The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-27
Farm and Garden Notes.

perior to root-grafted ones is not sup
ported by experience.
EVERY cent made by cheating your
neighbors will weigh ton when you
most desire to rise, says the Rural New
Yorker.
AT the Chicago Fat Stock Show large
prizes were paid for the best butter and
cheeses and the best dairy cows. The
tests were made on the ground.
IT is pity that GREEN'S Fruit Grower,
having obtained a fairly good cut of the
features of Editor Carman of the Ro-
raj Ne,o Yorker, should have printed it
so wretchedly.
FARMERS may, by combining good
taste with judgment, make their homes
so attractive as to double their value,
with very moderate expenditure. Yet
how few even try to do so.
Pros fed upon grass and mddlings
will have larger frames and grow faster
than those fed on corn, especially in
summer, when fat should be avoided,
if possible, in feeding young pigs.
ALL do not agree as to whether the
fruit-room should have a moist or dry
atmosphere, but all do agree that it
should be kept cool. In our opinion, a
moist atmosphere is preferable to dry
one.
THE frame and muscles of the ami
NAL contain the phosphates and nitro
gen, which are the most valuable and
costly elements of the soil. Fat is
mostly carbon, which is derived from
the air by growing plants.
WHEAT, rye, barley, corn, oats, ETC.,
are used in making distilled liquors.
Yet none of these are subject to es-
pecially savage attacks, excepting the
barley, though it ranks third or fourth
among feed stuffs in the manufacture
of liquor.
ERAsTUs GRAY, farmer of Wood
land, Aroostook county, Maine, raised
last season from one measured acre
49k bushels, machine measure, of win
ter wheat. Also 393k bushels of oats
from five and one-half acres-all with
out manure.
WILLIAM CROzIER, Bacon Farm,
Northport, l.. l., one of the smartest
stockmen in the United States, gave up
steaming feed after number of years
of trial, as he became satisfied it
weakened the constitutions of the cattle,
and it certainly caused the calves to be
puny.
GOOD corn land of not less than me-
dunn fertility is such as an orchard re-
quires, and any one who does not see
his way clear for keeping up the fer
tility of the soil and for giving the
proper cultivation and attendance when
needed, had better not engage in plant
ing orchards.
ALL the thin sheep and the little and
weak lambs should be put in flocks by
themselves in the fall and fed meal
twice day. If this is not done all such
sheep are likely to be lost before spring;
but if they are given proper care and
little feed twice day they may become
valuable sheep.
CIoNs for spring use may be cut at
any time when the wood is not frozen,
and as long as the buds are perfectly
dormant. To preserve cions until
spring they should be packed in slightly
damp sand or moss and kept in cool
place. Guard against excessive moist
ure and mould.
PROFESSOR Cook emphatically stated
at Grand Rapids that the Goblin moth
is never attracted by light, never!
a" What, then, are the trapping de-
vices worth, which are so generally
recommended in the columns of our hor-
ticultural contemporaries" asks Or
chard and Garden.
JERSEY bull-calves can be turned to
good account by making steers of them
and breaking them into oxen. They
are active and grow quickly. They will
make handy team and lively one.
And they make the very best of beef
for eating, though not the most profit
able to the butcher.
THE increase of wealth in large cities
has of late years caused considerable
changes in relation to fashionable out
of-door exercise. The saddle is coming
to be more and more used by women as
we'll as men. This is noticeable year
by year. Ladies' horses, with easy and
peculiar gaits, now sell for high prices.
The Fancier's Gazette says: GAN
Asiatic hens should be kept on light
diet, if eggs are desirable, but in keep
ing them so there is danger of reducing
the cock too much. This can be obvi-
ated by mailing fruit-can up on the
side of the pen Just high enough to be