Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1852-02-12

1T TAKES EVERY BODY TO KNOW EVERY
rHiNe."-So says Professor ]. l.. Wood
man, in the Granite Farmer, and the expe
rience Of all other professors and farmers
and of every body else. concurs in the truti
Of the remark. The Preseason thus fort
hes her position
alt is related Of a famous sculptor
that after taking the utmost pains TO fin
ish perfect statute, shoemaker passing
by pointed out to him defect in the foot
which he himself had entirely overlooked.
i Now IT is not strange that a shoemaker,
who had spent all his life IN considering
the form, and size, and symmetry of the
foot, should know more about it than the
sculptor who had divided his attention
upon The whole human figure. Books
have not yet got into much rcpute among
farmers, in the way of yielding them in
formation IN their business Ii is thought
people who SIT down TO write books can
not know so much about farming. as
those who are out at work early and late,
and learn 10y experience. This may be
so still sit takes everybody TO know
everything" and when the farmer sits
down comfortable by the fire these long
winter evenings, and reads some book
on agricultural, or natural philosophy, or
chemistry, he can hardly avoid getting
some valuable hint at least For exam
pie he may learn how much Of the real
value Of his manure is every year hurried
away into the brooks by the rain, or ia
ken up by the sun and wind, and swept
off in vapor to the corners of the earth.
His own ingenuity will devise some plan
to cover II up. or throw in turf, chafI.
straw, weeds, leaves, or something else
that will soak up the fugitive parts ofthc
manure, till j, is put upon the ground
and mixed with the soil in the spring
So the farmer who acts heartily on the
spirit OF this old saying, may make these
delightful winter evenings more pfoiila-
BILE than the hardest working DAYS of
summer Some think they can get along
without a good agricultural paper Per
haps they can. Some people can get
along very poorly, while their neighbors
get along much better, but it is great
pity they can allow themselves to do it.
such paper TO a farmer cannot fail to
be interesting and profitable. We rec
ollcci well, when upon farm, some
years ago, IN the fall a fine cow got chok /
ed, as cattle often do upon apples or po-
iaioes, and would very soon have died
i The obstacle had not been at once re-
moved from the passage TO The stomach. /
where 1t was lodged Various old rem
edles were tried to no purpose. Pres
snllj one recollcc;cd a remedy proposed
N the agricultural paper a few weeks be
Tore. 1t Is, 10 put a stout cod line round
he neck just below the substance. which
;an be felt with the hand on the outside.
md draw 1t close. This prevents the
piece OF apple, or potato, or Whatever it
s, from falling back when the animal
makes an effort to throw it out. which
hey will alraost always do directly. when
assisted H'@s.s way. The remedy was
1t once successful. The offending NOR
vel proved To be the half of a hard green
n8 apple. So this little scrap of news
PAPER knowledge was in tins instance
worth fine COW ofthirty or forty dollars
alue. How can we know beforehand
What KIND Of knowledge is gong to be
most useful 10 us We cannot. And
here is hardly any information especially
II our own business, that will not some
lime or other, in the long run, tura out
o be of value to us.
In farming, knowledge is power,
wealth, success and prosperity MS much
is IN any other profession. Aud what
5 wanted now in New England, is not
o much the means of knowledge. for
hey are ample. 1t is the disposition to
Apect, looI, for and CLEAN know lcdpe
rom every source in short to feel aud
CT IN the spirlt OF that good, old and
hauIable saying: 1t takes eycrybod,
know everything