The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-04

difficulty is overcome there is no doubt
that good crop of clover gives us the
most and best feed, at the smallest cost,
of anything the American farmer can
grow. The clover should be cut for
fodder the first year, The second year
cut the first crop for fodder, then allow
it to grow again and go to seed, which
save for future use, and there is then
left in the soil to the depth of ten inches,
$3.50 pounds of clover roots, which con-
tain seventy-seven pounds of potash,
nineteen pounds of soda, forty-eight
pounds of magnesia, BAG pounds of lime,
seventy-one pounds of phosphoric acid
twenty-four pounds of sulphuric acid
and $50 pounds of nitrogen available
for crop; and, when the land is
plowed, it is clean, light, retentive of
moisture and easily titled, with avail
able constituents in the clover roots
and soil to produce any crop probably,
and the necessity of purchasing fertil-
izers and applying them is saved. The
constituents in the clover roots above
amount in value, at prices commercial
fertilizers are " estimated " at, to S35. II
for The nitrogen, phosphoric acid and
potash alone, TO say nothing of the
other constituents, which are equally
as important for the growth of crops.
ARTIFICIAL HONEY-COMB--" A lie
will travel league while the truth is
putting on its boots," says an old
proverb, and it is well illustrated by
the increasing popular belief that much
of the comb-honey offered for sale is
an artificial product. This falsehood
was set afloat about ten years ago, we
believe, by the present chemist of the
national department of agriculture.
He says it was intended as Joke, but
it has gone into circulation as a fact,
and will probably continue to circulate
long after its author has passed away.
We see it popping up serenely" every
few days. Table Talk gives us the
latest version, as follows: "Science
is making such rapid strides toward
helping us in our gastronomic needs,
that nature herself must get out of the
way or she will be run over. Even the
poor hOnev-bee was accused, not of
laziness, for that would have been too
palpable an injustice, but of being too
slow, and spending too much time over
the clover-heads. | will remedy all
that said Science. And she did
Shutting up the bees, she knocked the
head out of a barrel of glucose and told
them to 90 to work and help them
selves, which they did faithfully. Their
long journeys to and from the flower
ing fields being done away with, they
had nothing to interfere with their
getting down to actual business. The
scheme was success, for the honey
was piled into the combs in treble
abundance and in one-third the usual
time. And yet Science wasn't salts
fled. Greedily she put her wits to
work. What's the use of going to the
expense of buying bees? l can make
the comb quicker and quite as well as
they; and as for the honeywell, glu-
cOse is hOney" And so the occupa-
ton of the honey-bee being gone, so
far as it had any hand in what is known
as the honey of commerce. it now con-
fines itself in a small way to home man
ufacture, samples of which if the
reader particularly wants he must par
ticularly search for"
INSECT KILLING Professor A. j.