The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-13
Farm and Garden Notes.

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IN all crops requiring much labor it
is essential to profit that the soil should
be proportionately fertile.
IT is almost impossible for even the
best farmers with the best farm land to
succeed if they begin on too extensive
a scale.
LACK of fertility will explain more
failures of farmers in trying to grow
garden crops on large scale than any
other cause.
CON perfectly new land in Kansas
red clover seven feet high was grown
the past season, and white clover five
feet six inches high" Same here.
"MANY members of the Elmira Farm
ers' Club agree that burying apples is
the best way to keep them. Besides,
they are much improved in quality"
Doubtful.
THE Angel of Midnight corn is a very
good, though a ridiculously named corn,
suitable, we think, to Southern Vermont
and New Hampshire and the Champlain
Valley, but too late for the rest of these
states.
THE idea that something else can
be grown with greater profit than oats,
hay, wheat and rye is true one,
but it may lead to serious mistakes I'M
less the conditions for growing other
crops are taken into consideration.
WE cannot get land too rich for
early potatoes. In late crops heavy
manuring sometimes causes rot, but the
main point in marketing early potatoes
is to sell just as soon as they are large
enough, and thus get the highest price.
BY mixing one part sulphur to three
parts of salt, and feeding to the sheep,
it will have a tendency to improve the
general health and drive away the ticks.
Many farmers feed sulphur both sum-
mer and winter with excellent results.
Flocks fed in this manner are much
less liable to be affected with foot-rot.
"IN 1885 a citizen of Salem, Mass.
received two or three Marrow squash
seeds from Valparaiso. He planted
them and they fourished. This was
the origin of the squash in the United
States" OF the Valparaiso squash,
perhaps. The Indians were growing
squashes here when the first settlers
came.
ONE of the good effects of low prices
for dairy products will be the turning
off of many poor cows, never of any
value for dairy purposes. Certainly no
farmer will be tempted to keep poor
cows at present prices of butter and
cheese. These low prices will also en-
able him TO buy the best cows at a
lower figure for some time to come.
WHILE the great majority of farm
ers are complaining that tradesmen and
middlemen take more profit than the
producer, they should remember that
by selling as much as possible at retail
they can combine the profits of both.
If a man objects to this as too slow and
worrying work, it only shows that he
prefers the severest hand labor to that
which requires also skill and thought.
A MAINE orchardist wrapped va
riety of apples in tissue paper, in Octo-
Der of last year, but found that by De-
cember they had acquired a musty
taste, and all distinctive flavor was
lost. He does not use tissue paper
any more" So says an exchange. Prob
ably the tissue paper wrapping was in
no way the cause of the trouble. The
true cause may have been close by, YET
overlooked, Too many people allow
themselves to be deceived by their owr
"snap Judgments"
"TURNIps are seldom plowed under
as a green crop, but can be used for
this purpose to great advantage. sow
thickly broadcast in August or early
September, they will cover the grounC
and gather a mass of fertilizng matter
which, if plowed under, will astonisl
5 the farmer the following spring" Sc
} says an exchange; and we agree tina
: the farmer will be " astonished the fol-
lowing spring by seeing the plowed
in turnips coming up all over the
field " as thick as hair on dog"