The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-31
Farm and Garden Notes.

J. E. CRANE of Middlebury, VT,
treasurer of the Champlain Valley Bee
keepers Association, has an extensive
apiary which yields him neat income.
YELLOW TRANSPARENT is one of the
most valuable and hardy early apples,
but it requires high culture to get the
finest fruit. 1t is an immense bearer,
and in poor soil the fruit is small.
BY natures immutable processes if
hay can be converted into hide, blood,
hair, hoof, beef and bone, then hide,
blood, hair, hoof, beef and bone can
be converted into hay again.
BEN: PERLEY PooRE says that
another agricultural craze, ostrich farm
ing, has died natural death in Cali
fornia. Still another, woodchuck farm
ing, has got black eye in New Hamp-
shire.
THE daily routine of the farm, if I'M
broken by social gatherings, is apt to
gies. The mind no less than the body
must have its proper aliment, or it will
lose its vigor.
THE Rural Neo0 Yorker publishes a
table of figures which show that for
five years the best grades of butter
have held their own in price fairly
well; but that the poorest grades have
surely fallen away in value.
AT the recent meeting of the Wiscon-
sin Dairymen's Convention Mrs. E. S.
Robertson of Viroqua read paper on
Dairying from Woman's Stand
point" She keeps forty cows on 10
acres. She claims winter dairying is
most profitable.
Fowls may be made to live when fed
upon any single article of diet, but
profits under such circumstances are
not to be expected. Variety in diet
promotes health and health secures the
activity of the reproductive organs.
Fresh water is Indispensable.
THE Poultry Keeper says that the
average number of eggs from any breed
of hens-no matter what's rarely over
100 in year. And we guess the esti-
mate is nearer right than those of the
farm papers that claim from l25 to 175,
saws the Rural NelC Yorker.
SAVE your pea and bean seed from
the earliest full pods; too many save
the leavings for seed. That is, what
pods escape being picked and what is
left after you are through with the
patch are picked and laid by for seed.
1t takes but a little while to make a
very serious difference in the yield,
earliness and quality of the product
when this plan is followed.
THE germ (says the Cultiudtor)
which gives rise to malaral fever has
been found by two unnamed Italian
Psychologists. One caught him by the
head, and the other by the tail, and
he is safely secured. A noble example
has been set, and we hope TO see all
the other germs Cor germ-theories)
with which the world is pestered dis
posed of in the same gallant manner.
"THE EsquimauX may eat blubber and
drink whale oil, and the Siberians may
devour chunks of frozen lard, with tai
low candles as a dessert, but do not
let the people of the United States
choke their systems by eating prepared
slaughter-house fat, disguised as hon
est butter" says Ben; Perley Poore.
And yet, BEN, we always want our
share of "slaughter-house fat" when
we buy our roasts, don't we?
THE American Sheep Breeder and
Wool GroWer says that Mary had a
little lamb, its fleece was white as snow
and everywhere that Mary went the
lamb was sure to go. But when il
grew to be sheep, it wasn't worth a
button, with all the tariff off from wool
and no demand for mutton. So Mary
gave the thing away, because she
quickly found she couldn't make wool
growing pay at fifteen cents per pound