The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-07-28

THE colt that is highly fed at all
times will bring the most money when
sold, but he is not so hardy, and is far
more difficult to keep fat when done
growing.
NOTHING in country landscape
shows so much the taste of the inhab
itants as the adornment, or the lack of
it, displayed in the surroundings of the
homestead.
A WRITER in HOdrd's Duirymdn
cured the worst case of caked bag he
ever saw in about four hours by thor
oughly soaking and rubbing with the
juice of pie-plant.
AMONG the best farmers the practice
now is to get the hay into the NOW or
stack the day it is cut if possible. In
good hay weather this can be done with
the right management.
THE future belongs to the young
farmers. Agriculture will be what
they make it, and it is vain for the old
fogies to sit upon the axle-tree of
progress and holler whoa!
OLD and questionable houses often
form more beautiful pictures when set
in living frames of green than costly
new and pretentious ones standing alone
without relief or background.
THE farmer should realize that farm
ing has not reached perfection; that
improvements are possible in thou
sand things; and his constant study
and careful observation should be to
discover the better plan.
THERE is no want of intellect among
the farming population. The difficulty
is that it is undeveloped intellect. The
greatest, grandest and best of all states
men, dead or living, have sprung from
our agricultural population.
THE following from j. H. Davis,
Rice county, Mimi, indicates the pos
sibilities of the winter-laying hen: 81
have forty-two Plymouth Rock pullets
that layed during the months of Jan
uary and February (ifty-nine days.
1,215 eggs.
BY keeping land in clover, cutting
the first crop and blowing under the
one hundred bushels of shelled corn
per acre. The fertilizer used was a
handful of hen manure around each
hill of corn.
MEADOWS of fine natural grass, like
some of those bordering the Con-
necticut river, can be moved very
close, while uplands stocked with cui-
tivated grass would be much injured if
cut so short, especially if followed by
dry weather.
FARMING unquestionably belongs to
ho fin o,tC NIL 81
lows it with no enthusiasm and with
no desire to improve should quit the
business, 90 to town, and by long and
pains-taking course of training fit him
self to carry bod.
A BOX without any bottom in it. a
foot square and eight inches deep, with
a string stetched from one side to the
other, with rags tied to the string and
left to flutter in the wind, placed over
the cucumber or melon hill is a sure pro-
lection against the yellow-striped bug,
WE do not want to see Offices giving
based on occupation; but in these days
we want to see the occupation of agricul-
ture have liberal representation in the
law-making department of the govern
ment, and when we hear of farmer who
is possessed of the requisite qualities to
fit him for such a position, we say to our
farmer readers, Use him, by all means.
To cure a horse of stamping in the
stall, hang a bit of wood (only mod
erately heavy peg four or five inches
long, by string, say seven inches long,
from strap above his knee on each
fore leg so that it will whack lightly
nC oh
TO it every stamp, and The will soon stop
stamping rather than be annoyed by it.
a GOOD rule to adopt in feeding,
whether for man or beast, is this: If a
man or horse is worked extra hard, as
they often are at this time of year, rest
should be the restorative; not more
food than can be digested, especially
when the system is weakened by over
work. Excess of food weakens a work
ing animal or man. Rest recuperates
and strengthens.
THE Rural New Yorker says: "Keep
an eye on the managers of your fair,
friends. How many of them are going
into the liquor business this fall?
They would doubtless feel insulted if
you called them rum-sellers, but what
else are they if they accept money for a
liquor privilege. BY the way, how
much better are you if you stand by
and wink at such practices?
SOME of the rulers of former times
used to entrust the management of
their governments to lot of favor
ties, who, instead of working for the
benefit of their subjects, used their
position to enrich themselves, and
abused their trusts in every conceivable
way until they brought their people to
the verge of ruin. The American
farmer to-day is in the same position.
BROTHER CHEEvER says, with truth,
that there is prejudice against western
pork, but that as matter of fact the
averge western hog, grown as he is
largely on green food taken in the open
air, and fed at last upon corn in the ear,
is really to be preferred to the barn-cel-
lar hog on some of our eastern farms.
1t is well to know where ones pork is
produced, but it is better to know how,
or under what conditions, it was pro-
duced.
SPEAKING of manual labor in agricul-
tural schools, an eX-student says: We
were students at an agricultural college
at the West. We had Just come in
from work on the farm. George had
been digging potatoes, Frank had
been husking corn, and Ed. and l had
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