St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1908-07-22
VERMONT NEWS
r. prevent Bovine tuberculosis.

I,los;s Of cattle have been watched with
, .,s+est BIZ many leading breeders in this
.. .ote In 1901 Won Behring announced
'tat he was able to produce service
. .ps immunity which he had every
a .ason to believe would protect the
Ia;nal throughout it's life. Since that
a .l,a over 100000 animals have been
. ,s1 and the immunity is known to
wis. wis" Eve and one-half years unimpaired
j The Tf Value of this method in offering
feeders an opportunity to build up i'm
o o,, herds is becoming more and more
aa,nanreciated. DR.. J. c. Parker of St.
aHbPans in company with DR.. H. H. New
, n,o of New York City, has vaccinated
large number of cattle in Franklin
D,nnty. w. H. Hill, proprietor of the
prejerickhurst Farms, Swanton, has re-
,.ntIv adopted the method, having had
W. young stock treated. This he will
- -antinue to do until he has built up an
,ot;rrly immune herd, and all young
.+ock at the farm will be subjected to
,be treatment BY this means, it is said,
stock from his farm cannot carry any in.
tsction. nor can they become infected if
produced into a diseased herd.
A. several experiment stations and
onb6c institutions experiments have
been conducted, in which the vaccinated
animals, with a like numbers of unvac-
mated have been subjected to all man.
ner Of Infection. both natural and arti-
irial The results have in every instance
Ieen in favor of the vaccinated, which
showed no LESSONS on post-mortem, even
while the unvaccinated died of tuber-
cnlosis.
Sixteen Kinds Of Grass.
At the district superintendent school
IN Burlington last week Prof l.. K. Jones
discussed grasses and clover. He stated
that most farmers in vague way, in
,ude the forage plants of the pasture
and meadows under the term grass, an
Incorrect view which has led to popular
Confusion The true grasses are more
widely useful than any other similar
group OF plants. They include the
cereals and the main forage and pasture
nlants They are characterized by slen-
her stems with frequent solid joints or
nodes The stems are usually hollow
5pt sometimes solid The leaves are
slender baded, clasping the stem like
sheath above the nodes. They arise one
from each Joint in two opposite rows.
The flowers are usually borne on slender
branches forming open clusters or dense
beads
The hay and pasture grasses of Yer
mont are many in number, but is only
deserve special mention; 10 being valu-
able for hay or pasture and six being
rated as weeds. The principal hay
grasses are timothy, orchard grass,
meadow fescue, June grass or Kentucky
bluegrass, Canadian bluegrass, fowl
meadow grass, red top, blue,joint, reed
canary grass and the mama grasses.
The prominent weed grasses are quick,
poverty grass, fox tail, barnyard and
crab grasses
The clovers are not grasses. They be-
long to the pea family; are nitrogen
CATERERS and well recognized and valu-
able adjuncts to the farm economy, inl-
proving the animal ration and lettering
the soil in which they grow.
Vermont Republican League.
The Vermont Republican League has
organized for the campaign of 1903 with
the t5llowing officers: President, Robert
WMcCuen Of Nergennes vice president,
Frank b. Thompson of Barton; sec
retary, L S. Hayes of Bellows Falls;
treasurer, A. A. Sargent OF Barre; execu-
tive committee, Charles |. Button of
Middlebury Collins NJ. Graves of Ben
nington, Walter A. Dutton OF Hardwick,
GUY ". Bailey of Essex, Alfred z. Bishop
Of Island Pond, Warren K. Austin of St.
Adams, Beecher Dodds of North Hero.
Orylle H. Wilson of Johnson, Hale X.
Darling Of Chelsea, Aaron H. Grout OF
Newport, w. K. Farnsworth of Rutland.
E Il. Deayitt of Montpelier, o. F. Ben
son Of Brattleboro Arthur 6. Spaulding
0tLudlow.
In the last campaign the league did
very effective work. The plan of the
league this year will be to cooperate in
every way with the state committee, or
gained clubs in every city and large
town Of the state and render every pos
a5Ie assistance in rolling up a large
majority for the party in September.
National Independence Ticket.
The first state convention of the ma
uonal Independence party in Vermont
was held at Rutland, Thursday night
with an attendance of 200, nearly all
Rutland men. full state ticket was
dominated and platform was adopted
dsnouncing recent republican and demo-
Tatlc leaders and accepting the princi-
pies adopted by the Independence party
al Chicago last February. The follow-
acket was nominated: For governor,
quentin S. Backus of Brandon; lieuten-
antgovernor Peter Richie of Burling-
ION state treasurer, H. B. Daniels OF St.
jOnnsoury, secretary of state, Louis A.
austin auditor, Thomas p. Bragg OF
Nuuand As delegates-at-large to the
SSauonaI convention at Chicago, John d.
SSFIman, q S. Backus, X. c. Root of
SS"anton and DR.. J. X. Mcguire of West
Muand were chosen. c. B. Webster OF
IaStleton and E. S. Beardsley of Rut-
ANA were named as delegates to the first
G5Srlct convention and F. w. Watson OF
barre and A, L, Hall of Sheffield to the
second district.
New Fish Hatchery at chittenden.
~ w. A. Bowers and J. w. Titcomb of
as nsh hatcheries in Washington in
1pvVted a site in Chittenden last week
WI Inc auXlliary'hatchery, for which the
sS9966f Tan made an appropriation OF
%yooO. They will send government
p.s to look over the place in the
sesI i1ture. Many other sites on the
i Sa. SIC. ade OF the state have been inspected
wy " IS now Thought likely that the