The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-07-02
Pithy Paragraphs.

Pithy Paragraphs.
DoN'T read too much, but read what is
good-and "chaw on it."
LOVE your neighbor as yourself love
your country more than your party.
WHAT will run away with farmers
money any faster than a fast horse
THE time saved in not cleansing your
cellar will soon be lost in running after
the doctor.
The art of skilfully feeding our land
and our animals-this is the foundation
of all farming.
A sLop-HoLE at the back door will make
doctors bills enough to pay for draining
the whole farm.
THERE is nothing on earth worth 30
much to farmer as the respect and love
of his own family.
Coop seed, good stock the farmers
road is steep and rough who does not
know the value of these two things.
The farmer who carefully plans his
seasons work before he begins it will not
find much difficulty in paying his help.
A FARMER is not half farmer who
does not know how to save all his manure,
and does not put the knowledge in practice.
FARMING is manly business, and if
the farmer is not man all through, he
fails to live up to his opportunities and
and his privileges.
IT is every mans duty to economic,
and not to waste. 1t is equally his duty
not to be misery, for miserliness is the
worst kind of wastefulness.
THOROUGH tillage doubles the effect of
manure. Experience shows that good til
lage without manure will often produce
better crop than good manure with poor
tillage.
THE larger the area of the field the
cheaper the crop can be grown, all other
things being equal. Where there is loss,
it is because this last condition is disre-
garded.
FARMERS will often fail in attempts to
test one fertilizer against another, to learn
their relative values; but they need never
fail in testing fertilizer against no
manure.
A MAN does you so much harm by CIV
ing you poor, unthrifty fruit tree, and
harm you much more by making you pay
Yc lOI
FINE stable manure and all artificial
fertilizers are better narrowed in than
plowed in. The rains carry down all SOL
uble plant food, and only long droughts
bring it up again.
TYPHOID fever and diphtheria, when
they originate on farm, are conclusive
evidences of gross neglect of sanitary
precautions; and this, Notwithstanding a
considerable appearance of care and neat
ness.
IT is not necessary that farmer should
have taste for reading but it is neces-
sary that he should have taste for
knowledge He had, perhaps, best not be
a literary man, but he should seek to
know his business.
A TREE.AGENT may cheat his custom
ers and not be found when the rascality
is discovered but it is hard for farmer
to hide himself, or escape the consequences
of his evil deeds. Honesty is the best
policy for him, sure.
THERE is no surer sign of bad judg-
. ment in farmer than his buying large
farm and going heavily in debt for it.
Having begun with big blunder, it is
not to be wondered at that he should
: blunder on to the end.
, WHEN many new remedies against dis.
eases OF plants or animals, or against in
sects, are being brought forward, we may
be certain that the true remedy has not
been found. When this appears, the
quack's occupation is gone.
, Coon and bad butter and cheese have
, their beginnings before the milk from
ks.h 10 koI
To 60 "clear back" they have their ORR
. gin in the nature and bringing up OF the
t dairyman and his assistants.
The absolute value of stable manure is
never greater than when it is dropped
But in that condition it is not best suited
to all crops. We can therefore sometimes
afford to sacrifice some intrinsic value fol
the sake of better adaptation.
b THE man who says, absolutely, " pillow
= Deep" or "plow shallow" is man Of
: narrow Gf any experience in practical
y agriculture. The depth to which the pillow
is run should be gagged both with refer
ence to the soil and the intended crop.
o NOTHING condemns farmer in the eye.
9 of any intelligent visitor more than the
9 absence of agricultural books and journals
n from his home. Not to seek knowledge
Q of his own trade through the help of tn,
: press is, in this age to be indeed fossil
: IT is not by grating or budding, or dis
;, budding, that fruit trees are made to bea
y full crops on the "odd year." But if tn
u orchardist will stop robbing his owl
q q orchard by making hay in it, and will be
% gin to feed it well with manure, he viii
" find that he can have good crop on boil
y the odd and even years.
n A FARMER can hardly make wors
D. mistake than to neglect his social rels
= tions, or those of his family. There ar
=. great temptations on the farm to lead
20 life of isolation. They should be tough
,SS and overcome. The grange, the farmer
la club, the fairs, and all social gathering
!. should be priced as means of developin
a that within US which, when developed
If makes whole men and whole women