The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-24
Editorial N0tings.

Address all inquiries or communications in relation
to agriculture to DIR. 7. II. HosKINs, Newport, VT |
Editorial Notings.
THE New England fair, at Worcester,
Mass, is reported by the editor of the
Maine Farmer, who was in attendance,
as follows "The striking features of
the great exhibition were: C) A mag
nifcent collection of breeding cattle;
(2) a grand display of horticultural
and farm products; (O a large at
tendance of people, and (4) an insuffer-
able crowd of fakirs, gamesters, gym
cracks, howlers, peddlers and statesmen.
In respect to this last count, justice
can hardly be done. Pandemonium
was literally let loose. They were given
every conspicuous and convenient
place; where the visitors wanted to be
they were under foot, in every open
space and on every conspicuous corner,
and every visitor trying to see the show
was tumbling over them, pitching into
them, and continually obliged to be on
the alert to try to dodge them. Liter
ally they occupied the first places
everywhere, and visitors were left to
take what was left"
BAKING-PowDER is neat and handy,
and about S25,00O,000 worth of it is
sold in this country, two-thirds of which
is net profit to the makers, according to
the Ne,0 England Farmer, which says
that yeast might be substituted for one
half this amount of powders with better
results in health and much less eX-
pense, but yeast requires judgment and
skill in using, and the servant-girls and
careless housekeepers resort to raising
powders just as they use the frying
pan as a quick and easy way to make
food eatable but not to get the most
from it in nourishment. More yeast
raised bread and broiled meats would
greatly change the health of some
families who are always calling and
complaining"
A POULTNEY, VT, correspondent of
the Homestead says that 81 the farmers
are little to blame in having tried to
educate their children beyond their
means; a good commercial course is
good enough" We shall be glad when
what is known as " the average farmer !"
gives his sons even a commercial course
of study. We suppose it will be some
time before he will think he can afford
an agricultural course for them.
CONTINUED study of the feeding value
of good corn silage confirms the belief
that the corn plant in this form has its
highest feeding value, at the least cost.
AT the Ontario Agricultural College ex-
periments have been made with corn
ensilage as a food for making beef,
with the following summary of results:
l. That shipping steers can be fed at
fair profit with prices of grain as at
present, when of good types, when they
are purchased at reasonable rates and
where there are suitable facilities for
feeding. 2. That corn ensilage and
meal will fatten as effectively and as
cheaply as ration of roots, hay and
meal, and with a less expenditure of
labor
AGRICULTURAL education, when
properly undertaken and carried out,
can not but be in the truest sense a
liberal education. AS the Maine
Farmer puts it, agriculture deals with
more of the sciences than any other in
dustry, thereby causing agricultural
education to become more nearly lib
eral education than that necessary to
any other industry, or, as it is often
called, profession. Very nearly the
round of natural sciences is involved.
PERHAPS not many farms go down their
land, but the figuring of the humorist,
Burdette, on the subject is forcible and
effective enough to be worth reading,
and will apply almost as we'll to some
more common "wastes of the farm
He says: "My homeless friend with
the chromatic nose, while you are stir
ring up the sugar in the ten-cent glass
of gin let me give you fact to wash
down with it, You say you have longed
for years for the free, independent life
of the farmer, but have never been able
to get enough money together to buy q
farm. But this is just where you are
mistaken. For several years you have
been drinking a good improved farm at
the rate of 100 square feet at gulp
If you doubt this statement figure il
out yourself. An acre Of land contains