The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-10-07

of the Agricultural College professors
who are not of that class so severely
handled by Professor Porter, as think
ing hard work beneath their profess
serial dignity. He works hard, and his
work is directly in the line of practical
results on the farm. Such teachers
will never lack the respect and support
of the progressive farmers. He is the
kind of man they want. May his tribe
increase.
WE have several requests, with
stamped and addressed envelopes, in
response to our offer to give more facts
regarding the Russian fruits to those so
applying. But some of them are not
sufficiently explicit in stating their
wishes. For instance, one writes:
"Will you send me the information
spoken of in your department regard
ing Russian fruits?" while another says:
"Please find stamped and directed en-
velope for further notes on Russian
pears" Now we would like to have
every such correspondent be more ex-
plicit-something after the style of
another applicant, who asks: CIVIL
you kindly send me the names of three
or four of the best Russian apples,
pears, plums and cherries, and inform
me where can obtain young trees
of them2" This gave us definite clue
to just what that correspondent wanted
to know, and was answered at once.
But we might write half dozen pages
to either of the other correspondents
without giving them the information
they most desire. We should prefer to
have them put definite questions, num-
bered one, two, three, etc., so that we
could reply in order, and tell them what
they want to know quickly and clearly.
IT might save trouble to say, right
here, that the only parties we know to
be actively engaged in propagating
these fruits extensively are Professor j.
L. Budd of the Iowa Agricultural Col
lege at Ames, Iowa, and Mr.. John
Craig, superintendent of the Dominion
Experiment Station, Ottawa, Canada.
We do not know whether either of
these gentlemen will supply a general
demand, or are limited to their own
state or country. These undoubtedly
would have the preference, and per-
haps it would be just as well for our
readers to wait until we can find out for
them how this is. We hardly expected
to awaken so much or such immediate
interest in the matter, and there is
plenty of time to find out before plant
ing time next year. The only nursery
man we know of who has large num-
Der of these fruits on his catalogue is
H. H. Hewlett, Baraboo, Wisconsin.
No doubt he will send catalogues to
any who will ask him for them.
WE print in another place comnu-
nication from a Massachusetts CORES
pondent upon the single tax on land
values, proposed by Henry George as a
cure and preventive of many of the ills
of society. The writer seems to think
that farmers are, as rule, opposed to
Mr.. Georges plan for lettering the
condition of the world, but so far as
our observation goes they are rather in
different, not thinking that there is
much likelihood of its getting any sub.
stantial foot-hold. Still, as matter of
curiosity, we suppose some of our read
ers will be interested in reading Mr..
Crosman's article. There can be no
doubt of Mr.. Georges philanthropic n o.
tive, or of his great ability as thinker
and writer. No one can dispute his
opinion that the world is somewhat
out of joint, whether they can be con-
WINGED that he was born to set it right
or not.
SOME of our older readers may re-
member that we have ourself an I'M
patented and uncopyrighted method of
improving the constitution of society,
which we elaborated at considerable
length in these columns some dozen
years ago. 1t was simply for the gov
eminent, state and national, to go out
of the business of collecting peoples
bad debts for them. OF course gov
eminent can make no er post facto
laws-that is, laws affecting things lie.
gally done in the past; but it can de-
clare that after a certain date in the
future all laws for the enforcement of
pecuniary contracts shall cease to be
operative.
THERE seems to us no particular rea-
son why, if we give a man credit for
anything he has bought of us, we