The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
Editorial Notings.

ROUND THE EDGES.--No matter how
clean you keep your titled fields, if you
allow weeds to grow and ripen seed in
the corners and other out-of-the-way
places. Even weeds along the roadside
will scatter more or less seed in the adj
joining fields. A few weeds allowed
to mature and scatter seeds will in
crease very materially the work re-
quired TO give clean cultivation.
NEW HAMPSHIRE CREAMERIEs.-
Secretary Batchelder of the New Hamp-
shire Board of Agriculture reports that
in 1888 the butter made at eighteen
creameries amounted to $50, 697 pounds.
Two large establishments were not
heard from, and these would bring the
total up to over ,250, 900 pounds. The
largest amount reported was from Pier
mont, where los, 800 pounds were made,
and next was Hanover, with los, 600
pounds.
HUNGARIAN.-The prospect now is
for heavy hay crop, though not, per-
haps, of the best quality. But on many
light-soiled farms, where sorrel and
daisies have the possession, it is yet
possible to grow large quantities of
good winter feed by sowing the Hun
gtrian millet, which two warm months
will mature. Experience has shown it
to be first-rate feeding material for
all kinds of stock. 1t is also an ex.
cellent weed-destroyer.
A STRAIGHT TRACK.-A correspond
ent of the Mirror and Farmer asks;
"What would be thought of the man
who, wishing TO plant straight furrow
of corn, trusted to his ability to do so
without any guide and with half-closed
eyes? About as straight as that row of
corn is a mans track through life who
keeps no accounts, and he comes as
near the goal-competence-as the
other did the opposite point of the field
from which he started"
LOVE FOR OUR BUSINESS The
good farmer loves his farm. Like A.
M. SIS grandfather, he feels it an in
suit to be asked to sell it. So it ought
to be. With no love and no interest in
farm pursuits and demands, what mar
vel if farm life, indoors and out, is
bore-that the farm and farm house,
instead of being home in the full sense
of the word, are simply to be endured,
as sort of terrestrial purgatory, be-
cause its victims have failed to secure
better lot in life?
DIRECT TRADE.-We are told that
casually the dairymen who succeed
best are those who have obtained a
good reputation for their butter in the
market, and which is of such quality
as TO command satisfactory price year
after year." This is fact; and such a
reputation enables the producer to deal
directly with the consumer, eliminating
one unnecessary tax upon the traffic.
Now what stands in the way of direct
cash trade between producer and con-
sumner in multitude of other farm
products? Is it anything other than
the lack of high and uniform quality?
MEDICINAL VICTUALS. An eX-
change says: A physician is quoted
as saying that he always has boiled
onions for dinner for the benefit of his
children. No worms, no scarlatina,
no diphtheria where children eat
plentifully of onions every day"
There seem to be more kinds of fools
than ever among the "physicians p"
and metaphysicians about now.
Onions are very good food, though some
what too vigorous for most people,
nostrils. But if onions will kill worms
inside of us, how is that they are so
feeble against the worms in the ground?
And to suppose that onions can null
lily the poisonous germs of scarlatina
and diphtheria-oh, Father Jupiterl
Where is thy fool-killer all this time?
THE FARM HoME.-It is truly desir-
able to re-establish all over our country
those family homesteads which once
existed in New England, but have been
mostly broken up by the now nearly
ended wild rush to the West. AS 6
thoughtful writer says: An old home
acquires power over the heart with the
course of time. 1t comes by degrees tC
touch the imagination with sense o.
life inherent in itself. Its timbers are
not dead wood. AS the vibrations o.
the music constrain the libers of thu
violin till, year by year, it gives forth
fuller and deeper tone, so the vibra
tions of life, as generations 60 by
shape the walls of home into re
sponsive accord with the human expe
rience that goes on within them" We
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