The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-09

NO country can nave general pros
perity when the handlers and go-be-
tweens get all the money. The best
part should go back to the farm to en-
courage production and repay labor.
A MAN may walk mile in twenty
five minutes and return refreshed and
benefited for the exercise. Let him
run mile and it may harm him in
many ways. 1t is the same with a
horse. 1t is fast driving that kills.
There are few farmers who care to
keep complete file of every periodical
taken. Then the scrap book will be
found great convenience, for it must
be a poor newspaper or periodical that
hasn't something in it worth preserving.
IT is said that it does not pay to keep
poultry. With some, we doubt not, this
is true, but it will pay all who take
hold of it as they would other business.
But in order to make it pay man
must put in some time and thought
and work.
THE Western Rural thinks many
men are handicapped with accomplish
ments. Their step is too delicate; their
touch too soft; their boots too polished
and their gloves too fine. These are
not the kind of men who have aided
civilization.
PLANT ensilage corn early. 1t is con-
coded by all that corn which has ma
tured it's growth is much more valuable
for stock than when harvested in an i'm
mature state. The idea that any time is
early enough for corn that is used for
fodder is all wrong
IN the southern portion of Illinois
land is literally " tired" Thirty years
ago it produced GO or SO bushels of corn
per acre; now the average is but 20 or
25 bushels. For years farmers have
taken all they could from the land and
returned nothing--not even rest.
ENGLISH authorities assert that sui
phur mixed with grease will enable cat
tie to resist the attacks of the gad-hy.
and thus be free from MARBLE maggots
or "grubs." The dressing is well
rubbed along the backs of the cattle
several times during the summer.
MAJOR ALvoRD, in his address be-
fore the Butter, Cheese and Egg Con-
vention, speaking of the needs of more
careful farming, said the exhaustion
with wheat is ten or twelve per cent of
the value of the crop, while with butter
it is about one-tenth of one per cent.
IN order to make the orchards pay
we must return to them the elements
of which we have robbed them year
after year. 1t will not do to ignore
that orcharding is drawing heavier on
the soil than grain-growing. Barnyard
manure is complete fertilizer and Just
what is needed.
THE country is filled with lawyers,
says the Orange County Farmer, and
four out of five are an unmitigated
to the neighborhood they in
fest. They incite litigation and they
prey on the weaknesses of their fellows.
The same is true to lesser extent of
medical men, adds the New York
Tribune.
THE original supply of white pine in
New England is rapidly disappearing
before the constantly-increasing de-
mands for this lumber, and white pine
logs must inevitably become one of the
most valuable of all American products.
The climate and soil of great part of
New England are peculiarly suited to
the white pine.
WE would much rather have the prac-
teal results of feeding half dozen
sheep with and without roots than the
closest deductions of any chemical tests.
There is some peculiar influence which
this succulent food exerts upon the ami
mails mechanism, of which the chemist
as yet can take no account, but which
every feeder has, time and again, proved
to be real.
APPLES, says Secretary Russell, are
good food for horses as we'll as for other
animals that are not kept for hard work,
but if apples are fed in the country to
horses that are to be sold in the spring
the animals teeth will be so blackened
by the fruit acid that the veterinary in
spectors will very likely pronounce them
decayed, and the horses consequently
worthless or unsound.
MANY orchardists successfully COM
bat the codling moth by spraying the
trees, just after the blossoms fall, with
mixture of Paris green and water. One
ounce of Paris green TO forty gallons of
water is about the right proportion.
The blossom end, while the fruit is
small, points upward, and the Paris
green will lodge within it and destroy
the worm when it attempts to penetrate
the apple.
o. III. ALEXANDER of Charlotte, VT,
says in the Rural NeW Yorker that new