The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-09-01
Farm and Garden Notes.

To get hay into the barn just right is
an art.
THE only thing you can carry out of
this world is what you have given away.
TRY buhach or Persian insect-powder
for the cabbage-worm. Wet table
spoonful of the powder with alcohol and
stir this in pailful of water.
HASTE in getting progeny from pigs
for which good prices have been paid is
bad policy. A herd managed ON this
plan for a few years will dwindle.
CLOVER should always be cut when
in full blossom. This means when the
most of the buds are in blossom and not
when the last of them are blown out.
KIND treatment to all stock, of what
ever kind, should be the infexible rule
with every one who has anything to do
with the domestic animals of the farm.
ROTTEN corn-cubs are valuable fer
tilizer on any soil that is deficient in
potash, and their value is much en-
HANGED by being rotted with other ma
nure.
A LITTLE extra care at this season of
the year will be well spent in prevent
ing weeds from going to seed, especially
where the land is to be used next year
| for garden crops
A WORCESTER COUNTY, Mass. farmer
says: g am satisfied if farmers would
use more pure bone and less adulterated
phosphates they would receive greater
and more lasting results"
IT is easier to keep an animal fat
than to make it fat, and consequently it
is the wisest plan to make young ami
NAL fat as soon as possible after birth,
and then never allow it to get poor.
THE breeding of fine stock of differ
ent kinds requires careful study and at
tention to many minor details to achieve
success in times of depression such as
have prevailed during the past year.
THE foundation of good character
in fruit should be good, hardy, zig
OrOus cOnStitution-one that can resist
the heat and drouth and come out
scathless from our severe wintry ordeals.
If farmers would make it a rule to
veal the poorest calves and raise only
the best ones, they would find their
profits materially increased. Feed
given to ungrowthy animals is largely
thrown away.
THERE are some who appear to have
no idea of filthiness. To them every
thing is clean. These are the ones that
make good share of the store butter,
so much of which has gone into the
market as grease.
THERE is growing partially fol
white fowls. The reason is plain. A
white fowl is easier plucked, the pin.
feathers not being so quickly discern
ible, while the skin and legs are usually
of golden yellow.
SOME farmers, in employing help
wisely make it condition that there
shall be no rough treatment of team:
or stock of any kind, and that violation
of the rule shall be sufficient cause fol
severing the contract.
SHORT pasture makes short supply
of milk. The prudent farmer at this
season always supplements the pasture
with liberal rations of " shorts" bran
meal and corn-fodder. 1t pays to hole
cows to their milk in early autumn.
IT is said that a healthy fowl will
drink twenty times a day; its hear
beats one hundred fifty times minute
in hot days it will pant and halt foi
breath. Put. yourselves in a like condi
ton; then would not cool drink be
appreciated?
MANY portions of Chinese soil arr
very poor indeed, and yet the countr,
is one of best farmed in the world
. For thousands of years it has supported
D a vast population. Two points of Chi
= ! nese agriculture are worthy of note