The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-02

that phenomenal creature which is
known not as a horse, but as trotter,"
says Secretary Russell of the Massachu-
sets Board of Agriculture. He knows.
IT would be a great stroke of bust
ness if the American farmer could in
duce his compatriots to eat more
cheese. We are far behind the other
great civilized nations as cbeese-eaters.
Will the farmers themselves set the ex-
ample?
For chickens the finer the feed the
better. If it is wet with hot water and
allowed to cool before feeding, it is
best. Feed corn, oats, oatmeal, cracked
corn, wheat, etc. Do not feed chickens
wheat till they are at least five or six
weeks old.
"FARMERs don't get high prices for
anything, but they have to. pay high
prices, even if they don't get high
prices for their own products says an
exchange, but we do not think it is so.
Other products are low as well as thos
of the farm.
BRAHMA eggs are darkest in color
when the pullets commence laying late
in the fall. During the winter the
color is generally quite dark, though as
spring advances and warm weather an
proaches the high color fades out to
very light brown.
CORRECT is the man who says the ma
jority of the pork-consumers do not want
to eat clear grease or even half fat. A
purely corn-fed hog from pighood to
brotherhood is nearly equivalent to a
skinful of lard oil. More lean meat is
great desideratum.
THE Ratchet and block are the best
cure as soon as there is sign of dis
ease. But fowls that are kept from
drafts in their buildings, free from lice,
fed wholesome food and kept from get
ting wet, and supplied with pure water,
will be almost entirely free from dis
ease.
SULPHIDE OF POTASH has proved a de-
stroyer of mildew on roses, chrysanthe-
NUNS, and some other greenhouse
plants. A quarter of an ounce dissolved
in gallon of water and thrown on the
affected foliage with fne-rosed syringe
will wholly destroy the fungus, and the
leaves will not be injured
FARMING is something beyond
mere hoe exercise" A good text that,
from the Rural Ne,o Yorker. Farming
is more, far more, than digging, shov-
cling, hoeing, chopping, saving, plow-
ing, narrowing, planting and the myriad
of mechanical operations which go to
make up the routine of everyday work.
WILLIAM FALCoNER, in the Country
Gentleman, says that parsnips, satisfy
and scorzonera are more apt to grow
forked when planted on freshly ma
nured soil. This is equally true of beets
and rutabagas. Old and fine manure,
well mixed with the soil, or CONNER
cial fertilizer, is best for all root crops
IT has been demonstrated in Barnsta-
BILE county, Mass, that a crop of
pitch-pine can be raised from seed
with as much certainty as a crop of
corn, and with less expense. Also that
the loose and shifting sands of Cape
Cod, useless for every other purpose,
can, with the aid of this tree, be made
to bear valuable crops of wood.
FAILURES in transplanting come more
from having soil loosely packed in and
among the roots than from any other
cause. No root can take hold of an air
space. Merely tramping the soil on the
surface after the shrub or tree is set
is not enough. If fine soil is worked
among the roots, and these first wet to
make it adhere, the tree will almost
certainly live.
THE Rural Nep Yorker says: GAS
soon as the leaves of the young man
gels are three inches long they should
be weeded and thinned. In doing this,
use the hoe and fingers, and leave from
three to five plants in each hill. This
gives greatly increased yield and pre-
vents the mangels from becoming so
very large and coarse, as they will when
thinned to single plants.
Do not feed young chickens on good,
fresh eggs boiled, as very often adj
vised. 1t will not pay. Sell the eggs
one seldom gets less than twelve cents
per pound for eggs, and he can buy
good, fresh shanks for three or four
cents per pound. Boil them well, use
the water to wet the feed, chop the
meat, give small quantity each Gay
for week or two, and it will answer
the purpose as well as boiled eggs, il
not better.