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

grasses and are suited to moving lands.
The character of the Jersey cow has
been sadly injured in public estimation
by the course too often pursued by
breeders in saving every calf that has a
pedigree, regardless of other qualifca-
tons.
IT will be hard next summer to cut
off the fruit blossoms from the straw
berry plants set this spring; but by all
means do it if you would have a good,
large crop the next season. 1t pays
every time.
THERE is work in tending cows and
making butter, and the small farmer
can devote his time to it at much less
cost in winter than when all the duties
of the farm are crowding upon him
from " early morn till dewy eve."
THE same spirit that actuates the
Jersey herdsman to procure bulls from
dams which have records for large
weekly yields of butter now crops out
in the poultry-breeder to secure cocks
from flocks that have regulations as
producers.
If your tree is overloaded with fruit
buds which, if let alone, will bring you
a great crop of small, inferior fruit,
shorten in or thin out the excess of
bearing wood and it will increase the
size of the fruit in proportion to the de-
crease in number.
To prevent the spread of chicken
cholera, DR.. Salmon recommends mix
ture of two ounces of sulphuric acid to
two gallons of water. This will destroy
every germ of cholera that it touches in
few minutes, being one of the best
disinfectants known.
In the West and South the farmer is
coming openly and boldly into politics
The Nebraska Alliance is an organiza-
ton of agriculturists for the reelection
of their senior senator. In South Caro-.
lima there are hints of farmers state
ticket at the next election.
If poultry breeders would believe
how valuable vegetables are, either raw
or cooked or mixed with meal, for the
morning mess, they would be more in.
clined to make provision for the health
thrift and productiveness of their fowls
Cabbage, as succulent vegetable, has
no rival.
BEES are of greater use than many
suppose. They were not created alone
to make honey, sweet and delicious as
that is. They help the flowers to per.
petuate themselves, and that certainly
is quite as useful an employment
though it is an involuntary one, as fill
ing the hive.
Stop grumbling about the weather
hard times and low prices, and all other
things which you have no power tc
change. Do your part well-as wei as
you can and know how-and trust to ma
ture and kind Providence to take care
of you in future as you have been taker
care of in the past.
GOOD cows, like good people, die
young. The high feeding which such
cows receive is probably in part respon
sible for this. We can feed higheI
when a COW has green feed, and thu
ability to feed larger quantities of grair
and meal may prove one of the i'm
portant advantages of ensilage.
A RECENT manifesto by farmers il
South Carolina calls for state conven
ton of their industry to meet in April
and sets forth as reason, among othe-
considerations, this: "We constitute
the state and yet we do not govern it
nor are the laws administered in ou
interests, and few are passed for ou
benefit"
"THE commissioner of agriculture il
said to have prepared Statement
showing where some of those free seeds
ought and ought not to be planted
What will those Minnesota constituent
say when their worthy congressman
does not include in his spring offering
the usual supply of cotton and eucalyp
tus seed? Have those good old day
departed?" asks the Homestead
TALKING of a recent cattle sale, thu
Ne,o England Farmer says: "There il
no fairer way in the world for sellin!
goods than by public auction, but whel
it is known or suspected that cattle of
fered in public cattle sales are animal
that the owners wish to get rid of be
cause of hidden faults, we might a
well say goodbye to good prices, evel
for good animals offered in such sales
Honestyis, after all, pretty good policy.
THE farms of America equal the en-
tire territory of the United Kingdom
France, Belgium, Germany, Austria
Hungary and Portugal. The corn-feld
equal the extent of England, Scotlan
and Belgium; while the grain-feld
generally would overlap Spain. TIL
cOttOn-felds cover an area larger tha