The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-02-29

THE man who keeps three cows to
do the work of one, or three acres
to do the work of one, has no business to
expect even a hired mans wages for
the time he puts in.
THE water which dairy cows drink,
if impure, will spread its impurity to
their milk. and the quantity and quality
of the food also makes its influence felt
upon the quantity and quality of milk.
IT ought to be settled beyond dispute
that it pays to provide good shelter for
all the stock of the farm. The surest
plan is, as far as possible, to provide for
this ahead of the time when it may
be wanted.
PUMPKINS for cows have the best
effect when fed before very cold
weather, for there is less absorption of
animal heat to warm the mass of forty
or fifty pounds that cow will take into
her stomach.
A HEALTHY mich COW in full flow of
milk will drink and requires sixty to
one hundred pounds of water per day.
1t is utterly impossible to get COW to
take one-half, or even one-fourth, of this
amount of ice water, nor will she drink
the ice-water or cold water with any
regularity.
A SERIES of experiments conducted
by Professor Roberts of Cornell, last
winter, resulted in saving fourteen per
cent of the food consumed in the dairy
by warming the water to eighty degrees
Several reliable dairymen claim there is
not only saving of food, but an in
crease of twenty-five per cent in the
yield of milk.
A CORRESPONDENT writes in favor of
warming water for mich cows as fol-
lows: " NY men during a mild day,
with the thermometer at forty-tive de-
grees, concluded it was not necessary
to temper the water for the cows. con-
sequently there was a falling-off of one
fifth of milk in quantity. They are
now convinced"
If we were asked to name the four
principles of success in dairy farming
they would be good dairy cows to start
with, winter dairying, cheap food and
plenty of it. The cap-sheaf is a man
who has brains enough to know that he
needs knowledge, and who is wise
enough to reach for it wherever he can
get it.
THERE are four main reasons why
most of the dairy farmers make so little
money from their cows: First, poor
cows, machines that are not calculated
for the business; second, summer dairy.
ing, making milk when it is the cheap
est and letting the cows go dry when il
is the dearest; third, refusing to learn
how to produce cheap food, requiring
three acres of pasture and two OF
meadow in ordinary seasons to keep q
COW a year, besides the grain she con
sumes; fourth, refusing to believe they
must feed wisely and strongly if they
would make cow yield her best profit
LOSSES in farming do not come sc
often from lack of knowledge as from fail
ure to practice what is known to be the
approved method. Every farmer knows
why it pays to sprinkle little plaster
over the manure in his stables every
day, yet few farmers do it, Every one
knows the value of dry earth in the hen
house, but how many fail to provide it
Every farmer knows that the fertilizing
matter in the liquid excrements of the
animals is already dissolved and ready
for plant food, and yet how many stanC
by and see it soak into the grount
under the stable all the time, buryins
dollar after dollar as winter wears
away?-HodrdS Ddiryr'an.