The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-12-25
Notes by the Way.

mercilessly disposed of as any other
scrub stock.
COLoRADo's wool crop for 1889 is es-
timated at 900 900 pounds more than
1t was last year. The business is grow
ing there.
1HE number of pounds of butter or
cheese which COW turns out in year
is what determines her value, not what
she has done in day or week.
EXPERIMENTS made at the Wiscon-
sin Station by Professor Henry indi-
cate that large majority of cows prefer
water warmed to seventy degrees
IT is said that the English shepherds
find cut cabbage preferable to. either
beets or turnips for sheep. Lambs in
early winter are especially fond of it.
THERE are many abandoned farms
in New England, but this is trihe
compared with the great number of
farms not half cultivated" says the
Hartford Times.
DOUBTLESS dry bran is a good remedy
for scours in lambs, but dry middlngs
is better. And the same holds good
with scours in calves; dry bran is good,
dry middlings better, and dry wheat
| flour best of all
THoREAU defined corn-pOpping. in
which he loved to indulge, as "only
more rapid blossoming of the seed
under greater than July heat" and
characterized the popped corn as :" a
| perfect winter flower"
ASHES are a most valuable manure,
and every mans experience must con-
! vince him that great loss is annually
| incurred by farmers owing to the want
OF little thought and care in the man
| agement of this one material.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Breeders
! Gazette gives detailed account of fire
| in NOW of green clover which de-
veloped by spontaneous combustion.
1t appears to conclusively settle the
question that fire by spontaneous COM
bustion may be kindled in a hay-mow.
A FARMER was rather noted amoag
his friends for a complaining DISPOSE
ton. One year the crops were eXcep-
tiOnally good, and some curiosity was
felt to see how he would meet the case.
" | am afraid" said he, that such
great crop will be a powerful strain on
/ the land"
" THE best private diaries stand at
the head in dairying, and always will.
There is no rubbing this fact out The
best that the creamery can do is to
bring up the rear, and equal the best
private dairy, if it cam" says the Mir
rOr and Farmer, and so says everybody
who is honest and knows.
THE conclusions drawn from the ex-
pertinent with warm and cold water for
dairy cows at the Wisconsin Expert
ment Station were that in l20 days there
was net gain in favor of warming the
water of about S21 SO on herd of forty
cows averaging sixteen pounds of milk
each per day, or little over 81 on cow.
As a matter of fact, there is no profit
in rearing or keeping cattle except
through good feeding in all seasons of
the year. No argument is required to
prove the truth of this assertion, for
even slightest reflection shows that
profit comes only through utilization of
food beyond the necessity of mainte-
nance.
How can We expect to succeed if we
do not put our minds upon our bust
ness? How can we succeed if we do
not put our best energies into our bust
ness? How can we expect to make
farming pay if we do not eXpend time,
labor and money, if need be, upon our
farms for Improvement of crops, farm
stock, buildings, etc.?
THE Dalrymples, who have become
so noted for their immense wheat
fields in northern Dakota, were asked
what they would do when the soil was
exhausted. The answer was that they
would pillow up new fields. That is the
common way in the West, and is what
is going to reduce the power of west
ern competition very soon.
EDITOR CHEEvER, during years of
successful breeding, eliminated horns
from his dairy cows at Pine Hedge
Farm, and another Massachusetts man
has nearly thirty head descended from
this original herd. An Ohio agricul-
turist has polled Jerseys, now in the
third generation-the result of crossing
a mooley and a Jersey bull.
BARON LEIBIG, one of the leading
and best agricultural chemists in his
day, called the system of skimming the
soil, which has been and still is so
largely practced in this country, "vam-
! pire culture 1t is an appropriate
name for it. 1t draws the very life
blood out of the soil, and in the end
brings poor crops and poverty to the
| owner.
THE dairy commissioner of Wiscon-
sin has been visiting some cheese fac
tories in that state. The discoveries
he made were astounding. About a
pound of rancid butter, streaked with
green, rotten mold, and unfit for soap
grease" is added to 100 pounds of
skim milk, and with other ingredients,
constituting "a vile mixture, unfit for
hogs" is manufactured into cheese.
WHILE rain has been frequent and
copious in New England for long pc
Rod, the West has suffered from the
other extreme. In many sections it has
been difficult for farmers to obtain water
for their stock, devastating forest and
prairie fires have occurred, the custom
airy fall rains have been looked for in
vain, and the Mississippi river has been
lower than before known for thirty