The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-01-14
Notes by the Way.

will be the one that turns out the most
tender and juicy lean meat.
BETWEEN the fruit thief and the
man with dog and gun there is little
to choose as farm nuisance.
A CUBIC foot of ensilage stored in
the pit weighs from forty to fifty pounds.
1t seldom goes outside these limits.
IN butter-making there is but one
solid available, the fat; in cheese-mak-
ing, the fat and caseine are both util-
lied.
Cows ought not to be injuriously
cuddled, but the idea of making them
hardy by neglecting their comfort is
absurd.
THE early sweet potatoes can be
grown here, if properly managed, care
being taken not to let the vines root at
the joints.
GET your cream off the milk in twenty
four hours, and churn ii in thirtysiX
hours from the tine of skimming.
These are the limits of time.
Do not set trees close to your neigh
boris liue fence to grow fruit to quarrel
over in after years; keep your trees and
their fruit upon your own land.
THE coming steer must be quick of
growth and show the greatest depth
of marbled and nutritious lean meat,
and the largest proportion of the weight
on his joints"
OCCASIONALLY some northern gar
deners try to grow peanuts. The
earliest variety is the Spanish, and in a
good season some of those will ripen,
even in Vermont.
"WHEN one takes into consideration
the number of sheep annually killed by
dogs in this state our dog law does not
appear effective" says +. ID. Dow,
Steuben county, New York.
Mr.. w. W. RAwsoN tells us that
land that will grow 600 bushels to the
acre with twenty cords of well-rotted
horse manure and one ton of fertilizer
is the land 10 grow onions on.
AS greater and greater fault is found
with milk, consumers express growing
desire to be acquainted with their milk
man, his cattle and stables; and the
like is true of butter and cheese.
To get nitrogen into the soil, to hold
it there until needed by the crop, and
then to get from it the greatest pos
sible benefit, are questions that perplex
the scientist as well as The farmer.
AN exchange, writing of a promi.
nent dairyman, says: " BY the sense of
smell alone, his dairy rooms could
scarcely be told from room in his resi-
dence." We hope he does not smoke
in his kitchen.
ONE of the cheapest and best ways
of adding nitrogen to the soils is to
grow the nitrogen collectors" as
clover, alfalfa, vetch, lupines, serradella
and peas, and pillow them under as
green manure.
RECENT nitrogen experiments on
corn simply repeat the story of similar
experiments in this and other states.
Nitrogen, when used in large guam
titles, has not paid for itself in the in
crease of the crop.
ONE thing the timid farmer should
not forget: The skim-mik or whey
from his COW will raise calves or pork
enough to buy the bran and oil-meal
for the cows, which will almost double
their yield of butter.
The mass OF the people have no COT.
iidence in the average horse-race. for
they have learned the relation of the
pool-boX to the result. So, too, with
the struggles of professionals " in
many other athletic sports.
WOMEN can render great assistance
at some details of fruit culture, and can
plan the work, with sufficient care, OBJ.
servation and tact. Aud it is better to
be a good fruit-grower than society
woman and nothing else.
"DoN'T never quarrel with loafer.
Skurrilily is hiz trade; you never can
make him ashamed but he liz sure tew
make yu," said Josh Billings, and the
truth of the observation could not be
increased, even by better spelling.
SOME writer's recommend fruit cu-
ture for women in want of an occupation
as "light, pleasant and profitable"
Parts of the work are light, but plant
ing, manuring, tree-pruning, handling
crates, etc., are anything but light.
HoARD's DAIRYMAN says "Common
blockheadism is bad enough, but edu-
Gated blockheadism is still worse, for it
has added to it the stupendous conceit
that it knows things are different from
what the Almighty made them to be-"
WHEN boys and men climb into
young and thrifty fruit-trees in the
growing season they should not wear
heavy boots with nails in them. Rub
Der shoes or slipplers, or even the bare
feet, are much safer than coarse boots.
GOVERNOR HoARD's paper expresses
the opinion that "there ought to be
added to the curriculum of our uni
versities and colleges special depart
ment for teaching the science of COM
mon things Familiarity known as
gumption.'
"CoAL ashes freely scattered around
currant bushes in the fall keep down
currant worms in the spring." says an
exchange. This thing has been re-
peated from paper to paper for nearly |
twenty years, but the statement is alb
solutely false.
EDWARD ATKINSON, the great sta
tistcan, is reported as having said that
the greatest invention of which he can