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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
WEST TOPSHAM

L. F. Sanburn was in Bradford Mon
day.
w. w. Reyes was in Bradford Mon.
day.
Frank Davis went to Montpelier
Tuesday.
D. r. Bagley was in Barre one day
last week.
Charlie Granie Of East Barre was in
town Monday.
Geo. Church Of Bradford was in
town last week.
Miss JUNE Collins Of Bradford is
visiting at A. T. Smith.
Bert Hayward and family of Barre
are visiting relatives and friends in
town.
Miss Nora Renhan is very i'll and
not able to teach her school in Orange
for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Aiken visited
relatives in Northfield Saturday, 70;
turning Sunday.
Charles Poole has returned from
Barre and Montpelier where he visited
relatives sineh Christmas.
Lena Philbrick, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. N. ?. Philbrick is seriously i'll
with acute nephritis and tonsilitis.
DIR. George Darling of South Ryegate
r4.aa 4etts., 10 xtsonir -.
with DR.. Dow on Lena Philbrick case.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

in a report TO the Dairymsn's associa-
sion Of Quebec. IL 10 claimed that the
process Ia just as advantageous as
that with ripened cream and that the
butter made from sweet cream is
equally good when fresh and keeps
good longer than butter from cream
spontaneously fermented.
Corn to make pound OF pork is dis
cussed by a writer in the Breeders
Gazette. A pen Of eleven Duroc-Jer-
seys fed sixty-two days gained 800
pounds and required ali pounds corn
per pound Of gain. A lot OF fifteen Po-
land Chinas fed thirty-flve days gain
ed $50 pounds and required 4.90 pounds
OF corn per pound Of gain. A little
skimmilk was fed once day In add
ton to the corn, and the pigs had tho
run OF pasture.
Sugar Is said by contributor in the
Journal Of Agriculture, Paris, to be
good for fattening sheep. In a test
covering eighty-four days the average
daily gain per head on ration con-
tanning sugar was 202 grams as COM
pared with 1877 grams per day on a ra-
ton without It. When slaughtered the
flesh Of the sugar fed sheep was found
TO bo OF most excellent quality.
A disease commonly known as swoll-
en- head of turkeys is described In the
Journal of Agricultural Science. The
most characteristic symptom Is an ex-
tensive swelling about the head, which
BECOMES so enlarged that the birds are
unable to see. The swelling is due to
an accumulation OF gelatinous sub
stance in the infraorbital cavity. This
swelling may disappear In short time
or may persist for several months.
The swellings contain a cheesy, foul
smelling material, and death may take
place without regard to the apparent
severity of the disease The LESSONS
are confined to the head except for an
occasional distenslon OF the coca.
BaciIli related to the diphtheria baeil-
lus are frequently found In the exu-
dalton, but no organism has been def
nitely shown to be the primary cause
Of the disease.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
EAST CALAIS

| R. G. Goodall was in Woodbury. Mon
day.
Harry Tibbetts is moving to Marsh
field.
E. z. Brown was in East Montpelier
Monday.
Mrs. w. =. Bliss went to Montpelier
Monday.
Mrs. levi Wheeler was in Montpelier
Saturday.
Lila Brown is working for NJ. D.
Hawkins.
Gallon Hatch was in South Woodbury.
last week.
Nathan Brown has finished work for
Lynn Grey.
Arthur Sweat was in plainfeld
Wednesday.
wan Herring of Moretown was in
town Monday.
Alice wheeler was in South Wood
bury Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. G. Dutton were in
Barre last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. L. Snott were in
Marshfeld Monday.
Nv. @. Eastman was in Marshfield
Monday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. K. Lucas were in
town Monday calling on friends.
win Letter of Montpelier was bus
mess visitor in town Wednesday.
Mr.. John Thomas was in woodbury.
Saturday to visit his son who is quite
i'll.
Sadie Emery Of Barre visited her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Emery, last
week.
Mrs. Forrest Tibbetts of Cabot is
quite i'll at the home Of her father, FL.
X. Leonard.
Miss Mary McGrail, teacher in the
grammar department was i'll Monday
60 there was no school.
Sylvia Bliss was in South Woodbury.
last Wednesday to play for the enter.
tainment given by the grange,
Harold, the little son of Glenn
Durham has been quite i'll with pneu-
monia but is little better at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Meader of
Marshfeld were in town last week help |
ing to care for their little grand son |
who was quite i'll.
Richard, the little son of D. D.
Lamb, had the misfortune to break
both bones of his left arm, between
the wrist and elbow, last Thursday.
G. A. Wing, w. G. Eastman. L. o.
Leonard, W. l. Leonard, A. o. Slayton,
and George Wheelock were called to
Woodbury. Center Tuesday evening to
officiate as jury in the town VS.. Dodge
case.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
Pssturaoe For Pigs.

Thirty shoats averaging ffty-two
pounds in weigh were divided as
nearly equai as possible into three
lots Of ten each. Lot No. was fed
on a grain mixture Of shorts one-half,
cornmeal one-fourth and Kafir corn
meal one-fourth In a dry lot The
other two lots were fed the same
grain ration, but one received rape
pasture and the other alfalfa pasture
Ia addition. Each lot was given what
grain the hogs would eat up clean, and
each had access to water and ashes.
The gains Of the three lots were very
nearly equal Tho dry lot consumed
557 pounds, or 20 pounds for every 100
pounds Of grain, more gain than the
pasture lots. The lot on rape required
one acre Of pasture, while the alfalfa
lot used a tribe less than one-half acre.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
Briefs Fer the Farm Home.


The second national corn exposition
will be held at Omaha In December.
AS a special feature extensive cduca-
tional exhibits BY number Of agri-
cultural colleges and experiment sta
lions are contemplated, these to be of
such a character as to give visitors an
idea of the work carried on by these
institutions.
A disease, seemingly bacterial
growth, has been noticed on chickens
which produces lamps on the comb
and at the base Of the bill Washing
the heads Of the fowls with a sat.
urated solution of boric acid gave re-
lief.
Results Of experiments in making
butter from sweet cream is an idea
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
BERLIN

Ben Reed is working for Mrs. Q. T
Crandall.
Oliver spooner of Barre visited Guy
Reed Sunday.
Mrs. ]. Rich of Marshfield spent New
Years with her father, j C. Webb.
Rev D. Fraser visited friends in
Boston last week Wednesday and
Thursday.
G. L. Crandall after having spent the
holidays with his family returned to
his work in Philadelphia last Monday.
Miss Dora Duprey, who spent the
holidays at home with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Alfred Duprey, has returned
to her work in Mortified.
Berlin pupils Of the Montpelier sem
mary who have been spending their va
cation at their various homes returned
Monday to their school work.
Berlin grange installed new officers
last Friday night After the install
lation a supper was served and the
grangers danced until the wee small
hours.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
Value Of Manure.

While manure may contain only the
same amount OF actual fertIlizing con-
stituents as a given amount OF com
merciaI fertilizer, its benefit to the soil
Is sometimes much greater owing to
its addition OF humus. When manure
Is Incorporated with soil II greatly
improves the texture, loosening a
heavy, compact soil and binding to-
gether a light. leachy one. making the
soil more friable, warmer. more re-
tentive of moisture and more congenial
TO plants in every way.
Some experiments conducted by Pro-
lessor King at the Wisconsin agricul-
tural experiment station showed that
certain MANFRED land contained eight
cen tons more water per acre in the
upper foot Of soil than similar land
unmanured and thirty-four tons more
in the soil to depth Of three feet.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

Manure exerts a quicker beneficial In
huenee ON the texture Of soils than
green manures. He concludes that
manures will also aid in equaIizing the
supply and distribution Of water In the
soils. that they win exert q material
influence in making soils warmer and
that MANFRED land is less subject to
the denuding effects OF wind and rain.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
Farm Labor IN New York state.

Farm Labor In New York State.
The American Agriculturist contains
brief statements from several farmers
in different parts OF New York state
relating to the farm labor problem.
The general trend Of the replies indi-
Gates that good farm labor is scarce.
that wages for day labor range from
s1.25 to 81 so per day and monthly
wages from $40 to s3s with board for
ten hours work per day and that the
scarcity Of work in cities is bringing
back to the farm those who were born
and brought up thereon. The encour-
agement OF the immigration of farm
labor from the United Kingdom, Ger
many, Sweden and other European
countries n advocated as a remedy.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
jack FER Raising Ruurx.

To make the implement shown In
the accompanying illustration use two
pieces Of oak 20 by by and one
piece ID by 4 by I. Nall the smaller
piece between the larger ones st one
end. To the lower end nah two pieces
OF 10 by by /, one on each side OF
the three pieces already joined for a
supporting base.
Three inches from the top Of the
boards bore half inch hole. Take
another piece of wood % by ] by IA
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
The only Mistakea You Can Make

about life insurance are as to amount
and company. Have some with us as
star to steer by, 59th year. Ma
tional Life Insurance Company, Mont
pelier, Vt. (Mutual.l
S. S. Ballard, general agent, Mont
pelier, VT; N. B. Ballard, local agent,
Barre, vt.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
RANDOLPH
5ist Wedding Anniversary Of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Fish.

AAhs. n -. faah.
An evening Of unusual interest was
attended by about forty friends on
Tuesday at the homo Of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. B. Fish, the occasion being the cele-
bration Of the 51st anniversary Of their
marriage. A literary program of much
CT Ice cream and cake served Awong
merit was rendered and refreshments
the gifts left by friends were ten IS
gold pieces besides knives, forks, spoons
and beautiful silver fruit dish 1.-THE
gift of Col. A. B. Chandler), china and
many other gifts Of small pieces. The
presentation was made by Galen Fish
the youngest son Of the parties and an
original poem was also read by MIRA. r..
A. kezer Of Rochester who is sister
OF Mrs. Fisk. Mr.. A. r. Fish and Miss
Amelia Pearsons were married in
Rochester January list, 1858 and came
at once to this village TO live, where
their home has been up 10 the present
II is a singular fact and worthy Of no.
tice that they are now living in the
very house in which Mr.. Fisk was born
and to which he brought his bride 81
years ago. Four children were born
TO them, Ernest Fisk, now residing in
Richmond, +. p. Fisk who lives with
his father and mother at the home.
Electa, wife of aHrry Allen, now re-
siding in Gaysville, and Galen, who
conducts a general store in Stockbridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. j. Rockwell left here
Wednesday morning for the New York
markets.
Miss Carrie Draper has returned
from visit Of several days upon her
sister, Mrs. James Walker, Of Bethel.
A. H. Vaughan went TO Burlington
Wednesday morning to attend the
meeting of the Dairywen's association
now in session in that city.
Miss Emma Patch was called to
Gaysville Wednesday TO take care Of
the wife and child of Sidney Wyman,
who are i'll with diphtheria.
Mrs. d. T. Dyre went to Gardner,
Mass, Wednesday, having been called
there by the dangerous illness Of her
brother-in;law whose home is in that
city.
Fred Chadwick closed vacation Of
several days which he has been pass
ing with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Chadwick, and went to Schenec-
tsdy to resume work in that city.
Helen, daughter of DR.. and Mrs. Z.
O. Blanchard while taking part in the
gvmnastic exercises 40 the parish house
fen spraining her ankle quite seriously,
the result Of which may confine her
TO the house for some days.
Fully 100 persons attended the ban
ouet In the vestry of the Baptist
church, the occasion being the annual
meeting and roll call of the Federated
church. AT the conclusion Of the pro.
gram and roll call cave the report OF
the different officers of the church af.
ter which the following officers were
elected to serve the church the coming
year: Moderator, d. d. Howe: execu-
tive committee. DR.. Bailey, a. N. Hayes
r. H. Slack, Homer Bell, E. n. Rising
and Alfred Webster; secretary, II. B. |
Bell; treasurer, 0. B. Copeland; auditor
Alfred Webster.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
TALK OF THE TOWN

Cash paid for watches, diamonds, gold
and silver jewelry. Burr, the Jeweler.
New lot of the latest sheet music just
in at Shepard's Sporting Goods Store.
Extraordinarily and Thursday,
2 p. m. to p. m. Mrs. r. E. Ellis, 25
Spauldilg street. Tel. l56-2l.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
TRAvfLERs' RAILWAY GUIDE.
Central Vermont Railway.

Trains leave Barre for white hivcr junction
and Boston, and way stations, also windsor
and Bellows Falls and New York At 100 and
lI.dO a. M. and Ii.35 y. m. Also leave barre for
Waite River Junction, Bellows Falls, Spring
neld and New York at b.t5 p m,
Trains leave Barre for Burlington, 81. AL
bans, Montreal and way stations ~ 40 4. m,
800, hfD and i.s6 y. m.
Montpelier & Wells River Railroad
Trains leave Barre for Wells River, connect
ing Mt that point with trains going both north
and south. at 7.3O a. M. 1880 and aoop m. The
1880 tTain connects with train for hoston, ana
north for Lisbon, Iittlaton Fabyans and Ian
cater, also with Montreal express and the 100
aud 400 trains with St. Johnsbury trains.
Trains leave Barre for Montpelier &c $50,
0.s6 a. m, 1880, . W. 4.i0 and b.f0p. M.
Electric Street Railway.
Cars leave square IN Barre for Montpelier at
10 minutes Of and 10 inmates past the hour.
Leave Montpelier for Barre on the hour and
half hour until Top. m.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

and bore hole in 1t seven inches from
one end. Place it between the two
boards and bolt with four inch bolt.
Tack notched piece Of wood about
five inches long to the short end of
this lever. About eight inches from
the other end fasten loosely a piece of
strap iron nineteen inches long which
has hook on the opposite end, Drive
two nails in the upright boards to
regulate the height, and, says Prairie
Farmer, you have a convenient, light
and inexpensive buggy jack.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
STONE HITcHING POST.
A Device Which Will Last a Century
II Wall Made.

A country place must have hitch
ing post at the side or In front Of the
house, else .thoughtless callers will
hitch their horses TO the shade trees or
to the fence. From its very nature II
is difficult to make q hitching post
look attractive on a lawn, but some
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

thing viii be
gained If it can
be kept from look.
In decidedly un'
attractive.
A wooden post
is an invitation to
a horses teeth.
Iron posts can be
used. but those
are more or less
expensive and are
not readily secur-
ed except In the
large cities. A
stone post rs at
tractive. but ex-
pensiye. A made"
stone post, how
ever, Is both meg
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
Adjustable Farm Gate.

A heavy gate is very apt to sag even
IL carefully constructed and fairly well
braced. A good plss is to make an
adjustable brace like that shown In the
illustration. The post B is mortised
into the sill A firmly and braced at
the sides with the strips G. A sub
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

''You say you acted like a perfect
lady throughout "sure, yer honor.
When he tips his hat to me an me not
KNOWN him, ups with a rock an
caves in his face Houston Post
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

Action repeated becomes habit.
Habit long continued becomes second
nature. We are today what we were
accustomed to do yesterday and the
day before.-Lyman Abbott.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

pensive and easy to construct.
Dig a square hole in the ground at
the desired point for locating the hitch
ing post about one and half feet
square and deep enough to reach the
"frost line FIJI the bottom with
small stones and cement. On this set
a stout cedar post with strong iron
ring in the top. Fin in about the post
with the small stones and cement to
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

Sold only in sealed lead packets to
preserve its delicious flavor. Ask your
grocer for "Salada' Tea. Trial packet
Toe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07
Notiee-

Even & Cow viii run a public surrey
to and from all trains or any part Of
the city. They solicit share Of the
public patronage. Tel 1911.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

Evil comes by talking of it--Irish
Proverb.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

large nails into FIG. 1.-THE POST
tn Q wood and FINISHED.
leave the heads projecting an inch or
more, as Is suggested in Zig. /. The
cement may be mixed one part Port
land cement to two parts sharp sand.
Do not use the post until 1t has had
time to dry and harden thoroughly.
The cement and small stones about the
base should form a solid body that wa
ter cannot enter. The stones are used
to save cement. The outside surface
OF the finished part should be smooth.
with corner edges a little rounded to
prevent chipping.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

the gate says lift the pole ID and ad-
Just the brace u to another Of the
holes, thus taking up the sag.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

the surface Of the
ground. Thencov-
er the post to the
top with a thick
coating Of cement
mot less than
two and a half
In c h es at any
point--building 1t
up In the square
shape shown In
Fig. 2.
To give the ce-
ment a stronger ,
hold upon the
wooden post drive
tnrra nails fmfn
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

stantial pole, D. is pinned to the top
Of the gatepost and is alss connected
with the post By the adjustable brace.
E 3 being fastened 70 the pole d by
pins through the holes in E. When
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

@. A. Wing, W. G. Eastman, L. o.
Leonard W. l. Leonard, A. o. Slayton,
and George Wheelock were called to
Woodbury. Center Tuesday evening to
ofTiciate as jury in the town VS.. Dodge
case.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1909-01-07

Richard, the little son of D. d.
Lamb, had the misfortune to break
both bones of his left arm, between
the wrist and elbow, last Thursday.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-10
Tariff Bill TO nonfsrsnos-

The senate has passed the tRrin bill
and refusal Of the house to concur in
the senate amendments. has sent II to
conference, where the final tariff
measure VIII be agreed on. There
are some features which are prac-
tically certain to be in the finished
bill, among them the maximum and
minimum clause, the customs court
and the corporation tax, which 1t is
generally conceded will supplant the
inheritance tax provision in the house
bill. On the great majority Of the sew
eral thousand items in the schedules
there lie no difference between the two
houses, and these, Of course. may gen.
orally be conceded as settled.
The hue and cry raised by the demo-
cratic press has doubtless led many
to believe all the tArif revision up to
date has been upward instead Of
downward, but such is not the case.
The house lowered many OF the pres
emit duties, notably steel aud iron, and
raised a few. The sAaAts has lowered
many Of the rates in the house bill and
raised some and, as a rule, the IN
creases have been on Injuries. The
consensus OF opinion, and in this Pres
ident Taft is said to share, is that the
house will insist upon most Of the re-
duotions 1t made from existing duties
and the senate will do likewise with
Its reductions. II this proves true, the
finished bill will give q more substan-
tial reduction than either from the
average rates Of duty now levied, and
be measurably responsive to the de-
mand for revision downward.
One aspect must not be lost sight Of
and that is the necessity for revenue,
which renders imperative duties on
some articles which need no protsc-
ton and higher rates on others than
would otherwise be justified. Con-
csssions to localities also induce rates
not satisfactory to other sections Of
the country, notably the duty on hides,
demanded by the west, which is dis
tasteful to New England and q few
other sections, The pending bill, like
all its predecessors, is, therefore.
much Of q compromise and the same
conditions will prevail during confer
enoe and shape it's final form. Presi-
dent Taft'E well-known attitude is
likely to have It's effect In the confer
ence stage, and the Ultimate result
ought to be q fairly acceptable law,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-10
Tom Johnson's Dream.

Mayor Tom Johnson Of Cleveland
has another scheme. this time not
original with him, but borrowed. A
chsritably inclined man OF wealth is
donating $4,000 a year to aid In
uniting all the various reform"
movements into, one. and Mayor John
son proposes to raise more money and
when the isms have been cemented
tie them onto the democratic kite. II
1t works 1t will be more dificult than
ever to tell what is a democrat, but
that Is the least Of Mayor Johnson's
troubles.
The democratic party has absorbed
80 many isms In the past that its plat
forms have resembled an old-fash-
Toned crazy quilt, but Mayor johnson
iS confident that a few more patches
and bits of local color will not hurt
and the assimilatins process IAN pro.
coed while he and his friends are en-
joying the ofnces. While plausible In
his argument about what could be ac-
complished in carrying elections by
uniting all the various isms, Mr.. John
son Offers no proof that hitching onto
the democratic kite would land the
various "reformers" nearer their
ideals than they now are. The fail
ure of the democrats to stick together
on present issues and the hopeless
split in the party when It was last in
power Is not encouraging to ultra re-
formers whose ideas are as much at
variance with democracy as with re-
~pnblicanism. -
Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-10

with broader views Of national powers and,
like present day republicans, inclined to
mix business with politics. Wings had q
Few distinctive ideas involving finance,
economy and internal development which
were hostile to the old democratic creed,
but as to fundamentals there wal little
differsnce between wings and democrats.
When slavery and ~disunion, bedrock is
cues, confronted the country, there was
no place for wings, because primarily they
stood only for administrative ideas which
then became OF little consequence, They
could not as . party take either side OF
the controversy, and so at the south they
Joined the secession movement and at the
north most OF them became republicans,
but some Of them democrats.
The democratic party survived the great
sehism and four times since the civil war
has cast a plurality Of tho popular vote.
PROBABLY II In as near agreement on
economic Issues today as ever It was, and
II needs only the inspiration of true demo-
cratic leadership and true democratic prin-
ciples. Principles are sometimes lost sight
OF, but they do not die. Expcdiency per-
ishes at the first shock, and the wings
always were a party OF sxpedients.