Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-12-04
agricultural.
NM ART oF AGRIcrLruRE.

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nY 7. @. rEssENprs.
An hail The art to which we owe
Whatc'cr gives happiness below
The source " an in church or state,
Or social life, that's good or great
Fos should our agriculture stop,
Society must shut up shops
our brightest bellies and bcauN must please
To dwell in caves and hollow trccs;
On roots end acorns dino. like shoa,s,
And sup ON leaves aud buds like goats.
Nood0hucks would burrow in State street.
Aud gaunt wolves provl where merchants meet
Churches by catamoun,s be haunted,
And gruf bears srowl where hymns are chaunted,
Owls hoot church airs with pipes sonorous,
And croakiur crows cav cuw the chorusl
Should culyaiors fail, their fall
Would implioatc and ruin all
For as ola Atlas bears the mack
Ofal thc heavens ON his broad back
The iamcrby Dis ea5c and pains
1ec ,ullunary world sustains;
And 81 by some mi,chaucc he stumbles,
The whole wide world to ruin tumbcs
CoRN AND lIoGs.-From carefully conduct
ed experiments by different person, it has
been ascertaincd that one bushel of corn will
make little over 10 II pounds of pork
gross. Taking the result as a basis, the fol-
lowing deductions are made, which all our
farmers would dc well to lay by for a convcn-
lent reterence-That
When corn costs l2 l-2 cents per bushel,
pork costs - cents per pound
When corn costs II cents per bushel, pork
cost cents per pound
When corn costs 2j cents per bushel, pork
costs cents per pound
When corn costs 33 cents per bushel pork
costs cents per pound.
When corn costs so cents per bushel, pork
costs cents per pound.
The following statements show what the
farmer realizes in his corn when sold in the
form of pork -
When pork sells for 3 cents per pound, it
brings 25 cents per bushel in corn.
When pork sells for 4 cents per pound, it
brings 80 cents per bushel in corn.
When pork sells for cents per pound, it
brings 45 cents per bushel in corn.
SHELTER ron CArrIE.-There is one
truth, which every farmer, who ever winters
herd Of any kind Of animals, should fully
uppreciate--ond that is, thu /" Shelter Is
cheaper than Fodder r. Exposed animals will
consvno "a third more food, and come out in
the spring in worse condition. The loss OF
animals by death in wintering, when suffering
from all the seventies Of the piercing winds,
drifting SHOWS, and cutting sloet, is sometimes
greater in two or three years than the cost of
substantial and comfortable buildings for pro-
lection and the loss of fodder consumed in
any case, would in few years pay for their
erection.
How TO KEEP BUTTER SWEET ron
YEARs.-Tho butter must be well churned
and worked, and packed tight in kegs of sea-
soncd white oak the head is then put in,
leaving a small hole, in which brine is poured
to fill the vacant space; and of so much i'm
portanco is it deemed to prevent any bad
taste, that the hole must not be made of ce-
dar or pine but Of cypress or rosewood as
otherwise it would be injured. After which,
the kogs are placed in hogsheads well filed
with brine Of full solution, that will bear an
egg, which is then headed up tight and close
BY adoptlng this process, butter may be
made td~seep in any climate