The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-10-06
Farm and Garden Notes.

IN meadows where medium-szed
animal will prosper larger built one
will not succeed.
IT is very hard to make hens sit any
where except where they have laid
their eggs, and moving them will usu-
ally break them up.
THE cows in milk must have food
that will make milk or they will 90 dry
or grow poor. The idle OK may be fed
upon coarse fodder.
A HORSE standing idle through the
winter will come out in better health in
the spring if fed on large proportion
of coarse feed than if given an excess
of grain.
IT is not so much the quantity of food
that requires attention as the assur-
ance that it be suitable. Abundance of
inferior fodder presents no great adj
vantages.
WHEN we expect to collect our living,
as we would a bill, by giving it to a
lawyer to sue, we shall find ourselves
mistaken; we have got to work for it,,
and work like Trojans too.
A PIECE of old cloth, say four feet
square, thrown over the back of a COW
while she is being MIXED will save her
from the annoyance of flies and the
mixer from the annoyance of her tail
lashing about his head
WE all know that neither clear
meal nor clear bog hay is suitable for
cows, but we do not all know that a
perfect food can be made by mixing
bog hay and two or three kinds of
meal" says Brother Cheever.
THE best Of pasture grass or early
cut mixed upland hay represents per-
feet feed for mich cows and growing
cattle. Good hay that is a little ripper
represents perfect food for an OK or
horse that is moderately worked.
WHEAT is now in many places so low
that it may be profitably substituted for
other grain for feeding purposes. No
matter how dear it is, wheat is always
the most economical food for fowls.
either laying hens or young chickens.
THE influence on farmers boys of a
few good tools is always favorable to
contentment aud respect, if not love,
for the farm. A few dollars worth of
lumber and nails annually used up by
boys in their attempts at making some
thing are seldom wholly wasted
THERE are no grander or more superb
trees than our American oaks. Those
who know them only as they grow in
the midst or on the skirts of a thick
forest have no proper notion of their
dignity and beauty when planted and
grown in an avenue, or where they
have full space to develop.
THERE are four principal substances
in all foods-the albuminoids, the car
bo-hydrates, the ash and the fats. The
first are useful in making muscle, lean
meat and milk; the second and fourth
in supplying the body with its heat :;
the ash is largely lime and aids in
building up the frame work-the bones.
The animal system needs good deal
of water to keep the parts in a health
full and comfortable condition. Milk is
seven-eighths water, yet it is perfect
food. The water of the milk is not di-
gested, but it greatly helps digestion.
1t not only fills up but it lubricates the
internal organs and prevents injury from
friction.
lT will bear repeating that no plant
can successfully grow at the same time
crop of seeds and brilliant display
of flowers. Hence, except in cases
where seed is of more importance than
perfect flowers, all decayed blossoms
should be kept picked off, both for
neatness and to throw the strength of
the plant into flowers.
If we give cow coarse, poor hay or
straw only, even if fed these in large
quantities she cannot be well sustained
without eating an excess of one sub
stance to get enough of the other, and
this excess is waste, dead loss so
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