The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-06
Editorial NOtings.

southern New England, especially the
truck farmers, have lost good deal of
money by the excessive supply and
poor keeping of their cabbages, onions,
apples, roots and the like. Imperfect
maturity, checked by early frost and
followed by changeable and open
winter, have forced the premature
marketing of these stored crops, and
this in generally bad condition.
Prices are badly broken, and by decay
much is entirly lost. The result will
no doubt be scarcity, and a strong
rebound in prices, before the new stock
is ready, from which southern growers
will be likely to reap the benefits.
DUCK-RAIsING.-It will not be we'll
for all the folks engaged in the poultry
business to rush into duck-culture be-
cause it is being doomed just at this
time. These blooms" are not a mat
ter of chance. There are men who
reap profits from them; and there is
always ground for the suspicion that
much of the booming is done to that
end. 1t is altogether best to stick to
that which you know most about. If
you can not make profit at that, it is
fair to believe that you can not go into
something you know less about, and
make that pay. The right road to sue
cess is to perfect yourself in the lines
you have already found to pay, rather
than to wander or be led into others
that you not Of"
Do YOUR BEST, AND MAKE No
APoLoGIEs.-Mrs. Whitaker, the ac-
complished editor of the woman's de-
partment of the Ne,C England Farmer,
gives advice to her readers which is
quite as'applicable to the men-folks "
under similar conditions. She says:
" When asked to read paper, or in any
way contribute to an entertainment, do
not say you have hastily prepared what
you have to offer. If you have been
complimented by an invitation to do
something on such an occasion, the au-
dience has right to expect you to do
as well as possible, and it is an insult
to admit that you have not tried to do
your best. Besides, it savors of OBJ
noxious self-conceit, as it seems to i'm
ply that you think you could astonish
people if full play were given to your
abilities"
OLEo TRICKS. The cleo men.
backed by large capital, and making
big profits by the fraudulent sale of
their product for what it is not, meet
the demand that they shall not damage
their " honest goods by coloring them
to resemble butter by demanding in
return that the natural color of butter
shall not be heightened. This is
altogether too thin. Butter is naturally
yellow, and while oleo can be sold for
oleo if not colored, it can not be sold
for butter unless it is colored They
claim that they sell oleo honestly for
what it is. So do the butter-makers.
There is a plain distinction between
coloring oleo unnaturally, with intent
to deceive, and merely increasing a
little the natural color of the genuine
thing. The law-maker who can not see
this is wilfully blind.
NOT THE SAME EVERYWHERE
correspondents of agricultural papers
who give their experience with differ
ent varieties of corn, potatoes, and
other cultivated plants, are much too
apt to infer that this experience is con-
elusive. That is a great mistake. They
would probably get very different re-
suits in another season, on other land,
or with a different treatment. The
publication of these "tests," even
when made by competent and fair men,
should be accompanied with warning
to this effect by all editors. If that is
not done, many readers will be deceived
to their hurt. According to our own
observation and experience, such ex,
periments, as published, are almost
valueless, probably even for the next