Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-03
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Settle all your accounts, collect what is due YOU
and pay what you owe. 'Short settlements make
long friends" Examine your farm statistics, and
see what have been the results Of your experiments
with the different kinds of manures, seeds. modes
of tillage, &C.; and note them well for future USE
No farmer ought to be without such book, in
which all experiments should be carefully record
ed at the time, aud the results carried into a sep
arate book for his own use hereafter; and if new
and valuable discoveries are obtained, communi-
cate them to some agricultural periodical for the
benefit of the world. RecolIect, you have the ex-
perience ofthousands to guide your operations, &
by contributing to the general stock whatever may
be useful, you are but returning to mankind part
of the benefits you have derived from them. But
avoid twaddle and humbuggery, and oft published
statements, and proliX or tedious marathon and
give all the circumstances material to the subjects
in the briefest, planest, simplest language posi-
ble
Above all things send in your subscription to
one or more valuable agricultural papers, and get
as many of your neghbors to subscribe possible,
and consider in so doing, your are benefting
yourself by it ten times as much as you are the
publishers. Summer is peculiarly the time for
making observations and experiments, and WIN
ter the time for communicating them. Remember
the poor, not only in this month but evcy month
throug the year, and especially during the nclenI-
ency of winter You need not give so much to
them outright, but endeavor to put them in Il way
of making themselves comfortable. by affOrling
them employment, by which You may be benefit
ted, while doing them good. You thus confer on
them a triple benefit by furnishing them the
means OF comfortable subsistence, teaching them
to help themselves, and avoiding the habit of re-
ceiving charity which insensby weakens their
sense of self dependence.
Stock now require increased attention. They
must be we'll housed, or at least protected against
wind, with the shelter to which they can resort in
storms, well supplied with salt and abundance OF
water if possible in the yard, where they get it
when they want, and without wearyng themselves
in looking for it, and wasting the manure by drop
ping it in the road,o by running stream or pond
where it will all be lost. Their feed should be
regular, and given to them as near stated times rs
possible. They look for their food then cor
tain hours, and are not uneasy and frettul till the
customary period arrives, when they again fill
themselves, and rest quietly, digesting their food
till it is time to look for another supply. If brot
up in regular habits, brutes are much better time
keepers than many are disposed to consider them,
who have not observed closely their intelligence.
Now is a good time to break steers and colts,
while the roads are smooth and hard. They ought
to be early accustomed to handling and the halter
and be gently treated by which they are more dis
posed to yield to the wishes of their master. ii
they have been always used to good treatment,
they will acquire confidence in their keepers, Il
the more readily submit to their guidance IT'S
ALWAYS better to train them with strong we'll brok-
en- animals Sympathy has more TO do with the
brute creation, than they have credit for general
ly, and the good habits and orderly behaviour Of
the older animals, they have been accustomed to
treat with Difference will not be without its whole
some effect on -Agricuturlst's Almanac.