The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-07


in every store, and everybody was eat
ing it to greater or less extent. there
was an epidemic of the winter cholera.
and 1t was believed then. and is
still believed, that oleomargarine was
largely the cause of the trouble.
ENTRENCHED monopolv. with its in
fuence and power, must he mot and
defeated. This is a task wortbv tho
supremest efforts of the toilino masses
of the people of the United States
From it there is no escape if we would
perpetuate free institutions and an.
lightened Christian government.
j. b. SMITH of Indiana stated beforo
the American Horticultural Society that
he planted 600 apple-trees along the
! roadside of his farm, and it was the best
! advertisement he ever had. The pub
lie had all they wanted, and he often
could not take care of what was left.
He advised every one to try the plan.
E. B. VOORHEES, of the New JERSEY
experiment station writes to the Coun-
try Gentleman that alsike clover is not
well adapted to growth by itself, since
the stem is bent at the base and lies
along the ground. He recommends as
an excellent mixture one-half red clover
and one-fourth each of alsike and tim
othy.
APPARENTLY one of the essential
conditions of sweet silage is less moist
ure than is required to carry fermenta-
ton to the point of acidity. Possibly
the result depends entirely upon this.
AS an evidence of this, green clover
and dry corn slower, ensilaged in thin
alternate layers, gave a perfectly sweet
product.
WHILE it is deprecated that the chill
dren leave the farm, it is many times
home influence that does it. The father
does not give the son a chance to get
for himself even a little; when he sees
others earning their wages wearing bet
ter clothes and having more leisure
than he he gets dissatisfied. There is
a remedy for all this.
IT appears that the managers of the
state retreat for the insane in the state
of Michigan have been feeding the pa
tients upon oleomargarine. 1t is GER
tainly cause of surprise that any part
of the government of such an intelli-
gent state as Michigan should ever have
consented to such an ill-treatment of
the stomachs of the patients.
"To lead a cow" says a writer, " take
a one-half inch rope and make a fast loop
at one end large enough to put your
hand through. Slip this loop over the
left horn and take a half hitch around
the other horn. Bring the rope under
the cows throat, back of both ears, md
through the loop. Almost any creature
will quickly give up rather than choke"
A NATIVE of Maine, now on a bust
ness trip to Dakota, writes that he has
seen enough of Dakota farming. A
gentleman with whom he had just had
an interview had three hundred fifty
; acres under the pillow this year, and
did not harvest a cents worth of any,
thing, on account of the drought. Only
irrigation can make Dakota farming re-
} liable.
f" WHEREVER herd of jersey cattle
is introduced an ever-howing fountain
! of good influences is opened that sooner
l or later is sure to benefit the whole
neighborhood, says the Jersey Bulletin.
a 1.-The herd gives daily object lessons,
a training the eye of all observers as to
the line of beauty in form, and edu-
/ eating the judgment as to the money
D value of cattle"
f was not born of scientific investigation.
t Its originator may have " builded bet
ter than he knew but his thought was
' shaped and directed by his necessity.
/ The universal difficulty in curing the
= corn plant so as to retain all of its nutri-
t tive value, demanded remedy, and the
? silo, clude and needlessly expensive at
first, met the demand.
IT,
| Cleveland of Franklin, VT, in his fine
/ hero of Jerseys, for the last four years,
A shows what he has accomplished by ex-
a cruising care in selecting only the best
COWS to be retained in the herd. The
average number of pounds of butter
r, per COW in 1884 was 10; in 1886. 200; in
1887, 22S; in 1888, 225; in 1899, $50. The
cows have good pasturage in summer
> and good hay in winter, with a moder-
ate allowance of grain in the spring be-
: fore being turned to grass. The Judge
+. is taking great interest in the matter,
u and expects to increase the yield of his
: dairy to 300 pounds by retaining and
breeding only from his butter cows.
4. ONE of our experiment stations-that
of New York-has shown that it is pos
sibe to keep a herd of cows in good
working condition on a ratlop costing
IA ~ cents per cow each day This is
cheap, if the cows are doing well. But
this is not all that was shown. An
t alyses demonstrated shat seventy per
cent of the value of the ration was
saved in the manure-or almost ten
d cents of 1927 which the ration cost
S thus reducing its net cost to about 40
0 cents daily. OF this manure the liquid
was worth about six and the solids
: about foar cents daily. On this basis
n the vslue of the yearly product of
manure from a herd of fifty cows is es-
, timsted at 81, 1875. This would go a
!, great way toward avoiding the neces-
, slty of purchasing commercial fertil-
J, izers. Thus it will be seen how valu-
> able is this one by-product of the dairy,
! and how important it is that it should
be saved and put into the most avail
able condition as food for plants. The
pigs, the calves and the fowls will take
i e IL, NnI ht,ti np