The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-06

STATISTICS say that we import about
S24O, 100000 of agricultural products
which could nearly all be raised here
This fact should be widely known and
farmers should diversity their crops.
Two-THIRDs of the capital out West
came from the East. Let this capital
be invested in building up industries
in the East, and New Hampshire and
Vermont would blossom as the rose"
NOBODY knows who makes all the
poor butter, and the custom of late has
been to attribute it all to private dairy
men. But close examination will
show that the creamery makes its due
share.
THE change from beef to sheep would
prove beneficial to the farms. Sheep
raising goes well with orcharding. 1t
is decided benefit to orchards to have
a flock of sheep run in to pick up the
wormy and falling fruit.
SELF-DENIAL is not only the law of
greatness and of goodness, but also of
all material success. The sunken reef
on which so many enterprises are
wrecked may be labeled with the one
phrase, " self-indulgence."
THE creamery at Households, n. Y,
lost two shipments of butter last fall,
as the result of cabbage-feeding TO
some of the cows that contributed to
the milk. The feeder did not know
how to feed cabbage to cows.
IN the private dairy system each gets
his own-no more, no less-and each
at once feels that to secure the best re-
suits he must have the best stock and
keep it in the best manner, in the full
requirement of all the laws of nature.
ALTHOUGH farm products have
fallen considerably in value per pound
and per bushel from the prices of ten
or twenty years ago, yet the value of
products per acre is much larger than
at any time covered by census statistics.
"THERE is profit in popcorn" says
an exchange, and adds: GA New
Yorker raised nearly 100 bushels on an
acre last year and sold it for a dollar a
bushel." But we do not believe that
half as much was ever produced on one
acre.
THE Connecticut Farmer says: In
Norwalk, during the past few weeks,
no less than five persons have been
bitten by dogs. The town is fairly
overrun by horde of unlicensed ca
mines, and no one is safe from their
attacks"
THE man who lives with the desire
to do as little work as possible will tell
you there is no money in farming. He
who has errands to the village at all
hours of the day through all seasons of
the year, and who stops to talk with all
he meets, usually sings the same song.
THE degeneracy of modern rum and
the increased cost of the pure article is
assigned by Connecticut farmer as
factor in the agricultural depression
problem. "A humiliating admission
this, and one that precious few New
England farmers will confirm" says
the Ph9nir.
"ANIMAL odor" in milk, when cows
are properly fed and MIXED in clearly
manner in clean place, is one of those
intangible things met only in the
realms of the imagination. Not that
there is not "animal odor" enough
floating around, but that is not natu-
raj constituent of milk.
MANY of the best farmers of the
North, East, South and West are anx-
iously looking for something that will
restore their exhausted fields. Barn
yard manure is good as far as it goes,
as is pasturing. But many of our best
farmers have come to the conclusion
that clover is the crop that will do it
with profit.
THE nests are the breeding. places of
lice, the warmth of the hen and the Sc
clusion of the nest material being very
favorable to the pests. At least once a
week the nests should be taken out and
cleaned. BY sponging the boxes with
kerosene and applying lighted match
the work will be perfect, while the
boxes will only be charred little.
"DoGs have again raided the flock of
sheep belonging to E. F. Thompson of
Warehouse Point. Nearly twenty have
been destroyed; but then, the dogs are
heightened, blooded animals, and the
town treasurer is able to pay the dam
age" says the Connecticut Farmer. But
the Farmer knows that no sufficient
compensation is to be got from existing
dog laws.