The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-22
Farm and Garden Notes.


growing in New England is rapidly in
creasing.
WHEN the races get more money
prizes than all the rest of the show,
they ruin the usefulness of the society
which gives them.
If man empties his purse into his
head, no man can take it away from
him. An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest.
THE fruit crop of California is very
heavy, and large quantities are sent
East. Grapes are SO abundant that they
are sold to the distillers at So per ton.
The hay crop is the chief crop of
New England. There is more money in
it for the labor expended than there
is in any other, except the pasture grass.
SUBSTITUTES are perfectly legitimate
and proper; limitations may be; coun-
terfeits and authorizations never are and
should be abolished" so says the Nep
England Farmer.
AN educated brain is of more use on
farm than any other force. Igno-
rance works against terrible odds, and
is runously wasteful because it knows
no laws of economy.
"JUsT as we expected. There have
been so many unpleasant revelations
regarding the manufacture of oleo that
an earthquake in Greece has resulted"
observes Brother Whitaker.
THE farmers purchases pay four ffths
the customs duties, and the farmers
raise the grain for all the beer and
whiskey and grow all the tobacco or
which the revenue taxes are levied.
LAST fall we wrote that the Loring-
Needham combination, which calls it.
self the {" New England Fair" had
gone down East to die. 1t has died.
There are no mourners, and only lit
tie Noyes about it.
THE New Bedford Mercury calls for
law to tax kerosene, which has been
very dangerous competitor of the
whaling business. Kerosene is bad
smelling stuff, and strong acids are used
in its manufacture.
"OLEOMARGARINE is now legal
lied product, and butter-makers have a
fair race and clear course before
them to keep ahead of it. If they are
beaten it is their own fault" says the
Rural Ne,c Yorker.
THE farmer who habitually draws to
market the coarse products of his farm
is trenching upon his capitalize fer
tility of his soil. 1t is an axiom in ag-
riculture that all the coarse products
should be consumed upon the farm.
KEEPING poultry, and especially the
raising of broilers for market, is BUSH
ness. There is no such thing as luck
about it. 1t calls for close attention,
system, regularity and hard acork, but
it pays when such conditions are
observed.
Digestion and assimilation in the
young are more active than in older
animals. Hence it is fair to suppose
that the young steer will get more good
from given amount of food than those
that are somewhat aged, and facts bear
out the supposition.
ASIDE from the farmers who keep
cattle with almost sole reference to
beef-making and the special dairymen,
there is vast number who know what
they are about when they insist on hav.
ing cattle satisfactory, both as meat
makers and milk-givers.
THE unwise farmer will leave his
plows, harrows, mowers, reapers, cul.
tivators, wagons, ETC., ETC., out in the
hot sun, around in the barn lot, or out
in the fields where they will speedily
be destroyed by the exposure to the
weather. Where are yours?
FOOD prejudices are hard to conquer
and the more provincial community
the stiifer-necked they are in this re.
spect. 1t is difficult to persuade then
that other foods than those used by
their mothers and grandmothers are
also palatable and wholesome.
COLONEL JOHN M. WEARE of Sea
brook, N. H., reports an experiment il
cutting and feeding corn-fodder tina
has been touched by frost, and claims
that freezing improves rather than in
jures green corn-fodder, whether to b,
fed dry or made into ensilage.
GAN examination of high-class but
ter offered for sale," says the Culhrator