The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-12

makes them so seemingly shiftless. !"
They need instructors and leaders who
are intelligent, honest and courageous.
They need TO know their friends, and
to understand the vast power of COM
bination. They have practically no in
telligent leaders, since the corporations
have bought up all the best legal and
political talent of the country. In the
West and South they are kicking
around" in wild excitement without
intelligent purpose or honest leader
ship. The way out of the wilderness
is not yet plain; but it is impossible to
think that thirty millions of people will
not " find way, or make it,"
WE assure our correspondent that
we have not particle of "scorn, I"
good-natured or otherwise, for men
like him, who see and feel these evils
and difficulties of American farm life.
This year will finish the twenty-ifth of
earnest labor on our part to stimulate
thought among our brother farmers
through the press, not only upon the
direct work of the farm, but on all the
interests and duties pertaining to our
great industry, in its social, political
and business relationships. Heaven
helps them who help themselves" be-
cause God himself cannot help man
without his own cooperation. He
cannot be saved, either in the earthly
or the heavenly sense, unless he will
put forth all his energies for righteous
! ends.
IN southern Vermont the same
apples succeed as in adjoining parts of
Massachusetts. But in the highlands
of northeastern Vermont nothing of
the old stock brought from England,
or its American seedlings, can be
grown successfully. AS to "getting
tired of the Duchess" the way to get
rested is to grow more of them. Massa-
chusetts buyers tumble over each
other to get our Duchess (Which they
brand and sell as Gravenstein), partly
because the further north they grow
the handsomer and better and later
they are, but chiefly because in good
year we can fill car with them. 1t
does not pay to go around picking
up little lots. When the trees were
young, and the crop small, we had
hard work to get rid of them at
dollar barrel, and thought of grating
them over. But now it is only ques-
ton whether we had not better graft
our whole orchard of nearly 1900 trees
to Duchess. We expected to find a
home market in apple-less Orleans,
Essex and Caledonia counties; but
they are still supplied mainly with the
seconds and culls of New Hampshire,
while ours 60 to Massachusetts. In
1890 we offered our apples to local
dealers at just what we were offered
for them delivered to the cars by Massa-
chusetts men-S4 a barrel-and were
refused it with scorn. A month later
they were importing much poorer
apples from Kansas at $5.5 barrel.
THE pedigree of the Peach apple
(Peach of MontreaD is not known. 1t
was brought to the st. Lawrence Valley
from France. AS itmuch resembles some
Russian apples, it has been surmised
that it may have originated in Russia,
as many Russian apples have worked
their way down into France through
Poland and Germany. There are many
good Catholic priests who take an in
terest in fruit growing, and as they pass
from place to place they transfer their
favorite fruit. In that way nearly all
the best Canadian apples were intro
duced and distributed.
AS to keeping the Peach apple, it
ought to be widely known that it is the
best of all canning apples. 1t keeps
its shape in cooking, and can be taken
from the can unbroken. 1t also fully
retains its quality in canning. 1t is
the only apple canned in our family. 1t
would pay to plant them on large
scale for this purpose. We hardly need
to add that we-and we are sure our
readers will agree with us-shall be
glad to hear again from Mr.. c., on any
subject in connection with farming,
gardening or forestry, agreeable to him
self.
WE have received letter of inquiry in
regard to the orchard pest known as the
Oyster-shell Bark Louise, with frag-
ment of appletree bark showing the in.
sects closely packed over its whole sur
face. The writer says truly that il
looks as though it would be almost i'm.
possible to get at all the limbs to wash