Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-03-24


scription Of This farm and its improvement
10y the present owner. | will at this time
only SHOW how the income has been gathered
during the past year The whole farm com
! pri.cs three hundred and scycnty-fve acres
/ There is no waste land, unless you so call
wood land and the land in process of clear
/ ing; OF this there is about scventy-Gve acres.
The smooth meadow that is flowed by the
otter Greek is one hundred acres in extent,
and furnishes abundance of hay of fair quail
ity. The upland is all excellent soil. and roe
ceivcs the great quantity of manure which
the large hay crop makes. The farm is very
fayorably situated to ho not only self-sus-
tanning but to increase constantly la fertility.
rur DAIRY STOCK
consists of Gity-thrcc head OF cattle, thirty
three OF which are grade Shoit-hom aud
Ayrshire cows, mostly in calf hy q Jersey
bull, and three ful-blood Aylshires. Ten
are hefcr calves sired by Short-hou bun
from Winslow's herd at Putucy two are
ful-blool Ayrshir... With these is ga full
blood Jersey hul call and also Shori-horn.
The Jersey will he used To- produce milking
stock ! ana told that arrangements are
made to procure % few hlI-hlooded Jersey
hsiler calves from some OF tli. best herd. in
Massachusetts,. This action shows that So
eminent dairlman has, after careful in
qury and observation, become convinced of
the great value OF JERSEYS aud Jersey grades
for butter making, one Ayrshire hriicr
however, was pointed out as tn" best mixer
of her age lac ever had.
rHr INCOME,
this year ha. been one hundred and ninety
two pounds of butter per COW, which shows
gain of fifty pounds per cow over the pro-
duct of five years ago. Thi. isa still more
favorable result when notice that seven of
the mixers are hoiicrs, aud this is their first
year in the dairy. Mr. Douglas is confident
that he can rai,e the average productivcness
fifty pounds year higher by careful breed
ing. feeding aud selection. The buttor made
from August to January has been readily
sold 20 consumers for forty-livc cents pound.
That made in warm weather has been mostly
sold to dealers at forty to forty-three cents
1t was sold in January. The system Of deep
setting in pals i, still giving satisfaction,
aud water in the watts whore the pals set,
gives the uniform temperature desired
noticed ON the shelves of the dairy.room
set of tin cans, four inches in diameter, with
glass placed in the sides aud a scale of inches
and fractions marked for measuring the
depth of cream. Those used to test the merit
OF individual COWS are thirteen inches deep.
while other, used for experimental purposes
are from four to eighteen inches These
tcst- prove the COWS, aid in selection, and
give reliable knowledge in regard to deep
aud shallow setting.
rU SHEEP
are tine second source OF income, will mem
ton About thirty we'll bred Spanish me-
rinoas are kept. There has been sheep and
wool sold to the amount of $3.50, aud the
stock on hand is better than it was year
ago. The surplus stock was sold to go to
California, at from $l2 to $50 each Tn.
sheep industry has not fully recovered from
the low prices of the few past years, hut is
paying very we'll
THE RIGS
show an unusually good record. A year ago
| saw five s)ws aud aud Berkshire boar in
the pens Qour were Chester sows). The
spring pigs were dropped in April, and
twenty were fed for market upon sour milk
alone in summer and milk and meal the
last two months They We're sent away ON
the cars ia November Their ayerag, weight
was three hundred and tiirty-four pounds,
and they brought ten cents pound live
weight. They were put upon the market by
a man who makes speciality Of 81 gilt edged -
pork, for which he gets twenty to twenty
five cents a pound, dressed, cured and
packed in the best possibl, style. The same
SONS dropped other pigsin September which
were sold. The income from pigs and pork
was over $500 beside furnishing family pork
and adding one to the breeding stock.
THE HORSES.
The raisingof carriage horses is the aim.
The colts in the yards and stables from
suckers to fourycar-olds show the growing
stock. The intention is to raise three every
year There are now seventeen horses and
colts. Several of the younger ones are 10y
the wel-known ode Long" horse, he 10y
Ethan Allen" Some are by " Abram." of
the Cream Hill stock farm, in Shoreham
The appearances are, that at least span of
colts can be sold every year, and heuumhel
kept good by breeding without making this
branch very prominent or in any way detri
mental to other interests
the NAY cRop
! have mentioned as large and permanent
this year three hundred and seventeen load,
were gathered. Formerly cattle were raised
for beef aud the growth thus obtained was a
prominent source of income; but now the
surplus hay is kept from year to year, aud
cattle taken in to winter; or hay will be sold
in seasons of scarcity, so that we may count
upon about fifty tons year, that will bring
an income in other ways than above men
toned.
The five sources of revenue here indicated
cannot reasonably fail. Every year the mar.
ket will demand at good price some OF
these products, and farmer with several de-
pendeuces is we'll prepared to meet the
changing markets and adverse times. These
notes were gathered in a conyersationalway,
but their publication cannot properly be OBJ
iected to by one SO prominent as Mr.. Douglas
has become by his attendance ON farmers
meetings, and his lectures upon improved
dairy husbandry
DEvoNs.-A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman brags on the Deyons =" tested
one fiye-year-old in the month of june on
grass alone, and she yielded forty pounds of
milk per day. In the eight days her milk
was kept separate, the result was seventeen