The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-07-09
Notes by the Way.

CdIe lne uuallly VI inc egg, DuI lS uue
to the amount of coloring matter in the
food.
FROMAGE RAFFINE is the name of a
fancy cheese that halls from Canada.
II is said to outrank the rankest Linn
burger ever made.
NINETY per cent of those who cry
out against farming and call it unproft-
able are those who spend little too
much time leaning on the hoe, wishing
for Jay Gould's riches.
THE problem of how science shall be
taught in the public schoos-or, indeed,
whether it shall be brought into them at
all-depends for its solution upon hav-
ing the right kind of teachers.
IT is said that rhubarb is unlike most
if not all other garden products, and is
best and most wholesome when it has
been kept week or so and become
quite wilted. 1t is good enough for US
fresh.
THE roup is disease that may pre-
vail in summer as well as in winter,
but at this season it is more liable to
occur with those fowls that are debili-
tated than with others. One of the
fruitful causes is drafts of air blowing
over the fowls at night.
PROHIBITION does not seem to help
agriculture in all cases. The Westerly
OR. ~ Tribune says: During pro-
hibition there were so few inmates at
the state farm that it was feared that
help would have to be hired from
outside to till the soil. Now the state
clearinghouse is filed and more build
ings are needed"
Mr.. J. E. ROGERS of Broome county,
n. Y, after nine years of experience
with the silo, says he is sure by the use
of silage the year round it is easy to
double the products of the farm. Be-
fore he built a silo all the stock he
could keep on his 16S acres was thirty
cows and four horses. Now he is keep
ing ninety-four cows, fifty sheep and
six horses.
THE annual catch of fish on the
European and North American coasts
is computed by German statistician to
amount to 10000 tons. A ton of fish
corresponds with twenty-five sheep in
weight and with twenty sheep in
nOurishng power. Therefore the total
European and North American catch
equals in number $4,000, 900 sheep and
in nourishng power 10000, 900.
BUTTERMILK, fresh or sour, is said
TO be specific for kidney disease. |
have always drank freely, and often
largely of it. and never had a touch of
such trouble. though past three
score" writes 5. NJ. Palmer to the
Tribune. We can say just the same
drinking water only. But buttermilk
is good food. If anything is medi-
cine, ii should never be used for food.
THE handsomest and most snowy
form for Shorthorn COW includes a
broad as well as deep chest, full crops,
fore ribs so round as to leave no
depression behind the shoulders; a
straight line along the back to end of
the rump; wide between the buckle
bones, and welldeveloped quarters.
This is the best shape for making beef,
and the poorest for profit in the dairy.
A. b. STILES, Orange county, VT,
writes to the Homestead: " recently
received letter from an old Vermonter
living in Wisconsin who gave me the
price of farm produce. Nothing was
over two-thirds as high as here. He
said that if he was back in Vermont he
would stay there always. Many farms
are rented or carried on upon shares,
and some dare not buy for fear real es-
tate has not yet struck bed rock"
FARMERS who spend yearly large
sums for commercial fertilizers would
better invest in large, weil-cemented
pit, covered, with open seams in the
cover large enough to admit the drain
ings of the manure pile, which should
always be kept over the pit. When
the heap becomes too dry, pump some
of the liquid over it, to keep from over
heating. The value of the liquid would
in one year pay for making the pit,
Thereafter it would be a regular in
come every year." says the Tribune.
HUMAN excreta, properly saved,
make one of the best of manures. The
annual waste amounts to millions in
this country. Yet to some people it
appears to be wonder why farms run
out" says an exchange. All manurial
matter should be utilized, but the
value of human eXcreta is often
exaggerated. The value of all animal
manure depends upon the quantity and
quality of the food. Mankind grow
slowly, and are Small eaters, compared
with farm beasts. The excreta of HUI
man vegetarans would hardly be worth
saving.
THE japanese farm workman labors
from seven A. NJ. until six p. NJ, but he
| is supposed to take about three hours
every day for rest. He usually has a
little fire or box of charcoal some
where in the field, and on this fire a
pot of hot water perpetually steams.
Beside it lies his little pipe, with bowl
no bigger than thimble, and he stops
from time to time to make cup of tea
and to smoke his pinch of tobacco.
The wages are, on the average, about
ten cents a day tor men and not more
than half that amount for women. Still,
the wants of the people are few, and
though poverty is common, paupers are
practically unknown.
A LEBANON SPRINGS, n. Y, cores
pendent of the Tribune says: :" In the
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