The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

FARMS differ in their productiveness
mainly according to the amount of in
telligence that is brought to their cult
walton.
STOCKS of wool are getting low in
the seaboard markets, and shrewd man
ufacturers are securing supplies of wool
at interior points.
THE Fourth of July found us with
out weed to be seen in all of our hoed
crops-about eight acres. How many
readers were as fortunate?
THERE are hundreds of cheap farms
being offered for sale in New England
every year which intelligent young
farmers can well afford to buy.
THE farmer who does not get at his
hoed and cultivated crops promptly, so
as to kill the weeds while small, works
at disadvantage all the season.
" IT is pretty sure sign of good
farmer when we see field of green
rye from which daily cuttings are being
made in May" says the Nec England
Farmer.
The Science Ne,os mentions that a
crock of butter was lately taken out of
a well where it had lain fifty years, and
found to be solid and sweet. This is
the submerged system - extended to
its extreme limit.
GIVE contend that farming, for one
who learns the business and likes it,
offers as many and as great induce
ments as any other business that is
worthy of being followed by an honest
man. says Brother Cheever, and he
has it right.
THE New York Times says that hun
dreds of millions of bushels of corn are
sold in the ear at the rate of seventy
pounds to the bushe. This will do for
some kinds of corn. But the cobs of
many varieties do not weigh fourteen
pounds-some less than ten.
The Rural Ne,o Yorker says tina,
" England is troubled not only with
bogus butter but with bogus meat
Large quantities of imported beef are
sold as prime English beef" Isn't il
getting the thing down pretty fine
when it is claimed that all beef but
English beef is ''bogus?"
TIE american Doiryman says that
1T is often claimed, and not without
reason, that if you pick out ten of the
ugliest cows in mans herd, judged
by the present prevailing fashion il
fancy cows, and ten of the handsomest
the ugliest will give the most milk. .
Will they make the most butter?
THE New England Farmer states
that in many New England manufac
turing villages some of the poorest
paid operatives use large quantities OF
lard instead of butter. 1t is spread OF
the bread the same as butter, and ther
sprinkled with salt. These buyers will
surely not object to good oleomargarine
THE Doiryman quotes Professor
Sweet as recommending that butter bt
sailed with mixture composed of one
pound of white sugar to three pounds
of fine salt, using one ounce of this
mixture to pound of butter Bad ad
vice. Sugar impairs the keeping quail
ity, and adds nothing desirable to tn,
flavor of good butter.
THE following general rules are rec
commended in the selection of calves t,
be raised for dairy cows: The heat
should not be over large, the neck thin
rather than thick, and the skin possess
ing soft feel that can only be judgeC
} by an expert. Look to the escutcheol
and milk veins. These are as good in
dications of the character as the pedi
gree.
The Mississippi Agricultural Colleg
makes the teaching of agriculture it
| leading object, as was contemplated il
: the law establishing such colleges. Ii
.. consequence, it has so many student
,. applying for admission that it has bee
compelled to abolish the preparation
7 classes and refuse admission TO student
from other states. This is a good eS
ample,
, FARM AND GARDEN says: eth
S Langshan is an active bird, and ca
fly, while the Cochin cannot. TIL
! Cochin has feathers on the middle to-
E which on the Langshan should not |
= the case. The Cochin has short, fluff
2 tail, while the Langshan has long, flow
ing sickles. The bottoms of the feet
the Cochins are yellow, while those
the Langshan are pinkish flesh colo
: Regarding their qualities, the Cochin
good layer, but persistent sitt
o when it settles down to that bushes
: The Langshan also sits, but is not
d persistent. 1t lays more eggs than Il
/ Cochin and can be kept in confinement
q but is not so suitable in that respect
s the Cochins.