The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-09-10

not to count his time in figuring the
cost of his product and that he has
nothing in particular to do during the
winter are fast becoming relics, valu-
able only to the editors of city agricul-
tural journals.
EDITOR FUsT, of Montreal says we
are misinformed about the cheese known
as Fromdge Ro6ine, that cit is much
about the same as ordinary soft cheeses,
and not at all unlike the we'll known
Camembert. 1t has positively no odor
except mild cheesy one, such as it
ought to have.n
ZONE would Judge, by the writings
OF some of the newspaper correspond
ents, that the farmers of Maine were
going to everlasting ruin, but when the
census enumerator goes his rounds, and
the statistician gets in his work, diff
ferent state of things is shown" says
the Maine Farmer.
Mr.. CossIT of New York breeds
sheep, Mr.. Goodpasture of Tennessee
is stock farmer, Mr. Sawyer of Mich. j,
igan is a lumber merchant, Mr.. Sherl
herd of Montana owns a sheep ranc
Mr.. Hogg of New York is a swir
breeder, Mr.. Allchin of England is
livestock auctioneer.
A WRITER asks: " What right he
we to say that anything shall not
colored to initiate butter as long as
color frothy white butter to initiate go
Jersey butter?" and adds: I" If Ii
could be passed prohibiting the sale
use of all kinds of butter-color butte
might then be sold upon its own mer
it's" Doubtful.
ACCORDING to the Nebraska Farmel
the liquor traffic of that state costs the |
agriculturists many hundreds of thou.
sands of dollars each year by pauperism /
lunacy and criminal prosecutions alone
besides the indirect loss consequent o.
decreased consumption of food products !
money for which is diverted to the cof-'
fers of saloOn-men.
"STEADY work is much the same
everywhere, but for variety of work,
for freedom from monotony, and the
independence one feels who drives his
own team, plows his own fields and|
gathers his own crops, is not to be COM
pared adversely with that of any class
who 90 and come at the sound OF
Cheever of the NelC England Farmer.
As laws are made in these days y
lobby may be necessary about a per-
fectly honest and capable legislature,
for there is no other agency through
which members can be made familiar
with the character of many proposed
bills. But with capable and expert
enced men it would be needless. Keep
your representative as long as he will
serve, but be sure he is honest and
capable.
A FEW years ago rarely an agricul-
tural paper could be found that paid
any attention or devoted any space to
the discussions of questions not directly
pertaining to agricultural matter and
methods. Now they recognize that
their constituents are by far the most
important part of our citizens, and that
none are more vitality interested in
matters of public policy and govern
mental administration.
THERE is far too much of the hand
to-mouth practice on the farm, and this
applies especially to crops and the
make of the dairy. If the farmer has
one good year of potatoes, the next
year he will go into potatoes strong.
So it is with the dairyman. If it is
good butter year, and the cheese fac
tory returns but small dividends, he is
about certain to desert the factory next
year and go into butter strong.
WHEN it is considered that the para
site which produces scab is so tenacious
of life that it has been known to exist
in pasture fields and communicate the
disease even after an interim of two or
three years, it is seen how imminent
the liability is to contract the disease by
sheep that may merely pass through an
infested stockyard. The safe way is to
gather a flock from ones neighbors
where it is known the disease does not
exist.
THE Homestead says: "Thirty to
forty tons of poultry are sent from Yer
mont each Thanksgiving, and hundreds
of thousands of pounds of butter an
nually." This has not been stated
strongly enough. According to the re-
port of the committee on transporta-,
ton, at the late state grange, this
amount of poultry is an average froul
each of the large number of stations i'll
Vermont. The total may be counted
by thousands of tons, and hundreds
thousands of pounds of butter are
shipped weekly instead of annually.