The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
no weeds are grown, and every avail
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able substance is turned into manure.
IT will do hen no harm to have her
wings clipped, and it will prevent her
from going over the fence. The proper
mode is to cut only one wing. The
two longest, or flight feathers, may be
left, cutting all the shorter ones.
When her wingis folded, the shortened
feathers will not be seen.
MANY persons think that corn is the
best food for poultry. 1t is if you do
not wish eggs. For eggs, feed soft
food, bran or meal, with little salt in
the morning and little cayenne pep
per added every other morning; corn,
wheat or oats in the evening. A sole
diet of corn produces too much fat.
THE turnip crop is not valued by the
farmer so much as it should be. There is
no cropput into the ground that pays bet
ter than the turnip for the time and ex-
pense involved. Nor is there any other
stock feed that can be produced in such
great abundance, with such little exer-
ton and in so short time, as this crop.
AN easy way to break up broody
hen is to tie stout cord about three
feet long to one leg of the hen, and tie
her to stake near path where per-
sons are passing frequently. Then if
you will take little pains to stir her
up whenever passing, a few days will
so completely discourage her that she
will give up in disgust.
COLD weather is a sanitary agent
holds odors in suspense, but the sun
lets them free. Let your nose do its
work and clean up the spots it points
out. Milk will suffer now from this
cause more than in winter. Health is
promoted and preserved by cleaning
up. Better clean up than be cleaned
out by disease, and possibly death.
THERE are no better birds for laying
and the table than the Langshans and
Houdans, which, though covered with
black feathers, are white when plucked,
while the Black Cochins and Black
Jarvas have yellow legs and skin. The
color is not even skin deep, yet the
prejudice of some against them on ac-
count of their black plumage is very
strong.
The mich COW should be gentle,
milk easily, give fair flow of milk
and hold out well. A COW that does
not possess each one of these virtues is
not a suitable animal to be kept long on
the farm. Kicking and restless cows
and cows which milk hard are nuisances
and trying on the temper, and there is
no call to keep them that their species
may be propagated.
THE prevailing idea that poor land
can be made fertile only by stable ma
nure is fast being disproven. We know
that blowing under of green crops will
renovate sterile soil, but that is slow
process. What is wanted is method
which will bring up" the soil and
make profit at the same time. This
method is found in the use of properly
made chemical fertilizers.
THERE is inquiry everywhere for a
family cheese. There are great many
small dairymen who could meet this
demand and make money by doing it..
The English and Swiss understand this
branch of dairying to perfection and
they have made such a reputation for
their little cheeses that they sell in
America for twice and three times as
much as our factory-made.
SULPHIDE of potash has proved in
our practice ali that has been claimed
for it by the English press as de-
stroyer of mildew on roses, chrysanthe-
NUNS and some other greenhouse
plants. A quarter of an ounce dis
solved in gallon of water and thrown
on the affected foliage with fine-rosed
syringe will wholly destroy the fungus,
: and the leaves will not be injured.
EVERY farmer ought to have vaseline
about the barn. For wounds, sores,
inhammations, etc., we know of no salve
so healing and antiseptic, or so agree
able to handle as this. 1t is not a mys-
FERROUS mixture, sold as great animal
: specific, yet it has many virtues, and
| farmers would do well to use it often
: in cases where one hesitates as to what
can be best used. 1t is perfectly harm
, less.
MARES in foal should not be confined
t too closely to the stable, but should have
, exercise in open lots, where they can
pick few bites of grass every pleasant
day. Besides this their food should
= not be heating, but of laxative nature
so that it will keep the system in a
healthy condition. The colt will come
in much better condition and be pre-
pared to grow the more rapidly if the
mare is thus cared for.
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