The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-11-13
Notes by the Way.

handling. Good handling is a science.
If you mean to be a dairyman, de-
eide on your line of dairying, if not al
ready decided-butter, cheese or milk
for market.
They tell some big stories out West
about strengthening, as they do about
some other things. The man who tells
the first story always gets beaten
IT is perfectly safe to feed the grass
under tree that has been sprayed
with paris green solution" says an ex-
pertinent station bulletin. Better not
risk it.
THERE has been greater per cent
of growth in the use of cream, in our
cities, within the past two years, than
in the consumption of any other product
of the dairy.
If you do not save and properly use
the liquid excrement of your stock don't
complain that farming does not pay.
Men who waste so much will naturally
come to want.
RENNET not only coagulates milk
and makes curd, but it goes on digest
ing and soften:ng the curd until it is
ripe. mellow cheese. Its further action
hastens decay.
THE rise in the price of steers in
1882 was accompanied by rise in the
| price of hogs, and both appear to have
| been greatly Influenced, if not caused,
! by The price of corn.
WHITE honey is generally preferred
for wintering bees, but experience
seems to Indicate that the color has little
TO do with it, dark honey answering
just as well as white.
THE flowers of the golden rod are said
to furnish honey superior to that of gar
den, orchard and the general run of
common flowers. 1t is pronounced
nearly equal to that of clover.
A COLD press-room is bad thing in
cheese-makiug. With cold hoops and
followers it is almost impossible to
make the pieces of curd unite and form
a solid mass with a smooth face.
TIE silo is teaching farmers how to
grow fodder corn, and when to harvest
it. Not little of the value of ensilage
over fodder corn is due to this fact.
The green corn is better to begin with.
TIE farmers of the country consti-
tute about one-seventh of the popula-
ton, and there are employed on the
farm and connected with it, in one
capacity or another, about one-half the
population.
PROFESSOR A. J. Cook says that he
clips the wings of the queen, and then
when she issues from the hive with the
swarm folio wing, he cages her under
tumber in the shade. BY this means
he avoids labor and anxiety.
THERE is a popular notion that wheat
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red and black; but the fact is that the
color indicates two conditions of the
same plant in the order of development.
The red rust ripens into black
REMEMBER that warm stables in
winter save food and secure an increase
of the product over cold stables. Warm
drink in winter increases the flow and
improves the quality of milk. Letting
cows get chilled is costly practice.
THERE is great deal of matter pro-
duced on the farm which there is not
a market for and would be lost; but by
the assistance of the COW the farmer
is enabled to manufacture it into
form for which he can find ready sale.
RECENT experiments prove that
salt is a necessity for fowls, and that
when it is supplied them they keep in
better condition and lay larger num-
Der of eggs. Salt is one of the con-
stituents of eggs and must be provided.
"A MOST disgusting picture of dirt is
that of a dirty dairyman, with dirty
hands, milking dirty COW in a dirty
barnyard, and catching the milk in a
dirty pail, where it is left TO absorb the
dirty odors of a dirty atmosphere" says
the Mirror and Farmer.
CHICKS from a small male will be
nearly as heavy, at the age of six or
eight weeks, as those from a large
male, with the advantage in favor of
the small male that he is more active,
and eggs from hens mated with him
will hatch larger percentage of chicks.
THE average milk contains about
twelve per cent of solids, of which
about one-fourth is fat, the balance
caseine, sugar, albumen, etc; if the
amount of solids be increased to fifteen
per cent the increase will consist of fat,
the other solids remaining nearly the
!, same.
: HoARD's DAIRYMAN says: 1--WE
would strive as hard to save the urine
and absorb the ammonia it gives off as
we would the more solid manure, know
ing, as any man may know, that nearly
all the ammonia expelled from the
bodies of all animals is thrown off
through the urine"
PRIMARILY all the carbonaceous
foods are drawn from the atmosphere.
The vegetable world takes in this car
bon both through its roots and its
leaves, and the animal world gets it
from the vegetables. Hence butter,
which is mainly carbon, is product of
the atmosphere rather than of the soil.
THE Southern CultiratOr, referring
to the heat-resisting power of butter
from cows fed with cotton-seed meal,
says: "The melting point of the but
ter, as will be seen, is higher than that
of pure lard. The particular point to
be noticed in this matter is that in
butter designed for consumption in
: southern countries, or produced i'll
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