The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-08-04
Farm and Garden Notes.

RANK clover and two years. early
moving clears a field of the Canadian
thistle.
THE profit of crop is the last few
bushels and the profit of fat animal is
the last few pounds.
MAKE hay while the sun shines and
set out cabbage plants and celery during
cloudy and rainy spells.
THE average yearly cost of keeping
cows in New York is estimated at
$37 80; in Wisconsin at $25.
WE are glad to receive the ideas of
our subscribers, and are most inter-
ested when they disagree with our
views.
PURE water is blessing. Stagnant
water is death. Don't drink water I'M
less you are sure that it is pure. Better
have it filtered or boiled before use.
IT is pitiful to see man work hard
all the year to grow crop, then lose
five to ten cents on the pound or bushel
for lack of attention to the important
art of selling.
CULTIVATE early, cultivate often,
cultivate late. But never cultivate in
the middle of real hot day, unless alb
solutely necessary. Horses don't like to
be out in the heat any more than you.
A MERCIFUL man never draws the
reins tight, but gives his horses rea-
sonable amount of freedom for their
heads. A wise man never gets d" tight -
himself; he wants his own head clear
ALL legislation which has for its end
the recognition of the business of a
part of the community as exceptional
or divided from the other parts is di.
rectly antagonistic to the spirit of the
American Constitution.
In these times of cheap prices and
close margins farming requires more
judgment and management than almost
any other business. A good farmer
can still do well on these close margins
of profit; poor farmer must run be.
hind.
VERY rarely is an animal worth rails
ing that is stunted during the growing
period of its life. The profits on rails.
ing stock are too small to allow of keep
ing and feeding young animals that
have for any length of time stopped
growing.
MEN sound in soul and limb can be
bred and reared only in the exercise OF
pillow and spade, in the free air and
sunshine, with country enjoyments and
amusements; never amid foul drains
and smoke-blacks and the eternal clanl
of machinery.
GAS now run" says the Nationo
Lire Stock Journal, " it appears to US
that local fairs have nearly had theil
day, and that anything like success can
not be much longer counted upon.
Killed by the fast horse, side-shows ant
alcoholic drinks.
ALL domestic animals ought to have
full supply of pure water severa
times day. Chickens need it. Cow:
must have it. Horses cannot get alon!
without it, and even hogs want it. Sou
swill may be liquid, but it does no
altogether fill the place of pure water
WHILE in ordinary good hay owe
seventy-three per cent of the albu
minoids is digestible and available a.
food, only about forty-nine per cent o
those contained in weathered hay il
available. 1t is well to remember thes,
important facts in making hay. 1t i
never injured by being kept from rain
and dews.
AN expert in the lumber trade say
that New England may cut 500 ZOO, 00l
| feet of spruce lumber per annum TO
the next fifty years to come before eX
haustion of her spruce forests, an,
then 90 back and commence cuttin
the new growth which the fifty year
has again matured ready for the lum
berman's axe.
KILL the acknowledged fowls an
chicks and use the others at home, a
there is usually difference in tn
prices between acknowledged and dark
legged poultry. AS the best table fowl
are those with dark legs you can SUI
ply yourself with them and allow tn
customers to pay for the preference c
color in the legs.
IT is common practice to turn tn
hens on grass plot without regard {
the number of the fowls or the area {
the plot given up to them. If the gras
is old sod, and the soil hard, the hen
will in short time have the plot S
foul as to render it one of the most il
viting locations for visit from cholel
that can be devised.
THE Corning Qowa) Gazette tells {
an insurance agent who was called int
the country to adjust loss on a hors
on which his company had tornad
insurance. 1t was shown that the hors
died of collie, and the agent declined [
pay the risk. The farmer said that
tornado insurance didn't cover all loss,
by wind he didn't want any more il
surance.
: A sTUNTED pig never fully regain
what it has lost. The trouble is th
the pig poorly fed has his digestio
impaired, so that efforts to force hi
by subsequent high feeding only mai
t the matter worse. Overlooking wit
r pigs is more common fault than
t generally supposed. A young pig WI
, always be stunted if fed with all Il
! oorn nr oorr n,aa1 IL CON cot