The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-02-15

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ter apple can be grown from the seed
of an early variety. The greatest COM
plant about Russian apples has been
that there are no long-keepers among
them. This is mistake; although it
is true that, of the hundreds of vari-
cites imported from Russia, only a small
percentage have proved good keepers
But Dudley's Winter conclusively
showed that, even if all the Russians
were early fruit, we may still grow
from them bookkeeping apples, which
have all the merits of their parents
with the long keeping added.
THE editor of the Montreal Journal
Of Agriculture, Mr.. JeDuer Fust, re-
ports that Mr.. McCombie, the great
Aberdeenshire cattle. breeder, fed his
bullocks for The great London Christ
mas market on nothing but turnips and
straw until one month before they were
sent off TO the block. This venture
to state for DIR, Hoskins' benefit, in
confirmation of the views Of the butcher
mentioned in an extract from the Yer
mont WdtchnGn in last months Jour-
nal" This, we think, refers to our
reported experiment in keeping a COW
in milk all winter on fat English tur-
nips, and the remark of butcher, late
in the winter, that she was "good
beef" although she had been giving a
good mess of milk and made good lot
of butter, besides growing fat on her
turnip detail this without transmit
ting any of the turnip taste to her milk.
WE see statement credited to the
Bellows Falls Times that: "There is in
most farming communities tendency
toward jealousy of another if he is sue
cessful, and attempts are often made to
underrate the farmers stock or his
produce or his methods-sometimes
trying to make him unpopular with his
help. 1t is the cause of more failures, as
to successful farming, than all other
causes put together. 1t destroys all
friendships, undermines society and
produces a harvest that destroys the
producer and all who are concerned
with him. The dog. in-the-manger
spirit is no good for farmers any more
than other business men,
THERE are, no doubt, "ugly" men
in all lines of business; but, 80 far as
our experience goes, there are fewer of
them engaged in farming, and there is
a much more helpful and neighborly
feeling among farmers than among
other classes. Where, we would like
TO know, is there more of this spirit OF
neighborly helpfulness, more willing
ness to accommodate and exchange
work, lend tools, or 60 out of the way
to oblige a neighbor, than is found
among the farmers of Vermont? We
have had experience in other sections
in regard to these matters, and, though
we have nothing to complain of else
where, we are compelled to say, in
common justice, that the farmers OF
Vermont, as class, are remarkable for
their friendly relations one with another
WE wish, most sincerely, that we
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mony aud say that all our farmers are
as proud and happy and contented and
pushing and plucky in the pursuit OF
their business as we shou' d like TO see
them. The new conditions in regard
to farming which have arisen in the
last twenty-five years have not yet beer
so completely met and mastered as tC
give our farmers a full assurance and
confidence 10 the future of their occu
! patton. Yet we see an improvement
and it is manifested by the success and
energy with which the DAirymen's AS
ISOLATION has been developed; and also
in the good attendance and interest il
the meetings OF our Board of Agricul
ture. We have never hesitated il
: noting points where our farmers coult
do better and improve faster, but it il
very limited and unfair view of these
matters that must have occasioned thu
depreciat ory remarks we have taker
from our contemporary of the Connects
cut valley. -
WE wish to direct the attention O.
our readers to the very peculiar adven
ture of an elm tree growing near th'
southern border of Vermont, in Massa
J chusetts. We are indebted for this ex
tract to Mr.. Sanford of the Board o
Agriculture, and we should have giver
it place sooner had not the slip sen
to US been accidentally mislaid. W.
doubt if before there has been well
authenticated case in New England o