The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-02-17

pure-bred Ayrshires are kept up; and
where fine cheese is made a specially,
the infusion of Ayrshire blood into
herd of native stock would often be
beneficial The principal objection
that we have heard urged against the
pure Ayrshire cows is the small size of
their teats; but this would probably not
appear to any great extent in a herd
of grades. Mr.. Towe says: CA few
men, as Ii. A. Soule and Alexander
Fisher of Fairfield and Curtis Wheeler
and l.. T. Paris of Fairfax, breeders
OF full-blood stock, kept steadily on with
their herds, not seeing any advantage
in making a change. Undoub eddy
they have been wise in doing this and in
having kept their stock well up in point
of merit. 1t is not strange that after
these years of apparen. inattention on
the part of farmers to this breed, il
should again commence to receive ia
vorable notice from them"
THE onion crop is becoming of con-
siderable Importance in Vermont. A
good many farmers near our large viii
lagos are engaging in it successfully. In
the vicinity of Newport several thou
sand bushels are grown. Quite num-
Der of carloads of cabbages are also
shipped from the same locality. Mar
ket gardening was unknown and un-
heard-of in northeastern Vermont when
we first engaged in it on small scale
twenty-four years ago. Now, not only
vegetables but large amount of small
fruits, and an increasing quantity of
tree-fruits, are grown for market. New
port, next to Barre, is the most rapidly
growing village in the state. We could
once "glut the market" with wheel
barrow load of truck" but now sew
eral market-wagons run regularly into
Newport and the closely lad joining viii
lagos of Batesville and West Derby.
A WRITER on gardening says: Son
ions do not need alienation with other
crops. Some green crop that will leave
the ground well pulverized is all that is
required to make a good crop, so far as
rotation is concerned. Onions will
take for their sustenance what other
crops leave. AS proof of this fact, put
any concentrated fertilizer On your
onion patch, and the ground will make
as good crop next year as if no
onions had been planted in it. 1t is a
well-known fact that onions like, and
will have, better crop on old soil than
new" Some of this is so, and some
hardly so. We never saw piece of
ground too rich for onions, or one that
would not show improvement in the
crop from a heavier dressing.
THE greatest foe to the onion is the
onion maggot or worm," and the
best remedy for it is hot water, scald-
ing water, poured from tea-kettle
along the rows. New soil gives fine
onions, if it is rich enough. The new
est thing in onion culture is starting
them in hot-bed, and dibbling them
out in the rows. 1t gives them con-
siderable advantage over the maggot at
the start, and, as there is no thinning
required, the extra labor is not so much
FRANCE has passed an oleomargarine
act. Her law embraces many of the
features of Sweden and Russia, save
that the substitute may be coored in
imitation of butter, but must not be
sold as butter, neither must 1T contain
cream or butter; no matter how small
the proportions of the mixture may be.
The BrattlebOrO Meeting.