The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-08-07

mercial fertilizers at 1875 to $40 per ton
and allow the manure-piles of the farm
to lie exposed to the teaching effects of
every rain-storm. Don't you know this |
to be true?
ENGLAND is said to have one cow to |
eight and one-half persons; France,
one cow to three and One-half persons;
America, one cow to two and two-thirds
persons; Vermont, one cow to one and
one-half persons.
AN average advance of five cents a
pound on all the butter made in this
state would make an annual increase 10
the receipts of the producers of mill
ions of dollars, and it can be done
simply by improving the quality of the
poorer grades.
IN an preserving contest in Eng
land various methods were represented,
but the prize went to dozen unfertie
eggs which had been packed in flour.
The truth is that anything that keeps
out the air and keeps them cool will
preserve eggs.
A MANS muscularity is no evidence
of the amount or quality of the work he
will do Some of the best farm labor
ers are small men. They are quick,
deft and willing; they are intelligent
and of good judgment. This last is
big recommendation.
A GOOD many farmers have injured
their crops by careless use of KANT,
on account of the great amount (nearly
ninety per cent? of salt which it con-
tains. 1t should never be put in the
hill, but if used it should be broad
casted and narrowed in.
THERE are still comparatively few of
our dairymen who make the best but
ter; but earnest efforts for improve
ment, with first-class methods to imi-
tate and willingness to be instructed
are essentials that all must possess who
desire to go forward in this line.
BY actual count Mr.. Delano Moore
of Caribou, Maine, who is an extensive
grower, found that an ounce of rutabaga-
seed contained 9,042 seeds. OF English
turuip, which is less than half the size,
it has been said if it could be got on
evenly a tablespoonful is enough for
an acre.
THE turnip has been called the sheet
anchor of British agriculture, and with
out the silo our farmers would do well
to follow England's example. But they
can not grow corn as we can, aud their
climate is better for turnips than ours {;
and with the sio we have the advantage
of them.
If the air in the cellar is damp it may
be thoroughly dried by placing in it a
peck of fresh lime in an open box. A
peck of lime will absorb about seven
pounds, or more than three quarts, of
water. In this way cellar or milk
room may soon be dried, even in the
hottest weather.
DO the work well, do that which
needs to be done most, do a fair day
work and be satisfied. With a natural
gift for it, or little inclination that
way, man can tire and worry himself
and his help as much over what viii
need to be done next week as mar
with the right disposition would while
doing the work.
CALVES should be made tame from
the start; they should show no more
signs of fear of you than your pet dos
does. 1t pays to loaf around among
the calves, and it pays well, too, as yol
will find when the calf becomes COW
and you attempt to milk her. You
: COWS and calves-in fact, all your stock
> should look upon you as their hes
friend. Get them to feel that way
> towards you, and you have made yer,
: important step towards success.
NAKED fallows are more exhaustin.
q on the nitrogen of the soil than a sum
: mer crop, though there is saving o
: potash and the phosphates. A crop o
s rag-weed on a stubble field is a rea
blessing in protecting the soil from TIT
r scorching sunshine of August, which il
/ the season that the process of nitritica
}, ton shows the greatest activity. Thi
d is especially true if the weeds ar
turned under as a green crop, early il
e September, and suffered to remain un
n disturbed till the next summer.
), IN Onondaga county, New York, tn
e common practice is to fill the silo with
out cutting the green crop at all.
IS is placed in the pit so that the stalk
d lie as nearly parallel as possible withou
= too much trouble. After the silo
u filled it is covered with planks place
crosswise of the stalks and batten
q placed under the joints where tw