The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-24


not required for securing comfortable
homes and the accompaniment which
20 to make homes worth having.
GOOD winter butter is rarely in full
supply, while good summer butter is
usually plenty in its season. The pub
lie taste has greatly changed within a
few years, only freshly-made butter
being now wanted by the larger class of
buyers, and particularly by the buyers
of the better grades.
Abr. CLARK of New York city as
serts that oleomargarine is dangerous
to health, because it is indigestible and
insoluble when made from animal fats.
But isn't butter an animal fat, and the
fat of the same beast that provides the
Oleo? There is not particle of proof
that butter is more digestible than beef
fat.
WHEN a nurseryman in one part of
his catalogue says lit is my sincere
wish that every transaction should be
to the advantage of the buyer as well
as to myself" and in another part of
the same catalogue says that " if out
of any variety ordered, something else
will be substituted unless it is forbid
den," it looks as if he was fraud.
THE pictures which nurserymen use
as aids in making sales of trees and
plants should represent an average
specimen of the fruit, not mere "pos-
sibility of the variety" The usual
practice of taking specimens of uncom-
mon size or beauty for " originals - is
mischievous, to say the very least, and
needs reform, says Orchard and Garden.
A COLT should be so fed and handled
as always to be kept growing and thriv-
ing, without any checks either from
want of food, food of poor quality I'M
suited to his needs, or from sickness.
Another extreme should always be
avoided, and with as much care as pow
erty of flesh, and that is excessive fat
ness, which usually occurs from too
much fat-producing food, excessive
feeding or want of exercise.
Cows coming in from the last of
February to the first of April are Civ
ing milk just when all the least sue
cessful dairymen are making their
butter, and for this reason just when
the price for ordinary butter is at the
lowest What condition the market
may be in few years hence no one
can determine with certainty. Good
winter butter and fine spring chickens
may become drug in the market, but
it is hardly likely that such will be the
case, says Brother Cheever.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburg
millionaire, is quoted thus: "' Don't put
all your eggs in one basket is all
wrong. l tell you put all your eggs
in one basket, and then watch that
basket Look round you and take
notice; men who do that do not often
fail. 1t is easy to watch and carry the
one basket. 1t is trying to carry toe
many baskets that breaks most of the
eggs in this country. He who carries
three baskets must put one on his head
which is apt to tumble and trip him up
IN the celebrated experiments of the
Rothamsted farm in England it has
been proved that feed, to be of high
feeding value, must have proportion
of not less than one of albuminoids tC
four of carbohydrates, and a much
larger proportion of albuminoids viii
be of still greater value. The ratio Of
corn is about one to seven; clover hay
one to three and one-quarter; oats, one
to four; while linseed-meal has nearly
one to one. 1t therefore follows that 6
iudicious admiXture of linseed or cotton
seed meal with any of the above feeds
will raise their value correspondingly.
THE New York Times says that il
the owner of northumberland farm
worth $4,000, were to sell his property
for cash, he could not possibly invest
his money nearly so well as it was in
the farm, for the interest at five pei
cent on the capital would not begin tc
provide him with house, provisions
/ comforts and luxuries which he en-
ioyed on the farm, but never took any
, account of in his bookkeeping. AL
, this is true, but the personal labor Of
the farmer is left out of the account
/ What he could earn by that should be
, added to his interest, after selling the
, farm.
SIR J. B. LAwEs of Rothamstead
/ England, relates how farmer improved
his WORKOUT soil with sheep. He made
} the production Of wheat the basis o.
r renovation; stopped all tillage and en-
r deavored to get the soil into pasturagt
t by giving it the plant food to enable i
to grow good grasses. A flock of sheer
was allowed to run over the land dur
i ing the day and folded there every night
t and fed one pound each of cotton-seet
D cake. The use of sheep in renovatine
e land is not new; but the practice ha'