The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-03-03
Farm and Garden Notes.

PURE air, water and food are essen
tial to the health of brutes as well as
their masters.
THE cost of ensiloing a crop does not
materially differ from the cost of dry
ing in good season, but saves the risks
of loss by bad weather.
A TON of hay is worth about the
same as three tons of ensilage. Sugar
beets cost So ton to raise, and en-
silage 50, the latter being chemically
the best food, but practically the beets
are little the best.
AS horses are kept and driven, they
are constantly subject to accidents and
diseases, to which the working OK, on
account of his slower pace, more pa
tent habits and narrower field of ac-
ton, is far less liable.
If there is one point of greater i'm
portance to us in our farming than all
others, it is that of sticking to our
branch, whatever it may be, until we
know the full measure of profit, or be
assured of the certainty Of loss.
Nor a great ways back in the past it
was rather unusual to find farmer
who provided good building for his
poultry, but now they are often noticed
upon the premises and appear to be
considered an absolute necessity.
PROFESSOR BREWER stated that he
had known the largest and most valu-
able tree on his fathers farm to be cut
down by some coon hunters who did
not get the coon after all, nor was
either of the men worth as much as the
coon would have been had it been
caught.
THE wholesale and retail produce
trade in New York are signing an
agreement like this: eve, the under
signed dealers in dairy products, hereby
state that we do not sell oleOmargarine
butterine, or any limitations of butter.
Buyers from us can rely upon getting
pure and unadulterated goods"
A QUESTION among farmers is, What
can we find to restore our farms to
their former fertility? Those having
no barnyard manure will do well to use
one ton of phosphate on four acres,
which will produce corn enough to fill
silo, and will feed twenty cows twice
day three and one-half months.
Mr.. ANDREW S. FULLER mentions
men who in past years expended hun.
dreds of dollars ON orange groves in
Florida, and "have yet to see the first
cent of profit" He thinks there is as
much risk in the pursuit of this fruit as
in planting apples or pears at the North
and no greater promise of return.
The time to cut fodder for the silc
is when the plant is approaching ma
turity, and is beginning to decrease in
its percentage of moisture. "Sweet >
ensilage does not exist; there is simply
difference in the degree of acidity
The silO is worth most to the farmer
working light, sandy soils, not wei
suited to the growth of grass.
CoTToN-sEED and unleached WOOD
ashes together make good corn fer
tilizer, but it ought to have more phos
phoric acid. If you want to force quicl
start, use little nitrate of soda. FISH
and potash, manufactured, or half dry
fish and good wood ashes, also makes {
bang-up compound for corn-two parts
fish to one part ashes, by bulk.
THE Patrons Insurance Company Of
Ohio has been of great advantage t
those who have insured in it. The as
ISOLATION was incorporated in 1877 ant
is now carrying risks to the amount o
81 ,066,000. The entire losses up to thu
present year amounted to only 50, 1885
the average annual rate of assessment
being thirty-siX and half cents on tn,
thousand dollars insured
THREE analyses of cotton-seed mea
made at the Connecticut station las
year averaged 10 per cent of nitrogen
2.61 per cent of phosphoric acid, and 81
of potash, the chemists valuation of thu
plant food being $50 per ton. To make {
complete fertilizer, add 500 pounds eacl
of muriate of potash (S12.5O and plair
acid phosphate ordissolved bone (S7.5O
For about $50 ton with cotton-seet
meal at S24) you thus get fertilizer
that will run about as high as the aver
age S3S or $40 phosphate, and it viii
make grand stuff for corn, says TIT