The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-09-18
Editorial NOtingso

The DAIRY WORLD forcibly says:
Farmers, the butterine and oleomar-
garine manufacturers are shrewd fell
lows, and the mere argument that your
product is genuine and theirs is not has
lost its force. You must demonstrate
to the Understanding world that
your butter is not only genuine, but
that it is clean, attractive, wholesome
food"
ONLY CHOICE FRUITS pay the grow
ers satisfactory profit. To have them
choice calls for skill and knowledge and
industry among the growers. Where
these exist the profits are satisfactory,
as was shown last year by the success
full sale of S25 worth of fruit to each
man, woman and child in the little
island town of Isle La Motto, in Lake
Champlain, last year, bringing an in
come of some $4,000 to that small
community. -
FALL CALvEs.-Now that winter
dairying is becoming so common, it is
we'll to consider the value of the fall
dropped calves. The Maine Farmer
remarks that " fall calves are the best
for raising if to be brought up by hand.
There is plenty of time in winter to at
tend regularly TO their wants, and the
six to eight months at the barn before
the grass grows in spring advances
them to an age and condition when
they will 90 to pasture and thrive on
grass alone" -
THE OvERBEARING of an orchard is
often a serious injury to it, unless it is
well dressed with manure after gather
ing the fruit. A Maine orchardist says
that, " Until 1887 my trees bore the odd
year. In 1885 / had very heavy crop,
1886 and 1887 but few, 1888 a good
crop. 1t required two years for the
trees to recover from the heavy crop of
'S5, which was probably the cause of
the change" We believe that liberal
manuring after the heavy crop would
have prevented this.
THE VARIETIES OF INDIAN CORN
are very numerous. DIR. Sturtevant
tells us that in weight of seed there are
sorts of which $50 seeds will weigh a
pound, while of others 5000 seeds are
required. Its variation in type from a
variety said to have but two rows to
over twenty rows, and through the
kinds from popcorn, sweet, Dent and
Flint corns, and in colors from blue
through many colors and queer com BIZ
nations of colors, like our calico corn Of
this section to the standard yellow, show
a great swing in the field of its varia.
ton, and great opportunities for the
improver. -
DAIRY SCHoOLs.-We wish oul
dairymen were all more wide awake to
the value of fine cheese, as well as but
ter. Secretary Bass of our Dairymen''
Association well says that "we Ameri
cans are paying many thousands of dol
lars each year for fancy foreign cheese
which we have not the skill to produce
but we have the material and should bC
able to supply ourselves at large profit
True, our experiment stations anc
some agricultural colleges are doing {
great and good work, but there is still
legitimate field for the dairy school
We in New England should be no les
alive to our interests in this direction
than are the people of New York ant
Wisconsin"
KEEP UP YOUR FARM.-A write
in the Mirror and Farmer says trul
that " with good system of farming
saving manure and draining, the farm
should every year increase in product
iveness; and this should insure yearl
addition to its value for holding. TIL
fact is generally recognized that in tim
of depression landed property is slow
est in falling. l go further than this
and say that land kept in good cond
ton for cropping never depreciates i
value as an investment. There ma
be times during stringency of none
when it is more difficult to sell sue
property, but whenever the stringenc
passes it is again in demand, and E
higher prices than before.'
EXPORT Products More than
million barrels of apples were SCI
abroad last year, and the exports {
canned vegetable products, especial
California fruits, are becoming grei
item in our commerce. In dairy pro
ucts it has been shown that lack
quality alone stands in the way of sci
ing vast quantities to foreign nation
Indeed, the fact that three.quarters
the exports from the United States a
farm products in an unmanufacturt
state is reproach to our boosted i
genuity and business ability. On
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