The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-20

so distant a market. The best varieties
return the largest profit"
AMONG many notices adjoining the
walls of the audence-room on the occa-
sion of the recent nineteenth annual
session, in Boston, of the National
Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, were
these 9" The earth is full of his
merces;" "Reap for the mind as well
as for the body" and this, from Presi-
dent Jefferson: They who labor in
the earth are the chosen people of Cod"
If it be true that with an increase of
one pound in the hesh-producinC capac-
ity of fowl the profit of raising and
marketing it would be increased twenty
five per cent, is not such fact worthy
the attention of every one who seeks to
advance the poultry-producing indus
try? And again, if the g-producing
capacity can be increased one dozen in
a year, is it not thing worth trying for?
FEW commercial fertilizers have as
large proportion of plant-food as the
best hardwood ashes. One hundred
pounds of the ashes of oak wood when
tested contained-potash, 10 pounds;
soda, 3.6pounds; magnesia, AS pounds;
lime, 1875 pounds; phosphoric acid, 5.5
pounds; sulphuric acid, Ia pounds.
But average ashes, as ordinarily col
lected are not much more than half as
rich in fertilizing material as this.
AN Ohio dairyman, speaking of the
profitableness of winter-dairying, re-
marks that the time will never come
when winter-dairying shall be over
done. With warm, well-lighted, clean
stables, plenty of early-cut and we'll
cured grass, supplemented with the
contents of good silo and well-filled
root cellar, the comfort, health and
profit of the cows should be no more
problematical in winter than in summer.
FIFTEEN thousand farmers banded
together to elevate the standard of
manhood and womanhood in the ranks
of the tillers of the soil, and steadfastly
endeavoring to protect the rights and
promote the interests of that class of
, the people, must be a power among us
so long as they work in harmony and
their action is controlled by wisdom.
And they are not to be feared, for the
history of the world shows there is
safety in the hands of the farmers.
" AMERICANS have never taken kindly
to such extensive use of cheese as is
common in England. One reason I'M
doubtedly is that meats of all kinds are
cheaper in this country. But good
cheese is more nourishing than meat,
and can be made to take its place with
great advantage, and at less compare
tive cost" So says Mr.. Poore in the
CultiratOr 1t is true that there is
more nutriment in cheese than in the
same weight of fresh meat, but this is
offset by its indigestibility.
t~-THE late William H. Vanderbilt is
reported as having said, not long since,
that the happiest part of his life was
when he was working on his little farm
at Staten Island. On that farm, thirty
years ago, he was a Woodworking,
healthful, contented striver. He owed
money and wanted to pay it. He sue
ceeded. Fortune and his father fa-
vored him, and he became the richest
man of his day and generation, but with
riches came responsibilities; with the
responsibilities came anxiety.
IN Professor Skeletons experiments
in feeding cattle, the average gain of
each animal upon corn-and-cob meal
was 3l6 pounds, with gain per hun
dred weight of 80 pounds, and upon the
clear meal the gain per animal was 292
pounds, and per hundred weight 35
pounds. The total amount of corn-and-
cob meal consumed was II ,595 pounds;
of clear meal, II ,612 pounds. The aver
age amount of feed for one pound of
increase was-cOrn- and-cob meal, 1882
pounds; of clear meal, 7.95 pounds.
AN experienced bee-keeper says:
"Experience has taught us that it is of
little use to unite small colonies at this
season. it is far better to build them
up by giving them a frame of brood
occasionally from the colonies that can
well spare them. AS it is fact that
bees are not wanted save in numbers
sufficient for self-preservation of each
colony until the honey crop is ready to
be gathered, it follows that large col
onies, save when the honey is to be
found, are an expense rather than a
benefit"
WHEN l consider how compare
lively few in number are the farmers
who take or have access to an agricul-
tural paper, cannot help feeling of
surprise, somewhat akin to mortifica-
ton, that such state of things exists
among a class of such general intelli-
gence as is represented by the farmers
of to-day" So writes correspondent