The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1893-10-18

in making their stables tight and warm.
The best way to preserve eggs is TO
wipe them with vaseine to which sail
cylic acid has been added, and then
pack them in salt, in boxes. Eggs
treated in this way in March and ADril
were kept four and five months, and
came out better than the best lined
eggs.
THERE are advantages in having
hornless cattle that cannot bs over
looked. Their disposition is better,
there is less danger Of injury to them
selves and to other cattle that they are
with, space is economical in feeding,
sheltering and shipping. These gains
are positive, and there is no guess
work about them.
THE idea is still prevalent that farm
ing does not pay unless you have a
large tract. But the extra large tract
ls what gives room to speculative farm
lng-running into fads like large cattle
and horse products. There have been
immense losses in this sort of farming.
But the sO-called "small farmern is
never caught in it.
PRACTICAL" men appreciate too
little the efforts of those engaged in
pure science. The man who spends
bis days IN peering into a microscope
or studying " bugs" they look upon as
trifler. But it is TO these patient
workers they are indebted for all the
great advances that have been made in
the line Of protecting their plants from
disease aud insects.
CANADA has expended SOP 900. 900
in constructing canals and 2l5 600 600
in cash and guarantees for railrotd, tor
the purpose of diverting American
trade through Canadian ports, vet of
the 800 600 600 bushels of grain re-
ceived at the Atlantic ports of the
United States aud Canada in 1892. only
y 400 600 bushels, including Canadian
grain, was received at Montreal
"THE agricultural colleges are Ger.
| tainly not for the purpose Of teaching
the boy how to hold a pillow. They are
not meant to teach what the students
could learn in less time and with less
expense at home" says one who knows
very little OF what he speaks. n 1t one
American farmer in ten is an expert
plowman. Coed plowing depends upon
scientific principles, practically APP
piled.
~ DISPATCH from Ottawa saws imni-
grafton into Canada this wear has
proved failure. For the first seven
months only 2,400 homesteads were
taken up in the northwest, a decrease
OF twenty-five per cent compared with
last year, while the number Of settlers
arriving fell off twenty-one per cent.
The largest decline is in the number of
| emigrants who leave Great Britain and
Ireland for Canada.
REPORTS come in nearly every day
cf farmers being swindled. About all
the old schemes are being worked and
some new ones are introduced. 1t is
useless to go into detail in trying to
warn against being taken in by these
fraud who live off the unwary. The
only advice to is to have no business
transactions with strangers who can
not show concusively that they are
straight aud all right.
THE struggle between man and horse
to cover a mile in the shortest time is
growing closer and closer. Records
have been broken during the past few
days on both sides At Springfield,
Mass, Tyler, the bicyclist, made half
mile in one minute and fraction of
seCouu' AuOlner wheeler, Hardy,
made mile in 2: IA. At Chicago re-
Gently the stallion Directum scored
mile in q 064 the half in |: Oh. Over
the same course Flying Jib made a
mile in 2: 04; the half in l: 02I This
is bringing man and horse closer to-
gether than they have ever been before
IN the point of time.
WE make vast amount of butter"
Gays the New York Times, "and con
sumo the whole of it. At the small al
lowance of half pound per head
weekly, we eat not less than 800 0O0,-
600 pounds year. The value of this is
equal to that of the whole product of
cotton, which used to claim TO be the
king crop, at ten cents a pound, and
nearly double the value at current
prices. And we are only beginning to
make butter, and are instituting schools
to learn and teach how to do it," And
may we not add that such business
should be thoroughly protected from
! fraud?