The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-24


A COLONY of bees in New England,
the best Italians, with choice queen, and
ten frames in good hive, good enough,
need not cost more than ten dollars,
and may be bought for less. The price
includes all; bees, queen, hive and
frames.
THE true way is to watch all ewes
when their lambs are sold or weaned,
and if necessary to milk them and not
permit their bags to get spoiled at first.
If that is not attended to at the proper
time, some valuable ewes are partially
injured.
If flock of breeding ewes has been
well fed and cared for until they have
dropped their lambs, and it is desired
to force the lambs for an early market,
then they should be well fed with roots
in connection with their grain rations
twice a day.
THE Ne,C York Tribune remarks that
lolOooOl Aluclu udS lOuuu lOuE pdTlS
of bran, two of corn-meal and one of
linseed-meal Every satisfactory as a
grain food for mich cows Other men
have done the same. 1t is not much of
a conundrum.
THE dairy is our great foundation in
dustry. If we sell butter only, feeding
the skim-milk on the farm and using all
the manure made, the farm is bound to
improve, while by the cooperative
method of manufacture and sale we get
all the profit there is.
A GREAT many big stories " have
appeared in print about the profits in
Bookkeeping, and some books have
evidently been printed for the sole pur-
pose of booming " the market-the
market for bees, and the market for
hives and supplies"
PURE bone is one of the best fertil-
izers. The thirty samples analysed at
the Connecticut station last year had
an average valuation of S34.5S; their
average cost was $3.50. No man is
cheated when he buys pure bone-meal,
and the finer it is the better.
j. j. WEBB of Hamden, Conn, says,
in the Homestead, that he can get as good
crop with S15 worth of his home
mixed fertilizer (analyzing worth $47,73
ton, but costing only $40.1D as he
can with twelve cords of manure, cost
ing $50. With $50 worth of the fer
tilizer he can raise four full crops sue
cessively, and he asks which is the
cheapest.
No man now, or hereafter, will be
ever able to tell the cost of producing a
pound of beef to fraction of cent
not to say a mill-until he can fathom
some means of controlling the elements
and breeding cattle exactly alike in con-
stitutional vigor, powers of assimilation
and temperament. That is where run
ming a farm differs from running a
cotton-mill.
FISH and potash has long been a
popular fertilizer, yielding good crops
Corn especially with an application of
six hundred to one thousand pounds
per acre, but when the analysis of nine
leading brands at the Connecticut sta
ton show their average valuation to be
S26.64, against an average cost of
S3670, it shows that they are more ex-
pensiye than they should be.
MARSHALL p. WILDER says that he
has grown melons on the same land for
ten years; the ground has southern
aspect. He prepares compost of
manure, soil and guano, which he
spreads on the land in addition to ma
nuring in the hills. Surface manuring
he considers very important. He has
no trouble with insects, as he gets up
in the morning before they do.
BEFORE going heavily into the small
fruit business, be sure that your facili-
ties are equal to the undertaking. You
must have full supply of manure or
the money to buy it. You must be able
to furnish the work and attendance re-
quired by high cultivation at the proper
time. You must be sure of your pick
ers. You must have a market for the
fruit when picked. If you are sure of
all these conditions, go ahead; if not,
go slow! says Orchard and Garden.
AN exchange asks: % Is there neverto
be a stop put to counterfeiting farm
products? Maple sugar has long been
manufactured in cities, Chicago, es-
pecially, of brown sugar and molasses,
and sold upon the market as genuine.
The fraud is now carried further by the
manufacture of bogus maple syrup,
which resembles the genuine as closely
as oleomargarine resembles butter. 1t
is made of glucose and is colored and
favored by the extract of hickory bark.
1t is a fraud upon the consumer and
Injuries the sale of pure syrup. The
manufacturers label it mapleine,'