The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-06-30
Farm and Garden Notes.


going to handle.
No doubt the orchard is good pay
master, but while the unjust should not
expect more than six per cent interest
the just may receive six hundred. Let
the grower do his duty; the trees will
do theirs, and more.
The grape is a prolific bearer and
quite apt to suffer injury from over
bearing. Care is necessary in the treat
ment of young vines. 1t may be no
harm to leave bunch, or even two,
when the vine is in its second year.
ANY kind of grass is suited to hogs,
although they prefer clover, and in this
they agree with most other animals,
and teach by their good sense or in
stinct the scientific fact that it is the
best-balanced forage plant within our
reach.
THE person of resources is the per-
son of strength. The successful farmer
is one who is rich in experience, in
hope, in energy, and in that quiet
assurance which enables him to deal
on even terms with men of every con-
dition.
THE English sparrow is weighed in
the balance and found utterly wanting.
This bird is a good bird only when
dead, says an exchange. But how this
bird was eXtolled a few years ago! The
robin is fully as bad, or would be if as
numerous.
A CORRESPONDENT in an exchange
says: " No amount of talk could induce
me to have a farm horse shod except
for work on icy roads. In my expert
ence unshod horses on the farm are
much better Off" This is our own ex-
perience, also.
EVERY man who builds should re-
member that everything which COM
monty goes under the name of sewage
is dangerous to the health of his house
hold, and should be removed as quickly
and completely, and to as great dis
lance from his home, as possible.
A WRITER in the Poultry Yard caught
a troublesome mink by setting steel
trap just at the edge of the stream
where the mink came out. A chicken
was killed and the blood sprinkled
about the trap. Then the body was
suspended on stake just over the trap.
THE farmer who sits down to his
breakfast of fried pork and potatoes
through the month of June, while his
neighbor revels in strawberries, doubt
less flatters himself that the strawberries
cost more labor than the pork did, and
that he is thus on the right financial
side. But he isn't.
If you wish to make a valuable and
most useful present, and one costing
but little money, to friend who is in
terested in fruits, vegetables and flow
ers, send him the Orchard and Garden
for one year. 1t is published by j. T.
Lovett, Little Silver, New Jersey,
monthly, at fifty cents year.
THE training in habits of industry,
morality and self-reliance received by
the farmers son is the greatest fortune
that he can inherit. 1t is this kind of a
training that develops in him the physi
cal endurance, the moral stamina and
the strength of purpose that enables
him to triumph in the battles of life.
TAKE two broods of chicks and allow
one to run with the hen wherever she
chooses to lead them, and keep the
other brood in acarm, dry place. The
chicks that have plenty of warmth will
grow much faster than the others,
although both broods may be fed at the
same period and on the same kind of
food. Chicks love warmth.
THE low prices have at last reached
the raw materials for fertilizers, but
thus far affected the rates which the
farmer has to pay very, very slightly.
Had the movement of prices been in
the other direction, the farmer would
have had no just reason to complain of
being kept unadvised of the fact for so
long period. 1t is the old story.
PEAS are growing in favor as feed for
stock, especially cows and sheep The
vines when green are capital for soil
ing, or, when dry, cut up and mixed as
a mess. The peas, when ripe, make a
highly nutritious meal and greatly en-
rich the milk in butter fats. Pea-meal
should be mixed, about one bushel with
two of corn-meal, to make good ration.
LET the young farmer think for a
moment of the forces, the properties,
principles, influences, the laws-de-
veloped and undeveloped-with which
he must come in contact and under
stand if he would succeed. So far
from being less dependent upon the
arts and sciences than those engaged
in other occupations, the farmer stands
in need of far wider range of knowl-
edge than is requisite in almost any
other business; and farming need not
prove the round of unvarying, monot-
onous life it is often said to be, for every
0paratiOn on the farm iS an Incentive