The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-07

his entire herd in milk on green rye,
and the improvement in quality of
milk, cream and butter is marked.
Green rye makes butter gilt-edged He
uses no coloring for butter.
SIR J. B. LAwEs says that the pig is
the best and cheapest fat-making ma
chine which exists, and that the human
stomach has great requirement for
some sort of fat. Certainly, that is
why people eat butter They like good
butter better than lard, too, and always
will.
THE Homestead makes sport of the
common practice of shouting at oxen.
"There is no reason for this tremendous
outburst of noise which is hurled at
oxen ordinarily. Cattle can be trained
to mind quiet and determined voice
without this shouting" adds the Rural
New Yorker.
ALTHOUGH kicking cows are much to
be dreaded and are nuisance in any
dairy, we have often noticed that they
generally were good cows. Cows that
have this vice, though very trying to
the patience of the mixer, can be
cured, though not always. 1t will
require a large stock of patience and
perseverance.
Mr.. WILLIAM E. GREEN of Yer
mont, originator of the Vergennes
grape, has originated new variety
called Early Delmonico. 1t resembles
the Brighton. He says it is the earliest
grape he knows of, and that it is SUI
perior to the Vergennes or Brighton.
He also has new black grape, called
Montreal, that is superior to the Con-
cord
LOOK out for Florida town lots that
are offered at low price. The land on
which these paper cities are located is
seldom or never worth over S1.25 per
acre, and often it would be dear at any
price. Good land in desirable loca-
ton is not begging for purchasers at a
nominal price. Do not buy any land
for an orange grove until you know
it is suitable, either by personal OBJ
servation or from some person whose
judgment you can trust.
A. w. CHEEvER would be perfectly
willing to dispense with the crow and
the English sparrow, as he thinks both
birds do more harm than good. We
move to add the robins, which render
it impossible to raise berries with profit
near an orchard. They average to cost
us more than 50 day in the berry
season. We can get more beauty and
better music than they give in return
for much less money As insect de-
stroyers they are fraud.
THE potato-bug's brother is on his
way from the West in the shape of g
yellowish beetle that attacks bean
plants. 1t halls from Colorado. Its
eggs are deposited in yellow patches on
the under side of the leaves. They
soon hatch and appear in this world as
hairy slugs. These devour the entire
substance of the foliage, leaving only a
network of veins. AS a natural con-
sequence, the pods shrivel and the
beans do not come to maturity.
THE National Lire Stock Journal is
right in saying that the questions, what
is the cost of bushel of wheat,
pound of butter or of beef, are about
like asking what is the length of a
string or the size of piece of chalk.
The cost depends upon the circum-
stances. 1t may cost certain farmer
so much to produce a certain amount
of produce; another farmer on differ
ent soil, with different stock, different
tools and methods, cannot use these
figures with any success.
THE very best pure manure from
corn-fed hens, when perfectly dry, con-
tains about three and one-fourth pounds
of nitrogen, one and three-fourths
pounds of potash and three pounds of
phosphoric acid in each one hundred
pounds of the manure. This, at the es-
tablished trade values for 1886, puts its
chemical value at SlS.73 per ton, says
Ou Country Home. AS average hen
manure is at least half dirt, and this
mixture is at least half water, the real
value of the best hen manure, as we get
it. is therefore not over $40 per ton.
THE Mirror and Farmer says that
every farmer who has many rocks on
his farm should own set of rock tools
and should make himself so familiar
with their use that he can blast rocks
without the assistance of any one. A
set of tools should consist of at least
three blasting drills made of the best OF
cast-steel, seven-eighths of an inch
square, and of different lengths-say
two feet, three feet and four feet; SIX
small drills made of three-fourths-incl
steel, fifteen inches long; twenty-five
steel wedges and fifty half-rounds; one
hammer weighing eight pounds and one
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