Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-04-08
Agritnltmral department.
Facts for Farmers.

1t is a mistake for breeders TO tninh
that a hens nest is good enough fol
years service.
Never use pullets' eggs for hatch
ing. In buying of breeder, be sure
that you are getting eggs from two
year-old hens.
1t costs something like $40 a year
to maintain a COW, and the profit lies
in what she yields above the cost and
maintenance.
Butter at forty cents pays a good
profit to the producer, but there is q
wide range between sixteen cents for
poor and forty cents for good butter,
when it takes as much cream to make
one as the other.
The man who feeds ground oats,
bran and corn meal in equal quanti-
ties will get good many per cent.
nearer a correct feeding method than
is usually reached, taking our dairy
men and farmers as a class.
The testimony accumulates that 1t
is better to feed mich COWS but twice
per day, as 1t is alleged that well-fed
cows can put in their time resting
and remastIcating their food more
profitably than to spend it in any
other way. The man who thinks a
cow ought to be cantering all over a
half-bare pasture to get livelihood
doubtless does not believe the above.
Farmers have a much greater
sphere of influence on the flavor of
milk produced then they suppose, or
they are willing to admit. The rea-
son why certain number of consum-
ers in all large cities are willing to
pay what, to farmer or an average
| consumer, may seem extraordinary
prices is because they get buffers of
high flavor which are always uniform.
| The makers of these buffers nearly
all use clover or meadow hay and
corn meal, in varying proportions
with other coarse fodder and meals.
Perhaps not many farmers are in
the habit of keeping any sort of an
account with their farms, and there
fore do not really know whether the
farm pays or not. 1t ought not to be
a difficult thing for the average farm
er to adopt some simple system of
keeping an account of receipts and
expenditures, crops raised, with the
labor of raising, sufficient to deter
mine whether he is going forward or
backward in the scale of finances.
The supposed trouble of doing the
work is the chief obstacle.
The successful farmer must raise
good stock, and he should know the
history and merits of the various i'm
proved breeds of stock but how
many farmers make the mistake of
their lives by blindly raising common
stock, saying and believing that fine
stock is no better.
1t is a successful way of managing
the creamery business to have a
branch factory a few miles away
from the main one at good shipping
point, and only have small building,
separator and q three or four-horse-
power steam-engine to operate it,
and then take the cream to the main
factory to be churned. The farmers
can thus have the benefits of the CO.
operative system at points where it
would not pay to build large fac
tory.
Be very particular, says an ex-
change, about disinfecting the kitch-
en- sink. Washing soda, two table
spoonfuls to a gallon of boiling
water, makes an excellent wash to
pour hot into the sink at night, after
the work of the day is over.
Keep down internal fat in your
breeding birds. You may feel proud
of their weight and fatty condition,
but they are not worth cent to you
or anybody else for breeding or lay
ing. Such fowls will do for greasing
old boots or harness.
There are two ways of artifcially
manuring the soil B: one by the direct
use of chemical fertilizers the other
by feeding farm animals the foods
that are rich in fertilizing elements,
such as nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash.
1t is poor policy to set too many
eggs under hens in cold weather, for
hens cannot give so much animal heat
to the eggs, and those which come
under her wings do not receive
enough to hatch them. Nine or
eleven eggs for early Matching is
enough, and these will do better be-
fore and after being Matched than
thirteen or fifteen, the full number
for May or June matches. Eggs
should not be over two weeks old for
Matching. The fresher they are the
better, for when they become old
they lose much of the elements of
vigor by Transportation, consequently
they hatch later and do not ''pop
OUT of the shell with the same vigor
as if they were fresh.
Give that boy a colt, or calf, or
pig, and let him do with it just what
he likes. Advise him if necessary,
but let him take or reject the advise.
1t is his property.
Lousy hens are the cause of much
debility, sickness and death among
the young broods they hatch out.
Every sitting hen should be well