News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-08-12
Farm Notes.

A man should keep only so many
cows as he can feed in the best man
ner. Ten COWS we'll fed will pay a
better profit than fifteen cows scantiv
fed. When the butter dairyman has
studied this question carefully, he will
try to find weekly market for his
butter If he makes q uniformly
good article, he will find a retailer
who has regular customers, who ap-
preciate good butter, and when they
become acquainted with his brand,
will pay the highest price for it. The
dealer soon finds that your butter will
bear a uniformly good price, he is anx-
ious to handle it all, and will give
you much better terms than you can
get on the general market. Another
business arrangement you will find
profitable, where you can, is to make
these weekly deliveries by express,
and receive your collections through
the bank, requiring no travel, except
to deliver your butter at your express
office. We think many farmers travel
too much in doing their business, and
thus add largely to their expenses.
1t is claimed that pound of pork
can be produced at less cost than a
pound of poultry, which is true only
to certain extent. In some sections
the pork is the cheapest, while in 9TH
ers the poultry has the advantage.
But let the cost per pound be what it
may, the price of poultry is always
higher than that of pork, and hence
there is more profit in poultry than in
pork. When we compare the hog
with the hen, the advantage is largely
in favor of the latter, for in addition
to furnishing a certain number of
pounds of poultry, she also furnishes
more than double her weight in eggs,
and in proportion to food consumed
will return a profit of over 100 per
cent. Her progeny, compared with
that of the SOW, pays much better
when young, and the labor required
for her care is insignificant. If de-
desired, the hen will consume the
same offal and waste matter that the
hog will, can subsist proftably Oh
proportionately less, and the quality
of her products is far superior in nu-
triton to those from the hog, while if
she is brought to the same degree in
fat she will add one-fourth more to
her value.
While we have no hesitation in
claiming for the poultry business larg-
er profits in proportion to capital in
vested than in any other class of stock
Oh the farm, yet, like anything else,
there are many obstacles in the way
to cause disappointment. AS with
COWS that fall off in milk, so NAV the
hens cease laying. An oversight by
not properly providing for them in
winter may be the entering wedge of
roup, which in a week will destroy the
labor Of months. The iniudicious
purchase of an unhealthy fowl may
lay the foundation of cholera con-
tagion, while the novice who has had
no experience, may suddenly find his
houses and fowls overrun with lice.
Frosted combs in winter, too many
hens together, imperfect ventilation,
few cracks in the wall, though ap-
insignificant matters, may be
The turning points between profit and
oss, and the poultryman who does
not make himself familiar with the
characteristics Of the breeds may find
himself keeping Leghorns when he
should have Brahmas instead, or may
eed them too little or get them too
at. If mistakes are made the poul-
lyman will denounce the whole bust
less as delusion, when the real facts
ire that he expected too much before
le knew what should be performed. i,
)ne cannot read too much poultry
literature, or give himself too much
PRACTICAL experience.