The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-01-06
Farm and Garden Notes.

a LARGE proportion VI lne inoSJ sue
cessful bee-keepers in this country are
ministers. Several rectors of the Es-
tablished Church in England give in
struction in Bookkeeping to their parish
toner's.
DIR. VoELCKER says that animals
must be fed on food that they like in
order to produce the best results.
Chemical analyses of food stuffs do
not always correspond with an animals
appetite.
DON'T forget to give the poultry
fresh, clean water twice day, no mat
ter how cold the weather is. AS soon
as they have satisfied their thirst, empty
the vessels to prevent the freezing of
the water left.
IT is much easier to keep up good
condition in any kind of stock than to
regain it when lost. The stock feel tA
pinch of cold in December, and unless
additional food and shelter are supplied
they go back rapidly.
MANY recommend fresh meat for lay
ing fowls. In small quantities daily it
is undoubtedly good for them, but it is
expensive. Milk is the best substitute
for regular animal food. 1t is cheaper
and on farms always at command.
What is the use of worrying very
much about the apple-worms and the
pear-blight, when almost every year
there are apples and pears enough pro-
duced to glut the markets and make
fruit-growers groan out that the business
doesn't pay?
A Prairie Farmer correspondent kills
Canada thistles by pouring small
quantity of benzine around the roots.
He claims that one application will do
the business thoroughly. This isn't ex-
actly the time of year to try it, but it
may be we'll to make note of it for
future reference.
IN Charlton, Saratoga county, n. Y,
farmers have used Jersey bulls for years,
and have so improved their cows that
it is a common thing for cows to make
from nine to fifteen pounds of butter
per week on pasture alone. The cows
are marked after the Jerseys, but are
larger, and are handsome and hardy.
IT is claimed that the sugar beet in
California does not exhaust the soil. A
beet-raiser reports raising on his ground
from fourteen to Twenty-Five tons pei
acre in four years, planting on the same
ground each year without fertilizers
The old Illinois prairie farmers used tC
think corn would not exhaust the sol
either. But they are wiser now.
"WHAT this country needs is less hos
and hominy and more chicken and eel
ery,n SAYS the Rural NeW Yorker; bu
we don't believe the swap would be
generally approved. Hominy is surel,
most excellent and unobjectionabl'
food, and pig, if not hog, is better mea
than chicken, and no more unwholesome
if people would not overeat because i
is so good.
Do not keep the hens waiting TO
their food, but feed them as early al
possible. The nights are long and tn
days short, which puts quite perio'
between the last and first meals; henc
the hens will be very hungry whel
they come off the roosts. The morn
!. ing meal, in winter, should be warm
and, if the weather is cold, the drinkin
water should be slightly warmed also.
THE Orange County Farmer say
there seems to be quite a general de
mand for congressional action in tn
matter of affording protection to tn
, dairymen against the makers of fraudu
, lent butter. And we ought to have il
, too. But go slow and sure, and dom
f let the legislators give you upconstitu
r tional laws, on purpose, and then laug