The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-04-25
Clipped and Condensed.

business study the markets and don't
raise crops for which there is no de-
mand.
A SAFE rule is to sell produce when
ready for market unless the price is I'M
reasonably low and good prospect for
better prices.
BLACK knot on plum and cherry
trees should be removed at once by cut
ting out all branches three inches be-
low each knot.
The Rural New Workers. expert
ments with potato seed show gain of
four and one-half per cent in favor of
whole seed as against removing the
seed end.
PEOPLE will continue to eat beef,
pork, mutton, ETC., and there is no dan
ger of the demand ceasing. Put a first
class quality on the market, and it will
bring the top market price.
VERBENAs are easily started either
in the house or out of doors, require
rich, mellow soil and plenty of sunshine
and moisture. They give an abundance
of bloom and amply repay one for the
care bestowed on them.
SCALES on the farm soon pay for their
use, as they enable the farmer to
know whether his stock is gaining and
the kinds of food to use to make the
greatest gain. Scales may be con-
sidered an absolute necessity if system
is to practiced.
WHEN a crop is taken from the soil
and the land is left in better condition
than before, profit has been made in
the shape of increased fertility, being
stored in the soil for use next season,
provided the receipts and expenses bal
ance in other respects.
THE first shoeing will be largely ex-
perimental. If your colt is pure-gaited
and strongly trotting-bred, he may ac-
quire speed with very little change
from the first shoeing. Again, it may
be necessary to shoe him in many diff
ferent ways before you get him just
| balanced
THE oftener tomato plants are trans
| planted the stouter they grow and the
better they will do after the final set
ting out. There will be little or no
willing after the final work if water is
turned in the holes before the plants
are set and the earth drawn lightly
towards them.
The cost of spraying with Bordeaux
mixture, as computed by Professor
Beckwith, is as follows: For spraying
five times during the season, 2.44 cents
for each grape vine treated. This in
cludes all materials and labor, and is
computed from the years. work on an
average of about 1000 vines.
NOTHING is gained by planting seed
in cold ground. Even if the plants
come up they will be sickly and make
no progress if the seed is planted be-
fore the soil is warm. Under proper
conditions the seed that is planted in
warm soil will terminate Immediately,
and the young plants overtake those of
the early planting.
WHEN planting special crop this
season, and using manure and fertilizers,
keep in view the crop that is to follow
next year. On some soils the effects of
an application of manure may be no.
ticed for several years, and the benefits
from the same will consequently extend
over corresponding period of time.
This may be assured by a proper rota-
ton of crops.
CHICKENS brought off at this season
require the best of treatment and close
attention to feed. Just little flour of
bone and sprinkle of red pepper added
to the morning feed twice or thrice a
week will give warmth and strength as
well, and with an occasional addition
of fine meat scrap, the little fellows
should be kept growing, even if the
weather is frosty.
For the strawberry bed commercial
fertilizers are generally used in many
sections instead of manure. The use
of fertilizers prevents the annual SOW
ing of large quantities of weed seeds.
nearly all predominant in potash and
! phosphoric acid. Some prefer bone
meal, little tankage and sulphate of
potash respectively.
THE Country Gentleman thinks it is
strange that more attention is not given
to the arrangement of fields with refer
ence to long burrows and to similarity
of soil. A square ecre plowed with a
fifteen-inch furrow requires eighty-four
rounds and 1886 turns, while the same
acre in the form Of paralelogram, two
rods by eighty, requires only thirteen
| rounds and fifty-two turns.
THAT which has most of all tended
to turn the attention of farmers to the
improvements of milking qualities of
their cows is the advent of the cream
cry. 1t seems to have the happy fac
ulty of setting people to thinking, and
one of the first things it teaches is a
discrimination in the capabilities of
cows for supplying in quality and guam
tity milk which shall pay the best profit
for their keep.
A WRITER in the american Agri-
culturiSt tells the result of spraying in
his apple orchard. On five rows
sprayed but once he got seventy-fve
per cent of perfect fruit, while on the
remaining part of the orchard, which
he sprayed twice, he got ninety per
cent. He used paris green, one pound
to 100 gallons of water. The first spray
ing was made when the apples were not
larger than peas, the next about week
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