The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-11
Farm and Garden Notes.


AFTER a hen has been kept two
years she has seen her best days.
IT isn't worth while to banker after
more land. Double the crops on the
land you have.
THREE creameries in Madison county,
Iowa, pay to the farmers from Sl25,000
to $4,000 a year.
If your fowls have scurvy or scabby
legs, grease them with mixture of lard
and sulphur, or with coal oil.
A SAMPLE of the Maine Agricultural
College Farm butter, worked dry as
practicable, was found to contain fifteen
per cent of water.
IN no other breed do as many chick
ems live as long, with average care, as
the Light Brahmas. The death-rate
among them is very small.
BUILD your roosts on level: it is
far the best plan. Your birds are
cleaner in their plumage, better in
health, and better every way by so
doing.
IT is not possible for any kind of le-
climate business to remain excessively
profitable for very long period after
the possibilities for profit become gen
orally known.
WE believe in Jerseys for the butter
districts and that Jersey bulls will i'm
prove native cows for making butter.
But for making cheap butter, common
cows are better.
THE original Endicott pear-tree is
still living in Danvers, Mass. 1t is
two hundred twenty-five years old, ac-
cording to the Massachusetts Plough
man. 1t is still in bearing.
WISCONSIN appropriated $4,000 to be
expended in holding farmers institutes
the past winter. AT one of these meet.
ings at Fort Atkinson thousand
people tried to get admission to the hall
THE last census report declares that
in one year $11S,670, 166 were blown
away in tobacco smoke and $144 POI ,14l
were spent in liquors. Agricultural
implements cost the farmers only
SOS, $40, 1856.
THE Independent says that many fill
the churn half full, but the time il
takes to churn is lessened nearly one
half when the churn is filed only one
third full Many make this mistake OF
buying too small churn.
SECRETARY GOLD of the Connects
cut Board of Agriculture was righ
when he stated in public agriculture
meeting that the returns from labor ex
pended are both greater and surer il
agriculture than in mining
IT is an old saying, and a true one
that there are advantages and disadvan
tages in all countries, and those who
know enough to profit by the advan
tages, and let the disadvantages alone
will do well in any country.
Orchard and Garden truly says
"There are great stimulating prop
critics even in the unfermented juice o
the grape; and as this is free from al
cohol, all can take not only little, Blu
q good deal, for their stomach's sake
THE average cost of keeping cows TO
ten years, as given at farmers insti
tute by j. M. Deering, the member o
the Maine Board of Agriculture, was il
his case a few cents over $40 year
High feeding was practiced for mil
production.
"SUCH houses and furniture, sue
pianos and libraries, such clothing an
carriages, and such varieties of food a
farmers hereabout count as the neces
saries of life are very scarce anon
the eighty-acre cornlields of the West,
says an exchange.
THE proper time to market lambs
when they will dress from twenty-fv
to thirty pounds, and if of the rigt
, breed and well fed, that weight ougt
to be obtained when sixty days old,
not earlier. No lamb over seventy-fiy
days old is fit to be eaten as lamb.
: AN examination of the Ohio Stal
t Reports shows that the counties whic