The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-07-22

Then order your ascension robe;"
and adds that it is not quite 30 bad now.
Had anybody else noticed it?
THE report of last winters meeting
of our Dairymen's Association is re-
ceived from the new secretary, James
K. Curtis of Georgia, VT, after an in
terregnum of two secretaries from other
towns. 1t appears to have been care
fully edited, and is very neatly gotten
out by the Waterman Publishing Com
pany of Montpelier. This is the twenty
first issue, and the association is there
fore now of age-though it has been
doing business in its own name ever
since it was born. AS very full report
of the proceedings of the meetings APP
peared in these columns last winter, we
will not use space for review of this
very useful brochure of $50 pages. No
Vermont dairyman ought to be without
it; and the best way to get it, if you have
it not, is to send the membership fee
of one dollar to Secretary Curtis, as
above.
SOME readers seem to infer, because
we think more of sheep than of sheep
killing dogs, and oppose the misuse of
the noble horse as gambling and
swindling instrument, that we are
sort of kill-joy; but that is where they
{" get left" Any one who enjoys clean,
honest sport better than the agricul-
tural editor must be leading joyful
life, indeed. Hunting and fishing, rid
ing and driving, occupied a pretty large
percentage of our time while we were
young man in Maine and Kentucky
and we enjoy them yet, though we can
almost reach out and touch our three
score and tenth year. All of which is
Introductory of passing notice of our
Sherbrooke friend Thomas excellent
monthly magazine, The Land We
Liue In. 1t is now in its third volume,
and has grown constantly better with
each issue. 1t is sporting" journal
that hearty orthodox ministers, like
Beecher or the Fields of New York
might have enjoyed and contributed
indeed, some such are in the
list of its writer's. Canada is true
sportsman's resort, and if you want a
reliable guide to the best shooting and
fishing there, just send your dollar to
D. Thomas 81 Co., Sherbrooke, P. O.,
for a years subscription to The Land
We Live In.
AMONG our editorial friends there is
none whose progress we have watched
with more interest than that of Edwin
H. Libby, now at the head of the Rural
Publishing Company of New York,
which, besides many excellent rural
books, issues the Rural Ne,o- Yorker
and the american Garden, foremost
of rural journalism on
this continent. Perhaps little of our
interest arises from the fact that Mr..
Libby is, like ourself, native of the
Pine Tree State. But it happened that
back in the '70's we had in our employ,
for several years, fellow-member of
the same class in the Massachusetts
Agricultural College in which Mr..
Libby graduated, in the times of PreX
Clark and his Samsonian Squash. This
young man had a good deal to say
about " Libby" and as Libby, so soon
as he was graduated, plunged into
journalism as the editor of the Scientific
Farmer, we greeted his paper joyfully
as an exchange with our Vermont
Farmer. Mr.. Libby, even with DR..
Sturtevant's able assistance, did not
make financial success of his Farmer;
but it served him well as a school, and
his succeeding ventures in journalism
have indicated steady and vigorous
advance. He took the American Gar
den from Mr.. Bliss, and soon showed it
to the front as the best American horti-
cultural journal, absorbing several of
its leading contemporaries, and rival
ing in every excellence the best for
eign publications of its class. In his
present strong position Mr.. Libby
shows a vigorous mastership, and is
rapidly advancing the previously
assured position of both the Garden
and the Rural in the regard of vast
body of readers-not only in America,
but in other continents.
WE read Mr.. Bannister's letter on
the editorial page of the WATCHMAN OF
July s, and agreed with good deal of
it. We noticed, however, that while he
thinks farmers can have their own way
in the legislature, he nevertheless
speaks of "gullible farmers" Does he
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