The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-01-16

for his education" We would like to
know if this extends to the New Hamp-
shire Agricultural College attached to
Dartmouth. For, you know, tobacco
is great farm crop in the Connecticut
valley. A good many politicians who
love the farmers-votes-hav been
saying much, lately, about taking off
the revenue tax on tobacco. But they
don't grow tobacco in Maine. What
has our Connecticut valley contem-
porary, the Homestead, to say on the
subject?
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT Our es-
teemed friend, Hon. II. II. Hill of
Isle La Motto, sends us, at Christ
mas, handsome large photo of the
schooner 81. p Howard" as she lay
at the railroad bridge, Alburgh Springs,
loaded with cargo of 800 barrels of
apples, being part of the purchase
made by Isaac Locke e. Co. of Boston
at $500 per barrel. A close estimate
of the fruit-crop grown on the island
the past season, including apples, pears
and plums, put its value at $4,000.
This little island town deserves to be
known and honored widely for the en-
terprise and manifest integrity which
enables its farmers to grow so much
fine fruit and get such good pay for it.
Very few buyers have been willing to
pay any such price for apples, in such
quantities. this year. Alleged No.
hand-picked apples from New Hamp-
shire have been retailing at 81 so per
barrel in our market right along. But
this did not hinder us from getting
$3.50 for our own crop in the same
market. Our Champlain fruit-growers
have the great advantage of water
transportation to many markets, which
insures them also the lowest rates by
rail.
MUMMY" CORN. An exchange
has the following: "The Bridgewater
Independent says that David Drew,
Plymouth, Mass, planted corn last
spring taken from an Egyptian mummy
estimated to be 1900 years old. The
stalks grew about six feet high and
appeared like any corn, but instead of
the ear there is heavy cluster of small
twigs in place of the spindle and each
twig is thickly studded with kernels"
Evidently this A" corn " is some species
of sorghum. Many such are grown in
Egypt and other parts of the African
continent. Eminent naturalsts assert
that there is no authentic account of
the termination of any seeds known to
have been taken from an Egyptian
mummy by a trustworthy person. The
Egyptians who have to do with travel
ers in that country are very fond of
selling them such curiosities, which are
prepared to look like antiques, but
usually come from the next field.
Sometimes, however, it is a Yankee
who is getting ready to sell the product
of . mummy" seed, at fair profit, to
buyers of easy credulity.
| WARNING THE WATER.-We earn
estly wish that our dairying readers
would report their experience in this
matter of warming water for cows.
The best observers seem to be pleased
with past experience; but, as with en-
silage, some have carried it too far,
or managed it badly, or have not been
accurate in noting results; and there
is, in some directions, a disposition to
decry the whole thing. Professor San
born, formerly of the New Hampshire
Agricultural College, but now of Mis-
souri,, a careful man, as many of our
readers know, thinks it will pay, at
least in sections as cold as Vermont;
but he says every warm water will