The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-11-11

nlLcneu 10 tne Otner END OF the pole you
can twist out all except the largest and
greenest stumps.
ONE of the most difficult things in
legislat on is to frame laws which will
suit everybody. Nearly every law de-
signed to protect the interests of some
class of people must trench upon the
liberties and privileges of some other
class.
NEVER buy large number of varie-
ties for strictly commercial orchard.
This is common and serious mistake,
Five varieties are usually too many;
three are better; two may be enough,
and single one may prove to be the
best of all.
THE latest figures from the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington
place this years. wheat crop in the
| United States at about 5S8,000,000 BUSH
els instead of the 500 600, 900, which
was the outside estimate when the har-
vest began.
INTELLIGENCE should be cultivated
and perpetuated just as speed is. We
do not all realize as we should the i'm
portance that a good education in
equine manners in the horses of to-day
will have upon the future generations
of horseflesh.
Go to your chemist with samples of
skinned milk and the white of eggs,
and he will prove to you that they are
very much alike in their constituents.
Press the investigations little farther,
and the elements found will be similar
to those in bone and muscle.
WITHOUT excluding other scientific
and classical studies," the agricultural
college has for its main object and
special purpose to provide a compre-
hensve and practical education, which
shall be proper training and prepare
ton for the business of farming.
GALEN WILSON speaks of man who
was so neat and precise about his farm
that people said he was too nice to be
wise. He raised a family of six chill
of his character. He died worth $780,
000-all made by this kind of farming.
PROFESSOR SCHREIBER inclosed
honey in well-corked TASKS, some of
which he kept in perfect darkness, while
the Others were exposed to the light.
The result was that the portion exposed
to the light soon cryslalized, while that
kept in the dark remained unchanged.
A DAIRYNfAN who concluded that he
would find out just how prof able each
one of his cows was, weighed the milk
separately for four months, and found
that his income ranged from S2.76 per
month to SO SO per month for individ-
ual cows, the milk being sold at 81 90
per hundred pounds.
No agricultural college may ever
hope to succeed until agriculture is
thus taught directly or indirectly in
every department within its walls
until the spirit Of industry, of manual
labor becomes the atmosphere of the
institution to be taken in with the very
breath of every student.
Loss of appetite in horse may be
caused by overwork or too little exer-
else, fault with the food, faulty
general management, soreness about
the mouth or disease of the teeth.
When refusal to eat is due to continual
} overlooking, short rations for day or
two is all that is required.
5 If we could manage to come closer to
. the faithful animals of which we feel
I justly proud, so as to enter into their
< feelings and sympathize with them,
we should probably treat them less as
Y machines, and then we should discover
r what marvellous capacity they have
! for intellectual improvement.
i, THE extent of the Maine forests is
r not generally appreciated. Every year,
now, about 500,000,000 feet of logs are
Y cut in the state, one-third of this amount
s floating down the Penobscot, and the
e quantity of lumber that has been
a shipped from the state since the first
r sawmill was started is enormous beyond
conception.
S NEVER believe that root grafted APP
9 Pile trees are always superior to budded
: stock. Never believe that budded
r trees must necessarily be better than
0 root-grafted. Either method of propa-
CATION, if skilfully done, will give vigor-
+ Gus, long-lived, fruitful trees. On the
. other hand, without due care worthless
=. trees may result from each method
a THERE were foaled in 1899, in New
e York state, 4S, 954 horses, and in Penn
sylvania SO ,432. The percentage of in
8 1880 was, for New York $50 per cent,
0 and for Pennsylvania 1894 per cent.
Maine and Vermont have also kept
close together, there having been foaled
in 1889 ia Maine 9,156 horses, and in
Vermont 9,009
CORNs are caused by bruises, bad
= shoeing, aud naturally contracted
hoof, but the blacksmith is the party
+ who, in most cases, prepares the corn
ground. This he does by rasping down
the hoof, pairing the inner shell, cutting
. 80 much horn from the heels that they
II give beneath the weight of the horse
!, each time he plants his hoof on hard
u roads or pavement.
THERE are plenty of horses in the
country that can be bought for two,
. three or four hundred dollars singly,
u and when matched could be sold as a
!; team to fire companies, wealthy men
u and to Cubans for from 81 900 to So 900,
u and many dealers are doing it now.
But the dealer should be able to match
8 without putting the animals together,