Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-01-01

By Uncle Edwin.

EdrM: FleaSc allow me TO snake
hands with you over that fine line
fence you SO pleasantly spoke of ir
the ADVOCATE Of a week or two ago
and most heartily endorse what yol
had to say about the good dairy COW
safe line fences, winter blooming
plants, etc. l think farmers will not
have any difficulty in recognizing tt
what family your dairy COW, SO min
utely described, belongs, especially ir
Vermont.
Good. That is the kind of cows We
want for the dairy, but the name will
not make much difference, if you only
get the cows-yet the greatest Difficult.
ty will be in getting her without hav.
ing the name.
There are lot Of these same COWS
300 pounds and over--in our little
state, if we could only find where they
are.
A considerable number of years age
there was current report circulated
by the board of agriculture that there
were then thirty diaries in this class,
averaging 300 pounds of butter in a
year.
] think this number has been con.
siderably increased since then.
hope this fact, if SO it be, may receive
confirmation through the columns OF
the ADVOCATE.
Skipping over the other portions OF
this excellent article of Mr.. Chitten.
den's, | wish to refer to the last sub.
ject, "Maple Sugar Prospects," Up
here in the more northern part of the
state we have had three poor sugar
seasons IN succession, and the farmers
would be much pleased to have an old.
fashioned good one again.
For two or three years tine forest
tree worms have been pursuing theil
work, and it has been question what
the effect would be. The report first
came that the worms would not con.
tinue in one place more than three
years, but would not that be long
enough to ruin the maple trees by this
annual devastation? But our expert
ence thus far is that they, have only
remained in one place, at least to any
extent, for one year. The second year
the orchards infested were let alone
and perhaps an adjoining one would
be attaked. 4
If this continues to be the case it is
to be hoped these pestsMill soon have
had their day, and thapno real serious
injury to the trees willlreSult.
l must make one EXCEPTION to the
above, as one orchard was stripped
two years in succession still last spring
this orchard produced as well as those
that had never been attacked.
If this shall prove. to be the case
generally, there is a prospect that the
naples will survive and that the old
time industry of sugar-making will
still have place among the operations
of the farm.
Many of the apple orchards in this
part of the state suffered severely
from the ravageS df these worms.
Some of them were st tipped entirely of
their foliage and loo ed as bare as in
winter. But after hwhile the trees
leaved out again and looked as well as
ever, but of course there was no
fruit.
After hard timk of it we succeed
ed in keeping the YDrms from clear
ing our own trees ehtirely, but por-
ton of them were about half bare.
Now we are wondering If they will
come again anothef year.
There were plenty of cocoons on the
trees and elSewherd, but one ObServ-
ing person found that the larva was
dead and from the scarcity of butter
flies later in the season it is to be
hoped that these pests will make a
small showing another year.
Hardly in remembrance of the wri-
ter has there been so small an amount
of apples raised as the past season.
There was but lit tie bloom to begin
with and the worms destroyed any
hope of a harvds t where the trees
The Fruit that was grown
was generally of ioor quality as was
u 1cO that frOm fhk, WaSt