The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-05-17

beef. And no more should we condo md
little COW, If she be a good one, be-
cause finally she will make but little
beef.
1T 10 related upon what appears to be
pretty good authority that the mapag-
ers OF blind asylum at Louisville. XIV.
substituted oleomargarine for butter.
The slghtless children, without being
told OF the change, gradually ate less
and less of the substituted stuff and
finally gave it up altogether.
THE census Office has recently issued
additional statistics of farms. homes
and mortgages. The investigation has
now been extended to tn states. The
per capita mortgage debt in these sew
eral states in 1890 is reported as fol-
lows: Alabama, 500; Connecticut.
S107; Illinois, 800; Iowa, s1O4; Kan.
sas, $40; Maine, 1914; Massachus cts.
$144; Missouri, $50; Nebraska, Sl26:
Rhode Island, $l06; Tennessee, s23;
Vermont, SS4.
THE high-priced Connecticut law
yers who figured in the quo parranto
cases have suffered reverse in their
raid on the state treasury. The house
legislative committee reports in favor Of
cutting down their fees one-half. This
is plenty enough-S5,000 to the leading
ones When they asked for double that
sum they probably forgot they were not
in this case helping rich corporations
beat the law or the public, says the
Springfield Republican.
PROFESSOR PETER COLLIER. director
of the New York Experiment Station.
has made some experiments which
indicate that "as a rule the Guern-
seys and Jerseys are noticeable for
their low cost in butter production.
while the Holstein- Friesians, Ayrshires
and Guernseys are characterized by
their relatively lost co1U of milk produc-
ton" So says the Dairy World, but we
suspect that the italicised words are a
misprint for " low cost"
EXPERIENCE has shown that the
great bulk of roots is found in the sur
face soil. Indeed, repeated analysis
discovers that the upper six inches of
soil contained very much more than
the second six inches, and that the
amount decreases constantly as we 90
downward, and that so far as most
crops are concerned the great bulk of
their nutrition is taken from within the
immediate SUMS rays, or within ordin-
airy tillage operations.
THE American Agriculturist has COM
piled statement from official and other
sources showing the supply of hogs in
America during the past thirty-three
years. 1t shows that from a total of
33,512,e67 hogs throughout the country
in 1860 the aggregate fell to %, 1874 500
in 1870, advanced to 1851 700 in 1880,
to 81 COZ 40 in 1890 and to so ,3OS ,092
in 1892, since which time there has
been, according to the report, consid-
cradle falling off, the total given for
this year being only as ,094, 097, which
is less than the reported supply in 1880,
thirteen years ago.
IN 1890 the Minnesota legislature
began the manufacture of binding
Irvine in the states prison. The first
experiment was sufficiently successful
to justify increasing the plant. The
legislature in 1891 provided for this in
crease, and as result three sets of ma
chimes were used last year in making
hemp Irvine, and 100000 pounds were
put on the market in 1892 at nine
cents per pound, being sold at this
price by the state without loss. There
are now three full sets of machines IN
operation, with daily output of about
$500 pounds of finished Irvine.
A CORRESPONDENT of Rural Life
says Some cows, even when they have
all the salt they want, will eat the ma
nure. Why they eat it is because they
! like the taste of it, as cows that are per-
fectly healthy, and with normal appe-
tites with respect to every other eatable
thing, will sometimes root in a pile OF
horse manure by the hour, picking out
what they consider choice portions.
Some years ago my cows gave milk that
was bitter, as was also the cream and
butter, and l couldn't account for ii
until noticed how fond they seemed
to be of the horse manure. 1 fenced
, off corner of the barn yard, in which
/ L had all the manure wheeled as ii
came from the stables; then the milk
and hutter tasted all RIGHT