The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-07-31
Editorial Meetings..

Editorial Netings.
THE FUTURE OF FARMING will be
revealed when the cities fail to be able
to absorb nearly all the rising talent
and energy of our people. When that
time arrives (and it is near), we shall
see fine agriculture begin to take
gigantic strides. The field is bound
less; the opportunities are rich. All
that is waited for is men, 1t makes
the soul sick to see how the oppor-
tunities and possibilities of farming in
New England are overlooked.
NOT SO.-An exchange says: d" Peo-
pie who discard factory butter and
cheese and select homemade goods on
the score of neatness are choking at
a possibility while swallowing GER
tainty." No buyer who "selects
butter from home diaries runs any such
risk. Indiscrimnate purchases from
either home or creamery butter are
risky, but there is not the least diff
Guilty or risk in finding home diaries
whose manufacture is good, and whoSe
milk is all right. 1t is in this last point
that the weakness of creamery butter
lies.
THE WORLDS MARKET.-As yet
American dairymen know almost moth
ing of the great round worlds posi-
bilities as market for first-cass dairy
products, especially fine butter and
fancy cheese. The time will come
when we may send abroad more dairy
goods than we now export of cotton or
grain. But that will be when no other
people surpasses us in this manufac-
ture. AT present it may be noted that
in 1888 the export of American butter
was only two-thirds of one per cent in
dollars of the entire American produc-
ton in value.
ENsILAGE ABANDoNED(O-Under
this head the Ne,o England Farmers
st. Johnsbury correspondent says:
Farmers commenced haying two
weeks earlier than usual this year. On
account of the abundant hay crop for
the two last years some have given up
filling their slos." This may be all
well enough for the farmers who do
not run winter dairy, but not for the
progressive farmers. The same writer
reports "good butter" as selling at
from fifteen to twenty cents. Bet a
bun it was not from Judge Parks herd,
or from dozen more we might name
in that vicinity.
SOILING.-We do not know him, or
who he is, but Professor Thomas Shaw
is right when he maintains that pro-
duction of special crops for soiling stock
effects a saving in land to the extent
of enabling the farmer with about fifty
acres to raise more beef, mutton, milk,
butter or cheese than the one with one
hundred acres who pays no attention
to growth of green folders. All this
is true; and when the country fills up,
and all the farm land is occupied, we
shall see Cor those who are then living
will see) the merits and advantages of
high farming and of soiling stock. AT
present it is not popular, and very few
can make it profitable.
THE CREAMERY. Both sides should
be stated; and in regard to the cream
cries it is true, as an exchange says,
that cas- large share of the avoidable
impurities get into the cream and but
ter at skimming-time and after, there
is large choice in probabilities between
making the butter all in one place, in a
building fitted for that purpose and
used for no other, and making il in fifty
farm-houses, with the children and cats
and dogs playing about the churns and
butter-workers. But at the same time
the creamery does not eliminate the
worst sources of filth, in dirty stables
dirty cows and dirty mixers. These
are surely avoided only in first-clas'
private diaries; and in these the risks
named all disappear.
PoTAToEs.-H many to-day re-
member or know the immense impetus
given to potato-culture by the intro
duction of South American potato-seed
by Rev. +. G. Goodrich of Utica, N
Y, in 1860, or Whereabouts? The OLE
Chill potato, its descendant, the Gar
net Chill, the Early Rose, and abou
every one of the present popular sort
came from that stock. The genera
average of the potato crop has beef
doubled by it. And yet this great pub
lie benefactor is already almost for
gotten; and is quite unknown to thou
sands who profit by his work. Such
agricultural fame If the farmers wer