The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-03-07

to the best lights now illuminating the
dairy interests, the more correct divi-
sion is dairy and beef cattle.
FROM authentic reports il is shown
that about twenty-five and one-half mill
lions of men are enrolled in the armies
of Europe. This number is more
than three times as great as it was
twenty-five years ago; and they all
have to be fed, clothed and armed at
the expense of the taxpayers.
ONE of the hardest things to do il 10
make a valuable experiment in the field
OF agriculture. He who can put a
question fairly and squarely to nature,
and wait perhaps lifetime for the
answer, is more than one man in ten
thousand, but upon such men the prog
ress OF our agriculture depends.
THE study of agriculture in all its
branches is advancing rapidly in Eng
land. The Royal Horticultural Society
will this year hold an examination of
students in the principles and practice
of horticulture, and it is proposed to es-
tablish scholarships TO enable the most
promising to continue their studies.
THE man who eats but little save fat
pork and starchy foods will not have
the endurance that the man who eats
less meat, good bread, cheese and
beans has. We observe that different
diets affect horses differently which are
subject to continued hard work, and
the same is true of human workers.
AS an illustration of the extreme va
ration which occurs at times in the fat
contents of the same cows milk one
day after another, we note that one
Guernsey COW one day showed 81 per
cent fat and the next day per cent;
after that she dropped back to her
normal average of about 4.3 per cent.
WHENEVER pig comes to stand
still, then all of the food supplied is so
much lost, as there is nothing to show
for it. A thrifty, wellfed pig should
be ready to market when not over ten
months old, and this implies steady
growth from birth to maturity. And
such pig should weigh at least two
hundred pounds.
THERE are no organizations which
do their members more good in a direct
way than the small farmers clubs
which at the present time can be found
in many parts of the country. They
can be referred to as small, because. as
q rule, they have not very large mem
bership, and perhaps this fact is &C
countable for their usefulness.
EX.JUDGE NOAH DAVIS, of New
York city, one of the best-known ju-
lists in the country and a leader in the
! fight against the Louisiana lottery, says
the turf gambling is far greater
enemy to public morals and a more
monstrous iniquity in every way than
the Louisiana institution ever was in
its palmiest days. OF course it is.
KANSAS farmers are said to be de-
manding a special session of the legis-
lature in order that the state may make
an appropriation to buy seed for farm
ers in some sections who are likely to
be distressed on account of failure of
the wheat crop. 1t is said that in
twenty-seven counties of the state the
crop will not be more than sufficient for
home consumption.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the real and
all the faucied depression in agriculture,
all the real and all the fancied difficult
ties and obstacles in the way of the
farmer, it is still true that prosperity
has been the rule for the class and for
the individual. Great wealth has rarely
been attained on the farm, but failures
have been more exceptional than in the
line of merchandise or manufacture or
in any of what we call the learned pro-
LESSONS.
ACCORDING to the code of Iowa,
the trustees shall cause the noxious
weeds on the highways in their town
ships to be cut twice year, if deemed
necessary to eXterminate the same, and
have them cut at such times as to pre-
vent their growing to seed; and for
this purpose the trustees may allow any
landowner reasonable compensation
for destroying such weeds on the high
ways abutting his lands and have him
credited for the same on his read tax
for that year.
A FRENCH butter merchant was de-
tected using margarine as an aduterant
of butter. The court, after setting
forth the injury that such fraud is
calculated to do to French trade, con-
demned the offender to three months
Imprisonment, fine of 2 600 francs,
and to the payment of the costs of the
prosecution; he was condemned to pub
fish at his own expense the judgment
in thirty local newspapers, and to pay
for posters proclaiming his misdeeds to
be stuck outside the town hall, the
market place and his own place of
business.