The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-25

BTOWluB SIdJSS
For the production of frst.class
product, be it butter or cheese, eternal
vigilance is essential
AT Cornell University it was found
that about half an ounce of salt was all
that pound of butter would dissolve,
and if there was more, it was found in
the butter in an undissolved state.
COMPARATIVELY few men are ca
pable of setting for themselves a goal
that will require lifetime to reach,
and then steadily exertng the max
imIfm power of brain and Drawn to get
there.
THE average boy, if he can be in
duced to perform any task, wants one
of very limited duration, clearly COM
| pretended at glance, and explicit in
! its bounds, and then wants another
boy to help him. The average man is
the average boy grown up.
"THE Gravenstein is one of the best
fall apples grown. In northern New
England it keeps well till into winter,
farther south it is in eating in Septem-
ber," says an exchange, but unfor-
tunately the Gravenstein will not live
in northern New England.
THE outlook in Maine for canned
goods is hopeful this year. Maine has
disposed of nearly all her canned
products, and they have become one of
the necessities of life. From first
hands (packers), wholesale dealers and
retailers, the stock is about exhausted.
AN exchange says that strong at
traction of cities to farm hands is the
system of regular weekly or monthly
payments. The man who seeks to
avoid care likes to receive his dollars
without waiting the necessarily slow
process of producing and selling crops.
NEBRASKA prices of some farm prod
uce are as follows: Corn, fourteen cents
per bushel; oats, fifteen cents wheat,
forty.tive cents; butter, eight cents At
this rate it takes two bushels of corn
for one pound of coffee, or four bushels
for one pound of tea. Better not drink
'em.
A VERY important item of attraction
for the average farm hand towards
manufacturing centers is the fact that
the dav-laborer is not required to think
All details of care-takiug, of method,
of expense, are attended to and carried
on by the owners and their superin-
tendents.
A WRITER in an exchange, who be-
ieYes in the private dairy, thinks that if
the creamery system is followed up it
will reduce the farmer and his family, So
cially and Intellectually, to mere hew-
ers of wood and drawers of WATER" or
a SOFT of an attache to the cow-barn
and pig-sty.
"To kill the future of creameries have
poor cows, poor milk, poor machinery,
poor buildings, poor maker, poor butter,
poor consumption, poor prices, result
ing when fully worked out in OVERRIDING
the creamery business on this line and
busted set of poor creamery men,"
says the Dairy World.
GREAT discoveries have been recently
made, and are now being made. in beds
Of phosphate rock in Florida. For
wears it has been mined on the coast of
South Carolina, mostly in the vicinity
of Charleston. This has been one great
source of the phosphate in commercial
fertilizers for many years.
" IT is no uncommon thing to find
farmers who have no faith in science as
applied to farming. They seem to
think that science, instead of being
based on tested facts, is some vague
theory or suggestion. But such farm
ers are apt to have great faith in ira
dition, "remarks the Mirror dndFdrner
THE Plymouth Rock is distinctively
an American fowl. Its evolution and
development were wholly accomplished
by American fanciers. The prominent
position attained by the breed, not only
in 4bio I'm a1cn in,
parts of Europe, bears witness to the
skill and intelligent enterprise of its
Originators.
As regards the rearing of swine, old
breeds which have been kept for years
past for the production of clear mess
pork-all fat, and thick, heavy fat, too
and which is now unstable, except at
greatly decreased prices, must now be
changed for smaller kinds, which grow
rapidly, make lean meat, and are always
ready to kill
"THE men in this state who have
given agriculture their intelligent, care
full and painstaking attention, applying
thereto modern thought and modern
methods and machinery, have realized
higher per cent of profit within the
last decade than during any previou
ten years in the history of the state, y
says the Maine Farmer.
"IF any assessor attempts 10 equal
ize taxes he is beheaded at the next
town meeting, and his skin nailed to the
| gable end of his barn to dry, as a warn
J ing to his successor that the Shylock' IS
money must not be taXed,' says man
, who has served several years in that
office. Will not the people stand by
the honest lister? If they allow I'm
fuential citizens" to punish them
thus, what can they expect?
If m were to burn one hundred
poundWf oats and one hundred pounds
of corn there would remain but one
and one-half pounds of ash residue
from the corn, while the oats would
give twice as much, or three pounds.
1t is in protein, which goes to build up
the muscular system, and ASH which