Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-01-03
Farm Notes.

The Seckel is said to be the only pear
that succeeds well when grated upon the
apple.
THE new fertilizer law seems to give good
satisfaction all around. You did good
job, Brother Tinkham.
They do say that the new corporation
tax law was "put up job, got through
by Hooker Crook, as it were.
"SEEMED sort of odd not to see the old
Dairymen's Association ring mousing around
the state house," said member to us, after
session was over.
IT is said that not a single member of the
Board of Agriculture asked to be, and yet
all were, re-appointed. Seem s if we'd got a
civil-service-reform sort of governor.
SOME of those who took an active part in
the Montreal forestry congress have prac-
tical knowledge of tree planting. Hon. M.
Jolly has set out ten thousand black walnut
trees.
Is the Dairymen's Association now going
to be run on the plan of the old lady who
was ashamed or afraid to cry" fresh greens2"
A little more publicity would not hurt your
case, brethren.
THE Orange county (New York; Farmer
says "a silo on the Arnot farm at Elmira
which was filed with fresh cut grass has
been opened and found in splendid oondi-
ton. The cattle fed with it look sleek and
do we'll, while the butter made from their
milk is like that made from pssturage in
summer"
A PROMINENT medical authority says
" 1t is my belief that tea inaicts almost as
much injury on the female sex as alcohol
does on the male" We have ourself known
Of genuine delirium tremens being produced
by excessive tea-drinking; while tea .tasters
in the tea-market often suffer from severe
nervous affections, ending in paralysis.
The eastern farmer, with reason, COM
plains that the railway monopolists should
transport the farm produce of his western
competitor one thousand miles at less rate
than the former pays on a one hundred mile
haul. 1t is simply bounty offered by the
railroads on migration from the old states To
the new. This is neither justice nor equity.
A STORY is related of farmer who took
the pains to read the numberless conditions
printed in fine type on his fre-insurance
policy. After reading it carefully he re
marked I" As near as can make out nc
contingency can arise under which am tc
get any money" Well" responded the
agent blandly, Z" if there is, it is an over
sight"
MosT any editor would be satisfied when
his paper had been generally recognized by
press and people as the best of its class in
the world. But Mr.. Carman of the Rural
New Yorker is no such man. He is bound
to be SO much ahead that no agricultural
paper in all the planetary spheres can pos
sibly equal his. Aud it seems to us that he
is about there now.
THE loss of liquid manure is one of the
most serious that good farmer can sustain
1t may not, and usually does not, pay to ap
ply it in liquid form, but the liquid excre-
ment of horses especially should be saved
by absorbents. Fine cut straw is best, and
if this is used as feed what is rejected may
be afterwards put to good service in tn,
stable as an absorbent" So says the Bos
ton Culivator. But experience running
over several years with number of farmers
in Orleans county, Vermont, shows that il
pays far better to apply liquid manure di
rectly to the land than to try to save it by
absorbents And still wider experience
proves that chopped straw Is one of the very
poorest of absorbents, instead of the best.