The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-11-16

to be quite so courageous in this way,
under their conditions, as American
farmers under theirs. There is I'M
bounded capital behind the agricultural
interest in England; while, in the sense
in which we use the word here, the
average American farmer is about des-
titute of capital. " The destruction of
poor man is his poverty; and even
with equal skill we could not reason
ably expect to see American farmers
produce such good average crops of
wheat as British farmers. Another
point has been made, that the greater
price of all kinds of grain in Europe has
allowed of greater expenditure on such
crops This difference is now much
lessened by cheap transportation on
land and sea and that fact probably &C
counts for the growing discomfort
among English farmers, and the at
tendant fall in agricultural rents. 1t
will not take long, in the present state
of the grain markets of the world, for
these best farmers of England to find
their interest in emigration and it is
reasonable to expect that, if our high
tariff is maintained, the current of such
movement will be toward the choice
grain lands of our Middle States-Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky and
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the best quality are now very cheap,
| because of so much westward immigra-
ton; and there never will be a finer
chance for English tenant farmers to
better themselves than is now at their
disposal.
A WINDSOR county, Vt, correspon-
dent kindly remarks: We have taken
your paper for many years, and con-
slider the agricultural department worth
more than all other farm papers which
we have" He goes on to ask some
questions about dehorning cattle,
which we have answered, by mail but
may add here that we regard this opera
ton, when carefully performed, to be
as simple and harmless as the vaccina-
ton ola child. The impression which
has gone abroad that it is cruel and bar
barous, cannot be held for moment by
any one who has seen it. and who
knows, as every dairyman knows, how
cattle will injure and torment each
other with their horns. There are no
"master cows" and "underlings " in
our herd, now. Each and every one,
even the weakest, acts and feels like
free-born American citizen, unharming
and unframed by its fellows. Even
the bull partakes of this influence; and
though even hornless bull is not any
too safe, removing his horns tends to
make him far less aggressive.
WE have never yet been satisfied
with such statements as were made in
our last dai ymen's meeting, to the eff
feet that near the end of the season
there is often loss of fifteen per cent,
or more, of the butter in deep setting
as compared with centrifugal Dreaming.
Our experience, so far, has been dead
against it. Our cows have, in this
(their firsO year, been in milk an aver.
age of eleven months, and most of
them are now dry, or nearly so; and
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day. AS the milk has decreased in
quantity the percentage Of butter from
it has greatly ncreased-indeed it has
almost kept up TO the average, until
some of the cows were dried off. This
average has been but little under
pound per COW per day. If fifteen to
twenty per cent of the cream was re-
tanned in the milk, toward the last Gas
was stated at Brattleboro), then all we
can say is that this last milk must have
been pretty nearly clear cream-which
visibly it was not. 1t was raised in a
Stoddard creamery. The skinned
milk has no appearance of retaining
more cream than at any previous time
during the season, nor is it perceptibly
richer to the senses, or in culinary use
REFERRING to an extract printed
above from the English Agricultural
Gazette, and our remarks thereon, we
may appropriately call attention to the
following extract from the same journal
of September 10. In it Mr.. J. p. Shell
don smakes the following comparative
showing: 81 will take a good lime
stone farm, of say $50 acres, in Derby
shire, and strike an approximate balance
of receipts between the two years /
have indicated, farm carrying forty to
fifty mich COWS and $50 breeding ewes.
1t will stand about as follows:
1879, e. S. d.
I tons cheese at 75s. per cwt. ............ 525