Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-03-17

IrEMs.-MARcn A, 50. The earth has
put on its great cOdt--of snow-three feet
deep upon level and on the edges of the
railways, where the PlO,0 has performed It's
winter campaign, the snow in many places
is SIX and seven feet in piRrows No mat
ter. The sun will soon melt It's cold heart
and make it shed tears. - That was
r,odel speecl' made ~ the Pres,aon, OF
Farming and Grazing Society, when he
SAID, Now, young man, take that premI-
um gold cup, and remember 10 plow deep
and drink shdllop." - otis sweet, on
winters night, at home, TO sit by fire and
tapers but, oh, it is a wiser thing, by far,
to take thepapers." We mean, when they
devote, as we do, column or three, to the
Plow and the Hoe" Won't you take the
papers Can't you take the papers p
You can't afford TO do without the papers
- A very little farm, Of two acres only,
well cultivated, yielded to the editor of the
Germantown Telegraph, Penn, net profit
Of more than five hundred dollars in one
season. That is model lara in miniature :;
aud in comfort conyenInce and taste, wor-
of our magn6cenls in agriculture. -
The difference In Quebec, the dogs draw
the carts of the milk men around the city.
In New-York, the dogs, like droues, are
treated as gentlemen flicense. - "Pll
bet amt going to find sled TO coast on"
said Ned Fowler to Willy Worsted tell
your father to buy one" and off went Fred,
aud soon was brought up with his head in
snow bank Willy followed, and as he
passed Frank, sung out at the top of his
lungs, When YOU want shovel TO be
dug out with, instead Of 5OrroWiag ours,
tell your father to buy one" -- A span
of horses, exhibited at the last Caledonia
County FAIR, by Mr.. II. S. Cobb, of St
Johnsbury, was recently sold for five hun
bred dollars. Norai--lt is Just as cheap tt
raise goou horses as poor ones, and twice
as healthy to the purse. --- II is Sian
derously reported that vegetation IS 50 scarce
at Cape Cod that two mullen stocks and
thistle are called grove. Don't believe it
We have seen shrub oaks aud pine trees OF
the Cape, as big as your little fnger.--
A number of ship loads of provisions hay
been forwarded from Baltimore, New Yorl
and Boston, to the sufferers from famine
in the Island of Madeira. thou
sand tons of ice are being taken from tn
lockwood pond III Troy, n. H., at the rat
5 of ton per minute, by machinery, owne
= aud worked by Boston company. Whe
the ice crop fails in Massachusetts III
railroads reap a rich haryest.--lt WI
the good advice of sensible mother to he
: son, Now, John, don't 60 a-courtiu
4 a-nights Go before breakfast, and see no
2 late she lies in bed in the morning. 60
# Our country taIlors .pd country people mu
be on the look out for Fashions in Franc
It when the pantaloons are striped aud rim
: slreaked below the knee. Only think Of i
IS How odd Vermont Bloomer would 10,
e in cork-screw panialetts, and Vermo
d mechanic or Farmer IN scTew-auger pant
/, looms. Cassius NJ. Clay has become
It practical free-soH man, and gone extensiv
l. y into the pork line lie recently shiPp'
is to BaliimoIe three hundred casks Of baco
At manufactured from hogs reared and fed
e his own hands.
III Franklin County AGRICULTURAL s
l. oIErY.-Il offers liberal list OF premium
IL and furnishes sevanteen acres of a,ono