The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-06-26
Notes by the Way.

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stock.
SINCE the days of the wanderings of
the nations there has been nothing like
the movement of migration from Eu-
rope to America and the shifting of
residence of American people during
the last fifty years.
WHEN fowls have already become
lousy soak the perches with kerosene
and dust plenty of sulphur under the
feathers with the hand If the quar-
tiers are kept clean and frequently white
washed but little trouble need be had
A SAFE rule is to retain all sows that
have successfully raised their filters.
A SOW that has been tried and known
to be a good mother should be retained
as long as she can be made serviceable.
1t is unwise to depend on untried young
sows.
THE fact is that the Jersey is one of
the best of butter breeds, although
there are many worthless animals hav-
ing jersey blood in their veins. 1t is
the good animals that everybody wants.
Scrubs are worth nothing except to be
killed.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Home
stead advises, to clean sugaring pans of
the inter that adheres to the bottom,
to cover the bottom with I've from wood
ashes and let it stand a few hours. The
inter will all flake off, leaving the pan
clean and bright.
THE best results in dairying are Sc
cured where good feeding is practiced
the year through. There are some pas
lures good enough for profitable work
without grain feed, but average pas
lures will give better profits if small
feed of grain be added.
IF the supply of hay is short, use
straw and corn-fodder as part of the
daily ration. Any deficiency in the
coarse food can be supplied with extra
grain. In fact, any ration can be bal
anced by the judicious use of ground
grain and cotton-seed or linseed meal.
A THOUSAND animals are killed by
dosing with drugs where one is bettered.
This is the belief of E. S. Fowler, ex-
pressed in the Ne,o York Tribune, and
is as true in the human family as among
our mute friends. And yet our agri-
cultural papers are full of veterinary F."
quackery.
A. TARMER(D once claimed that it
did not pay to feed meal to cows, for he
bought bushel once and fed it with
but little effect. There can be no doubt
of the correctness of his conclusions, so
far as shown in his practice. To real
ize profit the feeding must be con-
tinuous course of good feeding.
THE Royal Agricultural Society of
England, the New York State Agri-
cultural Society, the Essex County
Mass Agricultural Society and scores
of other organizations equally merito-
rious, although, perhaps, less inhu-
entail, have never made horse rotting
feature of their exhibitions. This
fast-horse business {" has wrecked
many societies which gave promise of
usefulness, and the sooner it can be
stamped out" of the agricultur al fair
the better. Let those who desire these
tests of speed take other opportunities
and other places for their qualification
than the agricultural festival and the
farmers Playground.
THERE comes time, of course,
when it will not pay to feed meal if the
balance is to be struck daily. After a
COW from natural causes has shrunk
down to small flow the addition of
meal to her pasturage will not produce
enough to pay the expense. So, too
when a COW is dry, or nearly so, she will
not pay daily for her pasturage or her
hay. The yearly cost must be SET
against the income for the year, and
when this is done it will be found that
those cows which are fed all they need
the year through will pay larger in
come above their cost of keeping than
those left to scanty pasturage alone.
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