The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-07

1arm journal Inc HUTUC NeD OFh6F,
at eighty-6ve cents year. This is a
combination rate, and is made only to
those who pay or have paid for this pa.
per a year in advance. If you want a
sample copy to examine, send postal
card to The Rural NetO Yorker, New
York, with the reque't, writing your
name and address very plainly.
In 1S71-twenty.three years ago-we
made, editorially, in our paper, the
Vermont Farmer, the following remarks
on that New York den of thieves,
Tammany Hall: 1t applies accurately
to the present condition of things there,
and has done so at any time within the
interval: . Public plumber has been re
duced to a science in that city. Thou
sands of men have been supported, and
leaders have been enriched, by money
wrung from the people under pretext of
public necessity. This has been con-
tinued so long that the thieves, secure
by prescription or precedent, take no
pains to cover their tracks. The proofs
of their iniquities are abundant and
convincing. Now what astonishes many
is why, with such abundant proofs, no
arrests are made, or apparently thought
of, by the plundered taxpayers. If
clerk embez zes thousand dollars, there
is no difficulty in furnishing him. But
these clerks of the people steal fifty
millions and divide it, and not one is
sent to prison, or made to disgorge."
This state of things still exists, and has
practically existed ever since. What
recordl -
A STATESMAN is defined as " a man
who does the best for his country that
the people will let him." Yes; and
politician is a man who does the best
for himself that the people will let him.
And which of the two controls the des-
tiny of the country?
THERE can be little doubt that the
short life of so many trees bought from
nuroerymen, and their travelling agents,
is due to grating and budding upon
Seeding stocks that are not hardy.
Now why should not intelligent and
honest nurserymen use the seeds of
iron clad varieties, such as Duchess of
Oldenburg, from which to grow their
stocks? The second grade of fruit of
this and others of the Russian IRON
clads could be readily used for cider,
and the seeds washed out of the POM
ace. Such seed ought to bring high
price with nurserymen who are grow
ing trees, and especially budded trees,
for sale in our northern states and the
Canadian provinces; and this would
remove the odium which now so gen.
orally attaches to "New York trees"
in all those regions. There is no place in
the world where nursery stock is grown
with more skill and intelligence-sav
in this one particular-than in the great
nurseries of New York. But in all the
" iron-clad" fruit-growing sections a
man is regarded as crazy, or dishonest,
who advises the setting of Rochester
trees" OF late, the Rochester nur-
serymen, and others in the same re-
gion, are growing extensively the IRON
clads tn t they formerly made 30 much
sport of,-but they still make the mis-
take of not using lron-cla1 stocks, and
their trees are failing in consequence.
This is our personal experience and OBJ
servation; but it was some little time
before we "got on to " the true course
of the trouble. We received a small
lot of the newer iron clad natives of
Russian descent from reliable New
York house, some years ago; and lost
most of them by winter killing, the
first winter. AS the trunk and limbs
seemed all right, we followed down
with the knife until we found that the
injury was below the point where the
buds were inserted. Since then, we
have set some trees of the same origin
deep enough to cover this point of
union; and have lost no more. AS in
places where, or seasons when, these
accidents occur, only a portion of the
trees may be killed, the true cause is
apt to be missed; since those trees
which happen to be set deeper than
others, or to be budded lower, or were
80 located as 10 be protected by snow
drifts may escape injury. We confess
that we are getting tired of speaking so
we'll as we have done of New York
trees; and we shall not do it any more,
until the New York growers understand
their business better. They are a lit
tie too conceited in their own ways at
best. Such people only make us smile;
but they make other and more sensi'
tive people angry,-and that is bad fo
trade.
TTRERCJTI OSIS or limo cOnsumntiOn