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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
The Early Garden.

Now is the time to start in for the
early garden. Every family living on a
farm should have a good vegetable
garden, for the purpose of supplying
one family with their needed supply of
vegetables fresh from the soil. This
garden need not be an extensive affair.
Should farmer start out with an effort
to supply everything that can be named
as desirable for family use, and in quan-
tity of each sometimes recommended by
those who know nothing of the matter,
he would be sure to find himself swamp
ed with the labor involved before the
season was very far advanced.
Enough of the common vegeta ables
desirable for table use for single fami-
ly, and in abundant supply, can be
grown with trifling outlay of labor.
Seed for a few hills of early potatoes
should be started now in artificial heat,
and transplanted to the garden as soon
as danger of frost is past. In this way,
gain of couple of weeks in their growth
NAV be easily secured, and they be
ready for the table at time when much
desired. Many kinds of vegetable plants
may be secured at greenhouses in ad.
vance of their season, and transplanted
to the garden at as early date as the
soil would be ready for seed. In this
way, several weeks of time is gained
with their growth. A little timely
attention iu this and similar directions
will add much to the pleasures of life
on farm.
Desirable as garden is, there never
should be more undertaken than can be
we'll cared for. The garden must be
kept clean of weeds.-Maine Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
The Clark System.

Our Maine farmers have heard much
of the Clark system of raising hay ana
are much interested in the matter. The
Orono Experiment Station in response
to urgent invitations has made an inves-
tigation of the system. While endors-
ing the general theory that intense cul-
tivation will produce more hay, the sta
ton does not believe that as whole 1t
itself to Maine farmers. The
reasons for this judgment are thus sum-
med up by Prof. Chas. ID. Woods.
Although it is probable that thorough
and fertilization of the soil
for hay will in the long run prove profit
able even in Maine with its distance from
markets, growing grass for the purpose
of selling hay is probably not the best
kind of agriculture for the average
farmer in this state. In few localities
near to the larger cities hay farming
may prove profitable industry.
'While thoroughly endorsing the gen.
eral proposition that thorough prep
aration and high manuring OF the land ls
essential to the highest success in grass
raising, the station does not recommend
the adoption of the Clark method by
Maine farmers, chiefly because 1t does
not fit in with mixed farming and rota-
ton of crops. The coarse products OF
the farm should be fed upon the farm
aud the manure returned to the land In
order to maintain aud increase fertility.
Selling hay is selling fertility from the
farm. Three tons of timothy and red
top remove about 80 pounds of nitrogen,
q pounds of phosphoric acid and oS
pounds Of potash that it will cost more
that SlS to replace commercially.
"The plan of hay farm does not ad-
NIT of rotation of crops. Rotations are
yery important in the proper and eco
nomical handling of land. For instance,
if potatoes or corn are grown preceding
grass, the land will be in equally good
condition from fall plowing and once
narrowing in the spring as from the fire.
ouent borrowings necessitated BY sum-
mer seeding. In the rotation most OF
the cost of the preparation OF the seed
bed falls upon money crop as potatoes
or corn, aud not upon the next season
grass crop.
"The seeding formula recommended
by Mr.. Clark does not contain clover.
This is the most important forage plant
that the Maine farmer can grow. 1t Is
rich in protein and is able to obtain Its
nitrogen from the air. While clover hay
does not command as good price as that
from red top and timothy, it can De
grown at a less cost per ton and has
greater feeding value"
All this will be interesting to oul
Maine farmers. 1t is with this as with
many other fads. When carefully OK
amined and probed to the bottom 1t Is
found that there is no improvement over
the common sense methods. Better LEI
the fads alone.-Journal Farmers.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Curious Belgian Competitions.

The Belgian artisan spends his leisure
in q very novel manner. He breeds a
special cock for Growing and that which
can outcrow its fellows has reached
the highest pinnacle Of perfection. The
modus operandi is to place the cages
containing the roosters in long rows,
for 1t appears that propinquity creates
the spirit Of emulation. without when
the proceedings would fall fiat. y
marker appointed by the organizers OF
the show is told off for each bird. his
duty being to note carefully the num-
ber of crows for which 1t is responsible
in the same fashion as the laps are
recorded in a bicycle race. The GUS
tomary duration Of the match Is one
hour, the winner being the cock which
scores the highest number Of points IN
the allotted time.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Many Vermont Farmers
VISIT THE BETTER FARMING TRAIN AND
HEAR TIE ADDRESSES.

The Better Farming Special made Its
entry into Vermont Monday, after
successful week in New Hampshire.
The first stop wat at Ryegate. This
being in leading dairy section, the
dairy car was the center of attraction.
Secretary George Aitken Of the state
board of agriculture addressed the
farmers upon the selection and manage
ment of a dairy herd. He showed a
picture of q cow on the Billings farm
that had record of 48S pounds OF but
ter per year for eight years, made at a
cost Of 13 cents pound. For bull
calf from such COW he had refused
from one of the Vanderbilts 1000. He
advised feeding dairy stock coarse fod-
der and roots and not highly concentrat-
ed feed. He urged farmers to 60 back
to raising sheep, advising medium sized
sheep for Vermont farms.
Professor Hills spoke on the advan-
tages of COW test associations for Yer
mont dairymen, which will enable them
to weed out of their herds the cows that
do not pay their keep.
Prof. William Stuart of the state ex-
pertinent station spoke in the horticul-
tural car on spraying orchards and po-
tatoes. He advised two sprayings In
orchards, and three or four sprayings in
potato fields, every ten or twelve days,
beginning the last of July, as a pre-
ventive of blight.
T. S. Kinney of South Hero, Grand
Isle county, we'll known apple grower
and orchard authority, talked on the
value of the apple crop to Vermont
farmers. He said it was the most profit
able crop in the state, as the average
cost of a barrel of apples was 81, and
the average selling price never less than
S2. The product last year was 7OO,OOO
barrels, and it would soon reach a
million barrels. He urged farmers to
hold their crop until there was market
for each variety, and not sell it to the
first buyer that came around. The
closer the producer goes to the con-
sumer the better off he will be. He de-
clared that by combining farmers could
ship their product in carload lots to the
city markets and get the profits that
have been going to the buyers.
Other speakers accompanying the
train through Vermont are Professor l..
r. Jones, who speaks on horticulture
and insect pests, Ernest Hitchcock Of
Pittsford, on forestry; and W. A. Hunt
er of Worcester, Mass, on the milk
question.
Mr.. Hitchcock in his address calls at
tention to the cash value in our wood.
lands. He says that two-thirds of all
the area in Vermont is worthless except
to produce timber. and some years the
income from forestry has exceeded that
from the dairy. He urges farmers to
handle their woodlots 80 that they will
reproduce themselves. An acre OF
spruce ought to yield a cord of wood
every year, and an acre Of white pine
ought to produce 1000 feet of lumber
annually. He suggests that the state
aid tho farmers in securing white pine
seedlings at cost.
The attendance at the different stops
ranges from about 200 up to 500, and
the train has attracted much attention
all along the route.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01

Mr.. Carewe, stricken with remOrse and
horror over this frightful misfortune
and suffering too severe anguish Of
mind to remain upon the scene Of the
tragedy which his carelessness had
made, had fled, attended by his serv-
ant, and how they had leaped aboard
the evening boat as 1t was pulling out
and were now on their way down the
river.
And this was the story, too, that Tom
told Fanchon, for it was he who brought
her to Crailey. Through the long night
she knelt at Crailey's side, his hand al
ways pressed to her breast or check,
her eyes always upward and her lips
moving with her prayers, not for Crai-
ley to be spared, but that the Father
would take good care Of him in heaven
till she came. T had ALREADY given
him up," she said to Tom meekly In Il
small voice. ~ knew 1t was to come,
and perhaps this way is better than
that thought 1t would be far away
from me. Now can be with him. and
perhaps shall have him little longer,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Then and Now.

A dairyman of fifty years. standing
writes that in his early experience he
made money with his COWS, selling his
butter at twelve and a half cents a
pound. The practice then was to have
the cows run dry during the cold winter
season, freshen in spring, and be at their
best during the flush of the grass sea-
son. The little grain feed needed with
this management was raised on the
farm, so that every dollar received for
the product was net to the man carrying
ON the business.
Now we submit-was that manage
ment altogether bad in its day, and
further, would it be now? Though the
selling price of the product was so low,
the net footed up very creditable
figure, and it is the net only that is left
in the operators pocket. Are there
many at the present time, with all the
PROCESS that has been made in the busi-
ness, and in the knowledge of protein
feeds and balanced ratiOns through
which few quarts more of milk day
are squeezed out of the modern dairy
cows, fed heavily on purchased grain
from the West, who are realizing more
net per COW than did those earlier dairy
menp With the double per pound value
of the product now as compared with
then, If the net realized is not largely
ahead, then it must be that present
management is somewhere seriously al
fault. Where is it?-Maine Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
NUMBER I8.

the people whispered that 1t was more
like an Odd Fellows Sunday funeral
than the departure Of enthusiastic pa.
triots for the seat Of war. General
Trumble's was not the only sad face In
the ranks. All were downcast and nerv-
Gus, even those of the lads from the
country, who had not known the com.
rade they were to leave behind.
Jefferson unfurled the flag, Marsh
gave the word of command, the band
began to play a quickstep, and the pro-
cession moved forward down the cheer
ing lane Of people, who waved little
flags and handkerchiefs and threw
their hats in the air as they shouted;
but, contrary to expectation, the parade
was not directly along Main street to
the river. Fright wheel! Marchw
commanded Tappingham hoarsely,
waving his sword, and Jefferson led
the way into Carewe street
"For Gods sake, don't cry noww and
Tappingham with large drop streak
Ing down his own cheek turned savage
ly upon Lieutenant Cummings. THAT
isn't what he wants. He wants to see
as looking cheering and smiling. We
can do it for him this once. guess! I
never saw him any other way"
you look very smiling yourself!
snuffied Will.
II will when we turn in at the
gates" retorted the captain. ION my
soul swear III kill every shifting
idiot that doesn't! In line, there!" he
Btormed ferociously at a big recruit.
The lively strains Of the band and
the shouting Of the people grew louder
and louder in the room where Crnllcy
lay. His eyes glistened as he heard.
and he smiled, not the old smile Of the
worldly prelate, but merrily, like
child when music is heard. The room
was darkened, save for the light Of the
one window which fell softly upon his
head and breast and upon another fair
head close to his, where Fanchon knelt.
In the shadows at one end Of the room
were Miss Betty and Mrs. Tanberry
and Mrs. Bareaud and the white hair
ed doctor who had said, Let him have
his own way in all he asks To:l
stood alone, close by the head Of the
couch.
Hail to the bandw Crailey chuckled
softly. How the rogues keep the
time! It's 'Rosin the Bow all right!
All, that is as it should be. Mrs. Tan
berry, you and | have one thing in
common, II you'll let me fatter my
self 80 far. We've always believed in
good cheer, you and l, eh? The best
Of things, even IL things are bad. dear
lady, eh"
"You darling vagabond" Mrs. Tan
berry murmured, trying to smile back
to him.
"Hark to 'emw said Crailey. They're
very near! Only hear the people cheer
them! They'll march away so gayly,
won't they? And how right that Is"
The vanguard appeared in the street,
and over the hedge cleaned the on
coming banner, the fresh colors flying
out on a strong breeze. Crailey greeted
it with a breathless cry. There's the
fag-look, Fanchon. your fag!-wav-
ing above the hedge, and it's jeff vino
carries it. Doesn't it always make you
want to dance! Bravo, bravo"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
By BOOTH TARKINGT(

An hyuh is. an hyuh you Is, an de
blessed Jesus be thank. you Is hyuh!'
Tom regarded her with grave at
tention. what made Mrs. Tanberry
think might be coming there tonightT
"Dey's curious COINS on in dat house,
sub! De young lady. she am like her
self. All de day long she wanduh up
an down an roun' about. Miz Tan
berry are mighty guesslfying wom-
an, an de minute I tell her what Nelse
see she spec you a-coinin' an, dat de
boss mos pintedly preparln' TO it,"
"Can you make it little clearer for
me, Mamie? I'm afraid don't under
stand"
"Well, sub, you know dat ole man
Nelson; he allays tell me ev'yt'ing be
know an ev'yt'ing he think he know,
jass de same, sub. An dat ole Nelse,
he mos 'sessful Guild man in de worp
to crope roun' de house an pick up de
gossip an git de TO an behine er
what's goin' OH. So twas dat he see
de boss. when he come in to'des even
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Setting Hens for Best Results.

In years gone by, 1 have always set
nv hens in good, roomy boxes lin sd
with clean straw and well up OIL the
floor, but in 1905 filled the box half
full of sand and ashes, sifted to get rid
of stones and cinders. On this one
inch of straw was placed and the boxes
uut on the floor. In this way every
egg hatched. There was no trouble
with lice on either hens or chicks and no
chicks were dumpish or sickly.-Ed.
ward Fl. Quimby, Strafford County,
NJ n
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01

DeStde htm knett MISS DCLtU.
"Crailey?" whispered Miss Betty,
leaning heavily OH the back of a chair
"Crailey?" She looked Mt Mrs. Tanber'
ry with vague Interrogation, but Mrs.
Tanberry did not understand.
"Crailey"
It was then that Crailey's eyelids
futtered and slowly opened and his
wandering glance, dull at first, slowly
grew clear and twinkling as 1t rested
on the ashy, stricken face of his best
friend.
"Tom," he said feebly, "it was worth
the price to wear your clothes just
oncew
And then at last Miss Betty saw and
understood, for not the honest gentle
man whom every one except Robert
rarewe held in esteem and affection,
not her fathers enemy, Vanrevel, lay
before her with the death wound In his
breast for her sake, but that other,
Crailey Gray, the ne'er-do-weel and
light O. love-Cra;ley Gray, wit, poet
and scapegrace, the well beloved town
scamp.
He saw that she knew, and as his
Frightening eyes wandered up to her
he smiled family. Even bad dog
likes to have his day." he whispered.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Get
scoTT'S
Emulsion

When you 90 to q drug store
and ask for SCOTS Emulsion
YOU know what you want; the
nan knows you ought to have
s. Don't be surprised. though,
! you are offered something
,lse. Wines, eordiaIs, extracts,
So, of cod liver oil are pIenti'
Il but don't Imagine you arc
citing cod liver oil when you
.ake them. Every year for thirty
iears we've been increasing
Tho sales Of SCOTS Emulsion.
Why7 Because Il has always
been better than any substitvts
for Il.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Cody.

"Is "cooly' the name Of people!
II Is believed to be. The word belongs
to all the Indian vernaculars. Etymolo'
gists have been tempted to find Its
origin in the Tamil "kuli." which means
hire. payment for menial odd jobs or
the hireling odd job man himself, but II
ia pointed out in DR.. Murray's diction'
ary that when the word appears early
in the seventeenth century it refers to
n tribe of Guzerat, in the west Of India,
far from the Tamil speaking south
the Kuli, or Koli, who seem to have
been often employed by Europeans as
bearers and carriers.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Cansfin CarlYle.

One day Thomas Carlyle went with
Millais to look at the latters house,
and after gazing with wonder at all its
splendors he turned to Millais ana
asked in his brusque manner, HAS
paint done all this, Mr.. Millais| The
painter laughed and replied, 1T has"
'Then," rejoIned the dweller OF the
modest house at Chelsea, "all have
to say Is that there are more fools In
the world than thought there WERE"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
II wouldn,t BE Right.

"Now, SUSIE" said the teacher, III
your father should agree to work for
$3.50 day and at the end Of six days
should bring home $13, would that be
right?"
mo, ma'am," replied Susie. "an' 1t
wouldn't take ma long to tell him so'
you bet you!'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Are Farms Factories ?

The best farms to-day are in reality
farm factories-a place where the
things that finally bring the cash are
made, not merely produced. This is
essentially so concerning the dairy
farm. The grass, the hay, the grain,
the corn forage are not sold; they arc
worked up by a set Of cow machines
into milk, another product, and on a
butter or cheese farm, the milk has to
90 through another manufacturing
process before it is ready for the money
of the buyer. 1t is difficult to make
some farmers see this farm factory side
of the question in its true light.-HOard's 8
Dairyman.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01

One Of the many objections to scrub
stock Is that one never knows what
he il going to get as result Of breed.
ing. A COW may be good milker,
vet prove q veritable scrub when re-
quired to produce a calf with dairy
ability. A bull may have good con-
formation and look we'll, yet lack the
power to transmit anything Of value to
his calves.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
How Long Should q Hen Run

with chicks is a question often heard
Nv hens usually leavs their chicks at
three weeks, even in May. Chicks u.s.
ually get along we'll. II hens show no
signs OF weaving their. chicks at five
weeks, I take them away and they are
soon laying again. A hen that wants
to run with her chicks q couple of
months is certain to be . rather poor
layer.-F. e. Holbert, York County,
Ne.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01

A correspondent of the Michigan
Farmer gives this remedy for the chok-
ed cow: Just raise the animals head,
draw out the tongue, throw handful
of salt well back on the tongue and let
90. He says he has never known tns
loss of an animal where this method
was used.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01

Iw ed the pen for the sword until
such time as Santa Anna
I&&9G8 should cry for quarter, and
had left tlse office in charge of an i'm
ported substitute, but late that night
he came to his desk once more to write
the story Of the accident to Corporal
Gray, and the tale that he wrote had
been already put into writing by Tom
Vanrevel Us 1t fell from Crailey's lips
after the doctor had come, so that none
might doubt it. No 0le did doubt 1t.
What reason had Mr.. Carewe to injure
Crailey Gray? Only FIVE in Rouen
knew the truth, for Nelson had gone
with bis master, and, except Mamie,
the other servants Of the Carewe house
hold had been among the crowd In
front Of the Rouen House when the
shot was fred.
So the story went over the town how
Crailey had called to say goodby to
Mrs. Tanberry; how Mr.. Carewe hap
pened to be examining the musket bis
father had carried in 1872 when the
weapon was accidentally discharged
the ball entering Crailey's breast: how
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
Spring Hum0rs

Come to most people and cause many
troubles,-pimples, boils and other
sruptions, besides loss Of appetite,
that tired feeling, fts Of biliousnsss,
indigestion and headache.
The sooner one gets rid Of them the
better, and tho way to got rid Of them
and to build up the system that has
suffered from them 10 to take
Hoods JdrsapariLIa
and Pills
Forming In combination the Spring
Medicine par szesl1snes, Of unequalled
strength in purifying the blood -
shown by unsquallsd, radical and per-
manent cures of
ocrofula Salt Rheusn
Ooald Head 0olls, PImploo
An Kinds of humor Psosiasls
Mood PoIsenlng Rheumatism
oatarrh Dyspepsia, Ito
Accept no substitats, but b sure y
| ~ UseA's, end - 4 tsdAys
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPEED THE PLOw."

on practical agricultural topics
is solicited. Address all communications In
tended for this department to HENRY d.
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem.
ocrat, Paris. Me.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
CHAPTER XVIII.

n RAILEY was not the only man
~ in Rouen who had been say
iS5+ ing to himself all day that
lSt2:ej each accustomed thing he did
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-05-01
CHAPTER XIX.

JILL CUMMINGS had abandon
w ed the pen for the sword until
- such time as Santa Anna
e&(zG8 should cry for quarter, and
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-10-26
FIsh sMalInw sand.

Captains OF fishing smacks In the
North sea have found that Goldfish at
certain times OF the year take sand In
TO their stomachs as ballast" This, Il
would appear, Is done when the fish
are about 10 migrate from the shallow
water covering the southern banks OF
.he North sea 20 the deeper water far
Their north. II has been observed that
tsh caught on the southern banks just
before the migration begins and those
caught In the northern waters after II
Is completed have sand Ia their stom-
achs and that the sand IL discharged
after the arrival OF the fish at the
southern banks on the return mlgra-
ton. In proof OF this II l. stated that
the sand found In the fish often differs
In color and quality from that Of the
bottom where they are caught-Wash
ington Post