The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-05-19

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fit of them readily.
"THE Giant Asparagus and Nam
moth Rhubarb," says an exchange,
"grows on the heaviest MANFRED soil 4"
Correct, every time" adds another
exchange, and yet the variety counts,
too, gentlemen.
WHEN sowing seeds which are slow
in terminating, like parsley, celery, ETC.,
mix few radish seeds with them.
They come up quickly and show you
the location of the rows, allowing you
to cultivate between.
SHEEP have fallen off in numbers in
the United States during the past year
shade over four per cent, and have
declined in value eleven per cent, and
yet the wool manufacturers are work
ing to have the duty taken off.
THE Massachusetts Experiment Sta
ton concludes that bushel of average
hardwood ashes is worth, for the pot
ash and phosphoric acid alone, eighteen
cents, taking the commercial price of
these ingredients as a standard.
Too many farms are burdened with
thoughtless men. The demand of the
age is for men who can gather expert
ence from all who have gone before
and add a little to the stock of agricul-
tural information before they pass away.
AMONG dwarf peas, there is no bet
ter kind than the American Wonder
1t is within three days as early as the
earliest tall smooth peas. The quality
is best. 1t is, however, not very
productive, and seedsmen cannot get
them grown without paying more than
for other peas.
BROTHER CHEEvER of the Ne,r
England Farmer says that Mr.. E.
Bissell, one of the prominent stockmen
of Shoreham, VT, writes that he has
prize Galloway bull which he is cross
ing upon his large herd of high grade
Shorthorn cows. He has also a few
pure bred Galloway heifers.
NOTHING is gained by setting out
tender plants, such as tomatoes, pep
pers, egg-plants, ETC., in the field or
garden before the ground and the at
mosphere have become warm. Keep
them under shelter and harden them
off thoroughly but gradually; then plant
when summer has set in for good.
CoTTON-sEED meal is twenty per
cent cheaper than it was a year ago.
There has been no such decline in the
prices of other fertilizing material or
manufactured fertilizers. Cotton-seed
meal is, therefore, at this time one of
the very cheapest fertilizers obtainable.
The supply is large, and prices are not
easily manipulated.
The majority of the boys that are
brought up on farm are determined
upon getting the best education their
circumstances will allow. Teach boy
that on farm he has no use for this
education, and he will naturally take to-
some other profession. The farmer,
above all others, needs broad and
thorough education.
MIR. HENRY BILL says that millions
of dollars worth of manure are buried
in the muck swamps of Connecticut.
Its value will never be realized until it
is hauled out to the hills and exposed
to the sun and air, says the Rural NeaU
Yorker, and we will add that the addi-
ton of either lime or unleached ashes
to muck greatly aids in developing its
store of plant food.
The Boston Cultirotor is publishing
a series of articles on lumber and for
estry which contain more common
sense and more truth .on the subject
than has been elsewhere printed in
New England for the last decade. We
do not know who this writer is, but he
knows what he is writing about, which
can be said of very few of those who
have been discussing forestry in the
newspapers and magazines.
J. Il. MACOMBER of Grand Isle, VT,
in the Rural Ne,D Yorker, calls atten-
ton to the fact, which is not generally
known, that nuts do not lose their germ
mating power by getting dry. Soak the
dry nuts for few days in tepid water
and they will readily sprout. The sup
position that nuts must be exposed to
frosts before they will grow is also err
roneous, however popular. Mr. Ma
comber also slightly cracks the shells of
nuts before planting them by gently
squeezing them in vice.
MIR. WHITAKER, the new publisher
of the Nec England Farmer, admins
ters q gentle hint tO his EXCHANGES as