The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-04-09
Farming Facts---BOiled Down.

Jne necessary DOnuS lot OASIS.
Farming Facts---BOiled Down.
The Rural New Yorker lately offered
prize OF $50 for the best column of pithy
sentences. We confess to having been
one of the contestants, and to getting
beaten out of sight by one John M. Itahl
of st. Louis, Mo-, as follows. 1t is the
best column of the sort we ever saw. Cut
it out. We keep file of the Rural but
willingly spoil one number for the benefit
OF our readers
Keep diary.
Have home.
Keep accounts.
Firm the seed.bed.
Weeds are robbers.
Stick to your business.
Give stock salt regularly.
Rotate variety of crops.
Keep sheep dry underfoot.
Plant few trees each year.
No man can farm by proxy.
Keep everything in its place.
Keep manure near the surface.
Don't sign paper for stranger.
Quality is as important az quantity.
Feed the soil with the food it needs.
Read agricultural books and papers.
Consult experienced, successful farmers.
Neither chronic lender nor borrower
be.
Use pure seed carefully selected, in sea-
son.
Never buy land till you are sure of the
title.
Insure your property in some good COM
pany.
Sell when your produce is ready for
market.
Paint will cost less than new boards
and beams.
Swine plague is not {" at home" in a
| clover field.
DO all work at the very earliest season
! able moment.
Have well and wood-shed near the
| kitchen door.
Have the least possible fencing, but al
ways substantial.
The doctor will ride on if he sees you
have good garden.
The most profitable acres are the deep
est, not the broadcast.
| ANduuiO co tidb W DIocQ luudJuTo
animals is poor policy.
Judiciously concentrate all efforts, econ.
omizing materials and stock.
Shelter farm implements. Rust and rot
eat faster than wear and tear.
have never heard man complain that
he had titled his land too we'll.
Better go to the undergrad and the
crib than to the cattle doctor"
Money spent to make the home and
farm attractive bears good interest.
Plan and work ahead. Bright brains
and brown hands make the farm pay.
Keep out of debt. When the farm is
once mortgaged it is already half lost.
Some farming is like sieve-only lit.
tie leaks, but the profits all run through.
The older and larger an animal grows
the more food it takes to make pound
of gain.
Ventilate stock shelters by openings
under the caves. Light them by glass
windows.
Color the butter before it comes from
the COW with clover (green or dry and
corn meal.
Rain and wind will not charge anything
for hauling the manure; but they are
dear hands.
Select crops with reference to the size
and soil of your farm, the climate, and
the markets.
Farmers should seek not only to increase
their productions, but to save and market
them better.
Save the urine and keep the beasts
clean by using sawdust or straw Literally
for bedding.
Pulverize the ground, for fning aids
solution, and plant-food must be soluble
to be available.
Never plant an orchard on undraine6
land, or make pasture of it. 1t must b.
fed and tended.
A little ready cash will not wait Ions
for profitable use. Better have money il
your pocket than land unpaid for.
A pound of flesh lost to the brute il
twice lost to the owner, for the waste o.
the body must be repaired while it is be
ing replaced.
Pumpkins, squashes, turnips, beets, etc.
! do not take up much room while growing
but make big item in the feed and health
Of the farm stock.
Ventilate, light, and make warm poul
try houses, and don't feed hens all corn il
you want them to lay. Put sulphur in thu
dust bath. Provide lime.
The general conditions of successful
stock.raising are good animals regularl!
J supplied with reasonable allowance o.
wholesome food and drink, and properly
sheltered and treated.
, An early spring pig kept growing ant
, fattening on pasture (mostly red clover
, during the summer and early fall, anc
then rapidly fattened on grain for two
: months, is the most profitable hog.
: Lastly, cleanliness is godliness on tn,
farm. Clean implements, clean harness
, clean animals, clean fence corners, clear
fields, clean garden, clean orchard, clear
seeds, clean pasture, clean yards, clear
stables, clean shelters, clean troughs, clear
food, clean water, clean litter, clean sleep
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