The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-02

are IN FAVOR OF changing tne Seeu OF
potatoes frequently. Experience seems
to have proven the desirabilty of this
change, and leaves little doubt but that
planting the same kind year after year
on the same soil tends to weaken the
variety" So observes an exchange,
but the statement is true only of gar
deners located south of the true potato
belt. Where the potato is at home,
and we'll treated, on suitable soil, it
will improve rather than weaken.
GRAss.-The Mirror and Farmer
says: "There is field near this city
on which the grass was cut early last
season and the second crop allowed to
grow and remain on the ground. This
year the crop is not worth cutting, and
the soil is so light that it feels to the
feet like newly-plowed garden; and
the crop last year was not clover, but a
mixture of fine grasses" This is given
as an argument in favor of feeding off
the aftermath. There are cases where
it is heavy enough to make its removal
advisable; but in these it is better to
NOW it than to feed it. But the condi-
ton of this field the second year is not
fairly attributable to the cause named
as a general rule, at least.
AMONG the many good things that
Canada produces must be placed that
spirited monthly publication entitled
The Land We Lire In, published in
Sherbrooke, p. O., by d. Thomas.
Here is humorous and open-air paper,
the contents of which are almost en-
tirely original, written by gentlemen,
and void of all the stuff which may be
valued by the loafers calling themselves
"sports," but which excludes most
papers of this class from all self-respect-
ing households. 1t is filled with notes
of adventure by field and flood, and
lively sketches of the many pleasant
rural resorts of the Eastern Townships
and Northern New England. Send a
dime for specimen copies, and you will
thank us for the advice. Fifty cents a
year.
AS OF OLD.-People who 60 West
often write back that if Vermonters
would live as cheaply at home as they
have to live in their Western dug-outs
and shanties, they might make money
here. And we are told, even by Profess
sor Collier, that Z" if many of those
who, perhaps without sufficient DELHI
Grafton, are ready to declare that in
their case farming does not pay, were
ready to adopt for a few years the
primitive habits, the frugality of ex-
penditure, the absence of other than
the sheer necessities of life, which was
the rule with rare exceptions among
their fathers, they would find that so
far as the mere accumulation of money
goes there was never a time when
farming i'll this country would pay bet
ter" This is all true; but we may
have too much of it. We live but one
life on this earth, and we believe that
the most sensible people are those who,
in moderation, seek to enjoy life while
they are here. Our ancestors did not
live poorly and cheaply from choice.
They would have lived better if they
could. We can; and let us do so, even
if we do not lay up pile to spoil our
children, or make them wish US gone.
AT THE PARIS EXPOsITION.-Som
of our readers will remember Mr..
James Cheeseman's interesting paper at
the Vermont Dairymen's meeting last
winter. Mr.. Cheesman is one of the
judges of dairy goods at Paris, and
writes as follows of the American but
ter exhibits to the NelC England
Farmer : If Americans are discon-
tented with the rate of progress they
are making, it is a useful thing to send
them to Europe, where they will soon
learn to thank God their lot is cast in
the great republic. In European dairy
ing we have but one thing to learn,
and that is to market butter as fast as
we make it. The fresher it is when
marketed the better for maker, market
man and consumer also Our best
farm goods and the higher class of
creamery products are made, packed
and marketed in a much better way
than any l have seen in France OF
England. French cream is not as uni
form when churned; it is OVERTURNED
and pounded into grease before il
reaches the market. In all France ]
have seen no such beautiful display OF
fine goods, so nicely packed, as yor
may find any day in Quincy Market
Boston, or in New York or Phila
delphia." -
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