The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-09-26


An English agricultural paper informs
its readers that in the American state
of Kansas, cover 100000 of cotton
wool trees have been planted during
the past year." Must Kansas, which
also has sugar boom in progress, be
ranked with the "solid South " here
after?
Gates writes thus from Franklin county,
Vt, to the Homestead:
l have much better catches of grain
where / SOW seed that / have raised
than with western seed. Timothy
yields four bushels or more per acre,
and this will seed considerable land
let it stand until late, when it is fully
ripe. 1t is then tied in sheaves and
allowed to stand some time before
threshing. 1t does not waste as much
as might be feared, as most of the heads
that shell, cast their seeds into the
tightly bound sheaf.
WHERE THE PROFIT Is.-Hoard's
Dairyman puts the whole thing in
nutshell when it says:
Two-thirds of the amount of gen.
erous ration for COW goes to keep the
COW alive and in health and vigor. All
the money there is or can be made by
feeding her is made out of the other
third To put it in another form, the
first two-thirds is lost-the last third is
sold for three prices to the COW. This
everlasting truth ought to be painted
on every dairyman's big barn doors,
where he can read it every time he
goes to the barn to feed his stock But
the mass steal money from their own
pockets and throw it away, by raising
the skeptical inquiry, CIVIL it pay?"
and withhold the food. A man might
as well ask if it will pay to feed oats to
the horse that is doing the blowing.
MORE NoNsENsE.-We clip this
from an exchange:
1t is now said that pans of water
placed in fruit and berry patches will
keep birds from eating the fruit. An
English naturalist claims that the rea-
son birds eat cherries and strawberries
is because in the blazing heat they get
dreadfully thirsty. If the birds can
easily get at water they soon leave off
taking the fruit.
This is reprinted merely to add that
there is not particle of truth in it..
Birds will ravage fruit plantations right
on the border of brook or lake, Just
as badly as elsewhere. Common sense
should tell any one that a creature
which can move so quickly as a bird
never needs to 90 thirsty in this country.
BETTER NOT READ THIS, OLD MANI
A correspondent of the Mirror and
Farmer has the audacity to say:
Just now your wives, sisters and
mothers are busy at what you call the
foolishness of canning fruit, etc. You
look sour when you are asked to get q
dozen glass jars at the store; you are
impatient when dinner is five minutes
late; you think it is small business
when you see jars of fruit at the fair
you laugh in your sleeve when the
canned fruit is found moldy in the win
ter; that is, some of you are guilty Of
all this. But it is all meanness. Yor
get as tired of dry Goldfish and potatoes
in the winter as any of the family do
You relish fruit sauce as we'll and will
eat as much of it as any one. Yol
know that such things are conducive t,
health and save purchasing substitutes
Then why not be more consistent?
OAT AND WHEAT STAGE On
good friend, L. w. Pitkin of Marsh
field, VT, sends this report to tn
Mirror and Farmer:
Last year when our oats showe'
signs of getting ripe, a little past tn
milk, we cut them down and run then