The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-25

dIlch1ion w Inc dpldTy anu thorough
and timely preparation for the honey
flow, swarming and wintering, will
make any man or woman a successful
bee-keeper.
WHILE as rule those who farm can
not afford the luxury of costly fix
lures and may not be literally endowed
with this worlds goods, he or she may
not commit social suicide or mate with
the great unwashed, or put on the
badge of servitude.
THE projectors and advocates of class
legislation seldom consider, perhaps do
not care, what unfavorable effect their
measures may have on other industries,
or it may be on other branches of the
same general industry it is thus sought
by them to encourage.
HERE is belated beginner, in the
Rural NeW Yorker, who says: d" 1 put
in two rows of Early Ohio potatoes flat
culture. 1 wish now 1 had planted all
my potatoes that way. Contrary to my
expectations, they were easy to dig.
No more hill business for me-"
If you are raising ducks don't forget
that they can eat about all the time,
and the first ten weeks of their lives de-
cides whether they will grow to full
size or forever remain dwarfed. IF
they are only half fed when young no
amount of care can make them grow to
full size afterward.
FARMERS can safely make up their
minds that they never will have any
agricultural college until they interest
themselves. In Michigan and Kansas,
where farmers have fought for such
college, sent their sons to it and de-
Tended it, there is very little growing
about any failure.
THERE are plenty of places here in
the New England States that can be
bought very low. People still go West,
and their farms are sold at auction for
less than half the cost. The young
men go off, thinking they can do better
elsewhere, but the current will set
back again in time.
THE Chicago Lire Stock Journal SAYS
that dairymen and farmers generally
are wonderfully slow and impractical
BILE class when it comes to defending
themselves or their calling from assault.
Scattered and unorganized, they stand
with folded hands, wondering what is
to be done, while the enemy goes on
doing.
THE earliest threshed grain will need
careful attention to prevent injury from
heating. While the weather is hot the
danger is greatly intensified. An out
side temperature among the nineties
gives strong impetus towards heating
of grain, and if it begins the process of
heating makes the grain absorb moisture
from the air.
A CANADIAN bee-keeper uses chic
reform instead of tobacco in managing
his bees. He finds it a very valuable
aid in removing old queens or in intro
ducing new ones. These operations
are very perpleXing to novice, but
few whiffs of chloroform blown into
the hive enables them to be performed
without difficulty.
ANY pasture used for cattle and
horses may profitably have as many
sheep as there are acres in the pasture,
and the pasture will be benefited
thereby. Sheep eat so many different
kinds of plants which cattle refuse
that the addition of few sheep, by
keeping down other plants, really in
crease the product of grass for other
stock.
BOYS and girls grow up on the farm
and spend those years which will so
much influence their lives without ever
once being led to realize the momen-
tousness of what is before them. They
grow up, too, without a taste for read
ing, and so miss never-failing source
of happiness, not to speak of mental
culture and refinement. For all this
the want of suitable books and papers
on the farmhouse table is to be blamed.
New deposits of phosphate rock of
enormous extent have been discov-
cred in North Carolina. New meth
DDS of mining and treating the rock are
also being practically tested. There is
no probability of these deposits being
exhausted within the next century,
while other new phosphate formations
are coming to light in the West Indies
If all this should end in reducing prices
of fertilizers, our farmers may well re-
joice.
"BECAUsE other industries have sue
ceeded in establishing precedents in the
way of class legislation is no reason
why the farmers should depart from the
safe path of self-reliance which has so
long marked their course. The policy
of agriculture should be not to petition
for legislation in its own favor, but TO