Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-04-07

SplcnuiG SIccA PloWo odn NC procured
It would be more ridiculous than it
really is for a farmer to carry on large
farm without the improved farm ma
chinery that can now be procured.
1t is urged by the slow old fogy that
twill never answer to pay out so much
money for machinery to use on the farm;
that the profits will not admit Of it.
AS well might the cotton or wooden man
ufacturer say that he could not afford to
purchase improved machinery for his
factory for the manufacture of cloth be-
cause Of the expense. The fact is he
cannot possibly afford to do without it,
for if money cannot be made by using
the best appliance then it cannot be
made at all. AS well might the farmer
say he cannot afford to buy dressing for
his lands when every intelligent person
knows that it is of little use for one to
attempt to farm at all without it.
If the farmer has not the capital with
which to stock his farm and cannot pur-
chase the necessary implements and still
cannot do any thing else so well because
of the lack of capital or for other good
reasons, why, then he must work on un-
der the serious disadvantage until he
can do better. One should procure the
best shovels, hoes, rakes, forks, plows,
moving machine, tedder, horse-rake,
horse hay-fork. harrows, root-cutters,
carts and other things used in farming
operations, and after they are provided
keep them in good condition and make
the best possible use of them to tighten
labor on the farm and make it probable
| too. Could all this be done we think
there would be fewer young persons
leaving the farm and going to the city
to gain a living.
WATER FOR CATTLE IN WINTER.
This question affects the farmers
purse much more seriously than is gener-
ally supposed. The common resort even
for those who shelter their animals, is
the neighboring brook or pond, where
hole is cut through the ice every morn
ing There is often a long drive to this
spot, and the cattle, waiting for one
another, SILVER in the keen winds for an
hour or more, to get a chance to drink
water at a temperature of 80 degrees.
This ice water is to be warmed IN the
animals stomach by the combustion of
hay and grain. Of course all the food
consumed in this heat, lost by this ex-
posture and the ice-water, is so much
wasted.
If an OK drinks three gallons of Ice
water, when he might have spring water
at so degrees, he wastes all the canbon
it would take to raise three gallons of
water from 80 to 80 degrees. And this
}, carbon is not in the shape of coal or
wood, but in the much more costly form
of food. We might estimate very ac-
curately just how much is lost every
day. But it matters very little for the
| argument, for it is clear that it costs not
less than if the fodder we're burned un.
der boiler, and so made to produce the
same effect. Every one can see that
this small daily loss amounts to con.
siderable sum in the course of fodder.
o ing season of six months. and if thi:
a sum is multiplied by the number Of
;. stock kept, it amounts to an appreciable
share of the farmers fodder, and may
make all the difference between the loss
!. and profits in a years operations w
. want, if possible, to have water for ou
" cattle to drink, at the temperature o
q well water, or as near to so degrees a
n may be, and to have it brought int
|
~ This may be done in several ways
% and the method to be adopted is gener
v ally best determined by its cost. TIL
% cheapest method is usually to introduc
- spring water, where sufficient fall ca
- be had within reasonable distance. |
the whole costs $500, the interest q
n that is but $50 annually, and this woul
Is not go a great way in supplying labor a
Is the pump handle or in keeping machine
70 ry in repair. At ANY reasonable rat
70 we want spring water brought into th
w barn or yard, where the cattle can hel
&c themselves. 1t will pay good interes
= on the investment Eachange.
III TURKEY RAIs1NG.-Farmers who liy
6 in sparsely-settled districts, aboundin
e in large, dry pastures can afford to Civ
~ the time of faithful and intelligent la
the whole summer through to be devote
90 exclusively to rearing turkeys. II
~ young broods must be watched as col
- stantly as ever shepherd watches shee
u in regions infested by wolves. Ever
III night. or during the day, on the al
u proach of rain, they must be driven to
L roomy she'd with tight roof. II
u mother birds, and the young, can
~ soon trained to be driven as easily g
COWS are driven to pasture. Give GOO
~ forage ground, and keep out of rain al
an dew, and success is almost certain
. The Poultry World
~ George E. French has purchased