The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-15
Farm and Garden Notes.

fHTHl anu UaTueH NOteSs
LOSE not thine own for want of ask
ing for it; twill get thee no thanks.
ARoosTooK is the richest county ac-
cording to its population of any county
in the Union.
WHAT is the best diet for fattening
cattle is also the best for butter, while
variety of diet is of the greatest benefit.
THE manure heap is the farmers
bank, but how often the doors are left
open for robbers - fermentation and
rain.
COTTON says that those who have
finished by making all others think with
them have usually been those who be-
gan by daring to think for themselves"
In the town of Mortified, Mass, 3l5
acres were cultivated in tobacco in 1872,
and the whole town has but single
acre this year. But it is growing some
where.
=" UNSTABLE as water, thou shalt not
excel" might be said of many farmers
who blame their chosen pursuit for their
partial failures instead of blaming their
own mistakes.
THE flow of milk in the best of cows
is quickly diminished by bad treatment,
as striking with the fist or stool, or
foolishly yelling at them, or by being
handled by inexperienced mixers.
AROOsTOOK COUNTY is four times as
large as Rhode Island and third
larger than Connecticut. 1t comprises
one-fifth of the area of Maine, which is
larger than all the rest of New England
1" WHENEVER we stop to consider
the matter, the utter uselessness of
horns upon domestic cattle becomes
more and more apparent. Why should
cattle carry these deadly weapons
about with them?" asks the Rural Ne,U
Yorker.
IT is estimated that about One-half of
those who sell farm produce get an
average of ten per cent less for their
goods than they otherwise would owing
to inattention in selling. OF course this
is only guessing, but may not be very
much out
WESTERN NEW YORK farmers are
meeting much loss, and are greatly an
noyed by finding, after planting, that
their seed-corn was bad. There is no
need of this. Every one should know
by actual testing that his seed is good
before planting.
THE habit of misjudging or suspect
ing the motives of our fellow-b beings is
prolific cause of ill-feeling between
neighbors. The habit is bad one and
carries its own punishment. A good
person expects others to act from pure
motives rather than bad ones.
THERE is vast deal of nonsense in
the exaggerated statements about the
great profits among the West and
Southwest ranch cattle men. Thou
sands are misled by these statements
and plunge into the business blindly,
only to regret it at their leisure.
THE highest success in any branch
of industry, as measured by the present
standard, is only attained by the appli
cation of strictly business principle;
and thorough knowledge of all the fact;
and relations bearing upon that particu
lar branch of productive industry.
THE blackcap raspberry is propa
gated by covering the tips of the vines
with earth. This process is called tip
ping. These tips soon take root anc
form the raspberry plants used in tn,
nursery trade. They may be trans
: planted any time after October 10TH
If you place choice plant in a win
: dow, exposing but one side of it to thu
sun, it will shortly become crooked ant
! deformed. So, if a human being is sub
! jected to but one sort of training, o
educated in but one direction, the re
suit is bent, unsymmetrical character
The business of farming is one il
which no man can fail who uses com
mon prudence, who is industrious, pei
= severing, careful, foresighted, economi
: cal. 1t has the worlds wants to supply
The farmer feeds and clothes the world
+, and every product of the soil has it
c waiting consumers.
: ONE small bird living on insects wi
}, be of more benefit in season than on
# hundred crows. The crow hunts som
. for insects in early spring, but gene
Il ally in low, wet meadow, and the il
sects are mostly the larvae of the dragon