The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-05-27

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curing (refning the French call IT'D de-
velops fat in the cheese. A well-cured
skimmilk cheese contains more digest
IDLE nutriment than fresh wbole-milk
cheese.
LARGE quantities of distilled witch
hazel are being shipped from Chester
and Deep River, Conn. The distiller-
les are in full blast and the farmers are
not only benefited by clearing up their
land, but get good price for the hazel
brush as well.
ONE may study all the nursery cata-
logues and works on fruit and know
little as to what kinds will succeed on
bis soil and in his immediate locality.
| Written descriptions are valuable only
so far as they relate to the sections to
which they apply.
THE consumption of American cheese
at home and abroad may be increased
by skill and facility in producing new
forms and qualities, keeping abreast of
the progress OF the age in meeting the
tastes and preferences of the day and
fancy styles and varieties.
THE colder you churn the finer the
grains will be, and the less butter you
will get, as there will not be a COM
plete separation. If you churn too
cold, the milk will foam and not come
at all. If you churn too warm, the
butter will be soft and spongy.
PROFESSOR HUNT of the Illinois
Experiment Station, in an address on
the value of corn-fodder, gave the re-
suits of experiments covering two
years; the verdict of those experiments
being that corn-fodder, which includes
the corn on the ear, was equal in value
to the best timothy hay.
CAREFUL farmers and feeders, with
some years. experience in handling
good ensilage from corn pretty well
matured, agree in the opinion that three
tons of such ensilage will fully replace
a ton of good English hay, if fed to
growing animals or dairy cows, but as
only part of their full ration.
We would tire of round steak or Of
turkey and soon be disguised with it if
no other meat were furnished. So with
cheese; one kind pals on the appetite.
The French have more than 100 kinds,
made to suit various tastes, and in small
sizes for convenience of consumers.
IN recent feeding test the poorest
of eleven cows gave cost price of five
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pound for butter; while the best of
food fed to the best of eleven cows
gave the price of milk per quart at one
and one-half cents, or fourteen cents
per pound for butter.
IT is astonishing to see so many farm
implements and machines left out
around the barn and in the fields, ex-
posed to the weather. These tools cost
considerable money, and they receive
more injury while thus lying idle, but
exposed to the weather, than they do
from constant use on the farm.
THE potato is not seed, but part
of the plant, and the future crop de-
, ponds much more on the soil and cul-
tivation necessary to produce a vigor-
Gus plant than on the size of the piece
: planted. Still there is no getting around
the fact that large piece planted will
start much more vigorous sprouts than
little slices.
DAVID G.. LINDSAY. of Fly Creek,
New York, is reported by the Otsego
> Farmer TO have cross-bred Ayrshire
and Jersey cow that in seven months
of the past year has produced 3l5 pounds
of butter; milk and cream sold to the
: amount of $3.50; provided milk and
e ere am for family of three and raised
a heifer calf which sold for $40.
"HOP- RAISING is the height of gam
bling in the agricultural line" said
= Denver brewer to a representative of
Y Field and Farm. And he added the
= remark Gas regards the misuse of land
e for this CROP that the outcome sis
about as risky as horse-racing or poker
q PLAYING but hasn't half the elements of
! fun to be found in these popular sports"
t OUR tracts of arabic land in New
England are not as broad as on the
prairies of the West, but the soil is as
fertile and will produce as bountiful
= crops of all kinds to which it is adapted.
! Besides, we have an immense advan-
, tage in our nearby markets and higher
prices. Yet good land is cheaper here
than there. Young man, think of these
., facts
= " BERT WASHBURN of North Arson
pumped from well the other day
spotted lizard, five inches long, and
having twenty-nine spots uponit. Look
= out for these reptiles when you drink
Z water from wells and springs" says a
Maine paper 1t is strange that so
many think our lizards" properly
salamanders) are poisonous. They are
5 as harmless as frogs.
: GOVERNOR RUSSELL of Massachu-
:, sets makes some important recommen-
d dations concerning school instruction.
i Seeing the tendency of the young to
neglect manual work, and the con-
d gestcd ranks of purely professional and
n clerical callings, he asks if it isn't time
e to stop playing so much ball and go to
i work to teach the young how to en-
It ploy their muscles productivity.
AN exchange says Recently, on
f a twenty.mile ride by sleigh, the dairy
f barns were counted and the disposition
n of the manure noted. AT l03 barns
o the manure was thrown out directly
e under the caves, thirteen at the gable
ends, and at eight it was drawn and
n spread on the fields as made" This
= accnrds CLOSELY with our own obserYa-