The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-05-08
Editorial Meetings..

hotel secured for his guests meat of
Shorthorn, Hereford, Galloway, Hol-
stein and Jersey cattle, exhibited by
the Michigan Agricultural College at
the latest fat stock show. He tells
The Dairy World that "the Jersey
was pronounced by all, without hesita-
ton, the finest in quality and flavor
and the tenderest of any beef they ever
ate."
"THEY BEGIN TO COME IN" says
an exchange, quoting the account of
mans being killed by dehorned bull.
Does our contemporary think its read
ers such fools as to believe that horn
less bull can not kill manor would
he not prefer to take his chances with
such, rather than with horned bull?
1t is good thing to take away The
deadly car stove," but car-riding
will not be quite free from risk even
then.
GA VETERAN " says: 81 fight shy
of all the novelties till l have some
practical assurance of their usefulness.
The introducers are generally a little
preiudiced in favor of their debutantes;
it is human nature. Bnt the older l
grow the more skeptical l become of
alleged Improvements on fruits and
vegetables" 1t is pretty easy for us
veterans to become prejudiced old
fogies, but it don't pay. New things
are not always good, but still progress
is possible. -
MUTTON SHEEP.-W have believed
land we mean to know by experience)
that good profit may be got out of
mutton sheep on our New England
farms. Beef is out of the question,
but fancy mutton brings a much higher
price than beef, if we find the right
market and furnish the right goods.
AS an exchange remarks, 6 all authori-
ties agree that the best-fed sheep that
fatten and mature in the shortest time
make the best and soundest wool, so
that this by-product from such sheep
will always find ready market If we
can raise mutton on the basis of max
ing the meat pay the cost, we shall
have the wool for clear profit"
LAND Too RICH FOR CORN The
Mirror and Farmer tells its readers
that "poor crops of almost anything
else may be laid off upon the season or
some other excuse, but a poor corn
crop means poverty of soil and poor
cultivation, or both combined. Land
can not be too rich for corn, as it may
for almost any other grain. 1t can
not be too thoroughly titled. Knowing
this, the poor corn crop is all through
the season standing reproach to the
careless, shiftless farmer. Sometimes
the carelessness begins even with the
seed. If that is poor, nothing after
can be done to remedy the defect"
Now we venture to say that the first
part of this, while it may be in sense
true, is not sound teaching. A great
deal of careful experiment here in New
England seems to have proved that it
is hard to get new dollar for an old
one out of the nitrogen of the manure
applied to corn, unless the land is very
poor indeed. 1t may be quite true that
this nitrogen does no harm, but if it
does no good there is great waste,
because the nitrogen is the costliest
part of all our complete manures, in
Guiding dung. We are fully satisfied
that on a turned sod corn needs no
nitrogen-that phosphoric acid and pot
ash will give full crop.
FEEDING VALUE."-It is stated
that experiments in feeding pigs, in
stituted by the Danish Agricultural So
ciety, go to show that skinned milk
has double the fee ding value of butter
milk; that rye and barley are of about
equal value, with slight percentage
in favor of rye, and that six pounds of
skinned milk have the same feeding
value as one pound of rye or barley.
This is all quite true, if you speak of
the nutriment actually contained in
each of these feeds. But unless they
are Understandings fed the farmer
may lose sometimes as much as half
their value. 1t is with animals as it
is with plants-they must have COM
plete food, rightly proportioned; and
unless this is seen to, waste must fol
low. For instance, though six pounds
of skinned milk has the same feeding
value as one pound of rye or barley
one can not be proftably used in the
place of the other. Take the case of
the human being. One pound of maple
sugar may have the same feeding value
as half pound of baked beans; YET
one could not live on maple sugar. Sc
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