The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-03-08

scale, but even then it requires as
much skill and attention as The breed
ing Of fine stock. A hen that don't lay
is losing money for her owner just the
same as dry COW, and it takes skill to
keep confined hen in laying condition.
A free hen loses too much for her owner
in stolen nests. 1t takes more brains
and industry to run a hen-farm than to
run dliry; but with skill, industry
and capital, we have no doubt that all
along on the sea-shore and great bays
from Massachusetts southwark, where
great deal Of food, shells and other
things good for hens can be had at lit
lie expense, handy, industrious man
could make poultry farming as profit
able as dairying'
In this connection it is well to notice
many points in the hen business which
involve avoidable losses. AS writer
in the Tribune well says: "The feature
Of producing fancy eggs for market has
never yet developed its whole signif-
canoe, and the owners of prominent
henneries have, as a rule, devoted their
plants to the Matching Of spring chick
ems. Fancy eggs had 60 be shipped in
small lots. This is Objectionable in
regular trade way, and private delivery
and sale is troublesome, expensive and
uncer ain. Therefore those who use
these extra.priced eggs in a regular
t. bic way are chiefly the owners of
fioe country seats. After Getting time
is over, odd lots of fancy eggs go to the
country stores, and ia the market col
lections get mixed up with less aristo-
cratic specimens. The hotels insist
upon snowy lots, and frequently pay
an extra price for large, even-sized
white. New York buyers, as q rule,
prefer white, but the brown sorts have
special reputation with many house
keepers and pastry people for being
richer and stronger for mixing pur-
poses, 80 none of them go to waste.
ANY excess Of brown eggs can always
fud a market in New England cities,
where they are popular, To the great
mass of consumers an egg is an egg
aud the ordinary farmyard productions
seem to afford full-quality satisfaction.
But there is an evident growing de-
mand for something superior, and the
agitation which has wrought such de.
sirable changes in the list of food sup
plies will undoubtedly have influence
upon eggs in the near future"
1t lie astonishing how much rascality
we all pardon in 8 politician of our
own party, and how little in one of the
other party,-or it ought to be astonish-
ing, to men who think themselves good
aud honest citizens. The man we
should reprobate above all others is the
man who brings disgrace upon the
cause he advocates; and it is this indif-
ference, or mad craftsmanship, which
emboldens the adventures in politics
to betray the people. They think the
people fools,-and the people give them
great deal too much reason for that
belief.
NEVERTHELESS, though very culp-
able in this and many other public du.
ties and responsibilities, the people are
not fools. Parties based on grand
moral principles, or or strong sectional
prejudices, are most likely to fall prey
to selfish demagogues seeking for Office
as means of making their pile" AS
the old issues are settled and pass by,
new ones come up ON which the peo-
pie are not so we'll informed. But pre-.
judice is very valuable to the practical
politician. He understands it easily,
even when his intellect is unable to
grasp principle, or conceive the power
OF righteousness in public matters.
ALL OF US, north and south, have
been 80 much absorbed in the negro
question that every other sort of wrong
has been dwarfed out of sight in COM
parison. At no other time, we feel
sure, would the enormous crimes in
volved in the misapplication of the
public money appropriated in all the
states to industrial education have been
80 slightly observed, or their enormity
neglected by the people. 1t shows
how many of those who are rated with
our best citizens will steal, when they
think it can be done with impunity.
They think it quite right to rob the
workingmen of the country by divert