The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-12-02
Farm and Garden Notes.

MANURING four or five acres in the
vicinity of the barn and leaving the rest
to take care of itself will soon tell a tale.
THEY are not so crazy over the Jer-
seys in England as here. One of the
leading herds was sold at auction, re-
Gently, and the average price of cows
and of heifers in calf was about ninety
two dollars.
EXPERIMENTS at the Agricultural
College, Michigan, have proved that
the Barry, Worden and Goethe grape
vines are capable of enduring a much
lower degree of cold without injury than
any other varieties.
THE Savannah Ne,cs, speaking of the
Georgia local-option stock law, says that
people in Sc fence " counties who visit
the {" no fence " counties are quickly
convinced of the folly of maintaining
81 900 worth of fence to keep out 500
worth of stock.
A New YORK gentleman is erecting
large dollhouse in Lafayette street,
Salem, for the purpose of cultivating
mushrooms. 1t is an experimental en-
terprise, and the first of its kind in that
vicinity" says the Cultirotor This will
do to go with the g wether ewes" The
mushroom is artficially grown in dark
cellars and caves, at a rather low tenn
perature.
WHY" asks Editor Jenner Fust,
has Montreal always succeeded in
growing cabbages? Because the market
gardeners in that district do not grudge
sixty to eighty large loads of dung an
acre for the crop, and here [Sorel forty
half-loads are considered liberality it,
self-almost extravaganza. In conse-
quence, the plants are feeble, the
growth slow" Even the Sorel farmers
treat their cabbages better than some
VermOnters do.
ONE of the great reasons of the
splendid success of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College is the fact that it is
kept constantly before the agricultural
public. Its instructors annually spend
much time at farmers institutes, and
are among the best contributors to the
agricultural press of the West. Its
work is thus kept constantly before the
farmers, so that they cannot fail to APP
preciate its value. We need more of
this earnest, enterprising spirit in our
eastern agricultural eges.-Home-
stead.
" EVERY one knows that the quality of
potatoes depends largely upon the soil.
A sandy or gravelly soil is usually con-
sidered best, because it is always well
drained. But low lands artificially
drained will grow larger crops of pota-
toes and of quite as good quality. In
wet season undertaking on potato
field will nearly pay for itself in one
crop" So says the Rural Ne,o Yorker.
We have ourself grown very fne-look-
ing potatoes on drained swamp. But
the quality was not equal to that of tu-
beers grown on upland.
THE Rural Ne,c Yorker was the first
to announce from its own trials that
the White Australian, Belgian and
Welcome were all the same. Now
Mr.. Plumb prints the following
White Australian, White Belgian,
Welcome, these are synonymous
Seedsmen admit it, and have proven
it to my satisfaction by comparative
tests. One dealer told me that if a
farmer wrote to him for White Belgian
he took the grain from the Welcome
bin and sent it as White Belgian, and
it was just as well, the farmer never
knew the difference"
IT is stated by the Nep England
Homestead that a Worcester county
milk-producer was feeding his Hol-
stems few shorts, green corn-fodder,
cut fresh daily, and good fall pasture.
He was notified by the contractor that
his milk was below the standard, con-
tanning only 1921 per cent solids. He
at once increased the grain ration and
fed dried or wilted corn-fodder. The
first day after the change of feed the
milk averaged 1862 per cent of solids;
the second day, 1884; the third day,
1924 per cent, or above the standard of
10 per cent. Not very good card for
the " Holsteins."