The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-11-28

the most wholesome of foods, especially
for working people. 1t is far better to
have a supply of both cabbages and
potatoes than to depend upon the latter
alone. We, and our neighboring truck
farmers, sell thousands upon thousands
of cabbages to the farmers in the sur
rounding districts.
AND ONIONS, Too.-Probably 5000
bushels of onions have been sold out
among the villagers aud farmers of Or
leans county by the Newport and West
Derby truck farmers this fall, and the
prospect is that the planting next year
will be much increased. The more
there are grown, the more market there
seems to be for them.
CONTROLLING THE WORKING
MANA wealthy congressman is re-
ported as saying: " We Ohe capitalists)
can control the workingman only as
long as he eats up to-day what he will
earn tomorrow 1t looks somewhat
as though the railroad kings were aim
ing to put not only the working
men that is, journeymen mechanics
and day -laborers-but also the farmers,
in this condition. And a good many
dull-eyed farmers seem willing to help
on the work
WILLING TO LEARN. - Generally
speaking, when a man has taken side,
and especially when he has taken it
upon prejudice rather than reason, he
rarely changes. But here is an in
stance to the contrary in a Homestead
correspondent, who says: 1.-The silo is
reality, and its success is a glorious
truth. What the turnip has done for
England the silo will do for us. Its
capabilities are not yet realized. We
can now turn our attention to the pas
lures, for the question of winter forage
need trouble us no longer"
IOCED-SOhNs lulu Will DC NCly
little reliable seed-corn in New England
next spring, of this years crop. The last
freezing of the cob, before it is entirely
dry, is sure to kill the germ; and as all
the seed-corn, with very slight excep-
tons, had to be cut up before maturity,
and no good drying weather having fol-
1ouad tho likelihood of ito aSoon;po
death by freezing must be very small.
AS writer on the subject has well said:
"The one great secret about the germ
ination of seed-corn is to dry it well and
keep it from freezing and from getting
heated and moldy. Only one condition
is sure, and that is dryness. All the
others are injurious if not fatal"
REMOVING LARGE TREES. There is
no greater mistake than the one so COM
monty made in thinking that there is a
for fruit or ornament An exchange
says, wisely: st is not advisable or
often very satisfactory to move trees of
any kind larger than can be readily
handled with all necessary roots, but
where it is desired to handle one there
are two facts that it is well to under
stand. The first is that you are under
taking large job; second, if it is not
done well, so the tree will thrive, it is
labor worse than wasted, for there is
more pleasure in seeing a small tree
grow than in seeing large one die"
HITS IT ABOUT RIGHT.-The Middle
boro (Mass.) Gazette has the following:
"The great city weeklies now have
their agricultural departments, in many
cases edited by men stuffed with sound
ing theories, who gravely admonish the
farmer against twisting the tail of
bull calf during milking-time,' or in
dulge in long, windy diatribes on the
advisability of making friends with
laying hens There's many little,
tough, dried-up, weather-beaten farmer
in the back districts whose only knowl-