The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-06-18

Do away with much that now cum
bers and loads our school-books, that is
of no earthly use, except to professional
men, substituting for them some live
subjects that are within reach of all,
and there will be manifest improve
ment.
THE editor of the Maine Farmer
says: 1--WE have recently sold Bald
win apples at the highest price ever re-
ceived for any apples during our long
experience in growing fruit This
doesn't indicate that the business is
being overdone.
SUPERINTENDENT PORTER of the
eleventh census has planned to ex-
tend the returns relating to agriculture,
and it is expected that the amount of
information obtained in this direction
will greatly exceed that secured at any
other time in the history of the country.
TIE best butter-makers, those aim
ing to reach highest results. both in
quality and quantity, are scrupulously
particular about temperatures. Ex-
perience has taught them that their
best efforts are liable to be disappoint-
ing if this feature in the dairy room be
neglected.
If farmer should be asked what his
wheat cost him, what his corn cost him,
what his hogs cost him and what his
cattle cost him, including labor, incl
dentals, interest and taxes, he would
find it impossible to tell. That is the
difference between farming and most
other businesses.
EIGHTERN years ago the first cream
cries were started in Illinois. Now the
state exports over l00,000,000 pounds
of butter and cheese annually. Iowa
now has 695 creameries and l40
cheese factories, and its estimated but
ter and cheese product for 1888
was S15, 731 ,075 so.
THE making of first-class roads needs
a rediscOvery in this country, as it
seems to be lost or an unknown art.
The old Romans built real roads, and
those roads remain to this day." says
an exchange. True, but they were
military roads. When will the soldiers
of industry take the hint?
DON'T give the male too many hens.
For the larger breeds ten is enough,
while with the more active Leghorns
twelve to fifteen will be allowed. If
the number be increased the eggs will
either fail of being fortified or the
chicks will die in the shell for want of
energy to break their bonds.
GONE hundred twenty-five additional
members were admitted at the recent
session of the Vermont Dairymen's AS
ISOLATION. That certainly indicates that
interest in dairyiug is Speeding in that
Of of larnalv dino 70 tho offO of tho
efficient secretary of that association,
Mr.. E. l.. Bass" says the Dairy World.
II a horse should balk or shy, the
very worst plan is to drag at the bride,
shout at it or beat it. The creature
balks or SHES because it is frightened
needlessly at something. The rider or
driver should, therefore, try to find out
the cause of the horses alarm, and
should show it that there is no ground
for fear.
AMERICANS allow wire-pullers to
boss them in the interest of one or
other of the big parties. In five years
from now American labor will be prop
erly organized, and then it will use
politicians instead of being used by
them" says an exchange. Seems
though we had heard such prophesies
! long ago.
WELLINGTON NJ. WENRICH, we'll
| known farmer of Lower Heidelberg,
Penn county, Penn, has assigned, for
the benefit of his creditors, his farm of
204 acres, one of the finest farms in Penn
county. This is the sixteenth farmer
in this county who has failed within
brief period. Something is rotten in
Penn county farming.
PRESIDENT F. ID. DOUGLAS of our
Dairvmen's Association in the early
days of his dairy experience used to
write TO his customers requesting them
to note any defect in the butter re-
ceived and report to him. He cared
more to learn of the defects than of the
merits, because knowing the former he
could have something definite to work
| for.
SOUTH CAROLINA agricultural editors
are wearing smile as beaming as the
! harvest moon over the fact that one of
| their farmers won the $500 prize Of
fered for the largest crop of shelled corn
grown on an acre ia 1882 obtaining the
extraordinary yield of 225 bushels of
shelled corn. That is beating the
northern farmers on one of their own
crop specialties.
DIR. LoRING, president of the New
England Agricultural Society, and
United States minister to Portugal, is
said to have got into trouble by smiling
at some hard talk about England at a
public meeting at Lisbon, which his ig-
norance of the language prevented him
from understanding. The handsome
doctors smile is well known at home to
mean very little. He is a good deal
like greyhound-stands high, but
very thin.
SOME say feed the cows turnips; they
relish them, and rich milk production is
stimulated. Others contend that tur-
nips should never be fed, as they affect
the flavor of butter, and that depreciates
the market value of the product. The
Sheboyg0n County (Wis.) NetCS says
a. Y. Hyatt, the well-known dairy
farmer of Lima, this county, who is a
warm friend to the turnip and rutabaga,
has already fed his herd of COWS about ,,