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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Clipped Queens.

The clipped queen theory and practice
gives rise to much discussion in bee
papers. The apiarian community APP
pears to be about equally divided. A
part would not have a clipped queen,
and the other would harbor no others.
But many bee-keepers who have advo-
Gated clipped queens are now opposed
to them. A bee-keeper with seventeen
queens were clipped. One Sunday
morning his pet colony, with imported
mother, showed signs of swarming.
When the bees began to rush out he
seized queen cage, and, standing by
the entrance of the hive, waited for his
queen to appear, but he did not see her.
"Never mind" he thought, as the bees
began to cluster, " You will come back:
your queen cannot fly, and is not with
you" He supposed the queen was in
the grass in front of the hive, and be-
gan to look for her, when it occurred to
him that it would be wise to hive the
swarm, queen or no queen. Possibly
he or the bees had made a mistake.
The swarm was hived and placed in
another part of the apiary. Imme-
diately it was examined and found to
contain a fine, yellow, virgin queen,
daughter of his imported clipped queen.
In the parent hive were queen cells
nearly ready to hatch. But where was
his imported mother with the cut wing?
She may have died in the hive, but it is
probable that the bees attempted to
swarm when he was not looking, and
that the queen came out and was lost.
OF course, if the colony had been ex-
amined often, there would have been no
mistake, but this happened in the latter
part of July, when bees are supposed
to be storing surplus honey and need
to be undisturbed But if the queen
had not been clipped, examination
would have showed the interior to be
ready to swarm, and if queen had been
supplied at once the honey crop would
have been larger. To succeed in bee
keeping the closest attention must be
given, particularly in the swarming
season. If the bee-keeper knows the
condition of every hive, clipped queens
are no help. The clipping of queens
has been recommended to those who
wish to make agriculture secondary-to
those who wish to attend to some other
business, and yet expect bees to pile up
a fortune for them. They will give lit
tie return under such management
Correspondence NeW England Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Condensed Milk and Silage.

The great British Milk-condensing
Company declined to take and use the
milk from cows fed upon silage. The
Breeders Gazette says that the English
Ensilage Commission is entitled to the
credit of showing how groundless was
the objection urged against silage, be-
cause of the action of this great COM
pany. About the only reason that
could be given for the action of the
company was that milk-condensing
company in this country had taken
similar action. No facts were developed
to show that milk from silage-fed cows
is unfit for condensing. The value of
the product was so great that the COM
pany could not afford to take any
chances. The Gazette thinks it likely
that cross-examination of the Ameri-
can Condensing Company would show
that its refusal to take milk made from
silage-fed stock grew from like reasons,
viz: Discrimination to assume any
risks, not from any established facts.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Beautifying the Farm.

Il" A writer in the Michigan Farmer
takes shot at the men who urge farm
ers to improve the natural beauties of
their farms. He says they overlook the
fact that no business of mankind is so
severely practical as working out liv-
ing on a farm-that esthetical gush
comes only to leisurely individuals, and
is only appreciated by those who swing
pencil instead of an AK, or sit in
study instead of clearing up a creek
bottom. The owner of an eighty-acre
farm, who has many, or even one tan
gled hillside, bushy bank or alder
fringed stream, with no other means of
livelihood except what he grows on his
new farm, must make every acre pro-
duce something beside fanciful pictures
for tourists to be pleased with, or there
will be an artificial patch recorded at
the county seat, the contemplation of
which is neither poetical nor esthetic."
There is some sense in this, but there
is another side to the question, which
is thus presented by Vick's Monthly:
Little wonder that many farmers
wives wear out, grow prematurely old,
or die young. There is absolutely moth
ing attractive for them to look at about
the premises. The yard has never yet
been properly graded, and if moved at
all, it is but once year; generally the
horses are turned in to Craze it down.
Sprouts have come up from the old
fruit trees; branches, broken down by
the weight of fruit or winds of former
years, are hanging with their tops rest
ing on the ground, and burdock and
other hardy weeds grow up through the
dead branches. A dismal picture, but
too often true to life. Two things alone
will make yard beautiful, if well ar
ranged and cared for: trees and grass;
but the trees must not be in stiff, I'M
natural rows, nor crowded close to the
house, and the yard must be well
graded, and the grass kept closely cut"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Tree-Planting.

The excessive drought which has pre-
vailed in many parts of the country has
not been without its lessons to the hor-
ticulturist. Hundreds of spring planted
things have died. Is this an argument
for fall planting? Yes and no. Yes,
if we are willing to believe that fall is
at least as good as spring; and no, if
we ever expect to get complete immu-
nifty from all loss in planting trees.
Trees die after transplanting from
lack of moisture. They dry out. Trees
die in winter and summer that have
not been transplanted, just the same
as if they had been, if the moisture
does not get into the branches as fast
as it dries out. A transplanted tree
has worse chance in this respect than
one not transplanted. First, because
it has lost some of its roots; secondly,
because the earth does not set as
tightly about the roots as before. No
matter how well tree may be trans
planted, some of the roots will not be
in close contact with the earth. A fall
planted tree has this great advantage,
that the heavy fall rains have a ten
dency to carry the earth in and around
the roots, while the low temperature
following is unfavorable to any excess
i've evaporation from the branches.
The only enemy to be feared is excess
lively cold and drying winds. In spring
planting we not only have the difficulty
of packing the earth well in among the
roots, but also have the possibility of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Her
Chickens.

Mrs. Stowe formerly lived in Bruins
wick, Maine, where her husband was a
professor in Bowdoin College. Eben-
ezer SWEET was provision dealer
there, and the Maine Farmer prints
"reminiscences of his about Mrs. Stowe,
as follows: About 1850 Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe resided in Brunswick,
where she wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
| supplied her with provisions and gro
ceries. One afternoon, meeting me on
the street, she hailed me and said she
wanted me to come to her house before 1
went to Caroline Yields, which l had
been in the habit of doing. She wanted
the best could get for a dinner. She
had company-Rev. Lyman Beecher,
Henry Ward Beecher, Charles, Kate,
the whole Beecher tribe. Well, the next
morning l drove to her house. She
came out tossing her curls and flashing
those diamond eyes. After a survey of
the contents of the cart, she decided
upon twelve chickens. 1t was in Oc-
tober, when all kinds of meats were in
the market Mr.. Swett,' she said,
you select them told her / could
select beef, veal, lamb, mutton, etc.,
but was no hand to select chickens or
fowls. Well, my sister Kate has
written cookbook said she, and
away she ran to consult the book.
Upon her return she began picking and
pinching the fowl. That's chicken
fast enough and so she went on, until
the twelve were selected. l took six
in each hand and she followed me into
the kitchen. She said to the cook,
Now clean these chickens, and stuff
and roast O, my! felt sorry Every
one was an old fowl. l thought on the
whole | would not interfere with her
cookbook. Next morning l called as
usual. She was sitting upon a little
low chair, her legs twisted into knot.
She looked up. 90, Mr.. SWEET, didn't
we sweat over those chickens Henry
Ward attempted to carve one, and it
flew off the platter and came within an
ace of going out of the window. My
sister Kate is fool. She published
directions to pick chickens, but instead
gave directions to pick old fowls
Pointing to two big kettles, she con-
tinued: They are in there, and l am
standing by as fireman to keep them
boiling Where are your company?'
| asked. Gone down to launching at
the new wharf. hope to get these
done so father can cut some off of them
ply the kettle with wood as much as
it will take"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

heat and drought Immediately follow
ing. Planting, to be successful, should
be done as early in the fall as possible.
Another lesson of the drought relates
to watering in dry time. Water will
not supply the place of shortened roots,
or of soil lily packed in, but does good
to the roots that can reach the earth.
People seldom commence to water until
the tree is in dying condition, and
when it is too late to be of any service.
The intelligent gardener waters before
the plant needs it badly. Simply to
pour water on the surface is rather an
injury than a benefit, as it compacts
the earth and the latter dries out
sooner than if not watered. If basin
be made about the tree, water poured
in, and as soon as the water soaks away
the soil filled in again lightly, though
not pressed in, then such watering is
a benefit. Pruning is a great help to
tree suffering from drought after
transplanting.-BoSton Globe.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Questions about Gardening.

F. c. S., Enosburgh, VT, asks: 81
Would it pay to raise fruit and vegeta-
bles here, seven miles from Enosburgh
Falls? The soil is a gravelly loan;
some lies fiat and some dry knobs. We
have sixty acres, with five hundred
sugar-trees and plenty of wood and tim
Der. Some is stony and the dry knobs
have some cobble-stones. Would it be
better to sell and buy a river intervale
farm, or one near the cars, without sugar.
trees or wood or orchard? Ny garden
lies high, on a fiat. 2 Would it pay to
raise currants and strawberries on it :?
/ raised one hundred seven bushels on
five-eighths of an acre last year. 3
Will blue plums do well here, and will
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

THE English farmer thinks himself
well compensated in feeding cattle if he
can get the manure for his labor. If
his cattle fully pay for all they consume,
he knows that the increase of his crops
will figure up satisfactory profit. The
English feeders cost of food is much
higher than the American feeders.
The former feeds largely of the rich oil
cakes imported from this country, which,
in turn, greatly enrich the manure; but
the American feeder fattens mostly
upon corn, which, being composed so
largely of starch and other carbo-hy-
drates that produce fats, does not en-
rich the manure so much. The manure
from ton of corn has only about one
half the value of the manure from a ton
of the best clover hay, and little more
than one-fourth of that from ton of
linseed meal or cotton-seed meal.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Keep Out of Debt.

One lesson taught by the hard times
is to keep out of debt, and how to do it.
This has been a forced lesson, like
some of the others, but none the less
valuable, for it has been well learned.
In many places merchants and others
have narrowed the doors of credit, and
in some they have closed them alto
gether, and many were compelled to
forego that credit which heretofore had
been so easy. 1 am inclined to think
that the easy-credit system which pre-
walls throughout this country is one of
the greatest inducements to extrava-
gance. 1t is so easy to obtain things
upon promise that debts are made
one after another and when the day of
reckoning comes the extravagant
debtors are ready to cry that labor is
underpaid, and popular discomfort
grows to alarming proportions. But
we have been shown not only that
debt is disagreeable, but that it is
avoidable, and that we can easily
keep out of its clutches. 1t is the
hardest master and the most invet-
crate foe the world has ever known.
There is no Sabbath in its week, no
holiday in its year. 1t threatens the
poor wretch every moment of the day,
and troubles his sleep at night. Too
often in the end il takes away the
home. Happy is he who never goes to
the money-lender.-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

"1N regard to fertilizer analyses, it
ought to be distinctly understood that
the station analyses are not made for
the purpose of deciding the relative
agricultural values of the various brands
of commercial fertilizers, but only the
relative commercial values. One fer
tilizer may contain more nitrogen than
another, and so be worth more in the
market, but be worth no more to the
consumer. With the profits that result
from the use of this or that brand, the
mere inspection of fertilizers has
nothing to do. Farmer A gets no re-
turn from the use of potash manures,
while Farmer B finds them profitable.
Potash has commercial value, how
ever, quite Independent of what it is
worth to some individual farmer, and
it is this value with which the station
deals" The attempt in the inspection
is only to determine whether the goods
are what they claim to be, and to show
by relative commercial values what
brands are the cheapest source of plant
food" So says the Home Farm, and it
is point that farmers should thor
oughly understand and bear in mind.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
We Shall Not Pass This Way Again.

Whence came and whittier bound are we ?"
Holds something still of mystery;
But one grave thought is clear and plain,
We shall not pass this way again.
why waste an hour in vain regret
For common ills that must be met?
Why Of the thorny road complain?
We shall not pass this way again.
Why wound, or cause a tear to start?
Why vex or trouble one poor heart?
Each hath its secret grief or care,
Its burden that thou canst not share.
The years glide by; stand strong and true.
The good thou canst, oh, quickly do
Let gentle words soothe woe and pain
We shall not pass this way again.
Eliza NJ Hckok.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
BurdOck.

the common burdock is a biennial
plant and that it dies the second year
after ripening seed; and that if none
are allowed to go to seed on a given
surface, they can be exterminated in
two years, unless seeds are so deep in
the soil that they do not terminate the
first year, and then do grow when
brought to the surface by cultivation of
the land. Is it so? b.
REPLY.-Yes.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

In the Rural NeD Yorker " Horti-
cola " strongly recommends the flower
ing dogwood (Cornus forido) as a tree
for The lawn. Fine specimens of this
tree grow to the height of thirty feet,
with symmetrical top and smooth
trunk. When in bloom, its large,
snowy, white flowers render it more
attractive than the finest magnolias,
while in autumn the leaves assume the
most gorgeous tints. We are not ac-
quainted with this tree on the lawn,
but in our ramblings in the woods we
have noted its conspicuous white flow
ers in spring, and especially its bril-
liant autumnal foliage.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

THIS is rather a slack time with our
HOUSEHOLD correspondents, but we
hope not for long, and apropos thereof
we introduce some very true observa-
tons of a correspondent of the Rural
NeC Yorker, who says: " 1t is often
remarked by editors or managers of
newspapers and periodicals that the
best articles often come in the crudest
forms. A housewife, smarting under
an insult, or an injustice, sits down,
and with a pencil or an old pen, and
using bluing for ink, writes an eloquent
plea for her sex; or the farmer in his
shirt-sleeves improves his incoming by
writing an article based upon his morn
ing experience, and they are not only
accepted gladly by the agricultural
paper, but are copied widely by its ex-
changes. Readers haven't the time to
90 over long articles, no matter how
beautiful or grammatical the language,
unless they are full of truth, fairly
running over with new facts. Those
articles please us best and have the
highest value to us, perhaps are alone
of value, which man or woman does
not go out of their way to do, but which
comes to them from their everyday
level, with all the homely and real facts
of their living"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Massachusetts Station Analyses.

We are indebted to Professor Goess-
mann for his July Bulletin, which re-
ports number of analyses of fertilizers
used in this state. 1t will be seen that
the standard manufactured fertilizers
do not vary much from former analyses.
1t is plain that they have made up their
minds to give us about $50 worth in a
a ton, at the station rates. Perhaps
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

TOMATO CATsUP.-Half bushel of
tomatoes, six onions, half pound of
sugar, one pound of salt, quarter pound
ground mustard, two ounces ground
cloves, two ounces black pepper, quar-
ter ounce cayenne pepper, a handful of
peach leaves. Boil all together two
hours, or longer if the tomatoes are
very watery, and just before taking
from the fire add one quart of cider vine
gar If it boils after the vinegar is
added, it will turn dark. Pour through
colander; bottle and seal.-Cultiuotor.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

ENGLAND has an ensilage commits
sion at work taking testimony for and
against this system of preserving food
for live stock by those who have prac-
ticed it for the last few years. While
the advantages of the system are not
held to be as great as some of the early
enthusiasts maintained they were, yet
the general drift of the testimony of
experience is decidedly in favor of the
silo method of preserving food.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

ANOTHER Rural correspondent tells
about an innocent form of Sunday
picnic, which many of our readers will
enjoy. She says: 81 know lady who
has an outdoor dinner every pleasant
Sabbath during the summer and au-
tumn. She lives five miles from
church, and, as the family attends reg
ularly, she lessons the burden of a Sun
day dinner by preparing it on Satur-
day. There are five little folks, with
only the eldest girl old enough for
waiting-girl. She is very deity trained
in the art of packing buttered sand
wiches, cake, fruits, the tin-pail of
lemons and sugar ready for the water
to be added, and, lastly, she tucks in a
clean Bingham apron and the table
cloth, and their Sunday dinner is off
their minds. BY the time services are
over the little ones are hungry, and the
first lovely glen or shady knoll calls a
halt The horses are given their corn
and then the pleasure of woodland
dinner is enjoyed, after which books
are read and the little folks practice
their new Sabbath-school songs. This
lady says she never has such perfect
Sabbath rests as these outdoor ones"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

this is all they can afford to give, I'M
der the present system of selling and
buying. The extra price is what must
be paid for lack of knowledge, means
or business capacity, among the average
purchasers of this class of goods.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
agricultural.
PROFESSOR SANBoRN has found wheat
T. H. HoskINs, M. D., Editor,
Newport, Vermont.

PROFESSOR SANBoRN has found wheat
bran to be more valuable for growing
young cattle and pigs than corn-meal,
and this is what might be expected
from its composition, as it has much
more material for the growth of muscle
and bone; and the manure from the
ton of bran is worth double that from a
ton of corn. If the manure is all saved,
it is worth the whole cost of the bran.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

Mr.. II. L. JEFFREY, sensible and
successful bee-keeper, says TO the nov
ice: eco slow about the new IDEAS"
and "give travelling agents an invita-
ton to move on"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09

AND still another tells how to make
an ottoman out of old tin cans; 81
take seven cans of the same size, cover
them with any old material and sew
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-09-09
Gbe 9omsebulo.

" Communications for this column should be
sent to the agricultural editor DR.. Hoskins, at
Newport VT
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-12
ASCENT oE BALO MOUNTAIN.

All day long We aseended CD, up into
the clouds. and standing on tie very
summit uaethinks see again that httie
child OF scarcely i've summers. his Cur.
ly locks fsstins on the breeze, his hears
seemed { Led with wonder A thing O.
beauty there be stood. Gods sentinel, |
trust, stationed At an ostpost Of His
great army. A dim torch Of heaven
surprises his heart With JOY, and clap
ping his little hands he cried, =" Father.
y my father : and thou art veil -
The old miners eyes filed With tears.
CaspinR his lovely boy in his arms be
said, Let us carve deep upon the rock
this truth, Swamp Aaeers Rheumatic
Cure Is the only sure care fer rheuma.
tism IN all its FORMS and that in Is
hours, after years of weary pain, one
bottle OF shis wonderful medicine re-
stored me 10 health and happiness, that
the winds uay bear the glorious news
OF this wonderful discovery to the four
corners OF the earth, and it be blessed
By thousands Of homes made happy in
restoring to health their loved and cher
ishsd ones"
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-12
AN oLD-RAsHuosED IDEA,

The old-fashioned idea that ons
should never enter sick room with az
empty stomach Is true ono. The gas
trio juice Is not secreted in an empty
stomach Ii is only when food is taken
into the stomach and digestion com
mences that gastric juice is present. All
germs are killed in coming in contas,
with healthy gastric islce; therefore a
fall stomach fortities one against con-
tracing contagious diseases. De Ha-
ven's Dyspepsia Cure is especially
adapted 70 act upon the digestive Juices
OF the system and keeps them in a pure
and natural condition. In this manner
it ensures proper digestion and assimil.
alton of the food. 1t never fails to ef-
feet care Ia the most obstinate cases
OF Dyspepsia, Indigestion. Flatulency
and sickheadache. Sample bottles free
at A. B. SrEwABT's drug store.