b, b, cut
ing out the section of the board be-
tween them, as shown in the illustra-
ton. Then I nailed piece of lath
across the tops of the three-cornered
pieces. A piece of clapboard, d, three
feet long, was sharpened nearly to a
point on the thin side and nailed di-
agonally to the side of the eight-foot
board, thin edge down, so that the
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
SAFETY MILK PAIL.
tents and 1t Also Prevents Gath
erinE of Impurities.

Many a pail of milk has been lost by
a kick from the COW just as the task
of milking her was about finished and
many stray bit of dirt falls into
the open pail if the farmer is not ex-
tremely careful in his labors. John
Heustis King, of Clarity, Ala, believes
that the pail he has just designed will
save the milk in case of an upset pail
and also prevent the gathering of i'm
purities.
In the picture The details of con-
struction of this improved pail are
shown. The top of the pail has a
screw-threaded fange, to which re-
ceiving bowl is secured by similar
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Amount Of Seed to Sow.

The amount of grain to sow per
acre is question of considerable inn
portance, since the saving of half a
peck per acre is SIS to 500 on every
100 acres of wheat sown. 1t is not
well to skimp the seed, but too much
is as bad as too little; not only is it
a waste of seed, but the plants will
be too crowded to develop in the
highest degree. The right amount of
seed, then, is the question, and yet to
say what will apply in every case is
not possible. By using averages, the
proper amount under average condi-
lions may be stated, but what would
be too little in dry summer would
be too much in wet one. The inn
plement used in sowing also has an
influence on the amount of seed to
SOW. 1t is generally conceded that it
is good practice to sow peck less of
seed with drill than with the broad
cast seeder.-Midland Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
APPARATUS FOR PROPER GRADE.

point of the clapboard would be about
20 inches above the center of the lath
A plumb line and bob is suspended
from the point above the center of the
lath. If the lower edge of the board
is straight and placed in level po-
sition the line will hang at right an
giles with it. Have the edge of the
lath planed. Take sharp pencil and
mark each side of the line and cut a
notch on the lath. To illustrate the
use of the device, when the board is
level, if two-inch block is put under
one end and notch cut behind the
line, the plumb line will indicate the
grade and the operator will get two
incH fall for every eight feet, eight
feet being the length of the board
Orange Judd Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Cabinet Minister. Come H,@..

a cabinet officer who not veru 49,
ured to private life started to hI k a ~
new ms law practice. A corporation 20 ~
; was sent to him by a brother LAWYER. Meet.
.ns mat lawyer later, the ex-cahinet ~ Ms
y. ..H asked what he ought to charge. mas
his friend. ~ ~ en1' sing! asked
.n % ELI the reply was, II thought thou.
My dear fellow" the Other lawvar ~
sponded, If you do that you will never aet
,another case. Ex- cabinet ministers arg 60 -
ihu;MMurry, i they are worth anything. Send =
OH for 5000 retaining fee and YOU Will GOT
: &c check tomorrow: Then adjust Your rem eus
Lar charges at your LEISURE ''su
d;ct ne 'h1ns was done, with the result pre-
Question made in a month as much as .h ~
. .um OF his salary during his entire Official
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Cheese or Butter, which9

Whether cheese-making or butter.
making be best for community must
depend on the use being made in that
community of the products of milk.
When there is no profitable way of
using skimmilk the whole milk can be
made into cheese. Where the milk can
be fed to calves, pigs or poultry, butter
making is profitable. Butter-making
does not impoverish farm if the
skinned milk is fed to farm animals,
and in that way returned to the land.
In cheese-making the nitrogen and
phosphorus are sold off the farm
Farmers Review.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
OWNS LARGEST FARM.
1T Consists of Ia Ranches, Containing
$4,000 Acres, and Is Owned by
q MissOurian.

David Rankin, of Tarkio, Mo-, owns
the largest cultivated tract of land in
the world, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer. To those who have never Wis
tied large ranch the methods neces-
sary to carry on the vast amount of
work would seem a great problem.
MI. Rankin owns ii ranches. contain
ing $4,000 acres; 700 teams and 22O
men are required to operate the daily
routine work in the busy season while
the crops are under cultivation. Each
ranch has an overseer, who is required
to make a monthly report and to sub
init the same to his employer. The
records of the past years work over
all the ranches show that total of
1889 head of cattle had been sold for
$172,520 and S,249 head of hogs for
$111,S46. The total clearance for the
year 1900 amounted to 100000. The
expenses, including interest, reached
the sum of se1, s51.13.
The most profitable ranch is the one
looked after by Foreman George Ross,
whose yearly report contains the fol-
lowing statements: Number of acres,
$3.50; cattle, 1928; net proceeds from
cattle, S44,59s.9o; hogs, 1892, cash for
the same, $17,954.19; expense per acre,
$4.39; corn bought, 9s,72o bushels.
Mr.. Rankin is a close observer and
soon picks out the good qualities of
his men. He is pleasant and accom-
modating, daring and energetic, which
qualities have won for him the wealth
he now commands. Besides his farms
he has an interest in several banking
concerns, but to these latter he gives
little attention, and spends most of his
time riding over the ranches 20 see
that proper care is being given the
stock. Sometimes he lends helping
hand in pulling steer from the mud;
again he will assist in building shed
for the fattened hogs.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Cuba's First President.

Although it has been stated that the Gu
bans are incapable of governing themselves.
yet they have selected their first president.
who IS great favorite with the people. a
favorite medicine with the American people
is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, because it is
dyspepsia, constipation and biliousness. Il
is also an excellent medicine for spring fever,
IA grippe and malaria Don't fail to try it.
but be sure to get the genuine.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10

fiange. In the center of this bowl is
strainer, and below the strainer is an
open frame in which is placed loose
cone corresponding in shape to the
under side of the strainer. AS soon as
the pail is tipped over the flow of the
milk toward the strainer seals the
cone and effectually closes the outlet
until the pail is righted again.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Properly Placed.

- ne n head Of well-known shipping firm
Ems; II unas country received letter from mil.
help his son get job in some mercantile " NJ
shippmg house, to learn the business. The
1shlpplng firm head shortly wrote back to the
dotlng parent: w VIZ
Dear Sir: Your son has arrived. have
gwen hlm employment at my offices at i've
collars week with others of his class. One
81 Lnese young men has just bought sec, 600
5000 automobile. I think your son viii Eli
1 1nd has surroundings oongenial." y.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
NAMING THE FARM.
A COmmendable Fashion That II
Growing in Favor in the Rural
Districts of the West.

The farm ought to have a name.
The boys will love it more, and others
will respect it more if given this Dig
nifty. After giving the name, mark
it in a prominent place. The cut
shows a unique way. Haul pictur-
esque bowlder to one side of the main
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
How weeds Are Scattered.

They may be introduced and spread
with seeds of grasses, clover and
grain on the farm. By live stock
carried in the hair, fleece or feet; or
by passing into the excrement. By
unground feed stuff purchased in
barnyard manures drawn from town,
in the packing of trees, crockery,
baled hay and straw, by wagons,
threshing machines, etc. Oftentimes
by plows, cultivators and harrows, by
railway trains, or boats, by birds,
squirrels and mice. by water or
brooks, rivers and by washing rains.
bv the wind, aided by little wings,
down or drifting snow. And in count
less other ways. IT'S an enemy that
must be fought without quarter, till
exterminated root and branch
Midland Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
NAME PLACED ON STONE.

entrace. With sledge hammer and
cold chisels cut smooth face upon the
front, and either cut out the name of
the farm or paint it on the smooth
face with black paint. A granite
bowlder will work best.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Rather Personal.

This bread is stale and the eggs are old
enough to vote" said the youth in the red
vest. -, Haven't you anything fresh in this
store?"
'Yes-fresh cuvtomers," responded the
Srocer's daugheer.-Chicago Daily News.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10
Worse Than She Ex,sc+.,

~ nyoe Park has a Mrs. Malapron.
~, a when told the other day that an
..u gentleman to whom she had inst
.sn, introduced was an epicure, said.
Well, he looks like he had one foot
IN the grave, but I'd a never tool hin,
of . poem on Observation-Disclosures
hecord-Herald. s'o
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1902-05-10

Ask To-Day for Aliens Foot-Ease.
1t cures swollen, aching, tired feet. At all
Druggists and Shoe stores. Csc. Sample sent
FREE. Address A. s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y.