The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-10-30
Editorial NOtings.

PRESERVING BUTTER" Mrs. J. g.
Otis, of this county," says the Kansas
Farmer, exhibited at the fair a
sample of her handiwork in the way of
preserving butter. She had put away
samples of granulated butter in June
and July of the present year. The but
ter was washed thoroughly but not
worked, then, in the granulated form,
put into brine in glass jars, the air
excluded as in fruit jars, and kept in a
cool dark place. just before bringing
it to the fair she removed the brine
from one of the June jars, immersed
the granulated mass in fresh butter
milk, then removed, worked the butter
milk out, made the butter into cake; ;
she did the same with the July butter,
and brought with them cake of fresh
butter. Experts tasted the different
samples and pronounced them all first
class butter of equal quality"
A GOOD FARM ICE-HoUsE.-A cor
respondent of the Country Gentleman
says: Eight years since l built an
ice-house; dug five feet in ground;
built the wall of stone and brick Gold
materially ten feet high; banked up por-
ton above ground; placed one brick
upon another on top of wall to set
rafters on, leaving an open space of
four inches all around, and the inside
of the rafters lined with straw, leaving
an open space three inches deep from
foot of rafters to ventilator at top.
Dug a well in center of bottom four to
six feet deep, and filled up with small
stone and pieces of brick. The house
is round and ten feet inside of wall, so
that the body of ice is ten by ten feet.
No lining of any kind used; pack ice
against wall and cover with sawdust.
Always have ice until cold weather,
and frequently find ice when we clear
out the house for the next crop"
THE NEW SoUTH.-An exchange,
speaking of Southern progress, says
" Her crops in 1888 had money valu-
alton of 100000, and this year
their value is estimated at 5000 900, 000
1t is said that this years cotton crop
will reach 100000 bales, valued at
nearly 100000. This is about
double that of any crop before the War
of the Rebellion. In manufacturing
she has made still greater progress.
There was scarcely a manufacturing es-
Enlistment in the whole South when
the war began. Now she boasts that
over IL 900 manufacturing establish
ments have been put into operation
within the last three years." This
looks like noble record, and one which
every American might rejoice in, and
that every Northern man could feel to
have justified all sacrifices made for the
preservation of the nation. II seems
to us pity, therefore, even if it were
true, to say, as is said in conclusion:
"But all this, and much more, has
been done mainly by Northern capital
and enterprise. Another kind of in
vasion is gradually going on, and in
time the South will be completely
Yankeeized and revolutionized. The
Southern white man won't work, and
the negro will not work any more than
he is obliged to. 1t is only by colonial.
ton from the industrious North that
the fair lands of the South, now sc
neglected, can be reclaimed and made
to support a thrifty, progressive and
happy population" How is it possible
if the Southern white man will moi
work, and the negro will not work more
than he is obliged to, that together
they grow twice as much cotton as be-
fore the war? Very few Northern mer
are engaged in growing cotton. Blu
not only the cotton crop increases-tht
South shows steadily improving agri
culture in nearly every department
1t is almost wholly in trade, mining ant
manufacturing that northern men ant
money are engaged in developing thu
South; and this chiefly in alliance will
as energetic and enterprising, if les
wealthy, Southern-born citizens.
CoLoNIzING THE SoUTH.-The ide
that our Northern people are likely
to any great extent, to emigrat
southwark is contrary to genera
experience, which is, that such mi
grations commonly follow lines O
latitude rather than of longitude. W
spent twelve years of our early man
hood in the South" before the war ~
and saw much of many states durin
that time. A good deal of it is fin
country; but none of it is superior
the North. The best part of Georgia