The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-21


an advantage to the towns-people also.
IT is now definitely settled that bran
is one of the best beef-making foods
known, and at its present price will
fatten cattle at the lowest possible cost.
But you must use corn or cotton-seed
with it.
ONE of the most important helps in
managing farm successfully is house
wife who thoroughly appreciates all the
efforts put forth to make the farm pay.
Such a wife is indeed a blessing to
her husband.
ACCORDING to Kansas papers, the
wheat crop of that state will be very
light one, estimated at about fifty per
cent. From all other winter wheat
quarters, however, the reports are in
dicative of large yield.
WE have been asked, says the Ameri-
can Doiryman, When does heifer
cease to be heifer and become a COW?
The logical answer to this would seem
to be, When she drops her first calf, but
such is not the common practice.
THERE is no better food for stock
than the sugar-beet. No root is more
certain of a crop, and none yields more
food. They are excellent keepers,
nutritious, and great promoters of the
flow of milk in both cows and ewes.
Do not allow the growing colts to eat
corn. Corn contains sixty-six per cent
of fat-producing quality, and only eight
to ten per cent of muscle-forming food.
In the colt it is muscle and not fat you
want to develop, hence avoid corn as a
food
IT is not the farm that most needs
cultivation and improvement, but we
farmers and our families. That the end
of tillage is not dust and drudgery, or
even dinner and dollars; not merely to
improve the fields and focks, but the
man and woman.
HORSES can be easily damaged or
ruined by bad management. We be-
lieve that the difference found in horses
as to vicious habits and reliability
comes more from the different manage
ment of men than from variance of
natural disposition in animals.
THE London Agricultural Gazette
says that there are individual cattle,
sheep and pigs which inevitably pick
our pockets. The Breeders Gazette
says that there is whole gospel in the
above sentence. The moral is: Supply
their places with better ones, and the
sooner done the better.
A HALF-sTARvED calf, says the
american Ddiryman, is in just the con-
dition to invite all kinds of diseases,
and especially those chronic lung COM
plants that occasionally do so much
damage in herds of dairy cattle.
Remember it-you who seem to grudge
every quart of milk that goes down the
calf's throat.
THE american Ddiryman says that
the dairyman who buys big COW, with
view to selling her carcass for beef
when through with her in the dairy,
has been aptly likened to the man who
bought an engine several times too
large for the work he had to do, with a
view to selling it for more as old iron
when worn out.
WILLIS p. HAZARD names the
Guernsey as the best general-pur-
pose" cow. She has the butter qualities
of the Jersey with tougher constitu-
ton, larger size and better feeding
qualities. She is the happy medium be-
tween the butter Jersey and the huge
Holstein, with the good qualities of
both and the defects of neither.
AN exchange says that g the Ameri-
can farmer has, to large extent,
proved himself unfit for the high duties
imposed upon every citizen of this coun-
try; he has been following his party
gods through thick and thin, without
trying to thoroughly understand their
aims and motives" There is some truth
in this, but it is wise to follow leaders
until we know enough to go it alone.
No men need knowledge more than
farmers, and none can better tn en-
selves faster by it.
OF the thirty-eight states, twenty
eight have enacted legislation against
the sale of what is called oleomargarine,
butterine, bogus butter or imitation
butter. These laws usually require the
product to be conspicuously branded;
sometimes, as in Georgia and Connec.
ticut, every hotel or clearinghouse
using this product is required to keep
conspicuously posted statement of the
fact, while Maine, Vermont, New York
Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Ohio prohibit the sale
or manufacture of butter substitutes
altogether.
FARMERS as q rule do not like tC